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May
8
to Sep 12

Photo Contest: "Friends of the Prairie Wetlands 2025 Photo Contest" @ Prairie Wetlands

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Event Link: https://www.prairiewetlands.org

FEE: NO FEE

The Friends of the Prairie Wetlands Learning Center are excited to again sponsor a prairie-themed photography contest! Thank you to all who participated in the previous years.

Nature photography is one of the many enriching activities available on our public lands. Photography is inexpensive, fun, and easy to do. In celebration of the plentiful opportunities to find and capture the beauty of the prairie, the contest is open to all amateur photographers.

Photos will be grouped into one of four categories: Prairie Wildlife, Prairie Plant Life, Prairie Scenic Views and Recreation, and Prairie Pollinators and Other Invertebrates. Individual photographers will be able to submit up to 5 prairie-themed photos taken on public lands in 2024/2025. The contest will accept submissions from September 14, 2024 through September 12, 2025. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a large metal print of their photo after it is displayed at the PWLC for one year! Other prizes will be available too, including gift certificates, award certificates, and more.

Please stay tuned for more announcements and visit our Facebook page for more information. We are anxious to see all the beautiful photographs captured on our region’s prairies!
Please visit our webpage for our entry form and contest rules, https://www.prairiewetlands.org/  Questions may be called in to our Friends phone line at (218) 998-4488 or email

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Jun
4
to Jul 18

CALL FOR ART: "Rural Art Juried Exhibition" @ The Red Door Art Gallery

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Event Link: https://www.reddoorgallerywahpeton.com/call-for-worksartists.html

Entry Fee: To be paid on or before July 26, 2025
MEMBERS: $10 per piece OR $25 for three pieces. NONMEMBERS: $15 per piece OR $40 for three pieces.

Deadline for Submissions: Please email the gallery with an intention to submit your work, following the guidelines indicated, by July 18, 2025.

Deadline for Arrival of Art: July 26, 2025
This will be a juried show with prizes awarded.

Sponsored by Red River Communications

Best of Show - $300

1st Place Photography - $250 2nd Place Photography- $150

1st Place Fine Arts - $250 2nd Place Fine Arts - $150

Merit Award
Viewer’s Choice- $100

Artists may submit up to three items.

Entry Fee: To be paid on or before July 26, 2025
MEMBERS: $10 per piece OR $25 for three pieces. NONMEMBERS: $15 per piece OR $40 for three pieces.

All work must be priced and available for sale following the guidelines specified.

Eligible:

Any type of painting, photograph, mixed media, sculptural work, wood carving, pottery, or fiber art, either done by the artist or from a personal collection reflecting a rural or agricultural setting. This is including, but not limited to: farms, barns, tractors, grain handling facilities, rural landscapes, domesticated animals, persons engaged in an agricultural or rural pursuit or cultivated crops.

Excluded:

Cityscapes or city skylines
Any other works deemed not acceptable by the jury committee under the guidelines provided. Any work of art that received a prize in last year’s competition is not eligible for submission.

*All works need to be original works by the submitting artist; no commercially produced pieces.

*All works of art intended to be hung need to be ready for hanging according to the guidelines specified.

*All works need to be delivered to the Gallery no later than Friday, July 26, 2025 to be considered for prize competition.

*No artist may win more than one award, with the exception of Viewer’s Choice. E.g., an artist may win First Place and Viewer’s Choice, but may not win First Place and Second Place.

*All works must stay in the gallery for the entire duration of the exhibit, unless the artwork is sold.

*All works must be picked up from the gallery within 90 days of the end of the exhibit, unless other arrangements are made with gallery. A reminder email will be sent out at the end of the exhibit.

*In the event that a work sells, the customer may be asked if they are willing to let the work stay in the Gallery for the duration of the exhibit. If the customer is unable to allow the work to remain in the Gallery, the work will be sold and allowed to leave.

*Each category of art media must have a minimum of six works submitted in order to be eligible as a prize category.

Rural Art Artists Reception and Awards Ceremony, August 21, 2025, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Contact the Gallery at (701) 591-1010 or director@reddoorgallerywahpeton.com for more

information.

To Submit:

Please send images and descriptions of work to: director@reddoorgallerywahpeton.com

Images submitted to Red Door Art Gallery may be considered to be used in promotion of the exhibit.

Artists are responsible for the delivery and/or shipping costs to and from the Red Door. If work is shipped, a reusable container must be used. RDAG is not responsible for damage during the shipment for any reason. Return shipment will be sent C.O.D. to the artist. No post office boxes will be accepted for return shipments.

