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Nov
5
to May 6

ARTIST PRESENTATION SERIES: "Made Here: Showcasing Regional Makers and their Stories in Fergus Falls" @ Springboard for the Arts, Fergus Falls

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EVENT LINK: https://springboardforthearts.org/event/made-here-showcasing-regional-makers-and-their-stories-in-fergus-falls/

FEE: Free & open to the public

Made Here: Showcasing Regional Makers and their Stories in Fergus Falls

Come connect with the makers shaping our creative region. Each quarter, Springboard for the Arts spotlights a local creative business in downtown Fergus Falls. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes view of their work, hear their stories, and learn about your creative neighbors! November’s gathering will showcase local artist Sam Oberto, maker of Free Soul Candle Co.!

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Dec
5
to Jan 26

EXHIBITION: "Jonathan Rutter: Fragile Things" @ The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum, Moorhead

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EVENT LINK: https://www.therourke.org/jonathan-rutter-fragile-things.html

FEE: Free

Jonathan Rutter: Fragile Things

On view in the East Gallery from 5 December 2025 - 26 January 2026

Member Preview
          6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday 5 December 2025
Public Opening
          1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday 7 December 2025
               Artist Talk at 2 p.m. 

Jonathan Rutter is a painter, tinkerer, collector, arts administrator, designer, and curator living and maintaining a home studio in Moorhead, MN. He received his BA degree in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting from Minnesota State University Moorhead and his MFA degree in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Artist Statement
            If I had the words to say it, I wouldn’t need to paint it . . . but I’ll try. In my practice, I spend a lot of time with my subjects and canvases—giving over my full, undivided attention. Allowing myself to become completely absorbed in the things I’m looking at is reflective, meditative, and pleasantly analytical, and helps me to appreciate just how wonderful and strange observable reality—and perception itself—truly is. Attending to the subtle color variations and scars on the skin of a pear, the impossibly fine tendrils of a plant, the light casting across a human figure or the tines of a fork, the exquisite sutures zigging across a monkey’s skull . . . all of these details and more speak to the unlikely journey of these subjects and how precious they are in their impermanence. Existence is weird, lovely, and fragile: look closer and take it in!

          --Jonathan Rutter, 2025

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Jan
22
6:30 PM18:30

ARTIST TALK: "Guerrilla Girls" @ Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

EVENT LINK: https://givebutter.com/guerrilla-girls

FEE: General Admission Ticket- $50.00 / VIP Meet and Greet Ticket- $100.00

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Artist Talk: Guerrilla Girls

January 22, 2026 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (Doors open at 6PM; VIP meet + greet @ 5PM)

In celebration of the exhibition Women Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity at Plains Art Museum, the Guerrilla Girls will visit North Dakota for the first time.

The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous feminist artists and activists who expose gender and racial inequalities in the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 in response to an international exhibition of art at the Museum of Modern Art that included less than 8% women artists.

At Plains Art Museum in Fargo, only 10.5% of the permanent collection’s 6,000 objects were made by women artists. 

What can be done to achieve equality in the arts? When the Guerrilla Girls protests were ignored, they turned to ‘guerrilla’ art tactics, like wheat-pasting posters across Manhattan. This included their famous piece “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” that read “Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.” 

Join us at Plains Art Museum to hear directly from the Guerrilla Girls.

Members receive a 15% discount on tickets! Become a member HERE to receive the promo code to use at checkout. Already a member? Contact development@plainsart.org for your code.

On January 22, 2026, at 6:30 pm, the Guerrilla Girls will deliver their classic presentation with a Fargo twist. (And yes, they will remain anonymous throughout their presentation.) VIP ticket holders will have priority seating as well as an opportunity to meet the Guerrilla Girls before their gig. 

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