River Arts Alliance Member Events

Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr. On Tuesday evening, August 23, RAA will host a summer Art Schmooze gathering at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s beautiful riverside patio in conjunction with MMAM’s weekly Mississippi Sippin event. The Schmooze is an informal opportunity to meet fellow local artists, creatives, and arts supporters; chat with RAA’s board…

Riverside Park | La Crosse, WI www.greatriverfolkfest.org Join Patina on Saturday, August 27 at the La Crosse Great River Folk Festival in Riverside Park. We will be kicking off the Festival music at 1:00 pm on the Bandshell Stage. Patina is a four-member, Celtic-inspired band, featuring Kara Mae Prosen, Connie Dretske, Sue Lee Ringwelski and…

City House | 258 Mill St. | Saint Paul comozooconservatory.org/summer-of-sparky RAA member Joan Porter-Einsman is one of the twenty-one artists chosen to hand-paint a Sparky the Sea Lion statue as part of the “Summer of Sparky,” sponsored by Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in Saint Paul. Joan’s statue can be seen this summer at City House, 258 Mill St.,…

Jaycee Pavilion at Lake Park, Winona More information to come.

Black Horse Bar & Grill | 34648 Old Homer Rd., Winona The Gate City Jazz Band is making its monthly appearance at the Black Horse Bar and Grill, Sept. 4 from 5-7 pm.  Fill in your Labor Day weekend with some happy, toe-tapping music, along with vittles and beverages, to help you feel good and…

Friday | September 9 | 7 pm Levee Park mansurdance.com/shift Join Winona based activist/scholar Mary Jo Klinker & dance/interdisciplinary artist Sharon Mansur for Blue Awaken/ings: a dance performance and feminist exploration of Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets. Experience a wandering performance through Levee Park. The event will start at the climbing boulders by Walnut Street, move…

Saturday | September 10 | 10 am - 1 pm Valencia Arts Center | 1164 W Howard (10th) St. mca.smumn.edu The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts (MCA) invites young dancers, ages 5-13 to audition for our children’s dance concert, Movie Mania: Take 2 on Saturday, September 10 from 10am-1pm (doors open at 9:30am). We will audition dancers…

Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org Richard Spiller, a local potter from Wisconsin, will offer a pinch pot class on September 10 at the Winona Arts Center. Using small balls of clay, the students will use their natural ability to seize and grasp to form small vessels. The cost is $30 per person…

Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org Beginning September 9th and running through October 30th, 2022, the Winona Arts Center (WAC) will celebrate 60 years as Winona’s Home for the Arts. A busy schedule of films, concerts, classes, workshops and more has been planned. The celebration will be highlighted by a retrospective of…

Winona County History Center | 160 Johnson St. sandbarstorytellingfestival.org The final “Business and Immigrant Stories of Winona,” sponsored by the Sandbar Storytelling Festival, in partnership with the Winona County History Center, is 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 at the history center. As we continue to tell the stories that have shaped Winona, we feature Project…

Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr. mmam.org Laughing Waters, an exhibition of paintings by artist Karen Savage-Blue, will open on Sept. 16, 2022 at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Karen Savage-Blue is an Anishinaabe artist, educator and an enrolled member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe, living and working on the…

Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org As a part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the Winona Arts Center, the acoustic trio Under Paris Skies will be in concert on September 16 at 7 pm. Under Paris Skies celebrates the music of French sidewalk cafes, vintage jazz clubs, Argentine dance halls and Latin rhythms.…