Maine Magazine September 2017 by Maine Magazine

September 2017

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The Portland Museum of Art reinvents itself for a new era

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T HER E S A SECO R D Keeping Tradition Alive: Native American Art Ecology in Maine and the Nation

Tuesday, September 12, 6:30 p.m. Hannaford Hall, Abromson Center, University of Southern Maine $15 general public, $10 PMA members, $5 students

The annual Bernard Osher Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy and Harold Osher Endowment at the Portland Museum of Art. Media Sponsor: Top to bottom: Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy, born 1978), Urchin Basket, 2007, brown ash, sweetgrass, dyes, 4 inches high. Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Museum purchase, Diane Kopec Collection Fund, #2007-03-001. © Jeremy Frey; Sarah Sockbeson (Penobscot, born 1983), Basket, 2011, brown ash, sweetgrass, antler, 4 x 31/2 inches. Hudson Museum, University of Maine, HM8622. © Sarah Sockbeson; Theresa Secord (Penobscot, born 1958), Barrel Basket, 2015, ash, sweetgrass, and cedar bark, 8 1/2 x 4 inches. Museum purchase with support from the Friends of the Collection, 2016.5; George Neptune (Passamaquoddy, born 1988), GMO Indian Corn, 2013, brown ash, sweetgrass, dyes. Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine. Museum purchase, Diane Kopec Collection Fund, #2013-06. © George Neptune

It wasn’t long ago that one of Maine’s oldest art forms—ash and sweetgrass basketry—was in danger of disappearing entirely. Activists and advocates from the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Micmac tribes saved the tradition through a long, hard-fought struggle, preserving a crucial piece of the region’s cultural heritage. In this special lecture, Theresa Secord, the founding director of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, shares this story as well as insights from her decades of experience advocating for artists and the arts from Maine to Hawaii.

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contents All-American 092

Art made in the United States is in the care of Portland Museum of Art associate curator Diana Greenwold. by Susan Axelrod | Photography by Matt Cosby

Art Road Trip 110

The Maine Art Museum Trail spans 200 miles, eight museums, and over 70,000 works from Bangor to Monhegan Island to Ogunquit. by Brittany Cost | Photography by Greta Rybus

A Museum for the 21st Century 132 The Portland Museum of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission to reinvent itself and change the way people view art in Maine by Paul Koenig | Photography by Nicole Wolf

Homer by the Sea 154

On the beaches and rocky cliffs of Prouts Neck to hear the rumble-crash of waves and see the scenery that inspired Winslow Homer to paint his masterpieces by Sandy Lang | Photography by Peter Frank Edwards

Heart and Home 180

A creative couple discovers layers of history (and loads of character) in a dilapidated eighteenth-century mansion in downtown Yarmouth. by Katy Kelleher | Photography by Erin Little

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on the cover

At the end of the hallway, Claude Monet’s The Manneporte, Seen from Below, circa 1884. Photography by Matt Cosby

on this page

The PMA’s exhibition A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach is on display through September 8. Photography by Nicole Wolf

THERE + THEN 030 Going out, giving back: supporting nonprofits + local businesses in the vital work they do year-round SOCIAL MEDIA 039 Sharing memories of the state sparked by social media NEW + NOTEWORTHY

041 What’s happening around the state

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048 Freeport + York and Kittery

by Andrea King and Spencer Albee

A-LIST 070 Art Pairings from the PMA’s Collection by Brittany Cost

WELLNESS 076 Medicine and Museums by Dr. Lisa Belisle Photography by Matt Cosby

LOVE MAINE RADIO

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Photography by Nicole Wolf

EAT BLOGS

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CAPTURE

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EDITOR’S NOTE 021 NOTE FROM THE PMA 023 CONTRIBUTORS 025 WORDS FROM OUR READERS 035 EVENTS 036

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September in Maine—

Stories from around the state

I usually try to visit art museums or galleries whenever I’m somewhere new. Along with the opportunity to see art, museums can provide visitors a sense of place. At the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Andrew Wyeth’s depictions of the midcoast and Maine’s islands tell stories about the area you wouldn’t otherwise experience and provide a glimpse into the area’s history. Nearby, the Center for Contemporary Maine Art, with its modern and angular lightfilled space, highlights the region’s contemporary artists and the evolution of the town’s character. This special issue focuses on the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), but it also examines the role of arts in Maine and celebrates the connection so many artists have to the state. There is a guide to the Maine Art Museum Trail, an organization the encourages people to explore the state through its art museums,

from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art to the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor to the Monhegan Museum of Art and History (“Art Road Trip,” p. 110). The museums’ directors and curators each recommend a standout piece of art that will be on view this fall. After being closed for a month to renovate its spaces and to reinstall artwork throughout its galleries, the PMA reopened in February with a renewed focus on its collection (“A Museum for the 21st Century,” p. 132). The museum centered its galleries around different themes, making for experiences that feel more eclectic and narrative. One of the first galleries visitors will see is called “The Great Atlantic” and features paintings depicting the Maine coast by artists such as Rockwell Kent, Mardsen Hartley, and Winslow Homer. “We wanted to have this fabulous rush of what it means to have arrived in Maine, to be with the painters, to see the Maine light,” says Jessica May, deputy director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic chief curator.

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Homer’s dramatic coastal scenes painted at his studio in Prouts Neck, where he lived from 1884 to his death in 1910, inspired writer Sandy Lang and photographer Peter Frank Edwards’s visit for another story (“Homer by the Sea,” p. 154). They tour his studio and follow the Cliff Walk, the same path along the crashing waves that Homer supposedly walked each day. At the studio, which is owned by the PMA, they see where Homer literally left his mark: one of the windows has his signature still scratched in the glass. I hope you make your own discoveries about the state in this issue, and that when you visit different places you seek out the art museums and galleries, large or small, and find a sense of place.

