Event Link: https://www.kulcher.org/art-in-your-park-summer-2025/

FEE: FREE for kids K-6th grades - donations always appreciated.

Art in Your Park Summer 2025

Art for kids in the great outdoors
Join us in your parks this summer!
Dates & locations vary, see below

The Cultural Center’s ‘Art in Your Park’ program returns to YOUR parks in New York Mills, Henning, Perham, and Wadena this summer! Join us in the great outdoors for a variety of fun art projects for kids.

Art in Your Park is designed for children in grades K-6.  Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult or guardian.  There is no cost to participate and all are welcome!

This program is free to attend & open to all; donations are gratefully accepted to help us continue to offer these community programs to all.

Please check our website and/or follow us on Facebook for the most updated schedule and any weather-related announcements.  Call the Cultural Center at (218) 385-3339 for more information or email Cheryl Bannes, cheryl@kulcher.orgor Lindsay Kennedy, lindsay@kulcher.org, if you have questions or would like to donate or volunteer to assist with this program.

Art in Your Park 2025:

This summer, workshops will focus on art basics. Art in Your Park will take place on the dates & times noted below:

• Wednesday, May 21, 4-6pm: NYM Sculpture Park during Celebrating Cultures(4-7pm)

• Friday, May 28, 12-2pm: NYM Lund Park – CANCELED

• Friday, June 6, 1-3pm: Wadena Library

• Tuesday, June 17, 1-3pm: Henning Landmark Center

• Wednesday, June 18, 12-2pm: NYM Lund Park

• Friday, June 20, 1-3pm: Perham Library Tent at Turtle Fest on Main Street, Perham

• Wednesday, June 25, 12-2pm: NYM Smith Park

• Tuesday, July 1, 1-3pm: Wadena BN Park (Library back-up)

• Wednesday, July 2, 12-2pm: NYM Lund Park

• Tuesday, July 8, 1-3pm: Perham Library

• Friday, July 11, 12-2pm: NYM Fish House Festival @ Cultural Center

• Wednesday, July 16, 12-2pm: NYM Southside Park/Hidden Trails

• Thursday, July 17, 1-3pm: Henning Landmark Center

• Wednesday, July 23, 12-2pm: NYM Central Park

• Wednesday, August 6, 12-2pm: NYM Cultural Center

Children interested in participating are welcome to simply stop by and join in the fun!  If you would like to receive Art in Your Park updates via email, please contact info@kulcher.org and we will add you to our participant list.

Art in Your Park (AIYP) is free for kids, but not without cost. These art activities are available thanks to the generous support of our donors, members, and grant-making organizations. This year, a grant from Lake Region Arts Council is helping to support Art in Your Park, and other summer programs. Thanks, LRAC! Donations are always needed to keep Art in Your Park free and available to all. Thank you! Please join us in YOUR parks this summer!

Event Link: https://www.artofthelakes.org/youth-classes.html

FEE: 6 classes for $50.
​July 8 : Explore the magic of words
July 21: Use q-tips and paint to create a painting just like George Seurat
July 22: Draw and paint a sea turtle with oil pastels and watercolor
July 28: Put on your party hat and learn how to make fancy sandwiches and fruit cups. Fun for both boys and girls
​July 29: Expand your drawing skills into the world of 3D
July 30: Learn about the history and culture of the piñata and make one to take home!

Event Link: https://www.hcscconline.org/njals-saga-tapestry.html

FEE: Regular admission applies, Free Tuesday Evening from 5 to 8pm

The HCSCC is excited to display a small section of the Njal's Saga Tapestry from Iceland. The exhibition of this remarkable work of the hands will be in the Viking ship gallery of the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead, MN, Aug. 6-13, 2025. Njal’s Saga is the most popular and famous of the Viking-era Icelandic sagas and a source of enormous cultural pride in Iceland and among Icelandic Americans.

Inspired by the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry in France, a small community in southern Iceland set out to create its own hand-embroidered illustration of its most famous tale. Begun on Feb. 2, 2013, and completed on Sept. 15, 2020, the 50-centimetre-wide tapestry was hand-embroidered on 100% linen with Icelandic wool yarn used for the stitching. The yarn was dyed with Icelandic herbs by ancient Viking methods. The two stitches used are based on those in the Bayeux Tapestry which are now thought to have originated in Iceland. Due to unprecedented interest and many volunteer embroiderers stopping in to work on it, the tapestry was completed more quickly than originally planned.​

Alongside this display will be a series of events hosted by  Claudia Pétursson , an Icelandic-American with a strong passion for the project. Events include:

 A Presentation on the Project by Claudia Pétursson - August 7 at 6pm in the Oak Room of the Hjemkomst Center, Free

A Workshop on the Stitches used in the Tapestry directed by Claudia Pétursson - August 9 & 10 from 1 to 3pm in the Oak Room of the Hjemkomst Center, Free
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A Book Club Discussion of Njal's Saga led by Claudia Pétursson - August 12 at 6pm in the Oak Room of the Hjemkomst Center, Free

Copies of Njal's Saga and embroidery kits will be available for purchase at the Heritage Gift Shop in the Hjemkomst Center. 

 This 5-metre exhibit will also be shared at the following places and dates:
                                    Jul. 31 – Aug 3     Mountain, ND                               The Deuce-ICA of ND
                                    Aug. 4-5              Gimli, Manitoba                             Icelandic Festival of Manitoba
                                    Aug. 14-21           Nome, ND                                      Nome Schoolhouse
                                    Aug. 22-29         Minneapolis, MN                           Norway House              


This event is funded in part by a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council through a Minnesota State Legislative appropriation; The Arts Partnership with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo; the Alex Stern Family Foundation, the Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation, the F-M Icelandic Klub, and Maureen Kelly Jonason.