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Make Music Portland poster collection

Name: Make Music Portland poster collection
SKU: slp062026-mmpposters
Availability: InStock

Price range: $20.00 through $35.00

Ten designs from more than five years of Make Music Portland’s free summer-solstice music celebrations, revived as made-to-order art prints.

Available in 5.5 × 8.5-inch and 11 × 17-inch formats.

Choose your favorite, collect a few, or build a discounted four-poster set. A colorful little piece of Portland’s independent music history, ready for your wall.

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SKU: slp062026-mmpposters Category: 2026 Tags: maine, print

BEHIND THE OBJECT

A closer look

A decade of solstice celebrations

Collborating with Make Music Portland

Since the very first Make Music Portland celebration in 2013, we've been using art to help fill Portland's streets with free musical performances on the summer solstice. Along the way, we've collected some poster designs we really like... and t-shirts too, but more on that to come.

A ragtag team

Our first MMP event

In 2013, having recently relocated back to Maine from Denver, Catherine Tanous called on two friends to help import a unique, annual event to Maine's largest city. Originating in Paris in the 80s as Fête de la Musique, the global Make Music event brings thousands of totally free performances, family-friendly music events, jam sessions, and educational programming to cities around the world, each summer solstice. Beginning in early 2013, Tanous and co-organizers worked on the inaugural Make Music Portland event. The first poster design we suggested for that event was a dud, but the nod to its French origins in the "Fête de la Musique" design, our second attempt, worked well to convey the spirit of that first year and, soon, these posters were up all around the city.

2013 - 2023

A decade of solstice events

Between 2013 and 2023, we not only designed annual MMP logos, promotional items and posters, but also the website for each year's programming. And while we didn't always get it perfectly right with the design, we were proud to produce some really neat artwork along the way. This collection, proceeds of which go directly to Make Music Portland, represents some of our favorite design pieces from those events, signage that we printed in Portland and posted up around the city and which, we think, looks just as good framed on a wall as it does wrapped around a telephone poll.

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Description

Ten designs. Two sizes. Support community art with a little piece of Portland’s musical history.

Every June 21, Make Music Portland invited musicians of every sort to help turn the city into one enormous, free, open-air celebration of sound.

From neighborhood parks and downtown squares to cafés, sidewalks, and unexpected corners of the city, the annual summer-solstice festival brought together performers, listeners, and the occasionally courageous passerby willing to pick up an instrument.

Over the years, the celebration developed its own collection of posters, each capturing a particular moment in the life of Portland’s independent music community.

Now, Subletter Press is bringing ten selected designs back into print. All proceeds go to Make Music Portland.

A small archive of big, noisy summer days.

Choose from ten designs spanning more than five years of Make Music Portland’s history. Each poster is available in two sizes, framed or unframed, and produced on demand.

Whether you’re commemorating a festival you attended, celebrating Portland’s creative community, or simply looking for something colorful to put on your wall, these prints offer a little piece of the city’s musical past.

Available options

Design: Choose from ten poster designs.
Small print: 5.5 × 8.5 inches.
Large print: 11 × 17 inches.
Four-poster collection: Select four designs and receive a discounted set.

Make a little gallery

Can’t settle on one? We understand.

Choose four posters from the collection and turn a wall, hallway, studio, or practice space into your own miniature Make Music Portland exhibition.

The four-poster bundle is available at a reduced price.

About Make Music Portland

First organized in Portland, Maine, in 2013, Make Music Portland is part of the international Make Music Day movement, inspired by France’s Fête de la Musique.

Its premise is beautifully simple: music should be accessible to everyone, and anyone who wants to make some should be encouraged to do so.

These prints celebrate the people, places, and performances that helped make that idea a reality in Portland. All proceeds from sales of these prints go directly to Make Music Portland to fund music education and their annual summer festival.

Printed on demand by Subletter Press. Made for walls that could use a little music.

Additional information

Design	2013: Fête de la Musique, 2016: Victoria, 2017: City Soundscape, 2018: Port Land / Casco Moon, 2019: Waterfall Triptych, 2019: Coastline Triptych, 2019: Galaxy Triptych, 2019: Eagle Triptych, 2019: Dolphin Triptych, 2019: Pine Tree Triptych, 2019: Reverse Waterfall Triptych
Size	Full (11in x 17in), Half-cut (5.5in x 8.5in)

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