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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
In addition to grand sweeping vistas, Ansel Adams spent time photographing the urban landscapes surrounding his home. This weekend, we invite you to spend some time closer to the city, […]
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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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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Richard Misrach
Looking at the water, the land, the tiny bridge in the distance, we are reminded of journeying, and the boats or ships that may have passed under that bridge. What […]
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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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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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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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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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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
Last Sunday, we invited you to spend some time writing with Laura McPhee’s Midsummer (Lupine and Fireweed), which offered a scene of blooming wildflowers at the foot of charred tree […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Laura McPhee
“Photographing in the burned forest was one of the great, joyful experiences of my life,” Laura McPhee has said, “finding that catastrophe to be so beautiful,… so stunningly unexpected.” In […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Catherine Opie
How can we bring new understanding, new light to something we already know so well? Catherine Opie’s Untitled #1 (Yosemite Valley) offers us a place to start. Opie’s photography gives […]
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![[Image description: Ansel Adams, Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Monument, California, gelatin silver print. A black and white, portrait-oriented photograph of steep sand dunes shown in high contrast shadow and light. The ridge of the main dune begins at upper left, crosses to the upper right then zig zags down to the lower edge of the photo. The steep sides contrast in tone. The right side of the dune is bathed in light and appears as pale gray, while the left slope of the dune is split between being almost black at its upper portion then changing to a medium gray as the dune catches more sunshine. In the background a black, horizontal dune appears, stretching from left to right contrasting with the highlights of the main dunes’ ridge. At upper right in the background, a distant dune appears as a medium gray tone.]](https://portlandartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SC69764_WEB-904x565.jpg)
CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
This work by Ansel Adams captures the seemingly solid, yet always fluid, energy of sand dunes. Shifting under foot, blowing in wind, never looking the same day to day, and […]
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CommunityDiscoverLearnWrite Around PAM: Ansel Adams
How do you feel when you look at this photograph of the Grand Tetons and the Snake River? Today and over the coming months, our Write Around PAM prompts will […]