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DiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Brian Calvin
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the enormity of both our own and the world’s pain. It feels even more important now to take moments to pause. Writing is a […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Dakota artist
“This tender drawing of a couple courting was created by a Dakota artist at the end of the nineteenth century, a time of great loss and conflict for Native people […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Bactrian Camel
“This expressive camel, with its head thrown back, makes a bellowing cry that seems relevant to these times. Bactrian camels were often part of a larger set of funerary sculptures […]
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DiscoverLearnOpen Your Own Art Museum!
We are thrilled to collaborate with Create More, Fear Less on a mini-museum project that you can do at home. Take all of those big feelings, ideas, and observations of […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Leopoldo Méndez
“Today marks the anniversary of the historic Battle of Puebla of 1862, in which underequipped and outnumbered Mexican troops defeated the French army under Napoleon III, who were fighting to […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Chaïm Soutine
“Let slide the weary art-historical narratives that lock Soutine into categories of style and sequences of influence. Only look.” —Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for “The New Yorker” “I adore this […]
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Daily Art Moment: Subok Screen
“Two auspicious characters, meaning longevity and good fortune, repeat in seemingly endless variation as the main design of this Korean textile screen. Across ten panels, with three columns of eleven […]
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Daily Art Moment: Minor White
“This photograph by Minor White has long been a favorite of mine, and it resonates more deeply these days. In 1938, White, who moved to Portland from Minnesota in 1937, […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jean François de Troy
“As we come to the end of National Poetry Month, here is a reminder of the perpetual power of poetry and art. Jean François de Troy’s ‘Allegory of Poetry’ was […]
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CommunityLearnAn Art Imposter in the Museum
Teachers across the country have been rising to the challenge presented by this spring’s abrupt school closures due to Covid-19. Here in Portland, teachers are not only adapting their lessons […]
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CommunityDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: John Outterbridge
“In his Containment Series, John Outterbridge combined industrial materials with handcrafted pieces and found objects. In form and concept, he explores what makes up boundaries: structural ones like frames; material […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Corita Kent
“Corita Kent—artist, educator, nun, and social activist—was a woman who faced the turmoil of the 1960s with courage, wit, and strength. This screenprint exhorts us to HANDLE WITH CARE, which […]