Books

You Can’t Get There From Here: The 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial highlights Maine’s artistic legacies in the making. Curated by Alison Ferri...

The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (January 26 through June 3, 2018), guest curated by Nat May, features more than 60 works by 25 participati...

This pithy volume offers a pocket guide to feminist art from the 1960s through today, covering painting, performance, and everything in between. A ...

In the first half of the 20th century, European-born artists Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach became preeminent f...

Inspired by real-life makers Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, this beloved #1 bestseller champions STEM, girl power and women scientists in a rollicki...

Alba the fish has spent her entire life collecting precious objects that drift down to the ocean floor. From delicate shells to brightly colored co...

This collection of photographs from over 40 years of rock 'n' roll history includes iconic and enlightening images of rock stars from Bob Dylan and...

In Beautiful Blackbird, painter-poet-puppeteer Ashley Bryan brings African folklore to today’s young readers through illustrations that really leav...

Maine sculptor Bernard Langlais (1921–1977) achieved success in the 1950s through his wood-crafted sculpture, which was often abstract or based in ...

Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear...

This remarkable collection of photographs celebrates the creativity of Judith Ellis Glickman, who has been making and collecting photographs for mo...

Award-winning Maine sculptor John Bisbee (born 1965) has spent decades building inventive and complex sculptures from just one type of ordinary obj...

The exhibition Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England, which ran at the PMA June 25 — October 12, 2009, showcased New England's famous arti...

Sculptor Sheila Pepe and painter Carrie Moyer have achieved international acclaim through abstract works that are rich with color and materiality a...

Charles Codman (1800-1842) apprenticed for Boston painter John Ritto Penniman and lived his whole life in Portland, Maine, where he painted some of...

Introduce young artists to the work of legendary Japanese printmaker Hiroshige with this coloring book featuring 22 pieces from the 36 Selected Flo...

The Urban Cities Coloring Book packs more detail per page than its sleek-and-slender scale would suggest. Its 24 illustrations by Chicago-based art...

Marjorie Standish is an iconic figure in the world of traditional New England cooking, known for her popular column, “Cooking Down East” for the Ma...

By the letter of painterly law, D stands for Dahlov. Learn your ABCs in rhyming harmony with Ipcar’s alphabetical animalia, which moves from Antelo...

They said only men could paint powerful pictures, but Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) splashed her way through the modern art world. Channeling dee...

Contribution by Thelma Golden and Richard J.Powell and Julie L McGee and Renee Maurer and Jessica May The first publication to survey the entire...

Ellen always knew the broom resting above the hearth was special. Before it was legal for her mother and father to officially be married, the broom...

The PMA exhibition Monet to Matisse, Homer to Hartley: American Masters and Their European Muses, 1870 to 1950 (June 24 — October 17, 2004) linked ...