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Exhibitions
Black Artists of Oregon
Black Artists of Oregon, highlighting and celebrating the work of Black artists in and outside of the collection, will serve to deepen awareness of the talented artists that have shaped and inspired artists regionally and nationally.
1219 SW Park Ave
Sep 9, 2023 – Mar 17, 2024
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ExhibitionsThroughlines: Connections in the Collection
Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation.
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ExhibitionsAfrica Fashion
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to present Africa Fashion, a major exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London that will celebrate the richness and diversity of African creativity, cultures, and histories, using fashion as a catalyst.
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ExhibitionsFuture Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks
Overview Coming to the Portland Art Museum from the Bata Shoe Museum in Canada, Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly sixty […]
Announcing the Tomorrow Theater!
PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater will be opening later this year
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Upcoming
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Classes & workshopsUnStuck: Mastering Zines with Jack Kent
Oct 7, 2023
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Member eventsMembers pop-up talk: Black Artists Of Oregon
Oct 12, 2023
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Classes & workshopsYouth Art Unbound: Ready, Set, Animate
Oct 21, 2023
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ExhibitionsThroughlines: Connections in the Collection
Oct 28, 2023 – Nov 1, 2024
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Member events131st annual members meeting
Nov 2, 2023
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Partner eventsPortland Book Festival
Nov 4, 2023
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PodcastBlack Artists of Oregon: Episode 4
This is Art Unbound, a joint production of PAM and the Numberz FM. In this fourth installment of the series Intisar interviews Melanie Stevens & Rupert Kinnard.
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PodcastBlack Artists of Oregon: Episode 3
This is Art Unbound, a joint production of PAM and the Numberz FM. In the third episode of the series Intisar interviews Adrienne Cruz.
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PodcastBlack Artists of Oregon: Episode 2
This is Art Unbound, a joint production of PAM and the Numberz FM, In this second episode of the series Intisar interviews Nick Jones
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Instagram, 🍂 “Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place…” 🎶
The fall equinox is a melancholy reminder of summer's end and the start of a glorious harvest season. #GustaveCourbet captures this season of striking change. From the beginning of his career, he took pride in the rugged and distinctive topography of his native town of Ornans.
This is one of many views he painted, marked by the distinctive limestone cliffs of the surrounding mountains. Through his realism, Courbet became a pioneering figure in the history of modernism.
#CollectionHighlight
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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877), “L'Automne (Autumn),” 1866. Oil on canvas; 28 7/8 × 23 3/4 in. Gift of Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt in memory of C.E. Ladd, 25.2
[ID: A person on a cliff with an orange tree looks out at a river with snowy mountains in the distance.]
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Instagram, Tomorrow, September 23, 2 p.m. Join us for the Mildred Schnitzer Memorial Lecture in Asian Art—“The Magnificent Caves of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on the Silk Road.”
Asian art scholar and Seattle Art Museum Director Emeritus, Dr. Mimi Gardner Gates will discuss the spectacular UNESCO World Heritage site in China’s Gobi Desert and present the site’s sculptures and wall paintings, among the finest and earliest examples of Buddhist art in China.
Free event with registration. Link in bio to reserve your spot →
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Cave 285, detail of wall painting, Western Wei dynasty (535–556 CE). Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China. Courtesy the Dunhuang Academy
[ID: Red, blue, green, and black cave painting of three seated figures.]
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Instagram, 🤔 What does a video art installation share with a European oil painting? A conceptual art photograph with a Native American woven basket? A Chinese vase with a print emblazoned with a poetic message?
Opening October 28: “Throughlines: Connections in the Collection” is a new exhibition that offers a fresh look at the museum's collections by bringing together artworks from diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods that seldom appear in the same gallery.
Throughout time and place, artists have created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and our world from different perspectives. Leading with a sense of curiosity, the cross-departmental curatorial team searched the collections, reflecting on the ways art connects across time.
“Throughlines” is intended to be fun, inspiring, and thought-provoking for visitors who are accustomed to seeing the collection in siloed galleries. Join us as we redefine the boundaries of the museum’s collection.
