Art Museum Free Day Features Local Talent

The Portland Art Museum's Miller Family Free Day, is set for Sunday, April 24. The day-long event will feature the HeART of Portland: PPS K-12 Student Arts Showcase; Mariachi Tradición of Forest Grove High School; and Corazones Alegres, the Latino Network’s Ballet Folklórico!

Free, advance, timed-entry tickets for Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism will be available beginning on Wednesday, April 20 online here. Limited walk-in tickets will also be available all day on April 24, but are not guaranteed.

Corazones Alegres, el Ballet Folklórico de Latino Network

Performances and Activities

• 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The HeART of Portland: PPS K-12 Student Art Exhibition and lotería game and art activity tables in the Miller Gallery, Mark Building
• 11 a.m.–4 p.m.: The HeART of Portland PPS student performances in the galleries, including choirs, dancers, and musicians from Harriet Tubman, da Vinci, and Sellwood Middle Schools and Cleveland, Jefferson, Grant, and Franklin High Schools. Detailed performance schedule here.
• 2–3:30 p.m. Mariachi Tradición of Forest Grove High School and Corazones Alegres, the Latino Network’s Ballet Folklórico performing in the Fields Sunken Ballroom, Mark Building

Plus…

DJ sets by The Numberz.fm in the AUX/MUTE Gallery on the fourth floor of the main museum, now featuring Christine Miller's exhibition Syrup on Watermelon.

Mariachi Tradición, de la Forest Grove High School

Live mural painting in the central Museum courtyard by artists from IDEAL PDX. Read a PAM blog post with the artists.