Create a lantern in preparation for the Portland Lantern Walk on Sunday, October 19th at 5pm at Deering Oaks Park.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
https://www.portlandmainefarmersmarket.org/
Create a lantern in preparation for the Portland Lantern Walk on Sunday, October 19th at 5pm at Deering Oaks Park.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
10:00 AM 12:00 PM
Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress SquarePortland, ME, 04101, United States (map)
Free! Come make a lantern for the walk! Materials provided.
Free! Come make a lantern for the walk! Materials provided.
For the fifth year, the PMA collaborates with the Portland Lantern Walk for a special lantern-making Family Day.
Join us in Deering Oaks Park for our final free lantern making workshop before the Portland Lantern Walk!
New this year! We want to see your lantern inspirations! We’ll have plenty of art supplies on hand but we need your containers. Please bring a recycled bottle, mason jar, clear container - just about anything anything you want to transform into a gorgeous lantern! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
For the fourth straight year, the PMA collaborates with the Portland Lantern Walk for a special lantern-making Family Day, and this year, kids and adults can draw inspiration from Jeffrey Gibson’s People Like Us on view in Open-Ended: New Acquisitions.
Visit Portlandmuseum.org/lanternmaking for more information.
Saturday, September 28
Drop-in from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Everyone 21 and under gets into the PMA for free thanks to the generosity of Susie Konkel
Join artist Christina Bechstein in her new studio for a lantern making workshop!
Isamu Noguchi’s incredible light sculptures are some of the many highlights of Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu Noguchi and the Borders of Sculpture—and with this special Family Day, you can learn to make your own! Explore the exhibition for color, shape, and pattern inspiration and then create your light sculpture, just in time for the Annual Lantern Walk in Deering Oaks Park.
