FEE: $12 Adults | $11 Seniors | $10 College Students | $8 Youth 5-17 & Children under 5 are Free.
HCSCC members get in free | Admission is also free every Tuesday night 5-8pm.

Rocks and Hard Places:
Emigration through the Lens of Knud Knudsen

June 12 - September 27, 2026
Hjemkomst Center

The exhibit provides viewers with 30 stunning framed black and white photographs taken between 1870 and 1900 that capture the toil and challenging topography that drove so many people to emigrate, many to Minnesota. In addition to Knudsen’s photographs, exhibit panels explore and contextualize the political, economic, and family pressures that led to above-average emigration from the region.

These immigrant stories from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries give us a more nuanced understanding of our immigrant neighbors today and the pressures that lead them to leave their homelands.

This traveling exhibit is organized by Vesterheim, the national Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, with support from Lars and Martha Alsaker on behalf of Dan Alsaker and his sister Pam (Alsaker) Hemingway; Alsaker Corporation, and the Hanson Family Foundation.

This exhibit is supported in part by The Arts Partnership with support from the Cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo; the Alex Stern Family Foundation, and the Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation.

FEE: Free

Threads of Offering | Thương Hoài Trần

June 27, 2026 – January 24, 2027 | The Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium & Xcel Energy Gallery at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

Threads of Offering presents the work of interdisciplinary Vietnamese American artist Thương Hoài Trần, whose creative practice explores identity, family history, displacement, memory, and diasporic connection through processes of weaving and unweaving.

Bringing together two major bodies of work — Ông Bà and Made in Vietnam — the exhibition examines the emotional and cultural complexities of immigration, generational disconnect, and labor. In Ông Bà, Vietnamese for “grandparents,” Hoài Trần creates monumental woven portraits honoring their family members. Each strand of yarn is hand dyed before being woven into large-scale portraits and partially unraveled, symbolizing fragmented memories, unspoken histories, and complicated familial relationships. Standing between seven and eight feet tall, the works evoke the presence of ancestors towering over viewers in the Ruth and Seymour Landfield Atrium.

Displayed in the Xcel Energy Gallery, Made in Vietnam features garments labeled “Made in Vietnam” that the artist collected, altered, and investigated through various material interventions. One featured work documents Hoài Trần painstakingly disassembling garments thread by thread over more than 24 hours, condensed into a one-minute video critiquing the hidden labor and exploitation embedded within fast fashion production. The work also functions as a self-portrait reflecting on diasporic identity and cultural inheritance.

Born in Tây Ninh, Vietnam and raised in Emporia, Kansas, Thương Hoài Trần holds degrees from Emporia State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, The Center for Craft, and the Studios at MASS MoCA.

Gallery admission is free every day of the week.

Generous support is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program; the North Dakota Council on the Arts; the Arts Partnership; the McKnight Foundation; The FUNd at Plains Art Museum; Giving Hearts Day donors; Spring Gala sponsors; and Plains Art Museum members.

FEE: Museum Admission

Americana: Objects that Reflect Us

July 4, 2026–January 3, 2027

Explore 250 years of American history through the stories told by everyday objects in Americana: Objects that Reflect Us. This exhibition examines how Americans have understood their nation, communities, and identities through themes of democracy, conflict, opportunity, belonging, and culture.

Featuring artifacts that reflect the evolving American experience, the exhibition invites visitors to consider how ordinary people have helped shape the nation's history and culture over the past two and a half centuries.

This exhibition was made possible through a donation from Stenerson Lumber of Moorhead and the generous support of museum members.

Location:
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Hjemkomst Center
202 1st Avenue North
Moorhead, MN 56560

FEE: Free

Clear as Mud | Annie Lee-Zimerle and Brian Zimerle

August 1 – November 29, 2026 | Starion Bank Gallery at Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

Clear as Mud brings together the work of Annie Lee-Zimerle and Brian Zimerle, two artists whose practices explore memory, materiality, and the quiet complexities of everyday life while reconsidering the promises and contradictions of the American Dream.

Drawing from backgrounds in printmaking, book arts, painting, drawing, and ceramics, the artists create works that reflect on domesticity, cultural mundanity, memory, and transformation. Annie Lee-Zimerle’s narrative-driven pieces examine her experiences growing up between South Korea and the American Midwest, while Brian Zimerle’s sculptural ceramics investigate the fragility of meaning through replicated objects shaped by history and material change. Together, their work invites viewers to consider what is preserved, altered, or lost over time, offering a layered meditation on belonging, cultural inheritance, and collective identity.

