Friday, January 30 | 6:30p - 10p | Minnesota Marine Art Museum

Tickets: $20 | MMAM Member Rate: $15

Kick off 2026 in style at MMAM’s New Look Preview Party, celebrating the launch of MMAM’s 2026 theme, Making Waves, and three new exhibitions: Splish, Splash, Story: Selections from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Water | Craft, and Robert Gonzalez: Mystical Waters. Enjoy an energizing night out at the museum featuring exhibiting artist conversations, food and drinks for purchase, and a special gallery performance, Glacial Spatial—an immersive sound experience created by Trever Hagen and Josh Berg in collaboration with the Winona Symphony Orchestra. Designed in collaboration with the Winona Ice Festival, the evening reimagines shifting ice flows through spatial sound, inviting guests to wander through frozen sonic landscapes. Stay late for a dance party as we usher in a bold new year and a bold new look.

Run of Show

• 6:30p | Doors Open. Waterbar Cafe & Provisions Open. 

• 7:15p - 8p | Staged Social: Welcome To Winona

• 8p - 9p  |  Live Performance: Glacial Spatial

• 9p - 10p  | Dance Party

• 10p  |  Doors Close

• 10p+  |  Afterparty at Two Fathoms Brewing Company

Waterbar Cafe & Provisions New Look Preview Party Specials
6:30p - 10p | Atrium

Enjoy a wintry mix of artist-inspired cocktails and light bites, savory and sweet, presented by MMAM’s new Waterbar Cafe & Provision creative culinary team.

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Staged Social: Welcome to Winona
7:15p - 8p  | Gallery 3

Bruno Basari (Winona, MN), professor emeritus Winona State University, in conversation with Isabel Ruiz Cano, Associate Curator at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA), Robert Gonzalez (San Antonio, TX), exhibiting visual artist, curator and musician, and Nicole McLaughlin (Yarmouth Port, MA), exhibiting ceramic and fiber artist. 

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Glacial Spatial Live Performance
8p - 9p  | Manoogian Gallery 

Curated in partnership with Liquid Music, this world-premier musical experience was created for the Winona Ice Festival, a reimagining of shifting ice flows through spatial sound, inviting Minnesota Marine Art Museum guests to wander through frozen sonic landscapes.  Josh Berg (Eau Claires, WI) and Trever Hagen (Eau Claires, WI), members of Terminal Habitat Collapse, teamed up with Erik Rohde, artistic director, Winona Symphony Orchestra, to create this 

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About the Artists:

Terminal Habitat Collapse

Terminal Habitat Collapse is a sound art project by Trever Hagen and Josh Berg expanding the language of ecological crisis via music, sound, noise, and space.

Josh Berg: Grammy award winning audio engineer and producer with a knack for wrangling large scale productions and hybrid creation/performance/recording situations. Technical Audio Director for artists and collectives such as PEOPLE, Mac Miller, Kanye West, and Sunday Service.

Trever Hagen: Trever Hagen has collaborated with a range of musicians and ensembles from Bon Iver to Mouse on Mars. As well, Hagen holds a Grammy nomination, a PhD and is an Oxford Press author. He has given talks and masterclasses on sound, music, noise and trumpet at universities and conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. 

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Bruno Bosari

Bruno Borsari is a native Italian and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Winona State University. He earned his Doctor of Agricultural Science degree (D.Ag.Sc.) from the University of Bologna in Italy in 1986 and his Ph.D. from the University of New Orleans in 2001. With 32 years of experience in habitat restoration and sustainable agriculture, he taught and practiced ecological farming, agroforestry and habitat (prairie) restoration in various countries (mainly west and central Africa). He consulted Italian farmers to transition from conventional agriculture to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and assisted them to pursue organic certification for their farms. In the U.S. Dr. Borsari served in the board of the Louisiana Organic Association (LOA), was President of the Cajun Prairie Restoration Society and was part of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SSAWG). Prior to his relocation to Winona in 2005 he was an Assistant Professor of agroecology at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and an active member of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA). He maintains membership with The Land Institute in Salina, KS and the Rodale Institute in Kutztown, PA. His publications record demonstrates his research interests in prairie restoration, agroecology, biology/science education, sustainability, agricultural education reform and local foods. Gardening, raising honeybees, cooking, learning foreign languages, playing music and singing are his main hobbies.

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Isabel Ruiz Cano

Isabel Ruiz Cano is an Associate Curator at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She holds a Masters Degree in the History of Art from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.A. from Smith College. Growing up in El Salvador as the granddaughter of an artist and as the daughter of a fifth-grade teacher, she learned to appreciate visual storytelling from an early age. As a curator, she hopes to inspire curiosity and connection across all cultures through art.

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Robert Gonzalez

Robert Gonzalez is a visual and performance artist, curator, and musician born in Laredo, Texas. He holds a B.A. in Painting from Trinity University (1978) and a B.B.A. in Management from the University of the Incarnate Word (1980). For more than five decades, he has been dedicated to the practices of painting (since 1972) and performance art (since 1974).

Gonzalez’s paintings were recently exhibited at Trinity University’s Neidorff Gallery and at the UTSA Southwest School of Art’s Rodgers Galleries as part of the NYFA Courage exhibition, which he co-curated with Huakai Chen. His most recent performance work took place in June 2024 at The Contemporary at Blue Star for the Xicanx International Exhibition.

A curator since 1982, Gonzalez has organized more than two hundred local, regional, and national art exhibitions. He is also an active musician with five albums available on iTunes under the name Xivero. His artistic career has been shaped by extensive travel throughout Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Europe, and Canada.

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Nicole McLaughlin

Nicole McLaughlin was born and raised in Massachusetts but spent much of her early childhood in Mexico. As a first generation Mexican-American, she is heavily influenced by her multicultural upbringing and her childhood memories of visiting her mother’s home town of Cuernavaca, Mexico. Nicole received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO. She has exhibited nationally, internationally and her work is included in several private collections. Nicole is currently working from her studio in Yarmouth Port, MA and is represented by Anderson Yezerski Gallery in Boston, MA. Nicole continues to draw inspiration from Mexican ceramics, textiles, and cultural traditions in hopes of showing how her life has been shaped by a collision of two cultures.  

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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This event is part of MMAM’s January New Look Weekend, a weekend celebrating the launch of the 2026 exhibitions around the theme, Making Waves.

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