North Dakota Museum of Art

Elias Sime, Monkeys, Frogs and Television, 2006. Mud and straw, Dimensions variable.

Photo courtesy of the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Near Left: Amoussa KorikoFar Right: Elias Sime

March 2012

North Dakota Museum of Art261 Centennial Drive Stop 7305

Grand Forks, ND 58202Phone: (1) 701 777-4195

www.ndmoa.com ndmoa@ndmoa.com

“YOUNG DAKOTA ARTISTS” AT NDMOA MARCH 27–MAY 31, 2012Co-curators, Greg Blair, Director of the gallery at Northern StateUniversity, Aberdeen, SD, and Matthew Wallace, Director of NDMOA’sRural Arts Initiative, selected twenty-one North and South Dakota artistsunder forty “who are living and working in the States.” According to theCurators, “Young Dakota Artists” is an attempt to bring some of thesevoices together to provide a snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of thelandscape occupied by some of these young creative people."

WINGED SHADOWS: LIFE AMONG BIRDS TO TOUR WITH MUSEUM’SRURAL ARTS INITIATIVE

Begun in 2004, the Rural Arts Initiative is an educational outreachprogram to encourage and empower rural school children and theirfamilies, their teachers, and their communities to actively participate inlearning through the arts. The North Dakota Museum of Art toursexhibitions throughout North Dakota (funded by the State of NorthDakota) and Northwest Minnesota, installs them in community spaces,trains docents and attendants, provides online lesson plans that areintegrated into school curricula, and funds bussing for schools within afifty-mile radius of the host community.

Left center: Victoria Neel, LuzonBleeding-heart Pigeon in“Birds without Sky,” 2011. Gouache on paper, 8.5 x 13 inches. Courtesy of Jason McCoy Inc.

Left: Julian Schnable, Mujer Primaveral,1995. Hand-painted fifteen-colorscreenprint with poured resin, 40 x 30 inches. Edition of 80. Gift to the

Museum by an anonymous donor.

ETHIOPIAN ARTIST ELIAS SIME AT THE NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART

MARCH 27 – MAY 31, 2012 PUBLIC OPENING TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 6 – 8 PM

Sime will speak about his work Co-curators Meskerem Assegued and Peter Sellars will be present andwill participate in the informal gallery talk at the opening.

“Eye of the Needle: Eye of the Heart” is a large retrospective survey thatcovers twenty years of one of Ethiopia’s most original and prolific contemporary artists, Elias Sime. Included are over 100 works made fromsuch things as yarn stitches, tattered fabric, buttons, stuffed goat skins,discarded plastic shoes, animal horns, and bottle tops collected from thestreets and sprawling markets of Addis Ababa. Sime transforms them intocollages and stitched canvases, into floor and wall sculpture, and intoinstallations.

According to Peter Clothier of the Huffington Post, “Community is an essential part of his work: family and friends join with him in the creationof his art, and he spreads small wealth and creativity amongst the localchildren by rewarding them for bringing him the results of their scavenging. He is, in a real and pragmatic sense, a social activist.”

MAY 3, 5 PM — READING FROM NIGHT SHADOW, a 2009 play by AmoussaKoriko just published in France by Harmattan and presented inconjunction with Elias Sime’s exhibition.

The animated reading will feature a professional woman dancer, a drummer, and two actor-readers. According to this UND French language instructor from Togo in West Africa, “As a playwright and director, I wanted to explore through this reading Africa’s cultural heritageas a background for the unfolding of the story in a play that deals withthe complexity of war in Africa.” Koriko founded the Grand Forks AfricanArts Arena to share African arts and culture through presentations in schools and in the community.

Elias Sime, Portrait, 2007. Clothes and yarn on canvas, 29 x 20 inches. Photo Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Matt Anderson, Reclamation, 2008. Digital drawing, 34 x 90 inches. “Young Dakota Artists” exhibition.

NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART RECEIVES SIGNIFICANT PRINT COLLECTIONS FROM

WELLS FARGO AND AN ANONYMOUS DONOR

Among the artists included in the gift are Carroll Dunhan, HelenFrankenthaler, Katsura Funakoshi, Bill Jensen, Terrence La Noue, RobertMotherwell, Elizabeth Murray, John Newman, James Rosenquist, SusanRothenberg, Julian Schnabel, Steven Sorman, Donald Sultan and TerryWinters. The work will be unveiled in an exhibition June 7–July 31.

FAMILY DAYS AT THE MUSEUM are scheduled for the last Saturday of eachmonth from 10 am until noon. No charge.

MUSEUM RECEIVES COVETED ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG GRANT

$150,000 over three years to bring seven artists to collaborate on new workaddressing contemporary life on the Spirit Lake Reservation.

MUSEUM CONCERT SERIES brings Mohawk composer, classical cellist, vocalist and Grammy-nominated performer Dawn Avery to the Museumon March 25 at 2 pm and to Mayville State University the next evening.She will be joined by percussionist Thiraza Defoe from Wisconsin’s Ojibwaand Oneida tribes. Avery led the Smithsonian’s North American IndianCello Project from which she will play commissions by composers TimothyArchambault, Tio Bencenti, Brent Michael Davids, Louis Ballard, Ron Warren, Raven Chacon, as well as her own composition In Two Worlds(1722, ca. /2007) which intertwines with J. S. Bach.Non-members $15, members $13. Students and military, $5 at the door.Children 12 and under are free. Tickets supported by the Myra Foundation.

Victoria Neel, Untitled, 2011. Gouache on paper, 12 x 18 inches. “Winged Shadows” touring show.

Susan Rothenberg, Stumblebum, 1985-86.Twelve-color lithograph, edition 4 of 40, 86.5 x

42.5 inches. Published by ULAE. Anonymous gift.

Confirmed North Dakota Sites for “Winged Shadows” touring withMuseum’s Rural Arts Initiative include:

April 9–23, 2012, Ashley Public School, North Dakota.May 2012, Wahpeton Zoo & Red Door Gallery, North Dakota.October 4–6, 2012, Minot State University for the three-day NotStockCelebration and continuing through the following week, North Dakota.November 5–16, Audi Theater in Cando, North Dakota.

Touring exhibition “Contemporary Beading” will be available for twelvemonths beginning January 2013. Currently open for booking.

MUSEUM COLLABORATES WITH MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION

April 14–15, 2012, Big Ron Hunter, “the happiest Blues man around,”will perform on Saturday evening at 7 pm and at a Blues Brunch on Sunday from 11–1 pm. He follows Ironing Board Sam who was atNDMOA in February. Big Ron Hunter is a Southern Blues singer who accompanies himself on the acoustic and electric guitar. Saturday eveningconcert $10 for adults. Brunch, $25 for adults and $10 for students. Bothevents free for children 12 and under.

YOU CAN HELP!Museum Seeks funds to support a new program: Saturday Nights at theMuseum. Once a month the Museum will introduce artists, writers, musicians, and other key people in our cultural and intellectual life, toperform, talk, share drinks and munchies. Free, including babysitting onthe lower level.Join the committee for the Summer Concert Series.Donate jewelry to Antique to Chic.Join the Building Committee to plan for the Museum’s future.We lost our volunteer gardener. Looking for someone to donate a couplehours a week plus spring and fall cleaning.Join Strategic Planning for statewide Artist-in-Residence Program.

Danielle Masters (left) has joined Museum staff as Collections CareSpecialist to maintain and oversee the preservation and handling of thepermanent collection. Danni will focus on preventative care, whichinvolves maintaining a secure environment, routine inspections of theartwork, safe handling, and rigorous documentation.

An art history graduate from the University of Minnesota Moorhead,Danni volunteered at NDMOA for a year in the early 2000s, working ininstallation and art handling. She moved to Minneapolis and immersedherself for three years in art conservation at the Minnesota HistoricalSociety, the Midwest Art Conservation Center, and in the private firmCaplow Custom Frame and Restoration. She returned to Grand Forks tomarry Les Moore, Director of Technology at ICON Architectural Group.