Annie Lee-Zimerle received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in numerous public and private collections. Brian Zimerle holds an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has exhibited nationally while collaborating with archaeologists and institutions on historically informed ceramic recreations.

Gallery admission is free every day of the week.

Generous support is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program; the North Dakota Council on the Arts; the Arts Partnership; the McKnight Foundation; The FUNd at Plains Art Museum; Giving Hearts Day donors; Spring Gala sponsors; and Plains Art Museum members.

FEE: Free

Jenny Junker: Somewhere Between Then and Whatever

Exhibition Dates: August 14–September 27, 2026

The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum presents Somewhere Between Then and Whatever, a solo exhibition by Fargo–Moorhead printmaker Jenny Junker in the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum and Gustavian Galleries.

Originally from Mandan, North Dakota, Junker creates hand-pulled screen prints under the name Yellow Chair Press. Each layer of her prints is hand-drawn and printed in small editions, drawing inspiration from everyday observations, memories, humor, and nostalgia.

In Somewhere Between Then and Whatever, Junker explores the space between memory and imagination through whimsical, thought-provoking imagery. The exhibition invites viewers to bring their own experiences and interpretations to the work while celebrating the joy of creativity, play, and making art for its own sake.

Public Opening Reception:
Sunday, August 16, 2026 | 1:30–3:30 PM
Artist Gallery Talk: 2:00 PM

Location:
The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum
521 Main Avenue
Moorhead, MN

FEE: $10 | youth ages 16 and under are free

Metro Quilt Expo

September 25–26, 2026
Veterans Memorial Arena | West Fargo, ND

The Fargo Moorhead Quilters invite quilt lovers and admirers to the biennial Metro Quilt Expo! Spend the weekend surrounded by quilts, see award-winning work, vote for your favorites, enjoy demonstrations, shop a variety of quilting vendors, and explore special exhibits, raffles, and a silent auction.

Friday, September 25: 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
Saturday, September 26: 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Admission: $10; youth ages 16 and under are free
Location: Veterans Memorial Arena, 1201 7th Ave E, West Fargo, ND
Phone: (701) 429-4716

FEE: See ticketing information

Frankenstein by Nick Dear

October 9–November 1, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM | Sundays at 2:00 PM

Directed by Matthew Dryburgh, Nick Dear’s Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s iconic story to the stage from the perspective of the Creature.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile world by his horror-struck maker. Met with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature sets out to find his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

Performance Schedule:
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
October 9–November 1, 2026

Location:
Theatre B
215 10th St N,
Moorhead, MN 56560

ASL Performance & Sunday Salon: TBD

FEE: $12 Adults | $11 Seniors | $10 College Students | $8 Youth 5-17 & Children under 5 are Free.
HCSCC members get in free | Admission is also free every Tuesday night 5-8pm.

Bearing Witness Art Quilt Exhibit

October 10 - December 27, 2026
Hjemkomst Center

Opening Oct. 10, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County will display 40 art quilts called Bearing Witness, produced by Studio Art Quilts Association. The theme of the exhibit is “deliberate attempts to eradicate specific populations due to differences of culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, and race. Often motivated by those in power, collective trauma and tragedy are part of our past and present.

This exhibition will educate viewers about the perils of antisemitism, racism, homophobia, sexism, and inequity. Our challenge is to remember and learn from the history of The Holocaust and other global genocides and to amplify our shared humanity. Preserving our humanity is at the center of all diversity, equity, and inclusion work, invoking the core of our experiences” (SAQA website).

The exhibit will show at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead Oct. 10 through Dec. 27, 2026. This exhibit will no doubt startle viewers who may be expecting their grandmother’s traditional quilts. Images and artist statements share the artists’ reflection on global atrocities in an art form that expands the tradition of quilt making to include found objects, sculpture, photo transfer, embroidery, and beadwork.

This activity is funded in part by Joe and Muriel Richardson, the FM Quilters (thank you!), the voters of Minnesota through grants through MN State Arts Board and Lake Region Arts Council from a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, the FM Area Foundation, Alex Stern Family Foundation, and The Arts Partnership with support from the Cites of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo.