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Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977), “Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel),” 2013. Bronze; 45 × 23 × 19 in. Museum Purchase: Funds provided by patrons of the 2014 New for the Wall, 2014.125.1 © Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California
Dinh Q. Lê (American, born Vietnam, born 1968), “Buddhas at Angkor Temple,” 1996. Woven chromogenic prints and linen tape on board; 40 × 30 in. The Carol and Seymour Haber Collection, 2018.51.1 © Dinh Q. Lê
Virgil Ortiz (American; Cochiti, born 1969), “Clay Figure,” from “Tourniquet Series,” 2009. White clay slip, red clay slip, and black (wild spinach) paint on Cochiti red clay; 15 × 10 × 3 1/2 in. Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Elizabeth Cole Butler Auction Proceeds, 2015.49.1 © Virgil Ortiz
Hoshino Satoru (Japanese, born 1945), “Spring Snow No. 12,” 2007. Stoneware with white and copper-blue glazes; 20 × 11 in diam., Gift of a private donor, 2013.8.53 © Hoshino Satoru
[ID: 1. Bronze bust of a man with Afro & comb with Hebrew below. 2. Woven photos of temple and b&w portrait of a person. 3. Clay figure of dominatrix with b&w and red geometric patterns. 4. Green & white glazed vessel decorated with indentations.]
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Instagram, This Wednesday, September 20, 12–1 p.m. The @pam.photo.council invites you to the Lunchtime Photography Talk featuring photographer @willfujiomatsuda. He will discuss his practice and current projects, thoughts on expanding the genre of family portraiture, and strategies surrounding photographing climate change.
Free event; first come, first served. Link in bio to learn more →
[ID: Photo of blurred hand in wildflower meadow holding mirror reflecting moon and blue sky.]
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Instagram, “I’m a star, Papa! A star!”
#CraftingPinocchio is taking a bow. Today is your final opportunity to visit the exhibition dedicated to this Oscar-winning masterpiece of cinematic history animated in Portland.
Link in bio to plan your visit →
[ID: Film still of Pinocchio puppet bowing on stage with two other puppets.]
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Instagram, “I do believe that if you hold steady to who you are and follow the things you have learned through experience, spirit, and listening and watching with love, you are rewarded by being…a real person, a real human being.”
—@gdtreal
⚠️ This is the closing weekend of #CraftingPinocchio! Sunday, September 17, is your last chance to go behind-the-scenes of the Academy Award-winning @pinocchiomovie, animated here in Portland @shadowmachine_official.
[Video description: Timelapse of Pinocchio puppet being animated dancing on a vaudeville stage.]
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Instagram, OPENING NOVEMBER 18: “Africa Fashion” is a major exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum (@vamuseum), London, that will celebrate the richness and diversity of African creativity, cultures, and histories, using fashion as a catalyst. Spanning mid-twentieth century to contemporary designs, "Africa Fashion" explores the vitality of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself.
The irresistible creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of contemporary African fashions are celebrated in an extensive display of garments, textiles, adornments, personal testimonies, photographs, film, and catwalk footage in this exhibition. Many of the garments hail from the archives of groundbreaking mid-twentieth century African designers—Shade Thomas-Fahm (Nigeria), Chris Seydou (Mali), Kofi Ansah (Ghana), Naïma Bennis (Morocco) and Alphadi (Nigeria). Designs from influential contemporary African fashion creatives, including Imane Ayissi (Cameroon), IAMISIGO (Nigeria), Moshions (Rwanda), Thebe Magugu (South Africa), and Maison ARTC (Morocco) appear alongside these historical works, on display for the first time in “Africa Fashion.”
Link in bio to continue reading →
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📷 Alchemy collection, @ThebeMagugu, Johannesburg, South Africa, Autumn/Winter 2021. Photography: Tatenda Chidora. Styling + Set: Chloe Andrea Welgemoed. Model: Sio
📷'Chasing Evil' collection, @IAMISIGO, Kenya, Autumn/Winter 2020. Courtesy IAMISIGO. Photo: Maganga Mwagogo
[ID: 1. Model with iridescent face paint wears yellow fringed dress and coat in grassy field with mirror on ground. 2. Model with hat and suit printed with woven grass pattern poses on pink and white rug.]
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Instagram, Excerpt from "The Names," a poem for the victims of September 11th and their survivors:
“Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
Names printed on the ceiling of the night.
Names slipping around a watery bend.”
—Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001–2003
📷 Michael Kenna (English, active United States, born 1953), “Twin Towers, New York, New York,” 1978. Gelatin silver print; 6 3/16 × 9 3/8 in. Gift of the Artist, 2004.66.3 © Michael Kenna
[ID: B&w photo looking up at World Trade Center towers.]