Ogunquit Museum Of American Art

Ogunquit Museum Of American Art A historic and cultural site where visitors encounter and think about modern and contemporary art.
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The Ogunquit Museum of American Art is the only museum in Maine devoted exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and interpretation of American art. The Museum houses a permanent collection of important paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs from the late 1800s to the present. Included in the collection is an extensive selection of works by artists associated with Ogunquit’s f

amous art colony of the early 20th century. Our collection includes a beautiful three-acre sculpture park with 17 gardens overlooking Narrow Cove and the Atlantic Ocean.

We are thrilled to announce sculptor Ryan Schneider’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.The project will...
09/07/2026

We are thrilled to announce sculptor Ryan Schneider’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

The project will open April 23, 2027, through November 14 , 2027, and will be installed throughout the Museum’s three-acre sculpture gardens on the Atlantic coast. The exhibition will survey Schneider’s materially driven practice across wood, stone, and bronze. Based in Joshua Tree, California, Schneider creates figurative and abstract forms that emerge from the inherent qualities of natural materials, revealing knots, fractures, crystalline patterns, and other traces of geological and ecological time. His work offers a contemporary extension of Ogunquit’s historic tradition of direct carving while exploring urgent questions of landscape, ecology, mythology, and humanity’s relationship to the natural world.

The exhibition will include a new site-responsive work created from an ash tree from the Museum’s grounds which was killed by the invasive emerald ash borer beetle. From September 9 through 30, 2026, Schneider will be in residence at OMAA developing and working on the new sculpture. The project continues Schneider’s exploration of material transformation while creating a dialogue between the Museum’s modernist history and the evolving ecological landscape of coastal Maine.

“Hunter / Seeker,” 2023, Bronze, edition of 3 + 2 AP, 67x19x17”, Collection of Almine and Bernard Picasso

“Stone Eaters,” 2022, Bronze edition of 3 + 2 AP, 76 x 15 x 14”, Collection of Nathan and Glen Serphos

“Deep Dive,” 2025, Mexican Onyx on Redwood plinth, 11x10x9”, Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

As we celebrate Labor Day, we reflect on the work of Bernard Karfiol and Patrick Eugène, now on view in “American Conver...
09/07/2026

As we celebrate Labor Day, we reflect on the work of Bernard Karfiol and Patrick Eugène, now on view in “American Conversations.”

Regional identity is shaped not only by climate, geography, or architecture, but also by the forms of labor that sustain everyday life. In Maine and many coastal communities, fishing has long been more than an industry: it is a relationship to the sea, a source of livelihood, and a way of life passed across generations. The work of harvesting, repairing, navigating, and waiting has left deep marks on collective memory and cultural identity.

The artists brought together here examine fishing as both labor and inheritance. Their works reveal the physical realities of the industry while also tracing the bonds it creates between people, places, and histories, suggesting that work itself can become
a powerful vessel for memory, community, and belonging.

Left: Bernard Karfiol (1886–1952), Fishermen in Fish House, ca. 1914, Oil on canvas, Museum Purchase, 1985.3

Right: Patrick Eugène (b. 1984), Whispering Waters, 2023, Oil on canvas, Gift of Joel Lubin 2025.7.2

As students headed back to school this week, OMAA would like to wish everyone a wonderful start to the school year! 📚🍎We...
09/04/2026

As students headed back to school this week, OMAA would like to wish everyone a wonderful start to the school year! 📚🍎

We look forward to welcoming classrooms to the Museum for field trips throughout the fall. There are many ways for teachers and students to get involved!

🎟️ Passport Program | Any student who attends a lecture (all lectures are free!) receives a passport for free admission to the Museum with a guest for up to three visits.

🎨 For Teachers: Arts Learning Exchange | OMAA is hosting art educators on Wednesday, October 28, from 1–5pm in collaboration with the Maine Arts Commission and Maine Department of Education. This gathering is part of a dynamic series of six half-day regional gatherings around the state, creating a welcoming space for connection, collaboration, and shared purpose across districts, disciplines, and sectors. Save the date; more information is coming soon!

🏫 Off-Season Classroom Visits | Throughout the Museum’s off-season (November through April), an education representative can bring arts learning directly to your classroom! Interested in close-looking exercises? These visits are flexible and can be tailored to your curriculum needs, with an education staff member creating a bespoke learning experience for your students.

Interested in any of the above? Reach out to Assistant Curator of Education Sophie Cordery at [email protected].

Join our team! OMAA is hiring a full-time Events Coordinator to support our Advancement and Education teams with the pla...
09/02/2026

Join our team!

OMAA is hiring a full-time Events Coordinator to support our Advancement and Education teams with the planning, organization, and ex*****on of Museum events.

