Flora & Waking Worlds: Opening Weekend

January 27 - 29, 2023

Celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions, all under the theme of Flora, and the debut of MMAM’s new literary arts gallery, Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds.

Opening Weekend Highlights

About the new exhibitions:

FLORA |  KEINEN + HOSONO + HANESWORTH 

A trajectory of three artists, three mediums, and three masterful surface explorations of the botanical wonders of our world. Historic Japanese prints from Imao Keinen, contemporary porcelain vessels by Hitomi Hosono, and printed fabrics and original prints from Ian Hanesworth.

LITERARY ARTS | WAKING WORLDS: WONDROUS READS FOR CURIOUS MINDS

Featuring original illustrations from three book projects; Mary Casanova’s Wake Up, Island (University of Minnesota Press) and Hush, Hush, Forest (University of Minnesota Press) as illustrated by printmaker Nick Wroblewski, and World of Wonder: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Milkweed Editions) written by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and illustrated by Fumi Nakamura.