January 2022
MMAM Exhibition: Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America
Hmong flower cloth (or paj ntaub) is one of the world’s great textile traditions and an excellent example of cloth as community. The works illustrate the profound relevance of textiles as infrastructure in the Hmong culture, an art form that shifted as it adapted to fit new realities. The exhibition features 28 textiles—flower cloths and embroidered story clothes—by those in the Hmong community. The MMAM is closed on Mondays.
Find out more »Meet the New MMAM Executive Director
Meet the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s new Executive Director, Scott Pollock! Join Scott and MMAM staff at an outdoor reception on Saturday, January 29, from 11am - 12pm. Bundle up by the fire, enjoy a s’more, and say “hello” from 11am - 12pm.
Find out more »February 2022
Water Music with the Winona Symphony: Hidden Currents
Dúo León will bring us back to our own river valley with music inspired by the beauty and variety of the northern Mississippi River in winter. Through the music and art, we appreciate the river’s ever-changing character throughout the season and through varied landscapes. Featured artwork: Alfred Thompson Bricher, On the Mississippi Near Winona, Minnesota – Shower Clearing, 1868. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Find out more »March 2022
MMAM Exhibit: Eric Mueller: Reset 2021
Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher known for his graphic style and strength in composition. He has used his photography to create and connect with a community of other photographers through Instagram, and by organizing public meet-ups to share ideas, collaborate, and create. During the shutdowns, quarantines, and isolation of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mueller made one photograph per day as a way of coping with the events of 2020 and 2021. On exhibit are selections of his…
Find out more »April 2022
Water Music with the Winona Symphony: Pale Yellow/Fiery Red
At our final concert we welcome back the musicians of the Apollo Music Festival who concluded our last season with the magnificent Beethoven Triple Concerto. Returning with another knock-out program, they will perform pieces by two preeminent American women composers. Featured artwork: Martin Johnson Heade, Great Florida Sunset, 1887. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
Find out more »May 2022
MMAM Exhibition: Sonja Peterson: What the Trade Winds Brought
Minneapolis artist Sonja Peterson creates large-scale artworks, sculptures and installations from complex and intricately cut paper. The interplay between her colorful negative backgrounds, shadows, and foregrounds of paper provide a sense of movement and vibrancy to her subjects. Her works explore the flora, fauna, and the history of travelers above and below the world’s waters. The MMAM is closed on Mondays.
Find out more »MMAM Exhibition: Impressions of Water: Prints by Clara Ueland 1997-2022
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…
Find out more »September 2022
MMAM Exhibition: Karen Savage-Blue: Laughing Waters
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.
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