The "Museums for All" program allows everyone to see Maine's most treasured pieces, regardless of their financial situation.
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Again and again, one can feel Webb’s excitement and pleasure in recording what he’s seeing. He demonstrates an alertness to cultural collision and incongruity.
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The exhibit features art created by six young artists who, out of more than 500 entries, were selected as the winners of this year’s Tidal Shift Award.
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“American Perspectives” is chock full of inviting oddities and some truly great works, spanning nearly 2½ centuries, from rural to urban, north to south, east to west.
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Five hundred people enjoyed the Portland Museum of Art’s first Third Thursday on March 16, capturing the community’s love of First Friday art walks and happy hour hangouts all in one place.
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News Center Maine’s Hannah Yechivi spoke with young artists featured in the PMA’s Youth Art Month exhibition.
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High school student Brynn Vogel's artwork was selected for the Youth Art Month exhibit, one of the best-loved exhibits for both staff and patrons of the museum.
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Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa is on view at the PMA March 24 through June 18, 2023.
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“Because of the scale of my work, if I make something precious and detailed, it pulls you in. You stay longer and get sucked into my world.”
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No matter what you call it, “American Perspectives” is filled with some strange and wondrous things.
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In 2006, the Portland Museum of Art purchased the property and spent six years renovating and restoring the building.
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The talk of the evening was the new folk art exhibit, “American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Collection,” which is on view until May 7.
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Launched by the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in 2021, the Tidal Shift Award has opened its submission period for the 2023 prizes, inviting young Americans to submit their work by the end of this month.
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“We thought it was important to bring back that more transparent opportunity for our community to participate… having a new building that’s not just an art museum but a building based on the notion of what do people in our community want from their museum.” –Mark Bessire
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From the beginning of the project, Newell was brought in to educate the team about Wabanaki culture, worldview, and cosmology to inform the design approach for the expansion.
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Don’t miss the PMA Films screening of The Rules of the Game! Read Eileen G’Sell’s review here.
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I witnessed the transformative power of art last year, as an inaugural juror for the Portland Museum of Art’s Tidal Shift Award – the annual prize for young artists who address the climate crisis through their artwork.
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The mass timber in the winning design nods to the region’s history of lumber production while gesturing to a future of “environmental stewardship”, positioning Portland’s cultural producers as leaders in sustainability awareness.
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Mass timber offers an attractive alternative for developers of large buildings thanks to its eco-friendliness.
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The themes of accessibility, equity, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability were central to the design brief, as the competition aimed to push designers to imagine a new type of museum, one that makes art accessible to all.
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