Paul Koenig Managing Editor pkoenig@themainemag.com

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WE LOVE MAINE. We fill our work days creating Maine-centric media products—publishing magazines and guides, producing radio shows, managing social media sites, developing websites, filming videos, producing events—because of this simple tenet. Our staff stayed here, came back here, or moved here because they love Maine’s rich history, its unique character, and the people who live here, and most importantly we believe in Maine’s potential. We simultaneously love the Maine we grew up in, while fully embracing the reality that things change and evolve. And we bear witness to that happening here. We are cheerleaders for Maine as a place for people to live, stay, and thrive—a place for people from away to move to, as a place for second homeowners to buy into, a place to raise children, a place to start and operate a business, as a place to visit and explore, as a place to escape and heal. And, as a place to be inspired. We cover Maine in a positive light. We very intentionally leave the negativity and snark to other media outlets. There is a place for everything, and we honor that. But that place is not here. So if you love Maine, please turn to us with your reading eyes, your listening ears, your follows and your likes, your attendance, and your advertising and sponsorships. Explore what we believe is the best Maine has to offer on the pages of our magazines, guides, through the airwaves, at events, and via social media.

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NOTE FROM THE PMA Photography by Heidi Kirn

Can a museum influence a state?

That’s a question we discuss frequently at the Portland Museum of Art. One of our major goals at the museum is to frame the narrative of the state so that arts and culture—as well as the incredible people who create it—are as critical to Maine’s identity as its natural beauty, and a reason to visit or live here unto itself. Maine magazine has the same mission. That’s why we are so excited for this special issue. The PMA is evolving. In recent years, the museum has dedicated itself to broadening the range of perspectives within our galleries and making connections beyond our walls. The museum has changed because our communities in Portland, and across Maine, have as well. As a more diverse group of people has started calling

this state home, the PMA has renewed its focus on inclusivity and set a higher bar for the role we can play in the region. We’re devoted to responding to the needs and reflecting the values of our community, and in the last few years, the museum has engaged audiences from Maine and abroad with a new sense of purpose. As a result, we’ve seen people from across the world coming to the museum to experience the state’s artistic legacy, in addition to our neighbors discovering a new sense of pride in their local heritage. At the PMA, we use the phrase “the power of art to transform lives” as a north star, guiding everything we do, from curation to philanthropy, and from learning to communications. We believe in this because we see it every day, with

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visitors of all ages connecting art to their lives, discovering talents they didn’t know they had, feeling empathy for viewpoints they had never considered, and gaining inspiration to share their voices with the world. These experiences are what I contemplate when I consider the above question, and the answer is simply this: If art can change a person, then art museums can influence a state, and in turn impact the world.

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CONTRIBUTORS

KATY KELLEHER is the author of Handcrafted Maine,

ANDREA KING is an entrepreneur, adventurer,

traveler, and feminist. After working in over 25 countries, she is excited to spend time discovering all the charm that Maine has to offer. A native Newfoundlander, she feels at home by the ocean. 48 Hours, p. 048

Editorial assistant BRITTANY COST grew up visiting the Portland Museum of Art on First Friday Art Walks with her grandfather. Since moving to Portland from Brunswick, she attends film screenings at the PMA whenever possible, and she is looking forward to the upcoming Nan Goldin exhibition, Family History, opening in October. A-List, p. 070, “Art Road Trip,” p. 110

“Every person has an identified way of seeing. Art is a translation of that vision. I am inspired by how people interpret that.” NICOLE WOLF is a commercial photographer based in Portland, Maine, and loves being a part of the creative community in her city. For this month’s feature, she documents the newly renovated PMA and the imaginative new installations. “A Museum for the 21st Century,” p. 132

Photograph by Heidi Kirn

a book highlighting makers, growers, artists, and creatives living and working in Maine. When she’s not reporting for Maine magazine, she can be found paddling around the Saco River, hiking through the woods of western Maine, or devouring mystery novels on the couch. “Heart and Home,” p. 180

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Honoring Mainers who have shaped the past, present, and future of our state Maine magazine celebrated the state’s visionaries at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish in July. Attendees included honorees from this year’s 50 Mainers list, published in the July issue of Maine, individuals from previous years’ lists, and other community members. Former United States Senator George Mitchell provided opening remarks, and Portland-based musician Spencer Albee curated the music. 01

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RUSSO READING SERIES WITH ANTHONY DOERR

An author reading to benefit Wayfinder Schools More than 300 people gathered at the Maine Irish Heritage Center in Portland for a reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Richard Russo and Anthony Doerr. The event was part of an annual reading series organized by Richard and Barbara Russo to benefit Wayfinder Schools, an alternative high school serving at-risk youth in Maine. 01

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01 Annie Messinger, director of philanthropy at Wayfinder Schools, and Catherine Martin, member of board of directors at Wayfinder Schools 02 James Light, owner of James Light Interiors; Chris Kast, brand strategist at the Brand Company; and Paul Andrews, executive director of Wayfinder Schools 03 Pam Russell, member of host committee; Katie Hogan, realtor at Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty; and Don Russell, president of board of directors at Wayfinder Schools 04 Kathy Grossman, member of host committee; Kim Dorsky, board member at Wayfinder Schools and member of host committee; and Dan Rosenthal, attorney at Marcus Clegg 05 Terri Coakley, director of events and sponsorships at Maine Media Collective, and Linda Coakley, retired 06 Karen Watterson, food editor at Maine Media Collective, and Howsie Stewart, former board member at Wayfinder Schools

