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!...
Welcome and thanks for visiting the PMAC Blog! We truly wish we were in person with you at our building on Islington St. for the "Get to Know PMAC" event. You would see first hand student art being created while also hearing the sounds of laughter, excitement, and...
This holiday season we are excited to be able to have the PMAC building open for our students and decked out with holiday decorations, and our giving tree, adorned with our holiday wishes. If you are unable to come to the building in person, we have created our online...
Wave "A wave is a force of nature, a scientific phenomenon, a fluidity, a greeting. It is a moving meditation that connects us to one another. We make waves, play in waves, watch the waves. A wave is a harnessing of collected energy, a transmission of power, a natural...
PMAC Teaching Artist Brian Shankar Adler leading the Creative Aging program "A World of Percussion" (photo by David J. Murray) Having joined the PMAC faculty in fall 2020, I was thrilled to learn that there was an opportunity to adapt my global rhythms program for a...
"A World of Percussion" at Portsmouth Senior Activity Center, June 21, 2021 (photo credit: David J Murray) An exciting new partnership program in creative aging took place at PMAC this spring! On Monday June 21, PMAC and Portsmouth Senior Activity Center’s "A World of...
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