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February 2022
GREAT ART INSPIRED BY WATER
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Sold Out First Look Preview Party
Our 2023 Season, Flora & Fauna, opened with a sold out First Look Preview Party. 250+ showed up for some high energy arts revelry, including a staged social hosted by Andy DuCett, in conversation with featured exhibiting artists Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura, Mary Casanova, Nick Wroblewski, Ian Hanesworth, and Marlena Myles, a stunning gallery performance by The Nunnery, live painting by The Joy Labs, and a DJ set by DJ Rhumpshaker to remember. Truly, something for everybody.
Tickets are now on sale for the next First Look Preview Party | Fauna, May 5.
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Literary Arts Gallery Opens
MMAM is committed to bringing together some of today’s most celebrated authors and illustrators whose work connects us to water.
To kick off our 2023 season, the Stephen and Barbara Slaggie Family Gallery opened with Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds, an installation featuring the complete set of original graphite pencil drawings, complemented by select texts, from the New York Times bestseller, World of Wonders (Milkweed Editions, 2020) as well as the complete woodcut originals from Hush Hush, Forest (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
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Visitor Lounge Updates
In collaboration with our trade partner, Blu Dot, the museum’s visitor lounge has a fresh new look. You can now make art, play games, and browse select books, inspired by water of course, curated by librarians from across the state.
Tricia Wehrenberg, Youth Services Librarian at Winona Public Library suggests three titles to read with the littlest ones in your life, including A Different Pond (Capstone Young Readers, 2017), Hey Water (Neal Porter Books, 2019), and Over and Under the Pond (Chronicle Books, 2017). Allison Waukau, Community Liaison at Hennepin County Library, suggests Nibi is Water (Second Story Press, 2020) for toddlers, Healer of the Water Monster (HarpersCollins Publishers, 2022) for middle schoolers, and Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors (Harper Perennial, 2014).
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Flora
On view through April 30, 2023
A trajectory of three artists, three mediums, and three masterful surface explorations of the botanical wonders of our world. Historic Japanese prints from Imao Keinen, contemporary porcelain vessels by Hitomi Hosono, and printed fabrics and original prints from Ian Hanesworth, grace MMAM’s galleries.*
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Waking Worlds
On view through January 7, 2024
A one of a kind, wondrous installation featuring original illustrations from two books; Mary Casanova’s Hush, Hush, Forest (University of Minnesota Press) as illustrated by printmaker Nick Wroblewski, and World of Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions) written by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and illustrated by Fumi Nakamura.**
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Seasonal Saturday
Saturday, February 11 | 10am - 5pm
Barrier free arts access programming returns with a theme, ‘from the earth,’ inspired by On the Surface: Flora Inspired Ceramics of Hitomi Hosono.
Free guided gallery tours, live music from Bell House Band and Mettalarks, and live wheel throwing demonstration by ceramist Lisa Truax. Our Oberton Education Room comes alive that day with a free drop in air-dry clay art-making activity for all ages and abilities, inspired by the botanical wonders of our world.***
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Water Music | Flora and Fauna
Thursday, February 23 | 7pm
Inspired by the imitative sounds of the animal kingdom and the intricate designs of the botanical world, the principal winds of the Winona Symphony Orchestra present a program of diverse chamber music, not to be missed.
Audiences can enjoy the evocative tonal color of the wind ensemble while appreciating the highly decorative shapes of Hitomi Hosono’s ceramics.
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Printmaking Workshop -
Of The Driftless with Matt Wagner
March 25 - 26
Go deep into the printmaking techniques featured in the exhibition Ian Hanesworth: Fragments of this Living Earth, and learn to carve and ink a block with instruction from artist and educator Matt Wagner.
In this two-day workshop, students learn the basics of relief carving and printing to create limited edition prints of their own, inspired by the flora and fauna of the Driftless region.
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Hitomi Hosono On Screen
In partnership with London’s Adrian Sassoon Gallery, MMAM presents Hitomi Hosono’s first solo North American exhibition, On the Surface: Flora Inspired Ceramics of Hitomi Hosono.
The exhibition includes a captivating five minute short film that brings you into her London studio, where the artist combines Japanese heritage and British influences to create masterfully intricate works. Explore the lush, nature-inspired work and studio of Hitomi Hosono’s ceramics.
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WXOW La Crosse Covers Flora
The ABC station from La Crosse, WI, WXOW, visited MMAM after opening weekend to take a tour of the Flora suite of exhibitions. Exhibiting artist, Ian Hanesworth, was also onsite to talk about their exhibition, Fragments of this Living Earth.
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Winona Post Covers Preview Party
The Winona Post covered the Flora and Waking Worlds First Look Preview Party on January 27, including the artist panel, the new exhibitions, and Executive Director Scott Pollock's comments on MMAM's new direction, “...what does great art inspired by water do for us? Imagine if it could spread wonder, shift perspective, and create a more compassionate and connected world for all.”
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Gundersen Medical Foundation’s All Of Us Campaign | |
MMAM is supported by generous sustaining contributions from foundations, corporations, individuals, members and volunteers, and in part by Gundersen Medical Foundation’s All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program aims to change the face of medical care from ‘one size fits all’ to one that takes into account our individual differences.
With support from the Gundersen Medical Foundation, MMAM is able to provide the museum’s Curiosity Cart, a toolkit that makes art spaces accessible for our visitors, regardless of age, mobility and backgrounds.
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Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |
You might not notice, but your grandchildren will. With support from the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation initiative, MMAM recently replaced MR-16 halogen lights with LEDs which will lead to a 90% reduction in interior electric demand.
Not only do the LED lights draw less power, but they also radiate less heat, therefore, putting less demand on the museum’s cooling system. The outdoor conversion to LED completes MMAM’s facility conversion to LED, one step closer to becoming Net Zero.
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Mission
Creating meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship with water.
Vision
To spark wonder, shift perspectives, and create a more compassionate and connected world for all, by boldly leveraging the generative capacities of great art inspired by water.
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
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*Support for Flora Comes From: | | |
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
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**Support for Waking Worlds Comes From: | | |
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
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***Support for Seasonal Saturday Comes From: | | |
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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. | | | | |
