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May 2024
Great Art Inspired by Water
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Annual Report to the Community |
Thursday, May 16 | 5p - 7pm
Join MMAM on Thursday, May 16, for our Annual Report to the Community. We will gather to share how our mission-based work as a nonprofit visual arts museum has impacted the audiences we serve, announce a few highlights to look out for in the coming year, and acknowledge the individuals and partners who made it all possible. We will underscore the pivotal role of cultural institutions in providing a holistic educational experience, focusing on building a more conscious, sustainable, and inclusive world, for all!
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Fluid: What is Marine Art, and What Can It Be? | |
New Exhibition Opens May 18
A new gallery experience from MMAM that explores the genre of marine art; unpacking where the typology emerged from, how it has evolved, why a marine art museum in Minnesota is important, and begins to interrogate what the possibilities of this art genre can become. Featuring key selections from MMAM’s permanent collection, complemented by a variety of works in rotation on loan from some of today’s most ambitious artists, museum collections and private collectors.
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Spring Seasonal Saturday:
Scenic Splendor
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May 11 | 10am - 5pm | $1 admission
Art is for everyone! With $1 admission for all, Seasonal Saturday is a fun and lively day to visit the museum for first-time visitors and experienced museum-goers alike. Inspired by MMAM's current exhibition Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes, the theme of this event is Scenic Splendor. Enjoy wandering the galleries on your own, or join a tour, listen to live music, try your hand at art-making, or visit one of our community partners. Bingo Overboard, everyone’s favorite search-and-find game, is always available - just don’t forget to pick up your prize! Hmong & Spanish Interpreters through Project FINE onsite from 10am-1pm.
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MMAM May Partner Programs | This May, MMAM is partnering with artists and organizations to bring more programming and more events to the museum. This Saturday, May 4, MMAM and the Winona Symphony Orchestra bring you a special immersive Water Music event uniting musical, visual, and culinary arts. On May 7, the Winona Public Library and MMAM present the author, Kao Kalia Yang at the museum for a reading and book signing. Finally, on May 19, MMAM and Liatris Records present an album release event for Perihelion Day by upup/OVER (an alter-ego of Mike Munson) with special guest Liz Draper, in the exquisite gallery MMAM space for a show that will never be performed the same way again. See what inspires you at MMAM! | |
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Mississippi Sippin Concert Series | |
June 27, July 18, August 15 | FREE
Enjoy live music in the MMAM Gardens this summer with the Mississippi Sippin Concert Series, and see how many different art forms can be inspired by water. June 27 features the Mike Munson Trio, July 18 features Humbird, and August 15 features Hannah Mayree. While you are here, find a curated selection of spirited and non-spirited beverages, food trucks outside along the Mississippi River, and then, venture into the galleries (open late until 8pm) to see how exhibiting artists are using water as inspiration for their work.
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In early 2024, MMAM trained a new class of docents (tour guides). These gallery teachers will share the joy of self-discovery with hundreds of students as they lead school field trips through the galleries. This group dedicated more than 20 hours to intensive training to learn about the museum, art education, and facilitation techniques, all to make MMAM’s field trip program possible! | |
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MMAM School Field Trip Program | MMAM has introduced a new guided field trip program! Offered during six designated weeks during the school year, field trips allow students to develop a sense of belonging in a museum setting and engage in different activities to think creatively and make personal connections to works of art. | |
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Weaving Water Workshop: Free Fiber and Indigo for All | |
May 18 | 3-5pm | MMAM Gardens | Free
Drop in and become a part of a pop-up public indigo and fiber art studio designed by Minneapolis artist Sarah Nassif. Sarah and her Weaving Water Workshops create space for people to gather, play with natural dye and fiber, and share personal connections to textile traditions, water bodies and the Mississippi River. The resulting community-created fabric will become part of Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin’s exhibition Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh.
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Hands on Workshops at MMAM
This spring, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum launched its 2024 Studio Arts Program, a suite of multi-day hands-on art and craft instructional workshops, each uniquely inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and collections.
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Community Big River Clean
at MMAM
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Earth Day Event a Success
On Saturday, April 20 over 100+ MMAM Staff, volunteers, and community organizations gathered on the MMAM grounds to pick up riverside flotsam, roadside trash, and manage the museum’s six-acres of riverfront plants and shoreline habitat. Thanks to our community partner organizations including Fastenal, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Winona, Big River Magazine, the Winona Post, The Land Stewardship Project, Target, and the City of Winona, this event was a huge success and supported MMAM’s clean water and climate initiatives.
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Water (2011-2024) Box Set |
$1,100 + Shipping
MMAM is pleased to announce Water (2011-2024) Box Set - an exciting collaboration with exhibiting artist, Mustafah Abdulaziz. This one-of-a-kind, handmade box set contains 15 limited-edition gallery prints of photographs that have been selected by the artist from the series Water (2011-2024), Water: Part II, and Arctic to commemorate the retrospective exhibition Water at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Designed by Mustafah Abdulaziz and esteemed London-based bookbinder, Piotr Jarosz, each box is handmade in London, covered and lined in navy bookcloth, and debossed using silver hot foil. Each set contains:
- Fifteen 10” x 12” prints
- Handmade in London, covered and lined in navy bookcloth, and debossed using silver hot foil
- Signed, editioned, tipped in certificate of authenticity
- Giclée print process on 310/g paper by master printers in Germany
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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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