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CONTEMPORARIES MIDSUMMER PARTY AT THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART

Celebrating Maine’s art and its supporters The Portland Museum of Art invited its Contemporaries, a younger generation of arts supporters, to attend its annual Midsummer Party. Hosted in the museum’s new David E. Shaw and Family Sculpture Park with a recently installed Jonathan Borofsky piece, Human Structures (24 Figures Connected), the celebration honored ten years of the museum’s Contemporaries program. 02

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—Erin Kiley, co-owner, Portland Flea-for-All

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01 Attendees gather in the new sculpture garden. 02 PMA director Mark Bessire delivers his remarks. 03 Katie Soule, office manager at Portland Springer’s Jewelers; Christopher Keene, fine jewelry sales consultant at Springer’s Jewelers, Bri O’Donnell Fisher, realtor at the Swan Agency Sotheby’s International Realty; and Alex Fisher, founder of Planet Dog and founder and co-owner of El Rayo Taqueria 04 Abbie Labonville, graphic designer; Justin Lumière, junior designer at Longstocking Design; and Taylor McElhinny, designer and production assistant at Benoit’s Design Co. 05 Alison Beyea, executive director of ACLU of Maine; Nathaniel Eldridge, creative professional; Brooke Chornyak, graphic designer at Collective IQ; Bree LaCasse, PMA trustee; and Jessica Tomlinson, director of Artists at Work at Maine College of Art 06 Ned Swain, Devenish Wines, and Patrick Roche, founder and director at Think Tank Coworking

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We love Maine! For the past 20 years or so, we have visited Maine every other year whenever possible. We seem to prefer the Harbor Square Condos in Camden, but we love making day trips along the coast and venturing into the center of Maine and into Canada. I am always interested in fall festivity schedules throughout the state and, of course, anything new happening. We are always interested in finding new, less expensive places to stay since we are retired. —LaVerne Remmert, Bellville, TX We are very excited to be the newest readers of Maine magazine. My partner Matt and I are residents of Somerville, MA. However, we just bought our secondary home on Pemaquid Pond in Damariscotta. We absolutely love midcoast Maine and have been going up there for years. We are excited to finally be calling this area somewhat of a home. It’s been an absolute treat exploring everything the midcoast has to offer. Matt and I are major foodies and can’t pass up a good beverage, so we really enjoyed the Eat Maine Annual Guide this spring. —Jessica Merrell, Somerville, MA

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FIRST THURSDAY ART OPENING FEATURING ARTWORKS BY DAVID ALLEN 5 p.m.–7 p.m. Portland Art Gallery 154 Middle St. | Portland artcollectormaine.com

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SOCIAL MEDIA Photography by Heidi Kirn @Maine Magazine

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S Author Katy Kelleher has released a new book profiling Maine artists and craftspeople, Handcrafted Maine: Arts, Life, Harvest & Home. Featuring photography by Greta Rybus, Handcrafted Maine centers on local creatives who find inspiration in their heritage and environment, including architect Will Winkelman, painter Dozier Bell, and restaurateur Masa Miyake. Kelleher also contributes to Maine, Maine Home+Design, and Old Port magazines. Benjamin Shaw, founder, director, and CEO of Vets First Choice in Portland, has received the Ernst and Young (EY) 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for New England. Founded in 2010, Vets First Choice brings technology and analytics to veterinarians, helping them identify and close gaps in care, increase practice revenues and profits, and improve pet owner satisfaction.

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Australia-based developer Majella Group has purchased Saddleback Mountain Resort in Rangeley. Majella plans to transform the ski mountain into a four-season resort, adding lodging, restaurants, and activities. The company has begun the process of replacing two lifts on the mountain, and a former mountain operations management team is returning to the mountain.

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The James Beard Foundation has honored Congresswoman Chellie Pingree with a 2017 Leadership Award, noting her support of national policies promoting healthy food, local and regional food systems, and organic practices. Nancy White has been named the general manager at Cliff House in Cape Neddick. White has previously served as the interim general manager and director of sales marketing at Cliff House.

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FREEPORT in 48 Hours ANDREA KING ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER + COO WHERE WE STAYED HARRASEEKET INN WHERE WE ATE AZURE TUSCAN BRICK OVEN BISTRO BROAD ARROW TAVERN AT THE HARRASEEKET INN BOW STREET MARKET ROYAL RIVER NATURAL FOODS GRITTY’S FREEPORT BREW PUB AND RESTAURANT WHAT WE DID THOS. MOSER AND CHILTON SHOWROOMS SHOPPED DOWNTOWN TOURED WILBUR’S OF MAINE CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONS FACTORY NORDICA THEATRE WOLFE’S NECK FARM WINSLOW PARK BRADBURY MOUNTAIN STATE PARK

Home to Maine’s most iconic brand—L.L.Bean—along with outlet and independent stores, Freeport is a shopping destination, but it also offers coastal charm, great dining, and fun outdoor options for a weekend visit. 01

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AFTERNOON:

Tea and timeless furniture The historic Harraseeket Inn is lovely and has afternoon tea every day at 3:30 p.m. with cheese, crackers, and sandwiches, while someone plays the grand piano. When we get to our spacious room for the weekend, the wood-burning fireplace is all set and ready to be lit. On Main Street, the hotel is in a perfect location for covering Freeport by foot. A part of Maine, like L.L.Bean and lobster, Thos. Moser furniture focuses on the natural beauty of wood, creating graceful and timeless pieces. Their quality and craftsmanship allows the company to offer a lifetime guarantee. As you’ll see if you visit their workshop in Lewiston, the design and thought that goes into each piece make these investment pieces for generations. Bridgham and Cook, also known as the British goods store, has many recognizable brands of teas, biscuits, preserves, and candies, as well as clothing and soaps from Great Britain. They also carry specialty items like Lochcarron of Scotland family tartan scarves made of lamb’s wool. The store is great for interesting gifts, a trip down memory lane, or a reliable fallback if you forgot to pick up a gift for someone on a trip to England.

