Thursday, August 29 | 6p - 7p
at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, MN
Free with MMAM Admission, MMAM members free (No registration required)
Join Drake Hokanson and Boyce Upholt for an informal seated gallery conversation about how artists and authors reveal the complex nature of water. This program will take place in MMAM’s recently installed exhibition Fluid: What is Marine Art and What Can it Be.
Drake Hokanson, renowned photographer and author, will begin the program with a visual exploration of how visual mediums such as painting, video, and photography capture the essence of water. Drawing from the exhibition, including from his own photograph on exhibition, Hokanson will discuss two primary ways we learn about water- the visual and the written.
Next, we will turn to Boyce Upholt, award-winning journalist and author of The Great River (W.W. Norton, 2024), who will offer a deep dive into his literary exploration of the Mississippi River. Discover the creative process behind crafting a narrative that encapsulates the vastness of a continent's waters, touching on poetry, history, and the human connection to rivers.
Whether you're passionate about art, literature, or simply wish to spend an hour among friends and artworks in the gallery, this event promises enriching perspectives that resonate with the human experience.
Drake Hokanson
Drake Hokanson is an author, photographer, and independent scholar who looks to the broad American land, its places, well-worn paths, people, and stories as the subjects for his photographs, books, exhibits, and essays. He is the author/coauthor of three books, has edited and contributed to several others, and has exhibited photographs coast to coast. He taught photography and nonfiction writing at the university level on three continents for more than 30 years. For more information, including print purchase, see www.drakehokanson.com.
Boyce Upholdt
Boyce Upholt is a journalist, essayist, and “nature critic” whose writing probes the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world, especially in the U.S. South. His work has been published in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications, and was awarded the 2019 James Beard Award for investigative journalism. His stories have been noted in the Best American Science & Nature and Best American Nonrequired Reading series. Boyce lives in New Orleans.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.