Vasari Art Codex

museum exhibitions schedule Nov 4, 2025 visibility 1 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

Plains Art Museum exhibit celebrates women artists

Plains Art Museum in Fargo has opened "Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity," a major exhibition running through March 1, 2026, in the Jane L. Stern Gallery. The show features 40 works from the museum's permanent collection alongside 37 works on loan from the Reading Public Museum, spanning etchings, engravings, lithographs, drawings, watercolors, woodblock prints, and photographs by canonical women artists. Highlights include a 1650 piece by Elisabetta Sirani, one of the earliest renowned female Renaissance artists. Students from Minnesota State University Moorhead's Women and Art course contributed original research and curatorial support.

newspaper InForum open_in_new Read original

article local schedule Dec 30, 2025 visibility 5 link 4 artists

Local arts council executive director Tania Blanich reflects on 2025

Tania Blanich, executive director of The Arts Partnership in Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo, reflects on her favorite arts experiences from 2025. Highlights include a jazz concert by The Kicks Band featuring Ted Nash's "Portrait in Seven Shades," the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra's "Music from Within" concert, the Plains Art Museum's exhibition "Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity," local downtown art galleries, youth theater groups Trollwood and Gooseberry, the F-M Visual Artists annual Studio Crawl, and Theatre B's "Fridays in September" series.

newspaper InForum open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule Oct 27, 2025 visibility 3 link 1 artist

Plains Art Exhibition Highlights Women Artists, Addresses Imbalance

Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, is launching a major exhibition titled “Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity,” running from November 1, 2025, to March 1, 2026. The show features 77 works, including 40 from the museum's own collection—20 of which are being displayed for the first time—and 37 loans from the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania. The exhibition was prompted by an internal assessment revealing that only 10.5% of the museum's 6,000-object permanent collection is by women artists. It will also host the first North Dakota appearance by the Guerrilla Girls, who will give a presentation and lead workshops. Student-authored texts from Minnesota State University Moorhead complement the show.

newspaper Fargo Underground open_in_new Read original

article local schedule Jan 12, 2026 visibility 5 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Two winter art exhibits opening soon on Fergus Falls campus

M State Fergus Falls will host two winter art exhibits featuring three regional artists. Emily Williams-Wheeler's painting collection “The Process of Satiation” runs from January 14 to March 20 in the Charles Beck Gallery, while sisters Cathrin and Laura Von Bank present “The Eclectic Collection” of linocut prints, portraiture, fiber art, and mixed media in the Waage Gallery from January 21 to May 16. A joint reception with all three artists is scheduled for February 12.

newspaper M State open_in_new Read original

article news schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 2 link 5 artists

protestors visit the whitney after cancelation of pro palestine performance 1234743542

On Friday, May 23, arts and culture workers protested at the Whitney Museum in New York following the museum's cancellation of a pro-Palestine performance titled "No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance" by artists Fadl Fakhouri, Noel Maghathe, and Fargo Tbakhi. The protest, organized by Writers Against the War on Gaza, took place during the museum's Free Friday Night event, with demonstrators unfurling a Palestinian flag and a banner reading "Creativity Does Not Have to Rely on Death," distributing brochures demanding the removal of board members with ties to Israel, and calling out museum leadership for censorship. The performance, originally scheduled for May 14 as part of the Whitney's Independent Study Program, was canceled after museum leadership viewed a recording of its initial presentation at the Poetry Project, citing concerns that it "valorized specific acts of violence" and singled out community members based on belief systems.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

article news schedule Jul 21, 2025 visibility 3 link 13 artists, 1 gallery

whitney museum new york isp open letter artists 1234747904

More than 100 artists and scholars, including Emily Jacir, Hans Haacke, and Michael Rakowitz, have signed an open letter defending Dr. Sara Nadal-Melsió, the former associate director of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program (ISP), whose position was eliminated in June 2025. The termination followed the cancellation of a pro-Palestine performance titled "No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance" by artists Fadl Fakhouri, Noel Maghathe, and Fargo Tbakhi, scheduled for May 12, 2025. The museum canceled the event after viewing a recording where a performer asked attendees who "believe in Israel in any incarnation" to leave. Nadal-Melsió had published a protest letter against the cancellation, leading to her dismissal. The open letter also demands the reopening of the ISP, which was suspended for the 2025-2026 program.

newspaper ARTnews open_in_new Read original

museum exhibitions schedule Jul 11, 2025 link 5 artists, 3 galleries

New exhibition opens at Art Project 605 in Detroit Lakes

A new exhibition titled "Shared Visions" has opened at Art Project 605 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, running from July 10 to August 1, 2025. The show features the work of three area artists: Kent Estey of Naytahwaush, Jennie Ward of Lake Park, and Jennifer Paulsrud of Fargo, all of whom have previously exhibited at the gallery. The exhibition highlights the artists' use of color, abstraction, and paint application, with works ranging from delicate to bold, expressing themes of heritage, beauty, and relationships.

newspaper Detroit Lakes Tribune open_in_new Read original

article local schedule Jun 23, 2025 link 2 artists

Sanford doctor's travel photography displayed in airport art exhibition

Dr. David Clardy, a cardiologist at Sanford Health in Fargo, has his travel photography displayed above the baggage claim area at Hector International Airport. The exhibition, installed on June 17, 2025, pairs landscape and portrait images from his travels to Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Peru. Clardy, who began taking photography seriously in 1999 and resumed in 2016 after a break, participated in workshops with National Geographic photographers and now shares his work through the airport's ArtWORKS program, which places local art in public spaces.

newspaper InForum open_in_new Read original