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01 Local crafts at Abacus. 02 Passing out Maine magazine stickers at Sherman’s bookstore. 03 The outside of Azure. 04 Soaking up the view at the top of Bradbury Mountain. 05 A tiny sample of bag designs at Sea Bags.

breakfast. From the blueberry muffins to the blueberry pancakes, it is homemade and exquisite. After a quick dip in the pool and some shopping at the gift store (which has a terrific variety of stuffed animals), we head out for our first full day in Freeport. Before we arrive at the Wilbur’s of Maine chocolate factory for our tour we want to see Chilton’s furniture showroom. Despite its Shaker inspiration, the furniture has many modern touches, and the live-edge bed is now on the top of my to-buy list for our new house.

intimate and full but doesn’t feel hectic or too loud. Our daughters are happy to be seated under a glimmering gold- and silverpainted fish on the wall. We start our evening with cocktails. I have a fresh basil gimlet with lime and St. Germain; my husband goes with a blueberry martini with Cold River Vodka. Everyone has raved to us about the calamari, and with good reason: it’s light and fresh and flavorful. My husband’s steak is cooked to perfection, and the blueberry sauce accompanying my salmon is a delightfully sweet addition.

The best part is the service. Our waiter is the perfect balance of attentive and knowledgeable without being overbearing. Coowner Jonas Werner comes to say hello, and at the end of the meal we learn that our waiter, Riley, is his son.

SATURDAY MORNING:

Shaker furniture and a chocolate tour With two young kids, we are early risers and among the first in the inn’s dining room for

Our chocolate factory tour begins, and with a few giggles, we all don our hairnets. The tour stops in four different rooms, and at each stop we are each given a handful of chocolate. We watch Oreo cookies being covered in melting chocolate and then sprinkled with colorful sprinkles.

AFTERNOON:

A day of shopping and art A visit to Freeport is not complete without shopping. We visit Sea Bags, which makes bags of all sizes from recycled sails, and are amazed at how many prints are available. We stop at Island Treasure Toys and find some crafts to do later. At Mexicali Blues we discover the cutest hand-knit sweaters for the girls. Fiore Artisan Olive Oils and Vinegars encourages shoppers to sample different flavors, and

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01 Freshly made pizza at Tuscan Brick Oven Bistro. 02 Lambs at Wolfe’s Neck Farm. we decide on the blood orange olive oil, Japanese roasted sesame oil, and a superb pesto alla genovese.

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We go to Bow Street Market to get some lunch and snacks. We are feeling adventurous and decide to spice up our cocktail-making routine with some bitters from Owl and Whale, a Maine company that is a mixologist’s dream. Then we take a break from shopping to catch a movie at the Nordica Theatre. Back at the shops, we strike a pose at the tower of whoopie pies at Wicked Whoopies, another Maine institution. We contemplate the incredible variety of flavors at Coastal Maine Popcorn Co. And then we spend almost an hour at Sherman’s Books and Stationery picking out greeting cards, children’s books, and more toys. The Bowe Art Gallery has an eclectic, modern, and affordable selection of art, and Jean Jack’s gallery has her classic and distinctive straight line and big sky paintings.

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Dinner, two ways After a short rest, we decide to split up for dinner, since one child wants to be in pajamas. The Broad Arrow Tavern at the Harraseeket Inn is laid-back, cozy, and welcoming. It offers one of the best burgers in town and a fabulous beer selection.

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at L.L.Bean—the fact that it is open 24 hours a day makes us want to go there when everything else is closed. In addition to the seemingly limitless variety of clothing and sporting and camping gear, it is always a joy to walk through the store: its stunning wooden architecture, fish pond, stuffed wild animals, and charging moose make it a cathedral to the great outdoors as much as a retail store.

SUNDAY MORNING:

Mountain State Park in Pownal. We take the Summit Trail up to the top, which is a steep but short hike, and then take the Switchback Trail down. At the end of the day, following many recommendations for a place to eat with kids, we go to Gritty’s Freeport Brew Pub. It is friendly and easy, and its big backyard, outdoor seating, and playground make it a perfect place to end our family weekend escape to Freeport.

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After another great homemade breakfast (this time with French toast) and a dip in the pool at the inn, we head for the outdoors. But first, I don’t want to miss Abacus Gallery, a creatively curated collection of Maine-made crafts that are tasteful, modern, and distinctive.

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We sign the kids up for Farmer for the Morning at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, an educational farm where kids can engage in farm chores like feeding the cows and giving a lamb a bottle. There are also oceanfront camping spots and kayak and canoe rentals that would be perfect in the summer. We stop at Royal River Natural Foods, an oasis for Maine-grown produce and meats, to pick up some snacks and a light lunch to take with us to Winslow Park. The park is the highlight of the day; there is a large wooden boat for kids to climb on and a great playground surrounded by the ocean. There’s even a small beach to search for shells and launch kayaks from.

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Visitors to York will find themselves awash in unique hiking trails, beaches, historic educational activities, and art galleries, while Kittery has developed a reputation for its downtown’s innovative eateries, cocktail spots, and shops.

