January New Look Weekend: Freshwater

January 26 - 28, 2024

General admission is only $5 this weekend.

Celebrate the opening of a year-long suite of exhibitions and programs that explores bold and often under-told narratives, examines fresh new perspectives of water, and features game-changing artists who help us better our relationship to this precious resource. The New Look Preview Party and some programming requires registration and an additional program fee.

Friday Events

January 26, 2024

Featured

Jan 26

New Look Preview Party

7pm - 10pm | $20

Celebrate the opening of four new exhibitions at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. With curatorial led tours, staged social, and a dancehall to close out the night, this will be an event you will not want to miss.

Jan 26

Freshwater New Look Weekend

$5 Admission on Saturday + Sunday

Saturday Events

January 27, 2024

Featured

Jan 27

Screening of "My Louisiana Love" with Monique Verdin, presented by Frozen River Film Festival

4pm - 5:30pm | $5

A filming at MMAM of My Louisiana Love, a film that traces a young woman’s quest to find a place in her Native American community as it reels from decades of environmental degradation.

Jan 27

FreshWATER Artist Tour: with Monique Verdin, Karen Goulet + Mustafah Abdulaziz [2:30p]

2:30 - 3:45pm | $5

FreshWATER Gallery Walk and Talk with Artists Monique Verdin, Karen Goulet and Mustafah Abdulaziz. Registration Required

Jan 27

FreshWATER Artist Tour: Monique Verdin, Karen Goulet + Mustafah Abdulaziz [1p]

1 - 2:15pm | $5

FreshWATER Gallery Walk and Talk with Artists Monique Verdin, Karen Goulet and Mustafah Abdulaziz. Registration Required

Jan 27

Vital H20 Artist Lecture Series: Water Around The World with Mustafah Abdulaziz

11am - 12pm | $5

Join MMAM exhibiting artist, Mustafah Abdulaziz, for a lecture.

Jan 27

Community Painting with Sarah Johnson of The Joy Labs

10am - 12pm | Included with admission

Community Painting with Sarah Johnson of Joy Labs.

Jan 27

Painting Demonstration with Nick Fox and Patrick O'Brien

10am - 12pm | Included with admission

The American Society of Marine Artists president, Nick Fox, will be doing a painting demonstration in the new exhibition opening January 20, Reflective Impressions: The American Society of Marine Artists 19th National Exhibition.

Sunday Events

January 28, 2024

New Exhibitions Opening in January 2024

Water | Mustafa Abdulaziz

On view January 13 - June 23, 2024

[Image] Mustafah Abdulaziz (American b.1986), Woman Gathering Water, Benue, Nigeria, 2015, (detail), scanned color film negative, giclée print. Courtesy of the artist.

Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat Yanalleh, It Flows Continuously | Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin

On view January 27 - July 7, 2024

[Image] Karen Goulet (American White Earth Ojibwe Nation/Métis) Falling Water, 2023 (detail). Recycled cloth and indigo dye. Courtesy of the artist.

Across a Wide Ocean

On view January 27, 2024 - January 5, 2025

[Image] Nikkolas Smith, Legacy, 2021. Digital illustration. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson, authors), Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.