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October 2019
Art Exhibit: Good Grief: Healing Through Art
Local watercolorist, Faye Schoen, will have her work on display in Winona Public Library’s Bell Art Room. The title of her exhibit, Good Grief: Healing Through Art Exhibit, reminds us that art can help heal our souls in times of sadness. Art has especially helped Schoen through the journey of grief during the loss of her dearest friend and husband of 40 years. Schoen will give a talk on her work on Friday, September 20th at 3:30PM.
Find out more »Victorian Winona: Through the Lens of Charles Tenney
Charles Tenney (1847 – 1917) and his partners left a large collection of their photographs behind when they retired from their photography business in Winona in 1892. Many of these images are now the property of the Winona County Historical Society. These photographs include stereograms, which are double images used with a special viewer called a stereoscope to create a three-dimensional image and what are known cabinet prints, which are mounted on card stock. These images are from the 1870s…
Find out more »Sadie Doering Exhibit
On Thursday Oct. 3, 4:30-6pm the community is invited to a celebration and opening of the Sadie Doering exhibit in Galleria Valencia inside MN Conservatory for the Arts’ home, The Valencia Arts Center. During the celebration, the community will have the opportunity to meet the artist, walk through the exhibit and enjoy treats. Visitors will love the exhibit which explores the beauty of dance with charcoal, photography, and paint. The exhibit will run throughout the month of October and part…
Find out more »H2OH! Art Quilts
Manipulating fabric and fabric-like materials, quilt artists interpret water as one of the most vital, desired, powerful, sacred, and enjoyed resources on earth in H2Oh! Art Quilts. This exhibition features 34 unique pieces created by members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt.
Find out more »National Eagle Center: Native Arts w/Dick Mindykowski
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa craftsman Dick Mindykowski creates woodland gifts created from wood and animal products harvested from the outdoors. Walking sticks, canes, turtle rattles, beaver shields, dream catchers, leather pouches. All hand tanned and carved. A great activity for kids, he offers kids a chance to make their own necklace, dream catcher or keychain from beads, antler, hides and more.
Find out more »National Eagle Center: Wild Things Zoo
Join the National Eagle Center as we welcome back the traveling Wild Things Zoo! Explore the fascinating world of animals beyond the Mississippi River valley. You’ll meet an array of birds, mammals, and exotic creatures that are sure to be fun and exciting for the whole family! Zoo naturalists will be on hand to answer your questions and introduce you to their animal friends. Don’t forget your camera!
Find out more »NASA Space Apps Challenge: Space Apps Winona!
Space Apps Winona is a 48-hour collaboration and design event to solve challenges designed by NASA alongside international hosts worldwide. Join a grassroots think tank to advance science and our lives. Games, stories, interactive maps, dances, apps, videos, visual art, music, teaching tools etc…create innovative solutions to Earth and Space challenge topics. Sign up on your own or with a team. Geared for ages 14 and up, but younger folks are welcome with an adult. This event is free and…
Find out more »Haunted Rooms
The Winona State University’s International club with be hosting a Haunted Walk-through in the Oak Rooms of Kryzsko Commons. Tickets are $5 per person and can be purchased online from this page, at the International Services office in Kryzsko Commons, or at the entrance of the event.
Find out more »Walk of Horror
The 23rd annual hair-raising fundraiser for the Saint Mary’s Cardinal fastpitch softball team will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 18-19 and 25-26, and Thursday, Oct. 31, in the campus bluffs. Walkers are asked to meet on the lighted path between the Cardinal baseball and softball fields, where the haunted walk will begin. Groups are then escorted through the dark bluffs for approximately 20 minutes. The cost is $6 for adults, $5 for students with…
Find out more »Winona Farmers’ Market
The Winona Farmer’ Market offers fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, eggs, honey, syrups, dairy products, baked goods, meats, flowers, bedding, and house plants to come together with local residents to share in the bounty of our beautiful region.
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