FRIDAY EVENING:

Arriving at the inn and a dinner favorite

03 to our historic but newly renovated room, with views of both York Harbor and nearby woods. The campus is beautifully maintained, yet is not overly manicured. We make our way from York to Kittery via the scenic Route 103 for dinner at Tulsi. Once there, our server describes the Indian restaurant’s varied and thoughtfully prepared menu. We enjoy the peshwari naan, pork vindaloo, and chana masala. Chef and co-owner Raj Mandekar makes it clear that quality is his number-one concern, and he and his staff put their hearts in to every plate. Tulsi is one of my favorite restaurants not just in southern Maine, but anywhere. With full bellies, we drive the winding Route 103 back to York Harbor Inn for a nightcap at the Ship’s Cellar Pub. Located in the basement of the inn, the pub offers a broad array of fine spirits in a beautiful wood and brass low-ceiling bar.

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48 HOURS

01 View of York Harbor Beach from York Harbor Inn. 02 A coffee Oreo ice cream from Fox’s with a famous backdrop. 03 Foreside Bike Guys co-owner Steve Jacques in front of their newly opened storefront. 04 Bagels and coffee at the Bagel Basket in York Village. 05 The Goldenrod, famous for its salt water taffy, has been a staple of Short Sands Beach for decades.

SATURDAY

AFTERNOON:

A day of sights and snacks

When Pigs Fly in Kittery bakes its delicious breads at its bakery in York and delivers daily to the retail location. The shop is packed with freshly baked goods, as well as jams, butters, and spreads from around the state. Just north of When Pigs Fly on Route 1 in a newly expanded production space, Good ToGo is poised to produce half a million wholesome, gluten-free dehydrated meals this year alone. With distribution to over 500 locations, including a recent expansion into Canada, owners Jennifer Scism, a former New York chef, and husband David Koorits, an outdoor enthusiast, take pride in the fact that their products are made in Maine.

MORNING:

A quick bagel and coffee at Bagel Basket give us just the fuel we need to start the day. Open since 1994, Bagel Basket offers sandwiches, freshly baked bagels, and a variety of housemade cream cheese spreads in the heart of York Village. No visit to York is complete without a walk down the Wiggly Bridge, which connects a footpath atop an old dam to the Steedman Woods trail. Even as an adult, it’s fun to stand in the middle and jump up and down to make it wiggle. My wife, who is the victim of my antics, may not agree. Fort McClary State Historic Site in Kittery, once used to protect the Naval shipyard, is now a sprawl of rolling green hills, open buildings, and connecting tunnels for the public to explore and enjoy. After our walkabout in Fort McClary, a famous cruller from Lil’s Cafe in downtown Kittery and a hot cup of Tandem Coffee is in order. Not only does Lil’s offer a wide variety of mouth-watering housemade treats, but it’s also home to the Vinyl Vault, where you can paw through and purchase vintage records. Around the corner from Lil’s, we stumbled upon the newly opened Foreside Bike Guys. Owners Steve Jacques and Aaron Chidester offer a unique combination of bike sales and service, as well as pick-up, delivery, and mobile bicycle repair.

Back up the coast for snacks, historic sites, and art

The Old York Gaol, a former colonial prison that dates back to 1720, is the crown jewel of Old York Village. It is one of the country’s oldest prison buildings and one of the oldest public buildings in Maine. The Museums of Old York offers tours of this and several other surrounding historic buildings and graveyards. While in York, we visit some of the town’s numerous art offerings. At George Marshall Store Gallery, curator Mary Harding selects contemporary work from a variety of the region’s artists. The gallery is located in a historic building on the York River that is owned and maintained by the Museums of Old York. On Main Street near Sands Beach is Chases Garage, which houses a gallery, a ceramics and printmaking workshop, and artist studio spaces in a more-than

100-year-old auto garage.

EVENING:

Beach hopping with a light We stop at Fox’s Lobster House for an ice cream cone and a glimpse of Cape Neddick Light, known as the Nubble Light, one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world. An image of the Nubble is included in a cache of photographs aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 satellite, alongside photographs of the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. Easy access from both Long Sands and Short Sands beaches keeps this destination hopping all summer long. From here we walk to Short Sands Beach to enjoy a sunset stroll stop at Inn on the Blues for a couple of fine Hendrick’s Gin martinis. This gives us enough courage to brave the young crowd at Fun-O-Rama, a classic boardwalk arcade at the top of the beach with hardwood floors warped by the ocean spray. Armed with a fistful of quarters, my wife and I make our way through the collection of vintage and modern arcade and Skee-Ball games and the photo booth. We close our evening with another walk and a late dinner at Stones Throw. The lobster roll keeps pace with most any lobster roll in size, quality, and value. Stones Throw also offers a full menu and bar with a breathtaking view of Long Sands Beach through an open garage door. Owner Joe Lipton is gregarious as usual and is beaming about his latest purchase, ViewPoint Hotel on Nubble Road.

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01 01 Short Sands Beach. 02 The Wiggly Bridge, which is, well, wiggly. 03 Dinner at Tulsi in Kittery.

SUNDAY

AFTERNOON:

Provisions and hiking

After our hike, it’s time for a little lunch at Flo’s Hot Dogs on Route 1 in Cape Neddick. Know what you want before you come inside and have your money ready. Flo’s is a secondgeneration family business that serves what its sign declares as “The Most Famous Hot Dogs with Hot Sauce on Rt. 1 from Maine to Key West, Fla.” This old hot dog shack, which remains essentially unchanged for the past 40 years (save for a few coats of paint), indeed serves one of the finest steamed dogs in the state and perhaps the whole East Coast.

MORNING:

Being from York I may be biased, but I have yet to find a better pizzeria/deli/coffee roastery/ beer and wine shop/gas station than Anthony’s Food Shop. Here we enjoy freshly roasted coffee and loose-leaf tea, coupled with two huge BLTs, before we head out for the day’s hike.

