Past Exhibitions

Previous Exhibitions: 2024

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Youth Art Month 2024

Youth Art Month 2024

On view March 1 - 31, 2024

Kristian Brevik: Art for Fish/Art for Humans

Kristian Brevik: Art for Fish/Art for Humans

On view September 16, 2023 - January 21, 2024

Seascapes: Traditional Marine Art from the Collection of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum

Seascapes: Traditional Marine Art from the Collection of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum

On view September 2, 2022 - January 14, 2024

Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds

Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds

On view January 28, 2023 – January 7, 2024

Kimble A. Bromley: Moby-Dick

Kimble A. Bromley: Moby-Dick

On view September 8, 2023 - January 7, 2024

From Sea to Paper: The Gyotaku Prints of Dwight Hwang

From Sea to Paper: The Gyotaku Prints of Dwight Hwang

On view September 16, 2023 - January 7, 2024

Previous Exhibitions: 2020-2023

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Creating The Illusion of Light: Contemporary Landscape Painters

On view 13 - September 30, 2023

The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society

On view May 13 - September 30, 2023

Liz Sexton: Out of Water

On view May 6 - Sept. 3, 2023

Courtney Mattison: Undercurrent

On view May 6 - Sept. 3, 2023

Ian Hanesworth: Fragments of this Living Earth

On view Jan. 28 - April 30, 2023

On the Surface: Flora Inspired Ceramics of Hitomi Hosono

On view Jan. 28 - April 30, 2023

Keinen Kachō Gafu: The Bird and Flower Prints of Keinen Imao

On view Jan. 28 - April 23, 2023

Youth Art Month 2023

On view March 2023

Water Stories: New Work by Anne Labovitz

On view Sept. 30, 2022 - Jan. 22, 2023

Karen Savage-Blue: Laughing Waters

On view Sept. 16, 2022 - Jan. 15, 2023

Nick Wroblewski: The Draw of the Lake

On view Oct. 28, 2022 - Jan. 8, 2023

Ukrainian Art For Ukrainian Kids: Selections of Ukrainian Children’s Art from the International Children’s Owl Art Contest

On view 2021

European Art

On view through October 21, 2022

Impressions of Water: Prints by Clara Ueland 1997-2022

On view May 27 - Sept. 25, 2022

German Expressionism and the Sea

On view Oct. 12, 2021 - Sept. 23, 2022

Sonja Peterson: What the Trade Winds Brought

On view May 6 - September 11, 2022

American Art

On view through August 27, 2022

Dudley Edmondson: Northern Waters

On view Sept. 10, 2021 - Jan. 2, 2022

Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America

On view Jan. 28 - May 22, 2022

Eric Mueller: Reset 2021

On view January 7 - May 1, 2022

David Bowen: The Journey

On view Oct. 9, 2021 - Jan. 23, 2022

The American Society of Marine Artists 18th National Exhibition

6/18/2021 - 10/3/2021

Water: Shots Magazine Group Photography Exhibition

4/30/21 - 9/5/21

20th Century British Master Marine Artists

4/16/21 - 6/13/21

Memories of Titanic

3/3/2020 - 6/6/2021

Tony Duran: California

1/8/2021 - 4/25/2021

Frederick D. Somers: Miracle of Waters

1/15/2021 - 4/11/2021

Greg DeGrace: Driftless

10/2/2020 - 1/10/2021

Christian Vizl: Silent Kingdom

9/11/2020 - 1/3/2021

Mark Herman: Landmarks

5/29 - 9/27/2020

Previous Exhibitions: 2017-2019

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Oh, Canada!

11/3/2019 - 2/27/2020

H2OH! Art Quilts

9/5/2019 - 1/19/2020

Seth Casteel: Underwater Dogs

8/23/2019 - 1/5/2020

Selections from the Collections

3/5/2019 - 10/31/2019

Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi

5/9/2019 - 9/1/2019

Maarten Platje: The Early History of the U.S. Navy

5/3/2019 - 8/18/2019

Anna Metcalfe: Upstream

1/11/2019 - 5/5/2019

Maria Svarbova: Swimming Pool

1/25/2019 - 4/28/2019

This is New York

10/2/2018 - 2/28/2019

Annie Hejny: Waterlines

8/31/2018 - 1/6/2019

Craig Blacklock: St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers – The Enduring Gift

10/26/2018-1/20/2019

Eagles Over the Water: A Preview of the National Eagle Center's Collection of Eagles in American Culture

