SEPTEMBER 2022
NEWSLETTER
Students return to the Museum, thanks in large part to a grant from The Winona Foundation.

Creating meaningful art experiences. It’s what we stand for. This school year, MMAM anticipates welcoming more than 2,000 elementary, middle and high school students to its galleries as we launch our educational efforts to connect with 30 different schools from 7 different counties. We are so grateful to The Winona Foundation for underwriting the bus transportation costs for all student field trips to and from the Museum.
Toddler Tuesdays
Just as the big kids return to school, the littles, and their caregivers return to MMAM.

MMAM believes in not only inspiring the littlest hearts, heads and the minds, but sparking that intergenerational connection between caregivers and our little ones. Returning this fall, on the second Tuesday of every month, the museum will welcome all toddlers (not yet in Kindergarten) and their accompanying grown-ups to the museum for a kid-friendly discovery day in the galleries.
Free Student Tuesdays
All students are free every Tuesday.

MMAM inspires lifelong learning for all our students, kindergarten through graduate school! All students can visit MMAM every Tuesday free of charge.
On view through September 11, 2022

Sonja Peterson creates large-scale artworks and installations from complex and intricately cut paper that explore the flora, fauna, and the history of travelers above and below the world’s waters.**
On view through September 25, 2022

Clara Ueland creates beautiful and colorful intaglio prints inspired by her trips to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota, Lake Superior, and Scotland.***

Karen Savage-Blue's work explore themes of internal reflection, identifying with nature, and exposing transitions from human to natural forms.****
Opening September 30, 2022

Anne Labovitz creates colorful and powerful large-scale works and installations that invite the audience to consider their lives in connection to water.*****
Upcoming Events for Water Stories: New Work by Anne Labovitz
Friday, September 30
Saturday, October 1
Sunday, October 2
Last Mississippi Sippin of 2022
Craft Night + Makers Market
September 6 [5pm-7pm]

Join us on for the last Mississippi Sippin of the season for spirit and spirit-free beverages, and small plates from the Driftless Region. The galleries will be open until 7pm. The September 6 event will feature Featuring five regional makers and pop-up regional makers market. *******
Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM - Tribute to the Hudson River Valley Collection
September 15 [7pm-8pm] | $25
MMAM is excited to partner with the Winona Symphony Orchestra to bring you “Water Music”, evenings that marry two art forms and celebrate their shared inspiration. We introduce the season with a program inspired by the signature collection of Hudson River Valley artists and members of an influential group of composers known familiarly as the Boston Six.
Charlie Parr Book Pre-Release Party
September 21, 2022 [6:30pm-8pm] | $25
Join us for a special pre-release party and book signing for Charlie Parr’s new fiction book Last of the Better Days Ahead, which comes out October 11 on Ramshackle Press. Readers are treated to a deep dive into the big picture of a group of Charlie’s songs. Charlie will read a couple of stories from the book and also play songs from the record Last of the Better Days Ahead, released in 2021 on Smithsonian Folkways.
Joan Porter-Einsman [painter]
September 24, 2022 [10am-11:30am]

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum + River Arts Alliance are coming together to bring you a monthly informal artist exchange - a chance for artists and creatives from across a variety of mediums to gather for inspiration, exploration and exchange at the museum. Registration required.
Art Supplies at MMAM

Do the galleries at MMAM leave you feeling inspired to get creative? Or does September and the start of school give you the urge to start with a clean notebook and a fresh set of markers? The MMAM shop has you covered! Explore a wide variety of of art supplies, pens, notebooks, and more!
**Exhibition Support for Sonja Peterson: What the Trade Winds Brought support comes from:
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.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
***Exhibition Support for Impressions of Water: Prints by Clara Ueland 1997-2022 comes from:
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.

CARL AND VERNA SCHMIDT
FOUNDATION GRANT
**** The media sponsor for Karen Savage-Blue: Laughing Waters is:
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*****Support for Water Stories: New Work by Anne Labovitz comes from:
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******Support for Mississippi Sippin comes from:
This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council.
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.