Block Party
Saturday, September 11, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free. Museum Front Patio.
The Museum will be the launch site for artist Andrea Zittel’s new project, The Group Formerly Known as Smockshop (GFKAS), as part of SPACE Gallery’s outdoor art and music festival Block Party on Congress Street. The Museum will also be open extended hours until 9 p.m. Sponsored by the Quimby Colony and the Portland Museum of Art, GFKAS members or “panelists” Tiprin Follet, Peggy Jo Pabustan, and Karen Gelardi will be creating and selling products rectangular in design on the patio in front of the Museum. GFKAS is an artistic enterprise that generates income for artists whose work is either non-commercial, or not yet self sustaining and include artists from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Berlin, and South Portland. The GFKAS project succeeds Smockshop, a similar endeavor in which artists produced more than 300 simple wrap-around garments as reinterpretations of Zittel’s original design. Zittel’s work is internationally recognized for exploring all aspects of day-to-day living such as clothing, food, and furniture. For more information on GFKAS, visit www.formerlyknownas.smockshop.org and on the SPACE Gallery Block Party, visit www.space538.org.
Portland Museum of Art 2010 Raffle
Raffle tickets: $10 each; $50 for 6; $100 for 13
The lucky winners will be drawn at the Members' Opening Reception on Wednesday, December 15 for the exhibition Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008.
All proceeds support the Museum's exhibitions and education programs. You need not be present at the raffle drawing to win. Items will be on display on the Museum's lower ground floor until the raffle drawing. You may use the raffle tickets you receive in the mail, or purchase tickets at the Museum. If you have any questions, or to purchase tickets, please call the membership office at (207) 775-6148, ext. 3244.
Raffle items include:
- Painting by Stephen Etnier from Owen and Anna Wells
- Thos. Moser Continuous Arm Chair
- Week's Stay in England from Lewis and Susan Cabot
- Framed painting by James Tolles and Gwendolyn Marx
- Dinner for Eight in the McLellan House by Churchill Catered Events
- Pair of L.L.Bean Bikes and a Claremont Hotel Getaway
- Painting by William Thon
- $1,500 Gift Certificate for Jewelry from Patty Daunis-Dunning
- Week's Stay on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands from Charles Harriman
- Print by Will Barnet
- Rolex Watch from Springer's Jewelry