According to Museum Director Laurel Reuter, “I never dreamed I couldfind someone with Danielle’s skills, knowledge of her field, and sweetdisposition right on our doorstep. I am so grateful to have her join us.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 25, 2012, 2 pm, Dawn Avery Concert

March 31 and April 28, 10 am–noon, FamilyDay in the Museum Galleries. No charge.

March 27, 6 –8 pm, Museum opening of EliasSime and Young Dakota Artists

April 23–27, Guillermo Hart of Argentina willbe at the Pekin Community Center for a workshop. Rural Arts Initiative project.

April 24, 6 pm Hart will speak in the Museum.

April 14–15, Big Ron Hunter concerts

April 30–May 4, Icelandic artist Helgi HjaltalinEyjolfsson will be at Cando public schools.

Workshop sponsored by the Museum’s Rural ArtsInitiative. Public lectures at 4 and 5 pm

in Cando’s Audi Theater.

May 13, 2012, Antique to Chic, 3–5 pmShop, shop, shop at this Mother’s Day fundraiser

for NDMOA children’s programs where lots ofused costume jewelry changes hands.

SUMMER CONCERTS IN THE GARDEN ANNOUNCES 2012 SCHEDULE

June 19, Dessa • • • July 17, William Elliott Whitmore • • • July 24,The Pines • • • August 7 or 14, The David Wax Museum (tentative) •• • August 21, She Keeps Bees

SUMMER ART CAMP SCHEDULE

June 25–29, Michelle Brusegaard • • • July 2,3,5 and 6, MemoGuardia and Sue Fink • • • July 9–13, Memo Guardia • • • July16–20, Sheila Dalgliesh • • • July 23–27, Mollie Douthit • • • July30–August 3, Adam Kemp

UNIVERSITY EXTENDS METERED PARKING time in

front of NDMOA from sixty minutes to ninety.Now you can come for lunch in the Museumwithout getting a UND parking ticket. You canalso park in a metered public lot one blockeast of the Museum. Call the Museum if noneof these are available. The Museum buysparking from UND for special events in areasdesignated by an arrowed sign. Don’t feed themeters whenever the signs are up.

April 14 - 15

NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART RECEIVES SIGNIFICANT PRINT COLLECTIONS FROM

WELLS FARGO AND AN ANONYMOUS DONOR

Among the artists included in the gift are Carroll Dunhan, HelenFrankenthaler, Katsura Funakoshi, Bill Jensen, Terrence La Noue, RobertMotherwell, Elizabeth Murray, John Newman, James Rosenquist, SusanRothenberg, Julian Schnabel, Steven Sorman, Donald Sultan and TerryWinters. The work will be unveiled in an exhibition June 7–July 31.

FAMILY DAYS AT THE MUSEUM are scheduled for the last Saturday of eachmonth from 10 am until noon. No charge.

MUSEUM RECEIVES COVETED ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG GRANT

$150,000 over three years to bring seven artists to collaborate on new workaddressing contemporary life on the Spirit Lake Reservation.

MUSEUM CONCERT SERIES brings Mohawk composer, classical cellist, vocalist and Grammy-nominated performer Dawn Avery to the Museumon March 25 at 2 pm and to Mayville State University the next evening.She will be joined by percussionist Thiraza Defoe from Wisconsin’s Ojibwaand Oneida tribes. Avery led the Smithsonian’s North American IndianCello Project from which she will play commissions by composers TimothyArchambault, Tio Bencenti, Brent Michael Davids, Louis Ballard, Ron Warren, Raven Chacon, as well as her own composition In Two Worlds(1722, ca. /2007) which intertwines with J. S. Bach.Non-members $15, members $13. Students and military, $5 at the door.Children 12 and under are free. Tickets supported by the Myra Foundation.

Victoria Neel, Untitled, 2011. Gouache on paper, 12 x 18 inches. “Winged Shadows” touring show.

Susan Rothenberg, Stumblebum, 1985-86.Twelve-color lithograph, edition 4 of 40, 86.5 x

42.5 inches. Published by ULAE. Anonymous gift.

