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August 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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Summer Seasonal Saturday
Party Animals!
August 12 | 10am - 5pm | $1 Admission
Join the Minnesota Marine Art Museum on Saturday, August 12th for our popular Seasonal Saturday event, featuring $1 admission and special activities based on the theme Party Animals! inspired by MMAM’s current exhibition, Liz Sexton: Out of Water.
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Artist Demonstration
with Liz Sexton
August 12 | 1 - 3:30pm | Seasonal Saturday
Have you ever wondered how MMAM exhibiting artist, Liz Sexton, creates the lifelike paper mâché sculptures in her exhibition Out of Water? Join a demonstration with Liz on August 12 on Seasonal Saturday from 1 - 3:30pm, to watch her process, ask questions, and learn more about paper mâché.
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Mississippi Sippin
Thursdays in August | 5pm - 8pm
Relax outdoors along MMAM's Riverwalk on Thursdays this summer at Mississippi Sippin. Enjoy a curated selection of spirited and non-spirited beverages, and small plates outside along the Mississippi River. Then, venture into the galleries (open late until 8pm) to see how exhibiting artists are using water as inspiration for their work. Mississippi Sippin presents a casual opportunity to explore how many different art forms can be inspired by water.
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Courtney Mattison: Visualizing Climate Change Through the Fragile Beauty of Marine Life
Thursday, August 10 | 6:30 - 7:30pm
Hybrid Event: In Person + Virtual
Tickets: $12 | Members: $8 | Volunteers: Free
Join MMAM exhibiting artist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison, for a virtual presentation about her intricate and large-scale ceramic sculptural work inspired by the plight of coral reefs. Her work visualizes the effects of carbon dioxide emissions, such as coral bleaching caused by warming waters, and ocean acidification. Courtney Mattison: Undercurrent is on view now through September 3. This is a hybrid of an in-person and virtual event. The artist, Courtney Mattison, will be streaming live virtually.
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Last chance: Mattison + Sexton
On view through September 3, 2023
Don’t miss your chance to see two stunning exhibitions celebrating the theme of Fauna. Eclectic paper mâché sculptural works march through the gallery in Lix Sexton’s Out of Water. “...the lifelike wearable sculptures draw attention to a variety of beings that rely on aquatic ecosystems for survival.” (Colossal). Concurrently, ceramicist Courtney Mattison’s solo exhibition reminds us of the fragile beauty of living coral reefs. “Artist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison wants to bring the beauty of the sea above the surface” (Minnesota Public Radio). Both exhibitions are on view at MMAM through September 3.
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Courtney Mattison Artist Dinner
With Chef’s Table by Doug Dahlgren
September 2, 2023 | 6:30pm | MMAM
Tickets: $95 | Member: $85
Join us for a very special late summer evening at MMAM with exhibiting artist Courtney Mattison, and the curators for Mattison’s solo exhibition Undercurrent. This dinner event celebrates the conclusion of Courtney Mattison: Undercurrent (on view through Sunday, September 3, 2023), and gives you a chance to meet the artist, dine on a 3-course sustainably harvested meal, inspired by the exhibition, and take a private tour with the curators.
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Artist Inclusive Tour
with Courtney Mattison
Sunday, September 3 | 11am - 12pm
Tickets: $12 | Members: $8 | Volunteers: Free
Artist Inclusive Gallery Tours are a ticketed opportunity to meet artists in an intimate capacity and tour the installation with the artist. Don’t miss your chance to experience Courtney Mattison: Undercurrent with the artist herself, and learn about the exhibition, artwork, and her process. This event is part of the September 2-3 closing weekend for the two exhibitions under the suite of Fauna.
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August Community Reads Program
MMAM is proud to partner with the Winona Public Library and their August Community Reads Program.
| This August, join the Winona area community, Winona Public Library, and MMAM, as we read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s New York Times bestselling memoir, World of Wonders. The book is a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. World of Wonders and its original illustrations by Fumi Nakamura are on exhibition currently at MMAM in Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds. | |
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Three events will happen throughout the month of August in conjunction with the book: | |
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Activate Outside! Community Design with Chris Cornelius
Saturday, August 12 | 10am - 2pm
| MMAM is poised to pursue some ambitious plans to rethink its six-acre campus plan over the next three to five years. On Seasonal Saturday, meet architect Chris Cornelius and share your thoughts about ways MMAM can use its outdoor spaces to be more inviting for everyone in our community, create a space that promotes a healthy lifestyle, and connects us more to the plants and animals all around us. | |
This event is part of the August 12 Seasonal Saturday event. Come and go as you please, and no registration required. | |
From Shipwreckt Books Publishing Company of Winona, MN, comes a beautiful new collection of flora-inspired poetry from artist and writer Mara Adamitz Scrupe. MMAM hosted a celebration and reading of this new release mid-July with guests leaving moved, inspired, and eager to dive into the rest of Mara’s prose. Reap: a flora is now available in the MMAM SHOPPE. | |
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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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