Portland Museum of Art
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Portland, ME, 04101
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207-775-6148
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10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Portland Museum of Art Members' Shopping Days start November 19! Are you a member?

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Membership offers you an opportunity to be a part of this great cultural resource and enjoy special access to the Portland Museum of Art's permanent collection, exhibitions, lectures, films, and events. When you become a member of the Portland Museum of Art, you receive:
Julie Smart Davidson
Julie Smart Davidson
I expect to see all "my people" at the Members' Shopping Day on November 19th!!!
Yesterday at 10:46am
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Portland Museum of Art Check out the amazing David Driskell printmaking exhibition at the Museum!

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This exhibition highlights for the first time the prints of David C.Driskell, artist, art historian, collector, educator, and one of the most respected names in the world of African American art and culture. ...
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Portland Museum of Art Be sure to see artist David Driskell's lecture at the Eastland Park Hotel on Wednesday, 10/28, 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Free admission!

The 2009 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture
Location:Eastland Park Hotel Ballroom
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, October 28th
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For more information on the movies visit www.moviesatthemuseum.org Soul Power Thursday, October 22, 6:30 p.m. Friday, October 23, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 2 p.m...
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Portland Museum of Art Have you checked out Sunday Jazz Breakfasts yet? Bill Byrne performing 10/25 at 10:30 a.m. at the PMA! http://www.portlandmuseum.org/events/music.php

October 21 at 1:58pm
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Portland Museum of Art Don't miss Charlie DuBack at the Museum on Saturday, 10/17!

Location:Portland Museum of Art Auditorium
Time:11:00AM Saturday, October 17th
Franni
Franni
Did anyone catch, "Independent Lens" last night? It was about the Vogels who, over the past 50 years, collected Avant-garde artworks and filled their tiny NYC apartment with >4000 now nearly priceless pieces of art. WICKED!
October 14 at 7:25am
Brenda
Brenda
Hey neighbor Franni! I only caught about a half hour of it. Fascinating!
October 14 at 10:41am
Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art Through January 3, 2010

Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. This exhibition features 34 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor.

Christine Cote
Christine Cote
I can't wait to see this exhibition!
October 16 at 8:25am
Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art Through December 6, 2009

See 39 paintings featuring Jay Hall Connaway's Jay Hall Connaway’s (1893–1970) unique style of masculine impressionism.

Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art
Join us for an evening with David C. Driskell, one of American art history’s most celebrated scholars.

Driskell, a renowned artist, collector, and art historian, will discuss his own art alongside other artists who influenced him. A summer resident of Maine, Driskell is a professor emeritus at the University of Marylan...d, where the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora was established in 1998. In 2000, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton.

Made possible by the Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund at the Portland Museum of Art.

The Members’ Opening for" Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell" will take place after the lecture from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Portland Museum of Art.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Price: Free
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The 2009 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture
Time:6:00PM Wednesday, October 28th
Location:Eastland Park Hotel Ballroom
Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art Check out the colorful works of Maine artist Charlie DuBack - now on view at the PMA http://www.portlandmuseum.org/exhibitions-collections/current.shtml

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The art colonies of New England played a key role in the creation of an American national identity in the early 20th century. Art colonies in Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut and Ogunquit and Monhegan, ...
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Portland Museum of Art Spots left in the October series Art Squad, Jr. (ages 3-5). Sign up online!

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Date: Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20, & 27Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Price: $45.00Members’ Price: $35.00Location: Community Studio & Galleries
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Portland Museum of Art
Join Charlie DuBack and Chief Curator Tom Denenberg as they discuss DuBack’s work in the exhibition Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine. Meet in the Auditorium to hear more about DuBack’s process and inspiration. Continue the conversation with Charlie during the reception to follow in the Museum’s McLellan House.

Image cred...it: Charles DuBack (United States, born 1926), First House, 1957, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
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Time:11:00AM Saturday, October 17th
Location:Portland Museum of Art Auditorium
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