North Dakota Museum of ArtANIMALS: THEM AND US

AT THE MUSEUM THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2009 PUBLIC RECEPTION: Saturday, November 22, 5 - 7 pm

Music, wine, hors d’oeuvres, Vivienne Morgan lecture at 6 pm

The biological definition of animal refers to all members of thekingdom Animalia, including humans who are only one of thenine or ten million species of animals that inhabit planet Earth.In curating the exhibition, Museum Director Laurel Reutersearched for art that exhibits contrasting and conflicting visions,points-of-view, assumptions, assertions, and historical remem-brances of other members of the kingdom Animalia, andhuman relationships with them. The exhibition includes monu-mental and miniature paintings, drawings, sculpture, videos,objects, and an array of photographs. Artists included:

Thomas Allen, Coloma, MI — Albert Belleveau, Puposky, MNBarton Lidice Benes, New York, NY — Kim Bromley, Fargo, ND Thomas Brummett, Philadelphia, PA — Cecelia Condit,Shorewood, WI — Don Gahr, Springbrook, WI Lynn Geesaman, Edina, MN — Vance Gellert, Minneapolis, MN Guillermo Hart, Buenos Aires, Argentina — Henry Horenstein,Boston, MA — Susana Jacobson, Salt Lake City, UT Kate Javens, New York, NY — Frank Kelly, Grand Forks, NDAdam Kemp, Grand Forks, ND — Stuart Klipper, Minneapolis,MNChris Pancoe, Winnipeg, MB — Roberta Paul, Newtownville, MAIngrid Restemayer, Minneapolis, MN — Amy Ross, Boston, MATim Schouten, Petersfield, MB — Mary Sprague, St Louis, MO.

Cecelia Condit, ALL ABOUT A GIRL, 2004 Video, 5.25 minutes

Henry Horenstein, COWNOSE RAY, from the AnimaliaSeries, 1995-2001, C-print, 34 x 26 inches

Stuart Klipper, EMPEROR PENGUIN, SEA ICE EDGE, MCMURDO SOUND

SEA ICE, ROSS SEA, Antarctica, 1999, C-print, 12 x 38 inches

Animals: Them and Us was created as a holiday gift to theMuseum’s audience. The exhibition is supported by Museumfriends, Whitey’s Cafe, and the North Dakota Eye Clinic, withadditional funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, theNorth Dakota Council on the Arts, and the City of Grand Forksthrough the North Valley Arts Council.

VIVIENNE MORGAN: A SENSE OF PLACE

AT THE MUSEUM THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2009

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST

Saturday, November 22, 5 - 7 pm. Morgan will lecture about her work at 6 pm.

After living in the United States for nearly thirty years, I still definemyself as English. I almost live in two worlds, watching BBC televi-sion, listening to BBC Radio 4: all my news and sense of America isfiltered through those sources. It keeps me happy to remain connect-ed, but when I leave my house the whole wild wooded landscape ofNorthern Minnesota tells me plainly: I'm not in England anymore. Ofall things English, my identity is most closely tied to the English land-scape. This series of photographs is part of my conscious effort tobecome connected, to feel truly present in my local landscape.

I walked in Minnesota along a part of the Continental Divide, an areawhere I hope to live some day, and through a field close to my house.The grasses grow wildly at the edge of the forest and the fields trans-form into pastoral hayfields. I went out every day, often in the gloam-ing, watching the rapidly shifting light, soft mists, or swift cloudschange the sense of space. At this time of day, everything hidden in theshadows is slowly revealed. Standing in this light, I could almost beanywhere in the world. There isn't much color in the gloaming—onlyforms—but there are sounds as the world wakes up. For a fewmoments as the sun hits the horizon everything turns golden, filledwith transcendental light. I feel a sense of connection, a sense of beingpresent in the world. The sweet light moves quickly. The only thingthat keeps me in the same frame of mind—an acute awareness ofbeing alive and present—is the weather. Foggy mornings are quiet andshrouded, paring the world down to what is underfoot. There is asense of intimacy in the fog, which falls away when the sun burnsthrough. Only that moment when the sun sits in the fog is the landfilled with a transcendental light.

