Upcoming Events
November 2019
Oh, Canada!
Oh, Canada! features art and artists exploring the people, maritime history, and incredible landscapes of Canada. Included are works by Donald Curley, Jack Gray, Luther Pokrant, Randolph Parker, Christopher Walker, and Robert Glenn. Also featured is a new painting by contemporary master Len Tantillo, Quebec City, c. 1748, depicting this important maritime center and one of the oldest European settlements in North America.
Find out more »2nd Saturday at MMAM: Community
The second Saturday of each month, MMAM offers:$1 Admission, guided tours, art-making projects, special themed tours & activities, and live music in the galleries. MMAM is pleased to offer free rides to and from the museum with Winona Transit’s Service Dial-a-Ride, between 10am – 5pm on any Second Saturday event. Please call 507-454-6666 to schedule your ride.
Find out more »Toddler Tuesdays
Join the MMAM with your toddler the second Tuesday of the month for Toddler Tuesday. This busy morning will engage you and your toddler in a variety of ways. Expect to do some themed art projects, explore the galleries, play and snack. Toddler Tuesday allows you to engage with your toddler through hands on activity.
Find out more »Mystery at MMAM
Mystery at MMAM is an interactive, live theater event that takes place in the galleries of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. The Narrator opens the evening by introducing the story and cast – characters created from the painted canvases of MMAM’s collection. After the intro, participants attempt to solve the Mystery by asking the actors questions. At the evening’s end, the culprit is revealed, and those who solved the who, what, and where of the crime have a chance of…
Find out more »Mystery at MMAM
Mystery at MMAM is an interactive, live theater event that takes place in the galleries of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. The Narrator opens the evening by introducing the story and cast – characters created from the painted canvases of MMAM’s collection. After the intro, participants attempt to solve the Mystery by asking the actors questions. At the evening’s end, the culprit is revealed, and those who solved the who, what, and where of the crime have a chance of…
Find out more »December 2019
2nd Saturday at MMAM: The Gift of Art
The second Saturday of each month, MMAM offers:$1 Admission, guided tours, art-making projects, special themed tours & activities, and live music in the galleries. MMAM is pleased to offer free rides to and from the museum with Winona Transit’s Service Dial-a-Ride, between 10am – 5pm on any Second Saturday event. Please call 507-454-6666 to schedule your ride.
Find out more »January 2020
Shutterbug: The Mid-Century Photography of David Tewes
This exhibition features the found photography of World World II veteran and Hutchinson, Minnesota native David Tewes. After Tewes’ death in 1991, his family discovered a large collection of his Kodachrome photographic slides taken between 1944 and 1955 of his native Minnesota and his travels across America. This is the first ever public exhibition of his personal snapshots.
Find out more »MMAM: Gregory Euclide: Observation Infiltration
Gregory Euclide creates unique paintings, sculptures, dioramas, and mixed media installation pieces exploring landscapes, water, and the collision of nature and mankind. He uses a variety of found objects, both natural and artificial, to explore humankind’s impact on the natural world. Euclide invites us to explore worlds where he blends real and imagined images, objects, and materials to evoke feelings of nostalgia, question the reality of the present moment, and provide a look toward the future
Find out more »March 2020
MMAM: Memories of Titanic
Explore art and objects associated with the loss and shipwreck of RMS Titanic. On view will be a young survivor’s riveting first-hand account of the disaster, including the loss of her father, in her diary and personal letters. Also included are paintings by American artist Colin Campbell Cooper from when he was aboard the rescue ship Carpathia, and a ship model, original telegrams, and more.
Find out more »May 2020
MMAM: Christy Lee Rogers: Baroque Water Worlds
Hawaii native Christy Lee Rogers creates beautiful, complex, and colorful images of people underwater. Her fluid compositions, choreography, costumes, dramatic lighting, and bold colors make her large-scale digital images appear like 17th century Baroque paintings. Her work is exhibited globally and she is the winner of the 2019 Sony World Photographer of the Year award.
Find out more »MMAM: Mark Herman: Landmarks
Mark Herman creates digital images and fine art prints of Minnesota’s favorite natural and manmade landmarks in his distinctive, colorful, and vintage-poster-inspired style. His prints feature beloved locations such as Lake Superior, the North Shore, the Mississippi River, many of Minnesota’s favorite lakes, as well as images of popular parks, iconic buildings, boats, and bridges. www.numericpress.com
Find out more »September 2020
MMAM: Christian Vizl: Silent Kingdom
Dive into the world’s oceans with award-winning Mexican photographer Christian Vizl through his captivating black-and-white images. Vizl’s mastery of shadow and light capture the ocean’s creatures as they are rarely seen, at home in the ethereal world beneath the waves. Through three decades of working and photographing underwater, Vizl simultaneously portrays both the beauty and fragile nature of these animals to educate and raise awareness of the threats to the world’s oceans and marine life. www.christianvizl.com
Find out more »October 2020
MMAM: Greg DeGrace: Driftless
With varying degrees of abstraction, Minneapolis painter Greg DeGrace’s paintings reference the Driftless region of Minnesota and Wisconsin, an area that escaped the flattening effects of glaciers during the last ice age. Working in encaustic wax and pigment to create textural paintings, DeGrace references maps, aerial photographs, linear and geometric patterns found in roadways and plots of land with the natural, free-flowing forms of area waterways. His paintings, filled with colors and patterns, create memories of where one has been…
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