Workshop: The Third Street Project with Andy DuCett

Friday, September 4 - Saturday, September 5, 2026
9a - 4p daily
Tuition: $250 [MMAM member rate: $240]
Register: https://mmam.org/calendar2/workshop-ducett

Are you curious about Third Street? We are too.
The Center for Third Street Furtherings (CfTSF) has been active in Winona for some time now—quietly observing, recording, and assembling a clearer picture of a place that resists easy definition. In partnership with the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, the Center is now accepting a limited cohort of Field Agent Trainees to assist with an active investigation led by Senior Collection Agent Andy DuCett.
Your assignment begins with onboarding.
Over two days, you will be trained in a series of CfTSF-approved methodologies developed in alignment with DuCett’s artistic practice. These include:
** Close Observation Protocols
Learn to register the overlooked: signage, residue, patterns of movement, unofficial histories.
**Applied Cartographic Drift
Working in the lineage of Denis Wood, participants will construct subjective, data-rich maps that privilege experience over cartographic accuracy.
** Speculative Collection Techniques
You will gather and catalog physical and visual “evidence” from the field—ephemera, fragments, images, and notes.
** Document Fabrication + Narrative Assembly
Transform your findings into CfTSF-sanctioned outputs: broadsides, annotated diagrams, fictionalized reports, and micro-publications.
Field deployment will occur throughout Winona, with a focus on the Third Street corridor. Agents will work individually and collaboratively to interpret place—not as fixed geography, but as a shifting set of relationships, stories, and signals.
All materials and tools will be provided. No prior field experience is required.
What becomes of your work?
The Center will review all submitted materials for inclusion in its ongoing publication series. Selected works will be reproduced and disseminated as official CfTSF media—circulated within Andy DuCett’s exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Contributors will be credited as Field Agents in the archive.
Why enlist?
This is a rare opportunity to:
** Work directly with a MMAM exhibiting artist
** Learn how research, fiction, and material production intersect in contemporary art practice
** Develop new ways of seeing and interpreting place
** Contribute to a living exhibition through your own creative output
** The Center cannot guarantee what you will find. Only that you will begin to notice it.
Enrollment is limited. Further instructions will be provided upon acceptance.
About the artist:
Andy DuCett is from Winona, MN and received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. His artistic approaches span many disciplines in both studio and client environments. His work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country and is in the collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art and The Walker Art Center. He has been featured by Artforum, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post, as well as in publications from Toronto, Berlin, Tokyo, and London. He was the recipient of a 2017 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship, a 2021 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grant and is listed on the curated registry of the Drawing Center in New York City. His client list includes Hasbro, Travail Kitchen & Amusements, General Mills, Can Can Wonderland, Target and Meow Wolf. He has upcoming solo exhibitions at the MN Marine Art Museum in 2026 and The Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND in 2028 and will be a Distinguished Visiting Artist at Carleton College starting in 2027.