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March 2024
Great Art Inspired by Water
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Workshops at MMAM: Weaving Water | |
Natural plant dyes and fibers, May 17 - 18, 2024
How are the clothes we wear, blankets we wrap ourselves in, and textiles all around us informed by our relationship to water? Consider these questions and your own relationship to the land as you learn the basics of natural dyeing and fiber art skills with a stellar group of instructors for a very special Weaving Water Workshop. Karen Goulet (White Earth Nation), Dr. Tammy Greer (Houma), and Weaving Water Workshop founder Sarah Nassif (European descent) work to reconnect themselves and others with both plants and water as artists, community organizers and educators.
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Workshops at MMAM: Sketching with Kar-Keat Chong | |
Ink & Watercolor Sketching, Sept. 20 -21, 2024
Are you looking to take your sketching skills to the next level? Join Minneapolis-based architect and watercolorist, Kar-Keat Chong, for a two-day workshop at MMAM focusing on ink and watercolor sketching. This workshop aims to develop conceptual and practical skills in sketching with ink and watercolor on various types of paper. During the workshop, participants will also learn about perspectives, composition, color concepts and design.
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Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity | |
On view through January 5, 2025
MMAM’s new exhibition, Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity, is engaging visitors and exploring the ways that water connects us all. Combining personal, familial, and historical stories across cultures and time, Across a Wide Ocean reminds us of the many ways this comes about and delves into the books The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith (Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021); and The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Khoa Le (Lerner Publishing Group, 2020).
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Interactive element in new exhibition engages visitors
Inspired by the book The Most Beautiful Thing in the exhibition Across a Wide Ocean, a new digital quilt invites visitors to share what they find beautiful about their given or chosen family, and draw connections to others’. Visitors of all ages can draw what they find beautiful, take a photo, and instantly have their artwork included in a digital quilt for all to see that is incorporated into the exhibition. Next time you visit, make sure to add a piece of a collective story! It’s one of many Discovery Docks found throughout the entire museum. From digital interactives to weaving textiles, MMAM delivers all kinds of opportunities for everyone to make their visit to the museum an enjoyable, lasting and participatory one!
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Take a digital stroll through MMAM
There’s so much new to see! Are you curious about what to expect on your next visit? Videographer Bailey Bolton takes us on a 60-second digital stroll through the museum to show you what is new and exciting at MMAM. Show off what’s happening and exciting to see with you friends and family, and hope to see you often in 2024.
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Making our mission more accessible, social and fun for all!
Our front doors at the museum feel wider and swing more often on Thursdays…or at least it feels like it. MMAM recognizes the challenges admission poses to both college students and families with school-aged children, as well as folks trying to visit the museum when it’s only open during ‘bankers hours’ and on weekends. Every Thursday is Free Student Thursdays, a chance for all students (kindergarten - college) to receive free gallery admission. We also stay open late - until 8pm to give you more time to explore and enjoy the museum. When you visit, don’t forget that everyone’s favorite search-and-find game, Bingo Overboard, is always available….for all ages!
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Partnerships in Across a Wide Ocean | |
Friends of MMAM matter
Relationships. It’s what makes museums great. There are many facets that go into putting an exhibition together beyond just working with the artists and hanging art on the wall. At MMAM, we find value in creating meaningful exhibition experiences by partnering with businesses that align with the work we present to the world. These ‘Friends of MMAM’ donate their marketing services, connect our mission-based work to wider audiences and contribute the time, treasure and talent it takes to get the artists we work with together. We are deeply grateful for our partners who helped make the wildly successful exhibition project, Across a Wide Ocean, possible, including the two publishers, Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Lerner Publishing Group, and our friends at Wisconsin Public Radio for broadcasting the exhibition on their channels statewide!
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Featured Item of the Month |
Re/Framing The View Exhibition Catalog
Have you seen the seminal exhibition at MMAM, Re/Framing the View, featuring more than 130 works in the 4600 square foot Manoogian Gallery? Visit today and learn more about the histories behind the works in the exhibition, the cultural contexts that gave rise to the 19th century landscape paintings, and the art movements that fed a growing fascination with the American landscapes that we continue to celebrate today. After your visit, take the exhibition home with you when you purchase Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes, the official exhibition catalog. This 208-page hardcover catalogue, published to coincide with the original exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, includes over one-hundred full-color images of works from the exhibition, two essays by Chief Curator Naomi Slipp and additional contributions from Jennifer Stettler Parsons, Associate Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum, Boston University American Studies PhD Candidate Astrid Tvetenstrand, Darienne Turner (Yurok Tribe), Assistant Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and contemporary artist Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah- Wampanoag).
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Featured Artist of the Month |
Elizabeth James Perry
Shoppe MMAM has some incredibly talented artists to shop, including National Endowment for the Arts Heritage award recipient Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah). James-Perry creates rich purple wampum jewelry, textiles and maritime arts directly tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum jewelry is featured in the current exhibition, Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth Century Landscapes with a selection also available for purchase in the MMAM Shoppe! James-Perry has mastered wampum, the traditional and contemporary coastal Algongian artform. Carved from thick, slow-growing ocean bivalves called the quahog, the striking purple and white contrast affords the ability to sculpt abstract geometrics and animal effigy forms and beads in a variety of sizes. James-Perry has showcased these stunning creations in the form of earrings, necklaces, hair ties and pendants. Be sure to stop in the MMAM Shoppe on your next visit and take in the brilliant work of Elizabeth James-Perry.
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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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