New Look Weekend at MMAM Celebrates New Exhibitions
Friday-Sunday | July 12-14
Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr.
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The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) in Winona, MN will mark the second half of its 2024 season, Freshwater, with the New Look Weekend on July 12 – 14, 2024. This weekend brings together the artists featured in three exhibitions currently on view, with a New Look Preview Party, discounted gallery admission, artist-led tours, a lecture, book signings, and an artist demonstration.
Featured New Look Weekend artists include oil painter Kajahl (Santa Cruz, CA) whose new exhibition Ultra Mare opens on July 13, and artist Judy Onofrio (Rochester, MN) who is currently exhibiting her sculptures in the newly opened Deep Dive. Along with Kajahl and Onofrio, author Kao Kalia Yang (St. Paul, Minnesota) and illustrator, Khoa Le (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) will be in attendance and leading programming throughout the weekend. Yang and Le’s book, The Most Beautiful Thing (Lerner Publishing, Carolrhoda Books, 2020), is one of two books featured in MMAM’s book arts gallery for 2024, Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity.
The weekend opens on Friday, July 12 with the New Look Preview Party, from 7 pm to 10 pm. Tickets are $20, and $15 for MMAM members. There will be a curatorial-led tour of the new exhibitions, a staged social discussion moderated by Professor Mary Jo Klinker, with Kajahl, Kao Kalia Yang, and Khoa Le, a live musical performance by Douglas R. Ewart and Mankwe Ndosi, and an artist-inspired dancehall to close out the night. There will be spirited and spirit-free beverages from our partners, the La Crosse Distilling Company and Two Fathoms Brewing Company.
Saturday, July 13, and Sunday, July 14, will offer discounted $5 gallery admission to all gallery visitors (MMAM members and children 5 and under are always free) who would like to visit the museum, which is open from 10 am to 5 pm each day. There is also additional programming offered both days. Some programming requires an additional $5 program ticket.
On Saturday, July 13 there will be a book reading and signing with Kao Kalia Yang and Khoa Le at 10 am, an artist lecture by Kajahl at 11 am, an artist tour with with Kao Kalia Yang, Khoa Le, and Kajahl at 1:30 pm, and a refugee panel discussion in partnership with Project Fine at 3:30 pm. On Sunday, July 14, there will be a digital illustration demonstration with Khoa Le at 10 am, and a second artist-led tour of the new exhibitions at 1:30 pm.
This exhibition project is presented by the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, a nonprofit mission-driven art museum located on the shores of the Upper Mississippi River. MMAM gratefully acknowledges sustaining support from our Board of Directors, the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation, Elizabeth Callender King Foundation, Merchants Bank, the Charmant Hotel, the Winona Post, the La Crosse Distilling Company, Lake and Company, and other generous contributions from foundations, corporations, individuals, members and volunteers.
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is a nonprofit art museum that creates meaningful art experiences that explore our relationship with water. Located in Winona, Minnesota, the purpose-built museum is located on the banks of the Mississippi River and boasts six galleries, an educational and events space, and a destination retail shop on its seven acre riverside campus. It is through this surprising diversity that MMAM is not only describing what marine art is, but pushing the boundaries of what marine art can be.
Image: A previous New Look Preview Party at MMAM. Photo by Bailey Bolton.
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: https://riverartsalliance.org/membership/.