February 2026 Newsletter Dear friends, This year we are focusing on friendship and peace. Chuck's mentor was Jacques Lipchitz. They were good friends and during the 1970's Jacques gave Chuck a series of lithographs of his sculptures as a thank you for Chuck's assistance at the art foundry.  These lithographs will be on exhibit March 1st through April 30th: "Friendship: Gagnon and Lipchitz". Peace has been needed and sought throughout history.  This year marks the 800th annive

Dear friends of the Charles E. Gagnon Museum and Sculpture Garden, Thank you for your support of our beautiful museum that continues to offer the fine art of bronze sculpture created by Rochester, Minnesota sculptor, Chuck Gagnon. We want to thank the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation for their generous grant to maintain and renovate the wetlands in the Southwest corner of the sculpture garden. This year, we have seen the development of a new garden within the sculpture garde

Dan Maidl was a wonderful vollunter for the museum and our groundskeeper. Dan passed away on December 6, and the Gagnon Museum wishes to remember Dan and his family in our thoughts and prayers. Obituary: Daniel Max Maidl, 67, of Rochester, MN passed away peacefully at his home on December 6, 2025. Those who loved Dan - and there were many - take comfort knowing he left this world exactly the way he lived in it: cared for, surrounded by love, and probably thinking about what p