For more information contact (701) 591-1010 or email at director@reddoorgallerywahpeton.com

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Jun
21
to Aug 30

ART EVENT: "Prairie Lakes Plein Air" In Battle Lake with Art of the Lakes and CAC

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Event Link: https://www.artofthelakes.org/prairie-lakes-plein-air-2025.html

FEE: Go to link for various fees

The Prairie Lakes Plein Air art series is a festival of art education, exhibition, and competition open to professional and non-professional artists of all skill levels. Enjoy your summer painting in the idyllic setting of Otter Tail County, situated in West-Central Minnesota lakes country. Delve into the pristine landscape of gently rolling hills and fertile farmland amongst clear blue lakes and streams for an inspirational painting experience. Attend Plein Air demos & workshops (artists to be announced soon). 

Artists and collectors will enjoy many activities including the Opening Reception, Plein Air Competition, Workshops & Demonstrations, and Quick Paint competition. The concluding Collectors' Preview and Award Ceremony will showcase a variety of Plein Air motifs and styles of artwork.

Schedule of Events
Opening Day for Artists June 21, 2025 10 am - 12 pm
Artists meet at the Creative Arts Center, 112 Main St W, Battle Lake, MN​

  • Pick up your welcome packets. 

  • Mark Windahl will present on plein air concepts and history. 

  • Shanna Cramer will cover some of what to expect with PLPA 25.

  • Bring your questions! 

We'll paint out following the presentations. Bring your supplies and paint along! 

Plein Air Competition June 21- August 28, 2025
Throughout the summer, artists will be painting Plein Air in and around our Battle Lake community and Otter Tail County. Visitors will have the opportunity to observe as the artists seek to represent the shifting light, extraordinary colors and textures of our varied rural landscape. We ask that participants and observers do not block entrances/traffic ways to businesses. Free to the public; artists must register.

ARTIST REGISTRATION

Demonstrations/Workshops
To explore a variety of en Plein Air styles and techniques, artists and community members will have the opportunity to attend a range of art classes and artist talks with our featured artists.

CLASSES

Classes and Workshops will be announced soon


​Weekend Festivities August 29 & 30, 2025
Our Prairie Lakes Plein Air art series will be capped off with a full weekend of enjoyable events all happening in or near Battle Lake.

Collector's Preview Reception and Award Ceremony 
Friday evening, 6-8 pm, August 29, 2025 TICKETED
The Collector's Preview and Award Ceremony will be an art-lovers' social event and a rare opportunity to view artworks from prominent plein air painters from around the Midwest. This exhibition of works by the competition participants will be held in the Art of the Lakes Gallery in Battle Lake. Grand Prize winners will be announced in a special award ceremony by oil and pastel painter and this year's judge, Cheryl LeClair-Sommer. Come and be inspired! 
Tickets purchased in advance: $8 AOTL members, $10 non-members 
Tickets purchased at the door: $20

TICKETS

Tickets will be available soon


Quick Paint Saturday, 9:30 - 11:30 am, August 30, 2025
Participating artists will be found painting throughout Battle Lake within earshot of the CAC. Vote for your favorite from 12pm to 2:45 pm. People's Choice and Artists' Choice awards are announced at 3 pm. 

Plein Air Demonstration with Cheryl LeClair-Sommer
Saturday, 1 - 3 pm, August 30, 2025
To inspire those who want to know more about Plein Air painting, join judge Cheryl LeClair-Sommer in or near the CAC as she provides a demonstration and shares tips and answers your questions. 

Quick Paint Awards Saturday, 3 pm, August 30, 2025
Our Prairie Lakes en Plein Air festival concludes at the CAC where Quick Paint Awards will be presented and competition paintings will be on display. 

Competition Exhibition August 30 - September 27, 2025
The Art of the Lakes Gallery will be open for the general public to view paintings from this event and make purchases.

Competition Judge
Cheryl LeClair-Sommer

Competition Class
$1000 - Best in Show
$500 - 2nd Place Award
$250 - 3rd Place Award
$150 - People's Choice Award
$50 - 3 Honorable Mentions

Quick Paint (Must be painted at the August 30 event)
$75 - People's Choice
$75 - Artists' Choice

Open Class
Recognition Award and Judge's Feedback

About Our Judge
Cheryl LeClair-Sommer is a Minnesota based representational painter working mainly in oils, featuring works that highlight the natural world. Her main focus, painting landscapes directly outside, originates from her spiritual connection to the land and reverence for nature's raw beauty. Studio paintings feature the natural world as observed through the human imprint. 

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