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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
Photographs take us to places and times we might never see otherwise. Even on this summery day, this picture by Ansel Adams transports us to snowy grandeur shrouded by clouds […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnBlazers star Carmelo Anthony nominates PAM for $100,000 prize supporting Black Art and Experiences
Portland Trail Blazers star Carmelo Anthony was named the winner of the first Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award in recognition of his work for civil rights, Black empowerment, and […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
Some places are so iconic, so famous, that they seem to carry their own personalities with them. You could imagine what they might be saying to one another about the […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Ron Nagle
“Diabolically beautiful.” “Ridiculously seductive.” “Subversively beautiful.” These are just a few reactions to Ron Nagle’s small scale ceramic sculptures. This photograph shows only a glimmer of the iridescent color and […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Josef Albers
Artist, teacher, and color theorist Josef Albers spent decades refining his concepts of color relationships and form. Formulation: Articulation, published after his retirement from the art department at Yale University, […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Mitch Epstein
As we deepen into summer, and record heat, droughts, and wildfires become part of the normal rhythms of the season, we are asked to reflect more about our response to […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Steven Young Lee
Steven Young Lee describes how the coils of the large vessel of Jar with Dragon and Clouds came apart and the pot imploded in the kiln. Here the shards are […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Jonathan Calm
This photograph from Jonathan Calm offers a unique glimpse behind the camera, a chance to see the artist at work. As we celebrate Father’s Day today, we invite you to […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Alison Bremner
Alison Bremner’s sculptural work, Two Dollars, slyly plays on the concepts of money and exchange. This small work, only 2 × 1.5 inches, emulates the shape of large copper shields […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Edward Penfield
Congratulations to the Class of 2021! This charming poster, advertising the June edition of Harper’s Magazine, gives a nod to the graduates of 1895. Artist Edward Penfield is credited with […]
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DiscoverLearnMarking Juneteenth: A Conversation About Candlesticks and Slavery
For the past few years, Ted Smith, longtime Portland Art Museum Visitor Services Lead has been marking Juneteenth by doing one of the many things that he does so well—connecting […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Samantha Wall
“The shadow is both a part of our identity and apart from it. It is our counterpart and sometimes the truer part.” —Samantha Wall, 2021 Flayed is a drawing from […]