May 6 - June 19, 2010 46th Annual JFAA Spring Art Show This year 58 artists participated from 5 states: North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin and Oregon. In North Dakota artists come from the communities of Bismarck, Buchanan, Edgeley, Fargo, Gackle, Grand Forks, Jamestown, LaMoure, Minot, Richardton, Rugby, Streeter, Valley City, West Fargo, and Wishek. There are 136 pieces in this year's show.
April 8 - May 1, 2010
St. Johns Bible Project
The Saint John's Bible is a work of art and a work of theology. A team of artists coordinated by Donald Jackson in Wales and a team of scholars in Central Minnesota have brought together the ancient techniques of calligraphy and illumination with an ecumenical Christian approach to the Bible rooted in Benedictine spirituality. The result is a living document and a monumental achievement.
North Dakota Museum of Art Director Laurel Reuter has gathered the work of twenty artists from across North and South America. The show consists of nearly fifty works of art in video, painting, photography and sculpture.
In 2004 the North Dakota Museum of Art implemented the Rural Arts Initiative program to encourage learning through the arts and to put original artwork into communities throughout the State. Animals: Them and Us is the fifth touring exhibition through the Rural Arts Initiative. For each touring show, the Museum develops numerous lesson plans and makes them available on their website at www.ndmoa.com. In addition, rural North Dakota schools within a 50 - 60-mile radius of the host exhibition site are eligible for reimbursements. Interested schools should contact Matthew Wallace at the North Dakota Museum of Art prior to their visit.
Laura was the Arts Center’s artist-in-residence this fall. She graduated from Chicago’s North Park University Studio Art program. Her time in Chicago and the past two years working with inner-city children has made an impact on her mixed media collage and installation art.
December 10, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Obsessed with North Dakota: The Photography of Clint Saunders and Daron Krueger
The exhibit features photography of Clint Saunders and Daron Krueger. The exhibition–Obsessed with North Dakota is a selection of photographs from the artists many years of shooting in the state. This summer the two friends published a coffee-table style paperback book of the same name. The photographs span many subjects including landscape, still life, and animal in both traditional black and white and color. Look for more on these artists at Obsessed Photographers Group (OPG). OPG is a gallery of fine art photography based in Valley City, ND featuring Clint and Daron’s work. Along with their gallery, they also have a growing exhibition record that – to date - includes galleries, museums, and purchased public art in seven states including North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and New York.
image above: Daron Krueger, AutumnTranquility
October 22 - December 5, 2009
Susan Haas Morrissey & Mike Morrissey: Bits and Pieces
The Morrissey’s join forces to share their creative passions – Sue the visual artist and Mike the literary artist. Their first joint exhibition Bits and Pieces, represents not only their combination of pieces to exhibit together, but also bits, selected for or remaining from, a larger sustained focus on a particular idea.
Sue’s work includes paintings, drawings, ceramics and wall-mounted assembleges. Some of the work is whimsical and lighthearted, responding to nature and humor. Other works are personal and represent a sustained and on-going contemplation of a parent.
Mike’s writings are for the most part, a “bit” of something longer. He selected paragraphs/selections that he felt were interesting, either in the way they describe something, or because of what they portend. Mike has included a portion of his memoir which at about 60,000 words is now about half done.
The Morrisseys live in Valley City, North Dakota.
August 27 - October 17, 2009
Kay Ornberg & Mary Pfeifer
Two Artists, Two Women, Two Friends...A Lifetime of SeeingArt makes thoughts visible. Trainingthe “eye” to see is an arduous process. This process does not happen as a revelation. This exhibition represents a lifetime of seeing by Kay Ornberg and Mary Pfeifer as Artists, Wives, Mothers, and Friends. Exhibit includes printmaking, painting, photography and handmade clothing. Below Left to Right, Mary Pfeifer's, Poured Out Like Wine, acrylic, 2007, 5' x 3, and Kay Ornberg's digitally manipulated photo of Circus Performers Artist's statements can be found by clicking here - Artist Statements
July 16 - August 15, 2009 Cris Fulton - Prairie Pastels
Chris Fulton from Bowman North Dakota - her pastels capture the essence of the landscape.
