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September 2024
Great Art Inspired by Water
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For The Love of Water Gala | |
Saturday, September 21, 2024 | MMAM
5:30p - 9:30p | $125
Returning for a third consecutive year, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s For the Love of Water Gala & Art Auction has evolved into the signature fall art event in Southeastern Minnesota. Our purpose is simple, to gather friends, family and fans to celebrate and support MMAM and its mission. Experience MMAM like you never have before. Guests will enjoy an elegant cocktail riverside reception featuring La Crosse Distilling Co., a seated, seasonal four-course farm-to-table meal from Heirloom Seasonal Bistro served in the museum’s stunning atrium, and a chance to bid on original artwork by the artists we have grown to adore and support. Proceeds raised go to MMAM’s annual fund, the Anchor Campaign.
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For the Love of Water Art Auction | |
Opens Sept. 10, Closes Sept. 30 (Online)
As a nonprofit museum dedicated to creating meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship with water, the annual For the Love of Water Art Auction is a signature part of our year-end fundraising efforts. You can support the Anchor Campaign by making a donation and get great art created by the artists we support and adore. All artworks will be available for online bidding, opening September 10, and will close midnight on September 30. Artworks will be onsite and on display during the Gala, the one chance for you to see these incredibly inspiring artworks with your own eyes, outdoor riverside. Register today, and be ready to bid on September 10!
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The Plein Air Experience: Sketching Winona | |
September 19 - 22, 2024
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum and River Arts Alliance collaborate to bring you The Plein Air Experience: Sketching Winona, four exciting days of site-specific art making, out of doors, in the most incredibly inspiring river town on the Upper Mississippi River (well…in our minds at least). The four-day affair kicks off with an opening launch event at MMAM (September 19), features a two-day signature studio arts workshop led by Kar-Keat Chong (September 20 - 21), and guided artist-led sketch walks all weekend long. The Plein Air Experience: Sketching Winona winds down at a closing reception at the Winona County Historical Society (September 22).
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Water Music 2024-25 Season | |
November 21, 2024 | December 5, 2024
February 20, 2025 | April 10, 2025
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum continues our partnership with the Winona Symphony Orchestra to bring you another season of Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM. Water Music presents a series of four not-to-be-missed chamber music concerts in an intimate, inspirational gallery setting. These performances are jointly programmed to spotlight both the visual treasures of MMAM and musical masterworks unified by a common theme. Experience the blending of the visual and performing arts in a new way!
This year, artistic director Erik Rhode launches the season in November with special guest musicians from the Apollo Music Festival for a riveting performance inspired by the new exhibition A Nation Takes Place. We present our first holiday show in early December, a classic Christmas repertoire including the Corelli Christmas Concerto and an Advent Cantata by J.S. Bach with the Winona State University Concert Chorale in early December. Images of romantic boat rides and romance inspire our mid-February program. And the season comes to a close in May with a riveting performance of Handel’s Water Music, performed in its entirety.
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Art for Every Child & Rising Generations Memberships
In a larger effort to make MMAM more accessible to more people, and invest in the next generation, we’re offering every 5th grade student a complimentary one-year household membership (Art for Every Child Membership), and every first-year higher education student a complimentary one-year individual membership (Rising Generations Membership). We’re committed to making MMAM a place to discover a life-long appreciation for art, museums, and the joy of learning. You belong here.
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Hannibal's Invisibles
Author Talk & Discussion
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Friday, September 20 | 5p - 7p | Free
Presented by Art of the Rural, Engage Winona, and MMAM
At Engage Winona, 119 East 3rd St, Winona, MN
Meet author G. Faye Dant, of Hannibal’s Invisibles (published by Arcadia Publishing), a Hannibal resident and the Executive Director of Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center, as she tells the incredible story of the Black community in this small Missouri town on the Mississippi River best known as the setting for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Here, the fictitious character Jim was born from the real lives of the African American community in Hannibal.
In early 2025, MMAM will host a national convening and discussion on race, waterways and art at Jim’s Journey: Huck Finn Freedom Center (Hannibal, MO) as part of the ongoing conversations started with the exhibition and book project, A Nation Takes Place, now on view at MMAM through March 2, 2025.
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The Art of Living/
Riding the Wave
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Saturday, September 14 | 10a - 12p
Free, Registration Required
Join Sarah Johnson for MMAM’s quarterly interactive program that explores the connections between creativity, health, and well-being. The thought-provoking experiential activities are designed to encourage connections with ourselves and other humans, and what it means to “ride the wave.”
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MMAM Annual Fund /
Anchor Campaign
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Support MMAM Today!
Your donation toward MMAM’s annual fund, the Anchor Campaign, supports MMAM’s mission-driven work, creating meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship to water. Every dollar contributed helps make this imperative work possible. The Anchor Campaign supports three pillars of work. (1) Artistic Excellence. (2) Community Arts Access. (3) Clean Water and Climate Stewardship. Our goal is straightforward - collectively raise $140,000 before the end of the year. Help us move our mission forward and make your contribution today.
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Featured item of the month
A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art
Exhibition Catalog
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- ISBN: 9781517918927
- Publication Date: September 2024
- 152 Pages: 9 Essays, 37 Color Artist Plates
- List Price: $39.99 | 11” x 8”
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Volume Editors: Tia-Simone Gardner, Shana M. griffin, Scott Pollock
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Contributors: Tiffany Lethabo King, Katherine McKittrick, Brenda Marie Osbey, Erin Sharkey, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Distributor: The University of Minnesota Press
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Publisher: Minnesota Marine Art Museum
A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Water and Race in Contemporary Art, distributed by the University of Minnesota Press, is the accompanying catalog to the A Nation Takes Place exhibition. Featuring essays and reflections by Tiffany Lethabo King, Katherine McKittrick, Brenda Marie Osbey, Erin Sharkey, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Tia Simone-Gardner, and Shana M. griffin, on the complexity of the United States’ formation, a project unthinkable without waterways, conquest, and slave ships.
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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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