Confirmed North Dakota Sites for “Winged Shadows” touring withMuseum’s Rural Arts Initiative include:

April 9–23, 2012, Ashley Public School, North Dakota.May 2012, Wahpeton Zoo & Red Door Gallery, North Dakota.October 4–6, 2012, Minot State University for the three-day NotStockCelebration and continuing through the following week, North Dakota.November 5–16, Audi Theater in Cando, North Dakota.

Touring exhibition “Contemporary Beading” will be available for twelvemonths beginning January 2013. Currently open for booking.

MUSEUM COLLABORATES WITH MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION

April 14–15, 2012, Big Ron Hunter, “the happiest Blues man around,”will perform on Saturday evening at 7 pm and at a Blues Brunch on Sunday from 11–1 pm. He follows Ironing Board Sam who was atNDMOA in February. Big Ron Hunter is a Southern Blues singer who accompanies himself on the acoustic and electric guitar. Saturday eveningconcert $10 for adults. Brunch, $25 for adults and $10 for students. Bothevents free for children 12 and under.

YOU CAN HELP!Museum Seeks funds to support a new program: Saturday Nights at theMuseum. Once a month the Museum will introduce artists, writers, musicians, and other key people in our cultural and intellectual life, toperform, talk, share drinks and munchies. Free, including babysitting onthe lower level.Join the committee for the Summer Concert Series.Donate jewelry to Antique to Chic.Join the Building Committee to plan for the Museum’s future.We lost our volunteer gardener. Looking for someone to donate a couplehours a week plus spring and fall cleaning.Join Strategic Planning for statewide Artist-in-Residence Program.

Danielle Masters (left) has joined Museum staff as Collections CareSpecialist to maintain and oversee the preservation and handling of thepermanent collection. Danni will focus on preventative care, whichinvolves maintaining a secure environment, routine inspections of theartwork, safe handling, and rigorous documentation.

An art history graduate from the University of Minnesota Moorhead,Danni volunteered at NDMOA for a year in the early 2000s, working ininstallation and art handling. She moved to Minneapolis and immersedherself for three years in art conservation at the Minnesota HistoricalSociety, the Midwest Art Conservation Center, and in the private firmCaplow Custom Frame and Restoration. She returned to Grand Forks tomarry Les Moore, Director of Technology at ICON Architectural Group.

According to Museum Director Laurel Reuter, “I never dreamed I couldfind someone with Danielle’s skills, knowledge of her field, and sweetdisposition right on our doorstep. I am so grateful to have her join us.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

March 25, 2012, 2 pm, Dawn Avery Concert

March 31 and April 28, 10 am–noon, FamilyDay in the Museum Galleries. No charge.

March 27, 6 –8 pm, Museum opening of EliasSime and Young Dakota Artists

April 23–27, Guillermo Hart of Argentina willbe at the Pekin Community Center for a workshop. Rural Arts Initiative project.

April 24, 6 pm Hart will speak in the Museum.

April 14–15, Big Ron Hunter concerts

April 30–May 4, Icelandic artist Helgi HjaltalinEyjolfsson will be at Cando public schools.

Workshop sponsored by the Museum’s Rural ArtsInitiative. Public lectures at 4 and 5 pm

in Cando’s Audi Theater.

May 13, 2012, Antique to Chic, 3–5 pmShop, shop, shop at this Mother’s Day fundraiser

for NDMOA children’s programs where lots ofused costume jewelry changes hands.

SUMMER CONCERTS IN THE GARDEN ANNOUNCES 2012 SCHEDULE

June 19, Dessa • • • July 17, William Elliott Whitmore • • • July 24,The Pines • • • August 7 or 14, The David Wax Museum (tentative) •• • August 21, She Keeps Bees

SUMMER ART CAMP SCHEDULE

June 25–29, Michelle Brusegaard • • • July 2,3,5 and 6, MemoGuardia and Sue Fink • • • July 9–13, Memo Guardia • • • July16–20, Sheila Dalgliesh • • • July 23–27, Mollie Douthit • • • July30–August 3, Adam Kemp

UNIVERSITY EXTENDS METERED PARKING time in

front of NDMOA from sixty minutes to ninety.Now you can come for lunch in the Museumwithout getting a UND parking ticket. You canalso park in a metered public lot one blockeast of the Museum. Call the Museum if noneof these are available. The Museum buysparking from UND for special events in areasdesignated by an arrowed sign. Don’t feed themeters whenever the signs are up.

