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October 2023
Great Art Inspired by Water
| Celebrating a year long suite of exhibitions and programs that explore our relationship to the flora and fauna of the mysterious and brilliant underwater world. | |
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The Big Catch
Brevik + Bromley + Hwang
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On view through January 2024
Now on view. Three artists, using three different mediums, explore our relationship with the world that lives below the surface and our desire to understand it. Featuring lifelike fish prints by master gyotaku artist Dwight Hwang, paintings by Kimble A. Bromley that invoke the emotional drama of Melville’s literary classic Moby-Dick, and illuminated sculptural lanterns highlight the fragility of marine life by Kristian Brevik.
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Award winning poet, writer and storyteller to kickoff Sandbar Storytelling Festival at MMAM | |
Thursday, October 12 | 7pm | $25
The Sandbar Storytelling Festival opens its three-day fall festival in Winona, Minnesota at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Award-winning Minnesota writer and storyteller, Kao Kalia Yang. Kao Kalia Yang will perform a special program, Water Stories, in the Museum’s Steven and Barbara Slaggie Family literary arts gallery. Shortlisted in Esquire Magazine’s “50 Best Biographies of All Time,” Kalia is a Soros, McKnight and Guggenheim Fellow who received the Sally Award for Social Impact from the Ordway Center for Performing Arts and the A.P. Anderson Award for her significant contributions to the cultural and artistic life of Minnesota.
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Artist Inclusive Gallery Tour: Kimble A. Bromley | |
October 28 | 10:30 - 11:30am
$12 | MMAM Members Free
Join Fargo-based artist Kimble A. Bromley for a guided walkthrough of his current exhibition at MMAM Moby-Dick and get up close and personal with the 23 expressive paintings inspired by the true 19th century account of a large whale attacking the whaling ship Essex, and Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick (1851). Assistive listening devices will be used on this tour.
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Creativity Enhancement Workshop with Kimble A. Bromley | |
October 28 | 1:30-3:30pm | $30
This workshop offered by MMAM exhibiting artist, Kimble A. Bromley offers participants a unique educational experience, strategies to find those creative abilities we all possess and having a lot of fun doing it.
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Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes |
Opens October 14, 2023
Drawn from six private collections, the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection, and six strategic institutional loans, Re/Framing the View includes works by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Albert Bierstadt, among many others. While the exhibition amplifies the impacts of the work of these artists, it also offers a layered interpretation of the cultural and historical meanings of Nineteenth Century landscape paintings. Curated by Naomi Slipp, the Douglas and Cynthia Crocker Endowed Chair for the Chief Curator, the exhibition interrogates the place of gender, race and ethnicity, as well as environment and ecology, as we re/frame the view and stage meaningful conversations about historical and contemporary issues and events.
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This exhibition is organized by the New Bedford Whaling Museum and is presented by the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Lead support for this project comes from Dr. Janelle Cooper and Dr. Kathleen Hanson. MMAM thanks the additional sustaining contributions from foundations, corporations, individuals, members and volunteers who made this exhibition possible. | |
Thursday, November 2 | Doors at 6pm
Free with admission | Registration Required
Join Chief Curator of Re/Framing The View, Naomi Slipp, and National Endowment For The Arts Heritage award recipient, Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah- Wampanoag), together on stage for a thought-provoking, heart-felt conversation about the many meanings of the American landscape, both historically to nineteenth-century viewers and today for twenty-first century audiences. Moderated by MMAM's executive Director Scott Pollock. Discussion followed by a coffee and dessert reception at 7pm.
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Re/Framing the View: Women and the American Scene with Naomi Slipp |
Saturday, November 4 | 11am - 12pm
Free with admission | Registration Required
Join the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Chief Curator Naomi Slipp, as she discusses the museum’s current exhibition, Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes. Naomi will discuss how women of the nineteenth-century were faced with limited opportunities presented during their lifetimes, but how some carved out successful careers as professional artists painting landscapes and still lifes.
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Thursdays: Open Late + Free Students |
Thursdays at MMAM | 10am - 8pm
In an effort to be more accessible to more visitors, MMAM is now open until 8pm every Thursday. We have also made all students free every Thursday, so everyone can explore and visit. We hope to see you there!
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Anchor Campaign:
2023 Annual Fund
| Help MMAM remain steadfast in pursuing our longstanding mission: creating meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship to water, all the while shaping a bold and creative vision for the future: to spark wonder and create a more compassionate and connected world for all. Our goals are simple: to raise support for MMAM's three anchors of its 2023 Annual Fund: (1) Artistic Excellence, (2) Community Access, (3) Clean Water And Climate Stewardship. Please consider a gift today (any amount matters) to the Museum’s 2023 Anchor Campaign and join the hundreds of other households stepping forward to support the Museum’s ambitious goals. | |
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Elizabeth James-Perry Pop-Up Trunk Show |
November 2 | 10am - 8pm
Meet 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Elizabeth James-Perry. James-Perry is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer and artist who sculpts rich purple and white wampum jewelry and woven wampum from the quahog shell, and makes naturally-dyed northeastern handweavings of Indian hemp, milkweed and wool. James-Perry will have a limited edition of her collection available for sale, and share her insights and approaches to her craft, demonstrating various techniques throughout the day.
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Mission
To create 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.
Values
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Center our work in Communities and Collaboration.
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Steward Sustainability, Equity and Hospitality.
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Operate with Honesty, Transparency and Trust.
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Be Bold and Brave.
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Always Enterprising, Always Outstanding.
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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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