Category: Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art Announces New Sculpture Park

Thanks to a generous donation by local business leader, philanthropist, and arts advocate David E. Shaw, the PMA will open the David E. Shaw and Family Sculpture Park in the summer of 2017. It has long been a wish of the PMA to make the Joan B. Burns Garden—located on High Street and currently closed to […]

PMA – Finest in a Decace

You’ve brought your out-of-town guests to see lighthouses and eat lobsters—make sure to bring them to the PMA for the full Maine experience. Introduce them to O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York, named the finest PMA exhibition in a decade by the Boston Globe, and as one of the 17 American art shows […]

PMA presents Innovators and Entrepreneurs: A Women in Business Forum

Thursday, July 28 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free for members and employees of Corporate members; $8 general public Bernard Osher Foundation Auditorium Influential women have shaped the city of Portland throughout its history. In 1908, author and critic Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat forever transformed the PMA with her bequest of the McLellan House and […]

Skowhegan at Seventy at the PMA This Summer

The Portland Museum of Art and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture—two of the most prominent art institutions in the state of Maine—collaborate on Skowhegan at Seventy, an exhibition that commemorates the 70th anniversary of the school’s founding and showcases work produced at the school or in its honor, including the PMA’s recent acquisition, […]