April 14 - 15

North Dakota Museum of Art

Elias Sime, Monkeys, Frogs and Television, 2006. Mud and straw, Dimensions variable.

Photo courtesy of the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Near Left: Amoussa KorikoFar Right: Elias Sime

March 2012

North Dakota Museum of Art261 Centennial Drive Stop 7305

Grand Forks, ND 58202Phone: (1) 701 777-4195

www.ndmoa.com ndmoa@ndmoa.com

“YOUNG DAKOTA ARTISTS” AT NDMOA MARCH 27–MAY 31, 2012Co-curators, Greg Blair, Director of the gallery at Northern StateUniversity, Aberdeen, SD, and Matthew Wallace, Director of NDMOA’sRural Arts Initiative, selected twenty-one North and South Dakota artistsunder forty “who are living and working in the States.” According to theCurators, “Young Dakota Artists” is an attempt to bring some of thesevoices together to provide a snapshot of the vibrancy and diversity of thelandscape occupied by some of these young creative people."

WINGED SHADOWS: LIFE AMONG BIRDS TO TOUR WITH MUSEUM’SRURAL ARTS INITIATIVE

Begun in 2004, the Rural Arts Initiative is an educational outreachprogram to encourage and empower rural school children and theirfamilies, their teachers, and their communities to actively participate inlearning through the arts. The North Dakota Museum of Art toursexhibitions throughout North Dakota (funded by the State of NorthDakota) and Northwest Minnesota, installs them in community spaces,trains docents and attendants, provides online lesson plans that areintegrated into school curricula, and funds bussing for schools within afifty-mile radius of the host community.

Left center: Victoria Neel, LuzonBleeding-heart Pigeon in“Birds without Sky,” 2011. Gouache on paper, 8.5 x 13 inches. Courtesy of Jason McCoy Inc.

Left: Julian Schnable, Mujer Primaveral,1995. Hand-painted fifteen-colorscreenprint with poured resin, 40 x 30 inches. Edition of 80. Gift to the

Museum by an anonymous donor.

ETHIOPIAN ARTIST ELIAS SIME AT THE NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART

MARCH 27 – MAY 31, 2012 PUBLIC OPENING TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 6 – 8 PM

Sime will speak about his work Co-curators Meskerem Assegued and Peter Sellars will be present andwill participate in the informal gallery talk at the opening.

“Eye of the Needle: Eye of the Heart” is a large retrospective survey thatcovers twenty years of one of Ethiopia’s most original and prolific contemporary artists, Elias Sime. Included are over 100 works made fromsuch things as yarn stitches, tattered fabric, buttons, stuffed goat skins,discarded plastic shoes, animal horns, and bottle tops collected from thestreets and sprawling markets of Addis Ababa. Sime transforms them intocollages and stitched canvases, into floor and wall sculpture, and intoinstallations.

According to Peter Clothier of the Huffington Post, “Community is an essential part of his work: family and friends join with him in the creationof his art, and he spreads small wealth and creativity amongst the localchildren by rewarding them for bringing him the results of their scavenging. He is, in a real and pragmatic sense, a social activist.”

MAY 3, 5 PM — READING FROM NIGHT SHADOW, a 2009 play by AmoussaKoriko just published in France by Harmattan and presented inconjunction with Elias Sime’s exhibition.

The animated reading will feature a professional woman dancer, a drummer, and two actor-readers. According to this UND French language instructor from Togo in West Africa, “As a playwright and director, I wanted to explore through this reading Africa’s cultural heritageas a background for the unfolding of the story in a play that deals withthe complexity of war in Africa.” Koriko founded the Grand Forks AfricanArts Arena to share African arts and culture through presentations in schools and in the community.

Elias Sime, Portrait, 2007. Clothes and yarn on canvas, 29 x 20 inches. Photo Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Matt Anderson, Reclamation, 2008. Digital drawing, 34 x 90 inches. “Young Dakota Artists” exhibition.