June 4 – July 11, 2009 Ewa Tarsia: Absolute Dot
Ewa Tarsia is a Polish-born, Canadian artist. Whereas she works in diverse media including painting, sculpture, tapestry, landscape design, and drawing, she is known internationally as a printmaker. She has showed in international print biennials in Spain, France, Poland, Austria, United States, England, Germany, and Korea. The work in this exhibition represents the evolution of Tarsia’s printmaking into personal techniques that meld the actual plastic printing plate into the final work of art that present as relief paintings.
Exhibit originates with the North Dakota Museum of Art and is toured through the ND Art Gallery Associaiton with support from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
April 30 – May 30, 2009 45th Annual JFAA Spring Art Show
This is the largest Annual Show in many years, with 64 more pieces than last year. With the final count at 159 artworks and 71 artists! Artist hail from 25 different communities across 3 states, ND, MN, and MT.
March 19 – April 25, 2009
Ken Dalgarno: Sculpted Landscapes Link for Artist Website: http://www.dalgarnoart.com/
ARTIST STATEMENT (excerpt):
"My ancestors were among the first pioneers to homestead and farm in the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan district in the 1880’s. For the next century plus, they toiled the prairie land which became ingrained in their souls. Somehow, from a fl at and seemingly character less land a bond was formed and a heritage was created. Attesting to this, I can remember, how every day during harvest, my 90 year old grandfather would greet everyone at dawn, like a captain preparing his team. The conversation revolved around yield, grade, breakdowns or lack thereof, and of course, weather. We would leave him behind to go into the fields but at noon and at dinner he would invariably show up for his chance to lead the team and drive the combine.
My father and his brothers wouldn’t let him but when we stopped to eat he would sneak on board the big machine, start the engine
and take off into the fi eld. One way or another he was going to participate. Both of my grandfathers had an incredible passion and
work ethic for farming. Today, those types of stories are disappearing. That bond and heritage with the land is also slowly fading away
as farming becomes less a family operation and more a corporate endeavor. To honor and preserve this farming heritage and to re-capture that rugged hands-on bond with the land “Sculpted Landscapes” focuses on and chronicles the now decaying and vanishing farm buildings and grain elevators that once dotted the fl at Saskatchewan prairies. These monuments are like headstones standing - barely- not only as a fading symbol of the toil and bond pioneers once had with the land but also as a strong symbol of our own fleeting and fragile place in the world. I call these paintings landscapes within landscapes; a personal or spiritual landscape wrapped inside a physical landscape. Like the rugged land and our rugged pioneers, these canvas’ are painted impasto (that is with a very thick and rugged application of paint) thus creating a tactile texture of swirling furrows and ridges meant to symbolize the hardship, the turmoil and the perseverance of our prairie farmers. There is nothing featureless about the prairies."
This exhibit is touring through the North Dakota Art Gallery Association with support from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
February 19 - March 14, 2009 William Hessian: 100 Miniature Animals Happy North Dakotans Home School Student Art Exhibit Artist William Hessian has become known for creating artworks on a miniature scale. Over 100 of his miniatures have been hidden and collected in free public art hunts across the United States. This exhibition, 100 miniature animals, is the first time the miniatures are being displayed in a traditional gallery setting. William has chosen to explore 100 creatures from the animal kingdom on an amazingly small scale; one inch by one and a half inches small.
February 19 - March 14, 2009 Happy North Dakotans Home School Student Art Exhibit
January 21– February 14, 2009
ARTS DAKOTA
Over 60 artists responded to the call to participate in a statewide exhibition celebrating the arts in North Dakota. Hailing from all corners of the state, visual artists, writers, musicians and videographers submitted work to be included in the exhibition ARTS DAKOTA.
