Your generous donation will be recognized on the Museum’s electronic donor walls and website, in Portal, and at the Annual Members’ Meeting. You will also receive exclusive invitations to private donor events throughout the year. Most importantly, however, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your support helps drive the Portland Art Museum’s mission forward in our community.

Your 100 percent tax deductible gift will serve as a direct contribution to our exhibitions, which will feature a truly spectacular slate over the next twelve months:

• MAN / WOMAN: Gaston Lachaise, opening June 2013. ne of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Lachaise was noted for his female nudes. MAN / WOMAN explores the artist’s central theme of the universal woman through modernism and figurative sculpture;
• Cyclepedia: Iconic Bicycle Design, opening June 2013. Drawn from the collection of Vienna-based designer and bike aficionado, Michael Embacher, this exhibition features 40 bicycles, each chosen as examples of pivotal moments in the evolution of bicycle design. The exhibition includes racing, mountain, single speed, tourism, tandem, urban, folding, cargo, curiosities and children’s bicycles;
• Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, opening September 2013. bThe CNAA exhibition builds on the Museum’s commitment to the arts and artists of our region by providing an opportunity for the work of Northwest artists to receive national exposure through a major museum exhibition;
• Samurai!, opening October 2013, will feature objects from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection, one of the best and largest collections in the world, this exhibition features the extraordinary artistry of the armor used by samurai—the military elite led by the shoguns, or warlords, of Japan from the 14th through 19th centuries;
• The Splendor of Venice: The Golden Age of Art and Music, opening February 2014. A stunning multidisciplinary exhibition is the first to explore the interaction between the visual arts, music and political culture in Venice between the early 16th and the close of the 18th centuries. It features works by Titian, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, Canaletto, and Guardi, as well as illuminated manuscripts, original period instruments, early music texts and fashion;
• The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden, opening June 2014. his exhibition features more than 100 works, some of which have never been seen outside of France. Works includes large-scale sculptures from the garden that were created in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries by artists including François-Joseph Bosio, Antoine Coysevox, and Aristide Maillol, and paintings, photographs, and drawings that depict the Tuileries. The exhibition will also explore how the 63-acre garden influenced and inspired works by painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Childe Hassam and photographers such as Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and André Kertész.

For more information about exhibition sponsorship or to make a donation, call the Development Hotline at 503-276-4365. You can also make a gift online by clicking here.