Minnesota Marine Art Museum

Medina, Minnesota artist Clara Ueland creates beautiful and colorful prints inspired by her trips to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota, Lake Superior, and Scotland. She prints in the labor intensive intaglio printing process, which uses a series of etched copper plates to produce the final image. "I would like my work to reflect the beauty, unity and balance of the natural world." The exhibition features an overview of her prints from 1997 to the present. The MMAM is closed…

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is working with two social practice visual artists in residence, Ian Hanesworth and Marlena Myles, to engage with the museum, the museum’s garden, the Mississippi River, and the Winona community as they reimagine and sketch their visions of what this garden can represent going forward. Marlena Myles and Ian Hanesworth will their sketches, notes and ideas about the direction they are going to create community engaged artwork for MMAM’s gardens. RSVP here: https://www.mmam.org/.../7th-gallery-artist-engagement

Terri Karsten will lead an ArtsXchange conversation about connecting visual arts (such as painting) with written arts (such as poetry and prose). While words can ‘paint’ a picture and describe sounds and smells to enrich the setting, it is up to the reader to imagine the scene. Visual arts provide a clearer view, but still require imagination to evoke other sensory input. How can these two forms interact? Participants in the conversation will tour the museum, choose a painting to…

Karen Savage-Blue is an Anishinaabe artist and art educator living and working in Duluth, MN. Her paintings explore themes of internal reflection, identifying with nature, and exposing transitions from human to natural forms. Her work can be dreamlike and surreal, and she depicts nature in its raw form, creating a platform where thoughts and emotions overcome the tendency to decipher meaning. The MMAM is closed on Mondays.