(image left, Tama Smith, Beach, ND)
December 18 – January 3, 2009 Elizabeth Austin Austin’s signature technique of painting on the reverse of transparent acrylic sheets with acrylic paints and added metallic powders and holographic foils lends itself to the identical use you would find for stained glass. Austin’s miniature Cassetina will also be on display. Using the same materialsand techniques, but encased in exquisite, small wooden boxes, the Cassetinas are intended to be hand-held, intimate experiences. November 12 – December 13, 2008
Jari Chevalier: Mathematics of Ecstasy A collection of collages that invites its viewers on a mind-opening journey of inquiry. The exquisite inlaid collages in this exhibition includes metaphysical symbols: mandalas, cosmic eggs, or concentric circles. Chevalier continuously invites her viewers to consider the mystical dimension of the living world vis a vis the revelations of 20th and 21st century scientific and technological endeavors. Go to jariart.com October 9 – November 8, 2008 Shelterbelts Shelterbelts, an exhibit from the North Dakota Museum of Art, is about a changing way of life in North Dakota. Trees become a metaphor for addressing this subject. The exhibit allows us to make connections between the removal of the trees and the loss of a way of life reflected, in part, by changes in traditional farming techniques. In addition, it opens ways to discuss the effects that the removal of shelterbelts has on the ecology of our region. All the photographs in the exhibit were taken by artist Jon Solinger. September 3 – October 4, 2008 Anne Greenwood: Winter Count, A 40-Year Calender of Events Anne Greenwood, Portland, Oregon artist will be sharing her installation, Winter Count: A 40-Year Calendar of Events: An Exhibition of Hand-Stitched Embroidery and Artist’s Portfolio of Prints. Winter Counts were calendars used by the Plains Indians to record time pictographically. Greenwood used this Plains Indian tradition to record her own personal history using hand-stitched embroidery. She then reproduced these textiles in a handmade artist’s portfolio of prints.
July 24 – August 30, 2008 Sister Rosalia's Lace A touring exhibition produced by the North Dakota Council on the Arts. The exhibit features traditional bobbin lace made by the late Sister Rosalia of the Franciscan order. She learned lace making as a youth in Bavaria, Germany at the Royal Bobbin Lace School. June 25 – July 19, 2008 - James Kirkpatrick An exhibition of Jamestown’s premier western genre artist. Exhibit will celebrate the artist’s accomplishments and facilitate collectors and sellers interested in the artist’s work. For more information about Kirkpatrick download this .pdf file.
May 22 – June 19, 2008 44th Annual Jamestown Fine Arts Association Show Annual JFFA exhibit, juried for prizes. Click here for pdf. file of entry forms.
AND THE WINNERS ARE... Best of Show–Brian Paulsen, Lake Memories Youth–Hannah Nyland, Shadowed Hall Mixed Media–Jennifer Cabezas, BeComing Undone Watermedia Painting–Brad Hohnadel, Δ Photography–Daron W. Krueger, I-94 Tree Printmaking–Linda Whitney, Where’s Sally Sculpture/Ceramics/3-D–Sue Morrissey, Homage to a Shoe Painting–Barbara Nechiporenko, Kootenai River Drawing/Pastel–Bill Nybo, Playroom Friends Honorable Mention–Clint Saunders, Playing For Keeps
CLICK HERE FOR THE EXHIBITION PROGRAM May 6 – May 11, 2008 Happy North Dakotans – Home School Kids Artwork
A short display of local home school children’s art. For more information on the Jamestown Area Homeschool Association go to their web site http://www.geocities.com/jamestownareahsa/
April 3- May 3, 2008 Cartoodles: Drawings by Bill Nybo Jamestown artist, Bill Nybo, shares his recent drawings. His unique and colorful style captures the imagination and creates a playful conversation with the viewer.
Anne Greenw