Find the full job listing & application instructions using the link in our bio!

For its fourth annual mural commission in 2027, OMAA has invited Portland, Maine-based artist and muralist Ryan Adams to...
09/01/2026

For its fourth annual mural commission in 2027, OMAA has invited Portland, Maine-based artist and muralist Ryan Adams to transform the Museum’s facades with a new site-responsive work. Working in direct dialogue with the Museum’s distinctive architecture, coastal setting, and grounds, Adams will create a mural that responds to the experience of encountering art in this singular landscape. Known for his signature “gem” style, Adams deconstructs letterforms into dynamic geometric compositions, using color, shadow, and highlight to create a sense of depth, movement, and visual energy.

Adams’s practice bridges his roots in graffiti with painting, design, and large-scale public art, bringing a vibrant visual language and an interest in the power of words and place to projects across Maine and beyond. His murals have been commissioned by a range of private and public institutions and organizations, including Nike, L.L.Bean, Patagonia, the Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Baltimore County Public Library. Adams’s new mural will transform the Museum’s architecture throughout the 2027 season, offering visitors a dynamic new encounter with art, place, and the landscape of Ogunquit.

Register for the upcoming OMAA Conversation with Gordon Wilkins on Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7 PM. This event will...
08/27/2026

Register for the upcoming OMAA Conversation with Gordon Wilkins on Wednesday, September 9th from 5-7 PM. This event will take place at the Museum and is free and open to the public. Use the link in our bio to register!

Constructing The Maine Idea: Nativism, Modernism, and the Fascist Aesthetic in Interwar Maine

This talk will explore the complex nexus of regionalism, fascism, tourism, authenticity, and racialization that characterized the depiction of Maine and its people in both high and low sources of modern interwar visual culture ranging from the work of Marsden Hartley and Marguerite Zorach to tourist brochures and postcards.

Gordon Wilkins is the Robert M. Walker Curator of American Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. Wilkins oversees the care, exhibition, and growth of the Addison’s world-renowned collection of American art across media with a particular focus on the art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Thank you to everyone who made Art by the Sea an unforgettable night! 🥂🎉A very special thank you to Cliff House Maine fo...
08/26/2026

Thank you to everyone who made Art by the Sea an unforgettable night! 🥂🎉

A very special thank you to Cliff House Maine for once again being such gracious hosts and providing a spectacular setting for the evening. Thank you to our Gold Sponsors Consigli Construction Co., Inc Crozier Maine Art Gallery | Painting & Sculpture and all of our Silver and Bronze sponsors who made this evening such a success.

We are deeply grateful for everyone’s support and are excited to carry the spirit and momentum of the evening forward! ✨ It was an honor to share the evening with a community that cares so deeply about the Museum.

We are looking forward to seeing you tonight for Art by the Sea! Thank you, Cliff House Maine , for your incredibly gene...
08/20/2026

We are looking forward to seeing you tonight for Art by the Sea! 

Thank you, Cliff House Maine , for your incredibly generous support of this event and for hosting us. This beautiful, one-of-a-kind venue creates the perfect setting for an evening of art, fun, and celebration.

Photos by Lori Frederick Photography

We are looking forward to seeing you tonight for Art by the Sea! Thank you, Cliff House, for your incredibly generous su...
08/20/2026

We are looking forward to seeing you tonight for Art by the Sea! 

Thank you, Cliff House, for your incredibly generous support of this event and for hosting us. This beautiful, one-of-a-kind venue creates the perfect setting for an evening of art, fun, and celebration.

Photos by Lori Frederick Photography.

Visit to see the new rotation of artwork in the exhibition “American Conversations”! These new pairs reflect how the not...
08/16/2026

Visit to see the new rotation of artwork in the exhibition “American Conversations”! These new pairs reflect how the notion of “America” emerges through continual acts of reflection, challenge, and reinvention.

“American Conversations” responds to the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, exploring how artists have shaped and reshaped the idea of America through their own experiences, identities, and perspectives. Works on view are drawn from OMAA’s collection and supplemented by significant loans from Art Bridges and other partners. “American Conversations” unfolds as a constellation of visual dialogues, with pairs of artworks placed in conversation.

Visit “American Conversations” now through early November, and explore previous pairs on our free digital guide on Bloomberg Connects!
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Rebecca Ness, “Massacre of the innocents”, 2024, oil on linen, 70 x 90 inches (177.8 x 228.6 cm). Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Gift of various donors, including Theodore Karatz & Morgan Presents, 2025.10. Image courtesy of the Artist and Morgan Presents. Photo by Alex Yuzdon. © Rebecca Ness.

Dohlov Ipcar, “Cock Fight”, 1971, oil on linen, Gift of the Artist, 1996.13.

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