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ART PAIRINGS AT THE PMA

Clifford Ross (United States, born 1952), Hurricane LXVIII, 2009, inkjet print, 48 x 82 inches. Museum purchase with support from the Irving B. Ellis Fund, the Photography Fund, the Contemporary Art Fund, and the Harold P. and Mildred A. Nelson Art Purchase Endowment Fund, 2016.9. ©Clifford Ross Studio, All rights reserved. Winslow Homer (United States, 1836–1910), Weatherbeaten, 1894, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 48 3/8 inches. Bequest of Charles Shipman Payson, 1988.55.1.

Although the Portland Museum of Art is well known for its extensive collection of classical landscapes and portraits, including those by Andrew Wyeth and Winslow Homer, the institution also exhibits contemporary works that continue the traditions set by the old guard and enhance the meaning of the archetypal images. Visitors can also reserve the Peggy L. Osher Art Study and Collection Committee Conference Room to view pieces from the museum’s collection that are not currently on display.

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WEATHERBEATEN (1894), Winslow Homer, and HURRICANE LXVIII (2009), Clifford Ross (opposite page) Homer’s Weatherbeaten communicates a familiar Maine coastal scene: a rocky shoreline battered by blue-green waves. Although other works may express water symbolism as inherently comfortable, Weatherbeaten transforms the potential beauty of a seaside landscape into a tense, problematic experience. American photographer Clifford Ross similarly seeks a taut elegance in his images that, mirroring Homer, verges on eruption. Ironically, the two works suggest the subtlety of immense sentiments, like anguish, that can haunt the mind.

THIS IS SO PORTLAND.

RIVER COVE (1958), Andrew Wyeth, and YELLOW OVER BLACK (1964-1965), Ellsworth Kelly

Donated by David Rockefeller, River Cove shows a jetty near the artist’s home in Cushing. Fine details such as clamshells and the ephemeral traces of a bird’s talons embody the egg tempera with a sense of place, while the murky water captures the reflection of surrounding pine trees. Understood in relationship to River Cove, the soft, tangent curves of Kelly’s strong shapes in Yellow Over Black refer to the feeling a landscape can offer; while Wyeth transmits loneliness through detail, Kelly creates emotion through precise simplicity.

THE SISTERS, BOSTON (1978), Nan Goldin, and UNTITLED (KARA’S FIRST PREGNANCY) (2005), Jocelyn Lee

From October 6 to December 31, the Portland Museum of Art showcases photographer Nan Goldin’s work in a careerencompassing exhibition, Nan Goldin: Family History. In The Sisters, Boston, the intimate, sideways glance of the woman on the right goes unnoticed by her sister who looks directly into the camera, representing a palpable—and perhaps one-sided— expression of emotional dependency. Shot 30 years later, Jocelyn Lee’s Untitled (Kara’s First Pregnancy) conveys the complexity of incumbent motherhood, which strips away the possibility of independence and separation between the self and another person.

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Opposite page: Jennifer DePrizio and Tufts medical students discuss the painting Two Female Models Sitting with Legs Crossed and Kazak Rug (2013) by Philip Pearlstein.

MEDICINE AT THE MUSEUM

LEARNING OBSERVATION AND THINKING SKILLS BY TALKING ABOUT ART

wo lifeless geese lie on a jagged dune between sparse tufts of vegetation. Three of their brethren have taken to the sepia-toned skies above. Is it possible that a hunter is poised just beyond our view? Is there a deeper meaning to this work? When American artist Winslow Homer finished Wild Geese in Flight in 1897, he could not have known that his oil painting (now located at the Portland Museum of Art— just 12 miles away from his former studio on Prouts Neck) would become a topic of conversation for future physicians. For the past two years, students from the Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track Program and health care providers from Maine Medical Center in Portland have been learning about observation, collaboration, and thinking skills through examination of pieces like Homer’s painting of wild geese, using an approach called Visual Thinking Strategies. Jennifer DePrizio, the Peggy L. Osher director of learning and interpretation at the museum, says that the method helps people develop empathy and respect for others’ points of view. “Art is a way for us 76

to talk about the most important things about being human,” says DePrizio, who has worked in museums for 18 years. Previously the director of visitor learning at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, DePrizio has been with the Portland Museum of Art since 2014. “Our museum is really interested in how we can use the resources we have to better the community,” says DePrizio. “Art museums are traditionally tailored to people who already know about art. To make museums more accessible, we need to reach out to people who may not feel comfortable there.” Cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen and Philip Yenawine, a former educator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, developed the concept of Visual Thinking Strategies in the early 1990s. “They were trying to figure out what happens when people look at works of art,” says DePrizio. “Visual Thinking Strategies is an openended, learner-centered way of learning how to look and talk about art, and decipher what you’re looking at.” DePrizio has offered this experience to several Portland-based health care groups, including surgical residents and heart catheterization laboratory staff at

Maine Medical Center. “When I begin the conversation I say, ‘Everything is possible,’” says DePrizio. “‘Bring in anything you want to add.’” The learning strategy focuses on three questions, beginning with, “What’s going on in this picture?” In the case of Wild Geese in Flight, the hunter hypothesis is a popular one. But perhaps there are other possibilities—the first owner of the piece told the Portland Museum of Art that the title was At the Foot of the Lighthouse. If that is true, perhaps the lighthouse played a part in the death of the geese? Or maybe there are other possibilities. Whenever anyone offers an interpretation, DePrizio asks, “What do you see that makes you say that?” “It takes a while to develop an idea and be brave enough to raise your hand,” says DePrizio. “Then someone will have a different idea. That’s when it opens up and becomes this really rich conversation.” DePrizio prompts people to go deeper with a third question: “What more can we find?” A 2001 study done by researchers Jeffrey and Lisa Smith at New York’s Metropolitan

