Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM)

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is a nonprofit art museum that engages visitors in meaningful visual art experiences through education and exhibitions that explore the ongoing and historic human 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.

Exhibits

Impressions of Water: Prints by Clara Ueland 1997-2022
MAY 27 TO SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Medina, Minnesota artist Clara Ueland creates beautiful and colorful prints inspired by her trips to the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota, Lake Superior, and Scotland. She prints in the labor intensive intaglio printing process, which uses a series of etched copper plates to produce the final image. "I would like my work to reflect the beauty, unity and balance of the natural world." The exhibition features an overview of her prints from 1997 to the present.

Karen Savage-Blue: Laughing Waters
ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 - JANUARY 15, 2023
Karen Savage-Blue is an Anishinaabe artist and member of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe living and working on the Fond du Lac Reservation near Cloquet, MN. Her paintings explore themes of internal reflection, identifying with nature, and exposing transitions from human to natural forms. Her work can be dreamlike and surreal, and she depicts nature in its raw form, creating a platform where thoughts and emotions overcome the tendency to decipher meaning.

German Expressionism and the Sea
OCTOBER 12, 2021 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The German Expressionist painters were different than those artists that came before them in that they not only painted the landscape but they included the human psyche. They were not so concerned with the detail of the landscape, but instead, they were interested in the spirit and the emotion of the image. This exhibition shows how these artists used water to tie these elements together. The exhibition features works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Kirchner, Gabriele Münter, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein.

European Art
ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 22, 2022
This exhibition features a diverse collection of European paintings representing 300 years of art history, including works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin.

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