Portland Art Museum

⏰ Closing weekend! Discover the artist Paul Harris through his suite of lithographs, "Shut-In Suite, 1969–1970." Reduced to his thoughts and immediate surroundings, the artist created twenty-one tableaux that simultaneously express isolation as well as the beauty and magic of everyday life.

On view through Sun, June 7.

Learn more → https://bit.ly/49JURG8

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📷 Single File Studio

This weekend, PAM CUT @ The Whitsell screens BEAU TRAVAIL and BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER, referencing q***r themes also found in “David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.”

Sat, June 6, 2 p.m.
BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) is Claire Denis's most acclaimed film that combines cerebral rigor, sensorial intensity, and a powerful meditation on masculinity and foreignness within the French Foreign Legion.

Sun, June 7, 2 p.m.
BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) stars Natasha Lyonne as a high schooler sent to conversion therapy camp after her friends and family suspect she is a le***an.

Get tickets → https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/pretty-witty-and-gay/

This Saturday, discover a new exhibition organized by student curators!

Fourth and fifth grade curators conducted research in the museum’s exhibitions and vault, met archivists and registrars, and regularly met with PAM curators. “Harriet Tubman Center Museum” is an exhibition of 28 pieces from the permanent collection and the outcome of their research and collaborative process.

From selecting the work, to deciding the placement of the art, and writing exhibition text, experiential learning helped the young curators shape their own version of a museum, underscoring what is possible when institutions, artists, and community partners work collaboratively to shift curatorial authorship.

Led by artist and educator Lisa Jarrett, the students are part the Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice at KSMOCA-King School Museum of Contemporary Art.

Learn more → https://bit.ly/4udoGH4

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Curators Aniya and Z'maya work on designing the exhibit layout in the PAM Haber Study Room. 📷 Laura Glazer