The Farnsworth Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening, on Saturday, April 17, of an exhibition celebrating thirteen
Women of Vision whose contributions to art and culture earned them recognition as Farnsworth Maine in America honorees. The Maine in America award is presented annually to an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts and culture of Maine.
The thirteen women photographer Berenice Abbott; businesswoman Linda Bean; painter Katherine Bradford; philanthropist Edith Dixon; museum founder Lucy Farnsworth; photographer Cig Harvey; poet Edna St. Vincent Millay; sculptor Louise Nevelson; philanthropist Elizabeth Noyce; basket maker and Passamaquoddy civic leader Molly Neptune Parker; women’s advocate and philanthropist Maurine Rothschild; arts and education champion Phyllis Wyeth; and artist Marguerite Zorach will receive the 2021 Maine in America Award at a ceremony at the museum in July. Some of the women leave lasting legacies while o
Portland Museum of Art opens exhibition about 2020, online only – for now Untitled features new work by 25 Maine artists.
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“We Gonna Be Alright,” a digital print by Ryan Adams, is part of the new “Untitled” exhibition hosted by the Portland Museum of Art – for now on its website and in person when the museum reopens.
Courtesy of Portland Museum of Art
It seems fitting that an exhibition dedicated to 2020 will open online.
Someday – that elusive someday – the Portland Museum of Art will open “Untitled: Art from Maine in a Time” to the public, so people can actually see the exhibition in person and experience art in the flesh. For now, virtual content will fill the void.