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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jess Perlitz
Jess Perlitz’s Burned Beast is a mismatched creature, resembling an ill-fitted hobby horse with visible seams and dowels. The basswood has been hand-chiseled and sanded, and burnt in the final […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi’s polished bronze A Muse is one of the anchors of the Museum’s collection of European modern art. The sculpture is a refined distillation of a woman’s facial features. […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Anne Truitt
As we officially welcome winter with the solstice this week, we invite you to spend some time with Bonne by Anne Truitt. This sculpture carries the energy and colors of […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Silas Aittauq
Spirits, by Inuit sculptor Silas Aittauq, carries an energy that seems fitting for this season of Halloween, of harvest, of Dia de Muertos, and of remembering those who have passed. […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnArt and Writing During the Pandemic: Celebrating the Write Around Portland Partnership
It has been more than one year since Write Around Portland and the Portland Art Museum began collaborating on weekly, art-inspired writing prompts to sustain our souls and our sense […]
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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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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Shaun Peterson
Ravens hold special significance and symbolism in many cultures and traditions, and especially in the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest, as seen here in Shaun Peterson’s Circling Ravens […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: David Emitt Adams
“As long as people have been in the American West, they have found its barren desert landscapes to be ideal for dumping detritus. Today, the notion of land untouched by […]
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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 […]