MN Marine Art Museum - New Year, New Look Preview Party

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Kick off 2026 – which happens to be the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s 20th anniversary year – in style at MMAM’s New Look Preview Party. Celebrating the launch of our 2026 theme, Making Waves – marking two decades of genre defying artists pushing the boundaries of what marine art is, and can be – and three new exhibition projects that usher in the new year: Splish, Splash, Story: Selections from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Robert Gonzalez: Mystical Waters, and Water | Craft.

This memorable night out at the museum features enlightening artist conversations, drink specials and light bites by the Waterbar Cafe & Provisions culinary team, and a world-premiere live performance of Glacial Spatial—an immersive sound experience created by Trever Hagen and Josh Berg in collaboration with the Winona Symphony Orchestra, curated in partnership with Liquid Music.

Tucked along the frozen bluffs and backwaters of the Mississippi River, the New Look Preview Party brings together the best Winona, Minnesota has to offer – great art and the great outdoors. MMAM partners with the Winona Ice Fest, a collaborative annual event between the City of Winona, the Recreation Alliance of Winona, and Big River Climbing Guides – staged to become one of the largest ice climbing events in the country.

From the mixed drinks to the artist conversations to the hypnotic sonic sounds of shifting ice flows, MMAM’s New Look Preview Party promises to be the not-to-be missed event this winter. Usher in a new year, celebrate twenty, and get your tickets today before this event sells out.

Run of Show

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

• 7:15p – 8p | Staged Social: Welcome To Winona (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.

• 8p – 9p | Live Performance: Glacial Spatial (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 piece.

• 9p – 10p | Dance Party: Featuring DJ BOS’N (Atrium)

  • DJ BOS’N (Boston, MA) returns to Winona after a knock out 2024 performance at the base of Winona’s Ice Wall. He takes center stage in the museum as we close the night down with a dance party not to miss. And yes, bosen = the person in charge of a ship’s rigging, anchor, cables and deck crew. Get ready.

• 10p | Doors Close

• 10p+ | Afterparty at Two Fathoms Brewing Company

  • And if that’s still not all enough, you can wind the night down afterwards in downtown Winona, Minnesota at Two Fathoms Brewing Company – Winona Ice Festival Head Quarters. Plan your stay at Hotel 44 North, next door to the Two Fathoms Brewing Company, Winona’s newest waterfront boutique hotel experience.

*Free Shuttle Transportation

6p-10p | MMAM Front Doors + Two Fathoms Brewery Shuttle Pickup Site (3rd and Center Street)

Park your car downtown, and don’t worry about it. The evening features FREE Shuttle Transportation, courtesy of Winona Ice Festival, to and from downtown Winona. Shuttle departs MMAM on the ½ hour every hour, (dropping / picking near Two Fathoms Brewing Company – Winona Ice Festival HQ. Learn more!