FEE: $20

The Open Road: Music for Choir and Guitar

Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM
Sunday, October 18, 2026 | 2:00–3:30 PM

Join the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists and classical guitarist Curtis Thompson for The Open Road: Music for Choir and Guitar, a fall program exploring America’s story through music shaped by war, migration, belonging, sacrifice, and hope.

The program features Jeffrey Van’s A Procession Winding Around Me, setting Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry for choir and guitar, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano, based on poetry by Federico García Lorca. Together, these works invite audiences to reflect on experiences of conflict, immigration, identity, and cultural memory.

The concerts will conclude with beloved American folk songs arranged by René Clausen, Stephen Paulus, and Shawn Kirchner.

This program is generously supported by a grant from the Lake Region Arts Council.

Performances:
Saturday, October 17 | 4:00–5:30 PM
Sunday, October 18 | 2:00–3:30 PM

Location:
Trinity Lutheran Church
213 8th St S
Moorhead, MN 56560

FEE: See ticketing information

I Never Asked for a GoFundMe by Jayne Deely

November 27–December 20, 2026
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM | Sundays at 2:00 PM

Directed by Charlie Williamson, I Never Asked for a GoFundMe is a sharp contemporary comedy about identity, assumptions, small-town gossip, and the unexpected consequences of good intentions.

Millie and her partner Avery have returned to Millie’s hometown of Mobile, Alabama, while Avery recovers from gender-affirming top surgery. Things quickly spiral out of control when a nosy evangelical family friend mistakes Avery’s surgery for a battle with breast cancer and starts a GoFundMe for the couple.

Suddenly flooded with donations they never asked for—and at the center of small-town gossip—Millie and Avery must decide what to do with the money and whether being unapologetically themselves comes with a price tag.

Performance Schedule:
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
November 27–December 20, 2026

Location:
Theatre B
215 10th St N,
Moorhead, MN 56560

ASL Performance & Sunday Salon: TBD

FEE: $20

When Angels Sing

Saturday, January 16, 2027 | 4:00–5:30 PM
Sunday, January 17, 2027 | 2:00–3:30 PM

Join the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists for When Angels Sing, a mid-winter concert exploring themes of angels, heaven, remembrance, and the enduring connections that bind us across generations.

Featuring music by John Tavener, William Byrd, Moses Hogan, William Dawson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and others, the program brings together a rich variety of musical traditions reflecting wonder, hope, and joy.

From luminous sacred masterpieces and thrilling spirituals to heartfelt songs of remembrance and celebration, When Angels Sing offers an inspiring program exploring the many ways music helps us connect with one another and the eternal.

Performances:
Saturday, January 16 | 4:00–5:30 PM
Sunday, January 17 | 2:00–3:30 PM

Location:
Trinity Lutheran Church
213 8th St S
Moorhead, MN 56560

FEE: See ticketing information

The Gravediggers Union by Brian James Polak

February 19–March 14, 2027
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM | Sundays at 2:00 PM

Directed by Scott Ecker, The Gravediggers Union is a play about found family, longing, and the desire to go somewhere you can never quite find.

At a cemetery in fictional Ashworth, New Hampshire, a group of coworkers dig holes, pass the time, and navigate a tangled web of relationships and ambitions. Some dream of being somewhere else, while others are perfectly happy being miserable right where they are.

When a corporate cemetery opens across the street and threatens their jobs, the group comes up with an unconventional plan: stage a production of Three Sisters to raise enough money to buy the cemetery themselves. There’s just one problem—nobody goes to plays anymore.

Performance Schedule:
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
February 19–March 14, 2027

Location:
Theatre B
215 10th St N,
Moorhead, MN 56560

ASL Performance & Sunday Salon: TBD

FEE: See ticketing information

Pivot by Alex Lubischer

April 30–May 23, 2027
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM | Sundays at 2:00 PM

Directed by Pam Strait, Pivot is a play about tradition, change, family expectations, and fighting for the future you thought was already mapped out.

Kara knows exactly what she wants: a giant wedding reception, a father-daughter dance to the Dixie Chicks, and a solid three-year crop rotation plan for the farm. But when her wedding plans blow up in her face, she’s prepared to upend the entire town of Milton, Nebraska, to fight for the future that should have been hers.

A story about what happens when carefully laid plans collide with change—and about the things you should never, ever say to your in-laws.

Performance Schedule:
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 PM
Sundays at 2:00 PM
April 30–May 23, 2027

Location:
Theatre B
215 10th St N,
Moorhead, MN 56560

ASL Performance & Sunday Salon: TBD