“When I was at the Parkland Boys and Girls Club I worked with the Imani Dance Company, which was based in African rhythms. I let them rehearse at the space, and then that’s how I stumbled into drumming. I couldn’t drum. I couldn’t drum to save my own…I don’t even have rhythm, as quiet as it’s kept. Something that was only supposed to be a summer program lasted 30 years.”
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Portland Museum’s Grounds Get a Cleanup from Various Volunteers
We are incredibly thankful to all of the volunteers who came out before the event and helped us clean the place up: Goodwill Kentucky’s Another Way Program, UofL’s SOUL Day of Service, and members of our Board of Directors!
Portland Museum Welcomes Internationally Exhibited Artist Clive Moloney
Moloney has lived in the United States for the past 15 years but was born in Tipperary, Ireland and has exhibited his work in Taiwan, New Orleans, Boston, and beyond. His art practice is rooted in a deep relationship with the woodland surrounding his current home in Cincinnati and aims to inspire a sense of awe and responsibility for the beauty and complexity of the world around us.
“If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.” Portland Museum Welcomes Artist-In-Residence for Art and Heritage Fair
“The thing I’m looking forward to the most during my late-September residency at Portland Museum is creating with anybody who walks in the door. I invite you to create with me.”
After Years Searching Portland, Sugar To Open In Old Schweitzer Pharmacy Building
After several plans, several years, and a whole lot of patience, Sugar is nearly ready. We’ll start with affordable coffee, cookies, a few sandwiches, and other nice surprises. I hope you’ll stop in, sit for a minute, and have something sweet.
Squallis Puppeteers Conclude “Yellow Carpet Series” Performances
Throughout July Squallis Puppeteers took the stage at Portland Museum’s Lighthouse Education Center and performed three amazing shows for children in our neighborhood: Brain Party, Tricky Fox, and Mouse Tales.
Reflections of the Portland Festival
While it’s been a few weeks since the Portland Festival in early June, you can’t help but still feel the buzz of energy and excitement, the result of an amazing community coming together. And while I did make a brief appearance at the event a couple years ago, this was the first time the Portland Museum and Portland Anchor set up a booth, and it was a wild whirlwind I won’t soon forget, and can’t wait to experience again next year.
KyCAD Students Lead Anchored to Portland Pop-Up Exhibition
Site + Research students at Kentucky College of Art and Design spent three weeks in Louisville’s Shawnee and Portland neighborhoods, researching the histories of people and places that inform the area’s social landscape.
Construction Begins On Portland Museum’s AHOY Children’s Museum
Get an update on Portland Museum’s long anticipated AHOY Children’s Museum!
Portland Museum Displays Inmate Artwork with Exhibit “Human, too”
Learn all about how Portland Museum’s exhibition “Human, too,” featuring artwork from inmates in LMDC’s Chance 4 Change program, came together from its curator Erica Lewis.