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Calendar of Exhibits - Fargo/Jamestown RegionPhone numbers and web sites are provided when possible. Area code is (701) unless otherwise stated. Please call phone numbers listed for tickets and/or more information on each event and/or exhibit. For additional events, exhibits, venue and artist information, visit: www.culturepulse.org! No information currently listed... Visit www.ellendalend.com Feb 10-Apr 1 - The Missfit Cup Liberation Project: Responsive Design by Michael J. Strand. Right now, in the recesses of your cupboard, resides a cup. This cup has been long forgotten and left to sit idle for too long. Why is it still in your cupboard? With the “Missfit” Cup Liberation Project, artist Michael J. Strand has asked participant to bring their favorite rejected cups to the Museum, which he will then trade for a shiny, new hand-thrown cup to replace it. Their cups will then reside alongside 99 other rejected cups as a collection of the best of the worst, a collectively curated orphanage of castoff cups. What sort of cups? You know the ones. That cup you made in the “paint your own pottery” class, the one with a lovingly hand-painted image of Kirby Puckett commemorating the 1991 World Series. The plastic collapsible camping cup that leaks everywhere. How about that plastic cactus-shaped cup? Who actually thought that was a good idea for a margarita? No matter what, Strand will retire them in style and expose the rich narratives that go along with them. The Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium, Plains Art Museum. Feb 10, 7:30-8:30pm Lecture, The Space Between: Art and Humanity Feb 16-Jun 3 - Jubileum! Illustrations by Amy Jo Hendrickson Flattum, Xcel Energy Gallery, Plains Art Museum, www.plainsart.org Thru Feb 25 - Annual Student Show Exhibit, the 2012 show is titled, “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” a quote from Darwin. Memorial Union Gallery, above the NDSU Bookstore. Feb 9 is Darwin Day, receptions and art. 2:30-3pm - Birthday cake in the Butte Lounge on the Gallery side of Century Theater, courtesy of NDSU Biological Sciences. Guest speaker to follow, “Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Nature of Science” 4-6pm - The artists and jurors will be available in the Memorial Union Gallery. The jurors will announce their selections at 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served in the Gallery! The Memorial Union Gallery and the NDSU Biological Sciences Department are collaborating to present the show and awards: a $100 award to the piece that best displays the theory by Charles Darwin as described on the application. Brian Wisenden from MSUM has agreed to serve as the science judge. The art juror is well-known regional artist, William Charles Harbort, also known as Billy Chuck. The show will include awards for Best in Show and Honorable Mention. Visitors of the Gallery may vote for a “People’s Choice” Selection Thru Feb 29 - Peaceful Abiding, an exhibit of nine paintings by Jamestown native Will Buchanan. Each painting is a colorful acrylic on canvas meditation on balance, color, technique and energy of the moment. Concentric circles are a metaphor for “getting centered”. Random chaotic backgrounds represent the “noise” of the day. The paintings contains many uniquely sequenced color patterns showing enlightened individuals of “different stripes” commingling and peacefully abiding. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Spirit Room, email jaske@ideaone.net; phone 237-0230 Thru Feb 29 - Recent Work by Charles Christianson. Rec: Feb 18, 6:30-9pm. This is an exhibit of 25 acrylic on canvas abstract paintings by Fergus Falls native Charles (Chuck) Christianson. For this series of paintings Chuck considers himself an improvisational painter. He chose the colors, and those colors and the canvas determined the end result. Chuck studied painting and drawing with Charles Beck and has exhibited throughout the Midwest, South and Western USA. He was awarded a Lake Region Arts Council/McKnight Individual Artist Grant in 1997 and is head of the Visual Arts Committee for A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls, MN. Spirit Room, 237-0230 Mar 1-Apr 1 - School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art Month. 3rd Floor, Plains Art Museum Mar 3-30 - Great Winter Crow Show 2012. Celebrating all things Corvidae. Rec: Mar 3, 6:30-9:30pm, join us for an evening of celebration of our Winter companion, the Crow. Visual art, sculpture, poetry, song and dance. The Great Winter Crow Show, held in alternate years, is a non-competitive exhibition free of entry fees. The theme is the crow, the blackbird, and all their marvelous and malevolent associations. The crows and ravens keep us company in the wintertime and remind us with their squacks and pacing that they keep a close eye on out behaviors and movements. Spirit Room Mar 19-Apr 2 - The Birdhouse Project. The Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium, Plains Art Museum, www.plainsart.org Thru Apr 15 - Birch Bark, Clay, Pixels, Paint. A new Plains Art Museum permanent collection exhibition, in the Permanent Collection, will present a selection of art works that are new to the collection and as diverse as the title suggests. Since 2007, hundreds of works of art have been donated to the Museum, and several new pieces have been acquired through Museum purchases or commissions. Birch Bark, Clay, Pixels, Paint, will display 50 of these works, including the first digital art in the Museum collection, Minnesota State University Moorhead Professor Henry Gwiazda’s video piece Claudia & Paul, a doll’s house, consciousness. Other works include an innovative birch bark collage made by the father and son team Pat and Gage Kruse of the Minnesota Mille Lacs Reservation, showing an abstract starburst design. Plains Art Museum Thru May 20 - “Art on the Plains XI: A Regional Juried Exhibition,” Plains Art Museum will provide a valuable glimpse into the range of artistic talent currently being shown across the upper Midwest. Forty-eight established and emerging visual artists from North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska will be featured in the exhibition, particularly artists that exemplify the region’s contemporary practices in photography, sculpture, installation art, and other media. Museum Director of Curatorial Affairs Megan Johnston said this exhibition makes a strong case for the Midwest as a source of some of the world’s most critical work. “Art on the Plains XI” will open in the Museum’s Jane L. Stern and William and Anna Jane Schlossman Galleries. www.plainsart.org Ongoing - The Don Larew Collection featured by NDSU Archives. This online exhibition titled Theatre Passion presents some of the 100-plus productions in which Don Larew, professor emeritus of theatre arts, has been involved at NDSU from fall 1969 to February 2001. The exhibition can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndsu-university-archives/collections/72157625906153870. The images are taken from The Don Larew Theatrical Productions Scenic and Costume Design Collection, University Archives, North Dakota State University and feature predominantly Little Country Theatre productions Plains Art Museum Ongoing
Thru Feb - Jay Hopkins: Down Home. The Rourke Art Gallery Thru Feb 26 - Kirk Williams: Pastels in Dreams. The Rourke Art Museum Thru Feb 10 - International Mezzotint Exchange 2011 Exhibition, VCSU Gallery Feb 13-Mar 16 - Barnes County Student Exhibition, VCSU Gallery Mar 19-Apr 20 - Peter Beaugard, Artist/Designer Exhibition, VCSU Gallery Apr 23-May 4 - Spring Student Exhibition, VCSU Gallery, Rec: May 4, 5-6pm, VCSU Gallery Thru Feb 15 - Wildlife photography by Brad Berger. Red Door Art Gallery, http://reddoorgallerywahpeton.com/ Ongoing - Visual art on a monthly rotating schedule at Wahpeton Community Center, 304 South 5th Street |
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