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WELLNESS MEDICINE AND MUSEUMS Museum of Art found that museum visitors spent a median time of 17 seconds looking at one piece of art. Using Visual Thinking Strategies, DePrizio says that groups typically spend 25 minutes in conversation. Some discussions have gone on for as long as 45 minutes. “This is really incredible in terms of sustained looking and thinking about works of art,” she says. Sustained focus is important for people in the health care field. “Medical education really homes in on critical thinking skills and interpretations based in evidence,” says DePrizio. “You can’t just say, ‘Because I think so.’ There has to be something, whether or not you can always articulate it.” DePrizio has worked with Dr. Stephen Hayes, an internal medicine physician at Maine Medical Partners in Westbrook, and Dr. Jo Linder, the director of student affairs in Maine Medical Center’s Department of Medical Education, to introduce these concepts to second-year students in the Maine Track Program. The collaboration between Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and Maine Medical Center gives admission preference to qualified Maine residents and individuals interested in rural health care with the hope that they will return to their home state to practice medicine. “Going to the museum helps us to be open to looking at something that we do not see on a regular basis,” says Hayes, who has been in the medical field for 30 years. “It really helps people with observation and building a language around what they’re looking at.” Hayes has also been involved with the Maine Humanities Council’s Literature and Medicine program. “As you study something and think about it and look at it from different angles or collaborate with someone else, different aspects of it become more important,” he says.

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Hayes says that one of the most valuable aspects of his Portland Museum of Art experience is that it has helped him understand the way that he processes information. “Patients would want you to do that. They’d want you to be reflective and look at things critically. Decisions are not always black and white.” In his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described “System 1” thinking as fast, instinctive, and emotional and “System 2” as slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Hayes says that health care providers are called upon to exercise both types of thinking. “There are

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Opposite page: DePrizio at the Portland Museum of Art’s historic McLellan House. This page: Robert Indiana’s Seven sculpture (1980/2003) welcomes visitors to the PMA. Indiana is a Vinalhaven resident.

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Tufts medical students sketch Winslow Homer’s Wild Geese in Flight as part of the Visual Thinking Strategies exercise. Opposite page, clockwise from left: Students Tom Zink, Grace Mueller, Mark Broadwin, William Long, and John (Jackie) Royal, II. The PMA was founded in 1882 as the Portland Society of Art. Alex Katz’s October, (2002).

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situations where you can make a judgment relatively quickly, and it’s correct, and you deal with it,” says Hayes. “But there are other situations where you have to keep going back and testing your thinking against what’s going on and making sure that you’ve got the right information to make a decision.” Hayes also likes the collaborative nature of looking at art together. “As a group you might have more ability to think about something differently,” says Hayes. “People with different talents, or different ability levels, can actually cooperate or create something

in that kind of an encounter.” Hayes points out that most patients—especially those who have complex problems—will be interviewed by multiple providers, including front-office staff, medical assistants, nurses, primary care providers, and consultants. “We’re asking different observers to look at the same information, get different angles on the information, and to use that to interpret,” says Hayes. Hayes and DePrizio believe that programs like Visual Thinking Strategies will help the Portland Museum of Art with its goal

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of benefitting the community as a whole. “For anyone, no matter what your job is, no matter what you do when you’re not in a museum building, art can give you a better sense of what it means to be a human being,” says DePrizio. “That naturally enriches the experience that we can have with one another every day.”

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“There are so many ways people can help artists with their practice,” says Nat May. “I don’t know any artists who are concertedly working alone. Everybody needs another human to share their work with.” Previously the executive director of Space Gallery in Portland, May is executive director and cofounder of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony, located on the shores of Kezar Lake in Lovell. This year May is helping curate the 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial exhibit, which will open in January. The biennial showcases living artists who have a meaningful connection to Maine. The previous biennial, You Can’t Get There from Here, featured work by 32 diverse individuals, from painter Lois Dodd to ceramic artist Miles Spadone. The 2018 biennial is the museum’s tenth. “We’re challenged with putting together a group of artists—and works— that work well together,” says May. He has been collaborating with Penobscot basket maker Theresa Secord, Mark Bessire, the Judy and Leonard Lauder director of the PMA, and Sarah Workneh, codirector of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. “We’re particularly interested in trying to bring in a broader range of voices,” says May. “Especially folks who aren’t well represented in the museum world.” Working on the 2018 biennial complements May’s other project, the Hewnoaks artist residency program. Hewnoaks is located on property previously owned by American painter and art educator Douglas Volk and his wife, Marion Larrabee Volk, a textile artist. “It has this really rich history of being a place for artists to escape their regular daily lives and come and repose and relax and think and create,” says May. Hewnoaks can accommodate 50 artists each summer. “I am privileged to identify resources that are available, and privileged to know about artists that need the resources,” says May. “Somehow it’s worked out that I’ve been able to put those two things together.”

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ALL-AMERICAN Elementary-school kids typically dream about being doctors or firefighters or pro athletes, but Diana Greenwold knew before she reached middle school that she wanted to be a museum curator. Like many children who grew up in Washington, D.C., Greenwold and her two siblings spent a lot of time in museums, most of which are free of charge. “There’s something about being able to pop into a Smithsonian museum whenever you feel like it that I think my parents identified early on as a really exciting opportunity for all of us,” she says. Greenwold had a childhood friend whose father, the director of special exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, took them for a behind-the-scenes tour of an exhibit featuring objects from the Olmec, an early civilization in what is now Mexico, famous for its giant carved stone heads. “I remember him talking about the back and forth of how these enormous stone sculptures got from Mexico to Washington, and thinking, ‘This is a thing you can do? I want to do this.’”

