The Slaggie Family Lobby Art Gallery
The Slaggie Family Lobby at the Winona County History Center is host to a local art gallery space in partnership with the River Arts Alliance. WCHS and RAA hope to create new opportunities for partnerships and to showcase Winona County’s cultural heritage through local art. These amazing works might just become heirlooms and messengers to future historians.
Gallery shows are free to view. Artwork is for sale, benefitting the Winona County Historical Society and the artist. Regular museum admission applies for the History Center main exhibition hall and archives.
Gallery shows are free to view. Artwork is for sale, benefitting the Winona County Historical Society and the artist. Regular museum admission applies for the History Center main exhibition hall and archives.
Gallery Schedule
August 11 – September 24
Re-Visioning Winona by Patrick Lichty
Opening Reception: Friday, August 11 • 4 - 6 PM • Slaggie Family Lobby • Artist Talk at 5 PM
Explore Winona through a technological lens. Lichty has recreated images of Winona scenes through artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. What happens when you give a machine an image, ask it to give you a description of it, then give that description back to it and ask for a recreated photo?
Patrick Lichty is an internationally recognized technological artist, writer, and educator investigating how media shapes how humanity perceives reality. He is a recipient of the New Century/New Media award from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
September 29 – November 12
Art of Quilting: A Group Show by the Winona Area Quilters Guild
Opening December 1
Snow Piles of the Upper Mississippi with Matt Fluharty, Art of the Rural
Re-Visioning Winona by Patrick Lichty
Opening Reception: Friday, August 11 • 4 - 6 PM • Slaggie Family Lobby • Artist Talk at 5 PM
Explore Winona through a technological lens. Lichty has recreated images of Winona scenes through artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. What happens when you give a machine an image, ask it to give you a description of it, then give that description back to it and ask for a recreated photo?
Patrick Lichty is an internationally recognized technological artist, writer, and educator investigating how media shapes how humanity perceives reality. He is a recipient of the New Century/New Media award from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
September 29 – November 12
Art of Quilting: A Group Show by the Winona Area Quilters Guild
Opening December 1
Snow Piles of the Upper Mississippi with Matt Fluharty, Art of the Rural
