Programs
Arts Access Programs
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Art of Living/Riding the wave, participants play with art materials, explore the connections between creativity and health, and what it means to "ride the wave." The thought-provoking experiential activities are designed to encourage connections with ourselves and other humans.
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Enjoy live music in the MMAM Gardens this summer with the Mississippi Sippin Concert Series. While you are here, find a curated selection of spirited and non-spirited beverages, food trucks outside along the Mississippi River, and then, venture into the galleries (open late until 8pm) to see how exhibiting artists are using water as inspiration for their work.
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Art is for everyone! Join the Minnesota Marine Art Museum quarterly for Seasonal Saturday. With $1 admission for all, this is a fun and lively day to visit the museum for first-time visitors and experienced museum-goers alike.
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A unique program designed specifically for people with memory loss and their care partners. SPARK! programs offer participants an opportunity to enhance their quality of life through social engagement, mental stimulation, and communication.
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A lively gathering of our littlest art lovers and the grown-ups at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Toddler Tuesday offers hands-on art activities such as painting with marbles, drawing, and butterfly making. There are also opportunities for free-play, storytelling, and a chance for toddlers and their grown-ups to take a self-guided exploration of artworks in the galleries.
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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.
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MMAM will host a public Weaving Water Workshop on Saturday May 18 from 3:00-5:00pm. Drop in and become a part of a pop-up public indigo and fiber art studio designed by Minneapolis artist Sarah Nassif. Sarah and her Weaving Water Workshops create space for people to gather, play with natural dye and fiber, and share personal connections to textile traditions, water bodies and the Mississippi River.
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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.
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This 2-day workshop teaches participants to use press and texture molds, make sprig molds, incorporate natural objects, use templates, and hand building techniques to create unique pieces of functional pottery and sculptural objects.
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This Studio Arts Workshop is presented in partnership with Sanborn Canoe Company in their Winona based shop. This hands-on workshop will teach you the skills to make your own paddle - from wood selection and wood grain considerations, to paddle sizing and the theory of shape as applied to handles, shafts and blades, to finishing and surface decoration.
Presenting Partner Programs
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MMAM + River Arts Alliance are coming together to bring you a monthly informal artist exchange - a chance for artists and creatives from across a variety of mediums to gather for inspiration, exploration and exchange at the museum
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MMAM + the Winona Symphony Orchestra present Water Music: Chamber Concerts at the MMAM, a series of chamber music concerts in an intimate, refined setting among the galleries. These performances are jointly programmed to spotlight both the visual treasures of MMAM and musical masterworks unified by a common theme.
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Artist led events at MMAM.
Exhibition Programming
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Programming for MMAM’s current exhibition Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity.
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Programming for MMAM’s current exhibition Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh, It Flows Continuously.
This activity is made possible by the voter of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.