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CommunityDaily Art MomentIn Memoriam: Jennifer Zika
It is with great sadness that the Museum shares the passing of Jennifer Zika, Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery Manager. Jennifer worked at the Rental Sales Gallery for nearly […]
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CommunityDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Katherine Bradford
As we officially welcome spring and the bounty of beauty it offers, we are also reminded to pause, to reflect, and to honor all that has happened since spring last […]
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Stop Asian Hate
The staff of the Portland Art Museum and Northwest Film Center are deeply saddened and angered by the murder of eight people, including six Asian American women in the Atlanta, […]
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Daily Art MomentUncategorizedDaily Art Moment: Shan Goshorn
Shan Goshorn was a respected Cherokee artist who initially became known for her deeply personal work in the 1990s as a photographer and mixed media artist. She became best known […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Alwyn O’Brien
On first glance, Alwyn O’Brien’s sculpture might resemble a vase. O’Brien opens up the typically solid vessel shape by piecing together hand-rolled coils of clay. She loops, elongates, twists, and […]
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CommunityDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Fujikasa Satoko
Even though the official start of spring is still a week away, we can feel the shift in the season. This piece by Fujikasa Satoko feels like a perfect embodiment […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Diane Jacobs
Diane Jacobs is drawn to wool, hair, and paper pulp materials in much of her work. For Jacobs, hair is a material that incorporates our humanity woven into the material’s […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jacques Callot
For many artists, printmaking is the ideal medium in which to explore the mysterious, the unseen, and the unknowable. Demons and monsters hold a special appeal, as seen in this […]
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CommunityConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverMuseum Welcomes Visitors Back In Two-Phase Spring 2021 Reopening
Phase one reopening April 10Phase two reopening May 5, including Ansel Adams in Our Time The Portland Art Museum announced today a phased reopening of the galleries following the second […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Marcel Dzama
“I draw during the day, but my ideas come at night.” —Marcel Dzama Just before PAM closed temporarily, our team installed this large new acquisition by Marcel Dzama and not […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Claude Monet
Impressionist Claude Monet was a gifted painter as well as a talented and attentive draughtsman. This pastel—a recent gift to the Museum—is an informal study of various elements of a […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Terresa White, Mark Tetpon, and Don Johnston
Seal Vision: Shared Spirit celebrates the inter-related lives of seals with the people and animals of the far north. Echoing the format of Yu’pik dance masks, this striking mixed media […]