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December 2023
Great Art Inspired by Water
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MMAM to announce the 2024 lineup on December 12.
Building on the success of 2023, MMAM is prepared to announce its 2024 lineup - a year-long suite of exciting exhibitions and dynamic programs that explore bold and often under-told narratives, examine fresh new perspectives of water, and feature game-changing artists who help us better our relationship to this precious resource. Stay tuned for the full announcement on December 12, and mark your calendars for the New Look Preview Party on Friday, January 26. Get your tickets early - you won’t want to miss it!
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Mustafah Abdulaziz, Woman Gathering Water, Benue, Nigeria, (detail) 2015, Scanned color film negative, giclée print. Courtesy of the artist. | |
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Explore the MMAM Shoppe + Give the Gift of a MMAM Membership.
Are you looking to give an experience? Are you looking for a gift for the person who has everything? This holiday season, give the gift of art! Share your love of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and give a MMAM membership to your friends or family. This month, save $10 on all student, individual, and household gift memberships.
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Chamber Concerts that inspire with the WSO.
MMAM and the Winona Symphony Orchestra bring you Water Music, a wildly-immersive and wildly successful gallery experience that marries two art forms (music and visual arts), and celebrates their shared inspiration. On Thursday, November 9 attendees were immersed in the exhibition Art for Fish/Art for Humans by Kristian Brevik, and enjoyed a concert centered around Schubert's masterpiece for piano and strings, the "Trout" Quintet. Get your tickets for 2024 (February 22, April 11, May 4) now, before they sell out!
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Re/Framing American Landscapes | |
Unexpected gems in Re/Framing the View.
If you haven’t visited yet, you’re in for a real treat with Re/Framing the View, a collection of over 100 stunning works of American Art, curated by New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Chief Curator, Naomi Slipp. The exhibition includes some monumental classics from William Bradford, Alfred Bierstadt and other prominent 19th-century American landscape painters (from the Crocker Collection), but also includes work from equally influential women artists creating work in this same era, including Emily Noyes Vanderpoel. Vanderpoel is the author of Color Problems, a widely overlooked, yet staggering turn-of-the-century book on color theory. Vanderpoel’s color grids emerged ten years before Wassily Kandinsky’s Komposition V, and sparked a widespread interest in abstract painting fifty years before Bauhaus pioneer Josef Albers published Homage to the Square, the seminal abstract series most color theorists reference. Vanderpoel’s book is gaining a newfound appreciation within the art world, thanks to two Brooklyn-based publishing companies, The Circadian Press and Sacred Bones Records.
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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (American, 1842-1939), Old Westport Point, 1927 (detail). Oil on canvas. New Bedford Whaling Museum, gift of Mr. David S. Hendrick, 1984.18.48. | |
Minnesota Marine Art Museum is Searching for Tour Guides! | |
Thursday, January 4 | 10am -11am
Every couple of years, MMAM offers a free docent training class, during which we recruit, train, and support new volunteer tour guides to help us lead field trip experiences for Pre-K through 6th grade students. Now is the time for you to join us! Learn more at an informational meeting at MMAM on Thursday, January 4, from 10-11am. Please register so we know you’re coming!
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Tuesday, December 12 | 10:30am - 12pm
Tickets: $10/Family | MMAM Members Free
Toddler Tuesday is a lively gathering of our littlest art lovers and their grown-ups at MMAM. The December event will offer paint stick canvases inspired by the current exhibition Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes, along with other crafts inspired by the holidays including tape trees, jingle bell shakers, and fingerprint holiday lights cards. There are also opportunities for free-play, storytelling by MMAM’s resident storyteller Laura Armstrong, and a chance for toddlers and their grown-ups to take a self-guided exploration of artworks in the galleries. Come create and explore with us.
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Join us in 2024!
Our Seasonal Saturday program welcomed over 2,200 visitors in 2023! With $1 admission, live music from local bands, guided tours, art-making activities inspired by current exhibitions such as coral reef making and Gyotaku printmaking, artist demonstrations, community partners, and so much more, this arts access day has been a wild success. Save the dates for our 2024 Seasonal Saturday dates, and we will see you at the museum!
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Consider MMAM in Your Annual Giving.
As 2023 comes to a close, please consider including MMAM in your year-end giving. Your support allows MMAM to do what it does best, to create meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship to water. In 2023 participation hit historic levels, an our 2024 plans are even more ambitious. Your contribution today allows MMAM to focus on:
- Artistic Excellence
- Community Access
- Clean Water and Climate Stewardship.
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By Ian Hanesworth
MMAM exhibiting artist, Ian Hanesworth, created a set of 10 prints for their MMAM exhibition Fragments of this Living Earth, at the beginning of 2023. These original, signed prints are now available in the MMAM Shoppe and make the perfect holiday gift. What is better than giving the gift of art? Now through December 23, save $50 off all original Ian Hanesworth prints at the MMAM Shoppe. The MMAM Shoppe is open 10am - 5pm on Tuesday - Sunday, and 10am - 8pm on Thursdays. No admission is required for the MMAM Shoppe.
Make your gift go even further in December! This month, for every $50 you spend at the MMAM Shoppe, receive 1 free guest pass (maximum 4 passes per purchase).
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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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