by Darlene Furbush Ouellett, 2018 I receive a newsletter, “The Painter’s Keys”, in my inbox twice weekly. The newsletter was originally written by Robert Genn, a Canadian artist and genuine human with incredible insight and intuition as well as humor. He was a gifted...
by Russ Grazier When Music Hall Executive Director Tina Sawtelle reached out to me a while back, excited to share that Brandi would be coming to play a one-night solo benefit show for TMH, my immediate thought was “this is amazing, how can we get some aspiring...
by Nick Phaneuf There are lots of different environments in which music students and teachers interact: School band programs are amazing places where many students gain their first access and exposure to music. In a public school, students try out instruments along...
It's no secret that 2022 is a big year for us at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center: our 20th anniversary year! 20 years ago last month, the Seacoast's hub for music and art education was born. Over the past 20 years, we have seen countless students of all ages...
By Russ Grazier PMAC (Portsmouth Music and Arts Center) has been awarded a grant from the Foundation for Seacoast Health to expand access to PMAC’s music ensemble programs for older adults in our community. The goal of the project is to combat the all-too-common...
The Fall 2022 semester at PMAC is in full swing! I'm thrilled to introduce these professionally trained and experienced teaching artists who have recently joined our faculty or started partway through last year. It's been wonderful to see all our students in the...
We are entering an exciting era with PMAC’s New Horizons Bands: This is our twentieth year of building community through the arts! One way we are celebrating is by adding longtime teaching artist Virginia (Ginna) Macdonald as the first ever Assistant Director! You may...
PMAC Co-Founder Russ Grazier encourages people to find their creative community, regardless of the artistic medium, because being creative in community, especially later in life, can help us live longer, happier, and healthier lives. In...
The staff and teaching artists at PMAC are overwhelmed by all the positive energy from our second annual Free Music and Art Week! Thanks to the very generous sponsorship by Service Credit Union, we were able to bring the opportunity to make music and create art to so...
Welcome to the online gallery of the "Off the Wall" Art Show for Fall Semester 2021. This past semester brought the artists back into our building to create art in person (while social distanced and masked)! It is so exciting to have art being created again at PMAC!...