6/01/2018 - 10/14/2018

Thomas Paquette: America's River Re-Explored, Paintings of the Mississippi from Source to Gulf

4/20/2018 - 08/26/2018

Selections From the Collections

3/6/2018 - 9/27/2018

Leo and Marilyn Smith Retrospective

1/12/2018 - 04/15/2018

Mary Solberg: Water Portraits

1/7/2018 - 5/20/2018

Ryuta Nakajima: Squid and I, An Art and Science Symbiosis

10/6/2017 - 1/7/2018

The Art of North Atlantic Fishing

10/3/2017 - 3/1/2018

Mississippi River Photo Shootout: A Juried Exhibition of Mississippi River Photography

9/1/2017 - 12/23/2017

The 17th National Exhibition of the American Society of Marine Artists

6/23/2017 - 9/24/2017

Kodachrome Memory: Both Sides of the Mighty Mississippi, Photographs by Nathan Benn

4/21/2017 - 8/27/2017

Watershed Cairns: Water Marked with Art

4/7/2017 - 6/18/2017

New Additions and Old Favorites

3/7/2017 - 6/11/2017

Confluence: Geography, History, and Culture at the Intersection of the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, Photographs by Luke Erickson

1/3/2017 - 4/16/2017

Previous Exhibitions: 2014-2016

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Minnesota Illustrated: The Prints of Adam Turman

12/9/2016 - 4/2/2017

Jack Gray: Canadian Marine Artist

11/8/2016 - 3/2/2017

River Perspectives: Paintings by Tom Maakestad and Don Schmidlapp

8/26/2016 - 12/23/2016

Ink and Water: Sailors' Tattoos

8/5/2016 - 12/4/2016

The Shakespeare Quilts Community Exhibition: A GRSF Tradition

6/22/2016 - 7/31/2016

The Hand of the River: Works by Moira Bateman and Leo Smith III

4/29/2016 - 8/21/2016

The American Society of Marine Artists North Region Exhibition

4/15/2016 - 7/24/2016

150 Years of Marine Art

3/20/2016 - 11/3/2016

River Life: Recent Work by David Eberhardt

1/15/2016 - 4/24/2016

Spiritual Offerings: Photographs by Douglas Beasley

1/8/2016 - 4/10/2016

Additions and Old Favorites

11/8/2015 - 3/17/2016

Surfacing: Rhea Pappas

10/23/2015 - 1/10/2016

Surfacing: Samantha French

10/16/2015 - 1/3/2016

Mississippi River Scenes by James D. Butler

8/15/2015 - 11/5/2015

Open to Interpretation: Water's Edge

8/14/2015 - 10/9/2015

Ocean Soul: National Geographic Photographs by Brian Skerry

7/24/2015 - 10/11/2015

Seeking the Sublime: Works by Stephen Hilyard

5/1/2015 - 7/15/2015

The Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer

4/10/2015 - 8/7/2015

The Art of the Ship Model

1/23/2015 - 4/3/2015

A Life Aquatic: Don Frey Retrospective

1/16/2015 - 4/26/2015

The Legendary Jack Gray

10/26/2014 - 3/29/2015

Classic Images: Ansel Adams Photographs

10/17/2014 - 1/11/2015

Revisiting Twain's Mississippi: New Photographs by Chris Faust

8/15/2014 - 10/12/2014

Carved by the River: Woodcut Prints by Nick Wroblewski

7/6/2014 - 10/10/2014

X-ray Vision: Fish Inside Out

5/16/2014 - 8/10/2014

The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

4/18/2014 - 6/29/2014

William Bradford and the Arctic

3/23/2014 - 10/24/2014

River Sojourn: A Painter's Portfolio of the Mississippi River Blufflands

3/7/2014 - 5/11/2014

Andrea Rich: An Abundance of Riches

1/17/2014 - 4/13/2014

Previous Exhibitions: 2013

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The Four Seasons: Leo & Marilyn Smith Folk Art

11/1/2013 - 3/2/2014

Tri-State Invitational: 3 Women from 3 States

10/25/2013 - 1/12/2014

Off the Wall Marine Art

10/19/2013 - 3/21/2014

Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible

8/6/2013 - 10/20/2013

Sacred Waters: Photography by John Stanmeyer

8/1/2013 - 10/27/2013

Valor in Marine Art

3/23/2013 - 10/18/2013

Online exhibitions

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