As associate curator of American art at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA), Greenwold now spends a fair amount of time determining where pieces of art should go and how they get there. At Yale, where she studied art history, she became involved with the Yale Center for British Art as a tour guide. “That really cemented my interest in following this as a career,” she says. After graduation, she interned at the Smithsonian before moving to New York City and joining a prestigious museum exhibition design firm. Graduate school took her to Berkeley; she worked on her PhD there for four years, then returned to the East Coast on fellowships in New York and Boston to write her dissertation. Greenwold was a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and had just finished writing when she saw a posting for the PMA. After several years of experience at larger museums, she

Art made in the United States is in the care of associate curator Diana Greenwold.

Opposite page: Associate curator of American art Diana Greenwold in the Dr. Alfred Osher Reading Room at the Portland Museum of Art. This page, from left: Some of Greenwold’s favorite glass pieces are displayed in a case on the second floor of the PMA’s Payson Building: two etched, sandblasted bowls by German artist Ann Wolff; Radiant Persian Pair by Dale Chihuly; Untitled by Marvin Lipofsky.

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are the stories we’re telling here? How are we going to tell them? What are the objects that we have at our disposal to do that?’” Greenwold says. “I came specifically with the mandate to integrate decorative arts more holistically into the collection, but also taking more leadership over the American art program and figuring out where the intersections were between the two.” About 6,000 of the 18,000 items in the PMA’s permanent collection are considered decorative art—ceramics, glass, silver, textiles, and furniture— pieces that are both finely crafted and functional. “Like many similar institutions, the PMA was founded in the late nineteenth century largely through charitable donations from well-todo families in the region,” Greenwold says. These bequests include a significant number of glass pieces designed for household use, such as pitchers, bowls, and vases, made in Portland, once a major center of glass production. “From 1863 to 1873 the Portland Glass Company made five million objects in pressed glass,” she says. In galleries focusing on the PMA’s collection, decorative objects now share space with fine arts pieces—a transferware pitcher patterned with signal flags flown from the Portland Observatory and an elaborate inlaid wood sideboard are displayed on the same floor as a painting by John Singer Sargent and a fantastical sculpture by Portland artist Lauren Fensterstock. The integration reflects a prime tenet of the reimagining project: installing art from the PMA’s collection in new ways. “That was a big thing that I jumped right into when I got here—working from the ground up on the permanent collection galleries,” says Greenwold.

This page: The bulletin board in Greenwold’s office offers colorful inspiration. Opposite page: Greenwold gives a visitor a tour of her favorite works in the Payson Building, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Asleep on the Raft (after Mark Twain) by Tim Rollins and K.O.S., on the far wall.

appreciates that the smaller scale of the PMA means she gets to have her hands in a variety of projects. “I really fell in love with the institution, so I have been here ever since,” she says. Greenwold joined the PMA staff as a curatorial fellow in December 2014, when the museum was two years into its five-year “Your Museum, Reimagined” project. “There had certainly been a good deal of planning that happened before I got here, but the three of us who are the curatorial team—Andrew Eschelbacher, Jessica May, and I—had a lot of fascinating conversations about, ‘What

Writing is also a significant aspect of Greenwold’s work. One of her first projects was to co-author the PMA’s first-ever catalogue of its collection; she also wrote the catalogue essay for the recent Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper exhibit, for which she was the in-house curator. Interviewing living artists like Duncan Hewitt, a sculptor from Hollis, for the 2016 exhibit Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange was a new experience for Greenwold. “I was sort of a dead person researcher before this,” she says, adding that she was concerned about interpreting his pieces differently than he intended. “Duncan initiated me into the world of living artists and showed me that they can be delightful, and not that scary.” Greenwold is working on several new exhibitions, including one opening on

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September 10 called Model Citizens: Art and Identity in the United States, 1770-1830. It uses work from the PMA’s permanent collection to “look at colonial and early federal questions about identity and self-expression,” she explains. The exhibition will include traditional painted portraits as well as needlework samplers and paper silhouettes. “It’s both about that very formal notion of refined portraiture, but also about how groups that we don’t often hear about—young girls, women—chose to represent themselves at that moment in time,” Greenwold says. “We’re going to bring out some of our samplers, which I think are really gems in our decorative arts collection.”

“WHAT ARE THE STORIES WE’RE TELLING HERE? HOW ARE WE GOING TO TELL THEM?”

An exhibit focusing on the founding years of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts—1950 to 1969—is in the works for 2019. This will be her first large-scale exhibition, and will feature about 80 objects, “everything from glass to ceramics to fiber to metalwork,” including work by celebrated glass artist Dale Chihuly. Greenwold is cocurating the exhibit with independent curator Rachel Arauz, and says that new Haystack director Paul Sacaridiz has been a helpful resource. A large part of her current work on the project is tracking down the pieces that will be featured. “I’m in the midst of this kind of stressful but quite fun job of figuring out where all the objects that we want to go in the show are—in public institutions or with private lenders—and going through the process of asking very nicely if we can have them for a while,” she says. The PMA has a significant collection of works by the celebrated artist Winslow Homer, and the museum also owns the artist’s former studio at Prouts Neck, which opened to the public in 2012. “Homer is obviously a big part of my job as the American art person here,” she says. “I go there a lot, and every time it feels different and kind of magical.” The trips to Prouts Neck are an example of the variety and depth of work Greenwold loves in an environment she has embraced. “I think I’ve gotten a ton of opportunities here to really make an imprint in a way that I feel really, really excited about, and so pleased that the PMA lets me do.”

Greenwold in front of Newell Convers Wyeth’s Dark Harbor Fishermen (1943) and Marguerite Thompson Zorach’s Diana of the Sea (1940).

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