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Press Release: "Painting Energy" Opening at the Portland Museum of Art May 2025 — Portland Museum of Art
“There is no place, even in New York City, where one can currently see a representative selection of the exciting and important paintings that have been done from the 1980s to the present. By helping to create a collection of these works at the Portland Museum of Art, the Alex Katz Foundation hopes
Portland Press Herald: How these up-and-coming Maine artists helped a curator learn about his new home — Portland Museum of Art
“Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, who moved to Maine last year to take a job at the Portland Museum of Art, got to know the state through the process of curating 'As We Are,' on view all winter.” Photograph by iBec Creative
Braiding the Land (2024) — Portland Museum of Art
Braiding the Land is an installation combining photography, sculpture, and text to recreate a narrative from a land-based performance. The original performance, titled Becomes Body of Water , took place on Wabanaki Territory at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in June of 2022.
Mountain Lake PBS: Reflect on big city landscapes: Richard Estes exhibit — Portland Museum of Art
"Reflective storefront windows, theater marquees and subway cars populate the artwork of American artist Richard Estes. Throughout his career, the Illinois native has been drawn to the iconography of large cities, depicting urban settings in photorealist paintings."—Mountain Lake PBS
Portland Press Herald: See the world from artist Peggy Bacon’s satirical view at 2 shows in Maine — Portland Museum of Art
"The 20th-century caricature artist, whose work appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, spent the end of her life in southern Maine."—The Portland Press Herald Image credit: Peggy Bacon (United States, 1895 - 1987), Peggy Bacon from Off with their Heads! , 1934, clothbound hardcove
MaineBiz: Timber! Portland Museum of Art to host conference on an innovative forest product — Portland Museum of Art
"Timber and fine art may seem like an odd combination, but the Portland Museum of Art is promoting itself as the perfect host for a conference this fall on an innovative type of forest product."—MaineBiz
Press Release: Portland Museum of Art and SPFPA Jointly Announce Contract — Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art and the International Union of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) are proud to jointly announce the ratification of a contract for all security positions within the museum.
Mass Timber Maine Conference — Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the Maine Mass Timber Conference, taking place from November 13 to 15, 2024, in Portland, Maine. This groundbreaking event will bring together industry leaders, artists, innovators, and visionaries to explore the future of construction through mass
First American Art Magazine: Exhibition Reviews "Jeremy Frey: Woven" — Portland Museum of Art
"Having already received many of the highest honors reserved for Native American artists including Best of Show at both the Heard Fair and Santa Fe Indian Market, Frey was adamant that the exhibition position his work as contemporary art. “I didn’t want to do a basket show,” he stated at the sh
Boston Globe: Jeremy Frey wins Rappaport Prize, the first Indigenous artist to receive the award — Portland Museum of Art
Now, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has awarded Frey, an enrolled member of the Passamaquoddy tribe, the 25th annual Rappaport Prize, a $50,000 cash award to honor a contemporary artist working in New England. “It’s overwhelming,” said Frey, 45, reached by phone in rural Maine. “I still ha
This Month At Your Museum: August 2024 — Portland Museum of Art
We’re halfway through the summer, yet there’s still so much in store. From Cig Harvey sharing how Maine influences her work to the Summer Party to a special Jeremy Frey themed Family Day, August at the museum is like an Aperol spritz for your soul.
Apollo Magazine: Jeremy Frey weaves new worlds — Portland Museum of Art
Frey wants to have it all: to be a contemporary traditionalist, an artist-artisan, an internationalist exponent of his own tribe. It hasn’t been easy. More than two decades of unremitting effort, willpower and imagination have been necessary to get him this far.