During this exploration of the American landscape I felt akin to thenineteenth century, European–influenced Barbizon painters. Likethem, I look for tranquility, familiarity, and intimacy in the wild wood-ed landscape around me. Like those painters I saw how much lighttransforms the sense of place. —Vivienne Morgan

Vivienne Morgan created this splendid body of work for ourNorth Dakota Museum of Art exhibition. The sublime, theromantic, and the gorgeous are seldom found in contemporaryart. Come and celebrate with us. It is the goal of the Museumto place these photographs of our own place in private andpublic collections and to make sure it is seen by audiences farbeyond our own. — Laurel Reuter, Director

North Dakota Museum of Art

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THE DISAPPEARED OPENS IN WASHINGTON, DC

TheMuseum’s exhibition,The Disappeared, opened in Washington, DC,on Wednesday, November 19, at the Museum of the Americas, an enti-ty within the Organization of American States. Ambassadors from mostLatin American member countries attended the evening events. TheUniversity of North Dakota Alumni Association and Foundation co-sponsored the opening. At noon on opening day, Laurel Reuter con-ducted a public and press tour of the exhibition. On November 17,George Washington University sponsored a day-long symposium on torture in conjunction with the exhibition.

Identity is a collaborative work made by thirteen Argentine artistsshrinks in size as found children are removed from the work of art. Inall, ninety-two children have been identified by the Grandmothers ofthe Plaza de Mayo. The two children identified left were removed fromthe exhibition in Bogota, Colombia, this past summer.

TAKING ART AS FAR AS 400 MILES FROM THE MUSEUM

ART DOES MATTER

ANIMALS: THEM AND US

Kate Javens, NAMED FOR OSCAR NEEBE, 2000 Oil on theater muslin, 96 x 126 inches

Courtesy of Schmidt Dean Gallery

IDENTITY installed at the North Dakota Museum of Art, April, 2005

GIRL BORN IN MID-1980Mother: Silvia Dameri

Father: Orlando Antonio Ruiz

In the first months of 1977, Silvia, Orlando and their sonMarcelo Mariano took exile in Switzerland, where a secondchild, María de la Victorias, was born. In the first months of1980, they returned to Argentina and their families stoppedreceiving news from them. All four of them were seen by a

witness in the clandestine detention center at the NavyMechanics School. There, Silvia had a baby girl she named

Laura. The young parents and their daughter Laura remain dis-appeared. Marcelo and María de la Victorias were found and

recovered their identity.

May 2008, Laura Ruiz Dameri was found and linked by DNAtesting to her biological parents. The photographs of the par-

ents will be removed from Identidad before the show opens inWashington.

CHILD WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN BORN IN MAY 1977

Mother: María Teresa Trotta

Father: Roberto Castelli

The couple was abducted on February 28, 1977, in Merlo,San Luis, María Teresa was six-and-a-half months pregnant.

She was seen by survivors at the clandestine detention centerknown as 'Sheraton' in the police station in Villa Insuperable.The couple and the child that must have been born in captivi-

ty remain disappeared.

August 2008, the child was found in Argentina. The photo-graphs of the parents will be removed from Identidad before

the show opens next.

ELLENDALE, ND. Citizens of this small town have renovated a small por-tion of the historic opera house for theater and visual arts. In the twoweeks Snow Country Prison was there, 340 people viewed it and twoschools canceled because of the first winter storm of the season. Sincethe program began, exhibitions have gone to forty-two rural communi-ties, schools from 216 communities have participated for a total of16,558 visitors. Numbers small? The towns are even smaller!

RURAL ARTS INITIATIVE booking information: Contact Matt Wallace

701 777-4195 mwallace@ndmoa.comEllendale, October 29 – November 11, 2008

Snow Country Prison: Interned in North Dakota

THE CHINESE ARTIST XU BING continues his long relationship with the

North Dakota Museum of Art. He is completing a new project in Kenyawhich connects the written word, calligraphy, and art into one process.Students from local primary schools create drawings of trees using formsof writing from a variety of cultures and historical periods, spanningancient Chinese pictographs, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Cuneiform script,Arabic, English and more. The drawings may be purchased through theInternet. Every two dollars you spend will be converted into 10 newlyplanted seedlings. To learn about Xu Bing’s new project, or to buy draw-ings, visit www.forestproject.net.

MUSEUM CONCERT SERIES: ETA3 TO PERFORM SUNDAY,DECEMBER 7, 2 PM, IN THE MUSEUM GALLERIES.Repeat Concert Monday at Mayville State University, 7:30 pm

Named after a luminous and spectacular star-forming Nebula in ourgalaxy, ETA3 is a classical trio comprising American flutist EmilyThomas, Japanese Pianist Tomoko Nakayama and Russian ClarinetistAlexey Gorokholinsky. Formed at The Juilliard School during spring of2006. The Trio was recognized by Juilliard as one of three prominentemerging chamber music groups of 2006 leading to their Alice TullyHall debut.

NEW YORK, November 17, 2008 - MetLife Foundation todayannounced the grant winners of its 2008 Museum and CommunityConnections program. The grants, totaling $1,000,000, were awardedto sixteen museums for exhibitions, artist residencies, and other pro-grams that extend their reach into diverse communities and make art apart of people’s lives. The goal of the competitive program is to broad-en arts programming and promote museums as centers of educationwithout boundaries. Winners were selected on the basis of their poten-tial to engage diverse populations in the arts, creativity and innovation,and commitment to community.

NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART RECEIVES $65,000 TO EXTEND THE RURAL ARTS INITIATIVE TO SCHOOLS IN NORTH-WEST MINNESOTA

EDUCATION PROGRAMMING

November 22-23, Animal Mask Making, two-day workshop, Ages 12and older, 1 - 3 pmNovember 22, Vivienne Morgan lecture, 6 pm December 6, Masks and Totems workshop, Ages 6 and up, 1 -3 pm December 27, Art Party for adults and children of all ages. 10 - 4 pmwith music and food. All materials provided.

Sue Fink, Museum Curator of Education Call 777-4195 for information.

MARY LUCIER: THE PLAINS OF SWEET REGRET CONTINUES TOUR

The Museum’s commissioned video installation filmed in westernNorth Dakota and at the Devils Lake Roughrider Rodeo is currentlyshowing at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November15 - February 15, 2009.

Thanks to you who are including us in your year-end giving, and to all of you who have renewedyour memberships—despite the current economicdownturn. We as a community are grateful.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: New staff member Miriam Clapp is seeking

volunteers for both the holiday season and for regular shifts. Your gift oftime is as valuable as your gifts of money.

SAVE THE DATE:Museum Benefit Dinner

and Silent AuctionFebruary 7, 2009

THE DISAPPEARED OPENS IN WASHINGTON, DC

TheMuseum’s exhibition,The Disappeared, opened in Washington, DC,on Wednesday, November 19, at the Museum of the Americas, an enti-ty within the Organization of American States. Ambassadors from mostLatin American member countries attended the evening events. TheUniversity of North Dakota Alumni Association and Foundation co-sponsored the opening. At noon on opening day, Laurel Reuter con-ducted a public and press tour of the exhibition. On November 17,George Washington University sponsored a day-long symposium on torture in conjunction with the exhibition.

Identity is a collaborative work made by thirteen Argentine artistsshrinks in size as found children are removed from the work of art. Inall, ninety-two children have been identified by the Grandmothers ofthe Plaza de Mayo. The two children identified left were removed fromthe exhibition in Bogota, Colombia, this past summer.

TAKING ART AS FAR AS 400 MILES FROM THE MUSEUM

ART DOES MATTER

ANIMALS: THEM AND US

Kate Javens, NAMED FOR OSCAR NEEBE, 2000 Oil on theater muslin, 96 x 126 inches

Courtesy of Schmidt Dean Gallery

IDENTITY installed at the North Dakota Museum of Art, April, 2005

GIRL BORN IN MID-1980Mother: Silvia Dameri

Father: Orlando Antonio Ruiz

In the first months of 1977, Silvia, Orlando and their sonMarcelo Mariano took exile in Switzerland, where a secondchild, María de la Victorias, was born. In the first months of1980, they returned to Argentina and their families stoppedreceiving news from them. All four of them were seen by a

witness in the clandestine detention center at the NavyMechanics School. There, Silvia had a baby girl she named

Laura. The young parents and their daughter Laura remain dis-appeared. Marcelo and María de la Victorias were found and

recovered their identity.

May 2008, Laura Ruiz Dameri was found and linked by DNAtesting to her biological parents. The photographs of the par-

ents will be removed from Identidad before the show opens inWashington.

CHILD WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN BORN IN MAY 1977

Mother: María Teresa Trotta

Father: Roberto Castelli

The couple was abducted on February 28, 1977, in Merlo,San Luis, María Teresa was six-and-a-half months pregnant.

She was seen by survivors at the clandestine detention centerknown as 'Sheraton' in the police station in Villa Insuperable.The couple and the child that must have been born in captivi-

ty remain disappeared.

August 2008, the child was found in Argentina. The photo-graphs of the parents will be removed from Identidad before

the show opens next.

ELLENDALE, ND. Citizens of this small town have renovated a small por-tion of the historic opera house for theater and visual arts. In the twoweeks Snow Country Prison was there, 340 people viewed it and twoschools canceled because of the first winter storm of the season. Sincethe program began, exhibitions have gone to forty-two rural communi-ties, schools from 216 communities have participated for a total of16,558 visitors. Numbers small? The towns are even smaller!

RURAL ARTS INITIATIVE booking information: Contact Matt Wallace

701 777-4195 mwallace@ndmoa.comEllendale, October 29 – November 11, 2008

Snow Country Prison: Interned in North Dakota

THE CHINESE ARTIST XU BING continues his long relationship with the

North Dakota Museum of Art. He is completing a new project in Kenyawhich connects the written word, calligraphy, and art into one process.Students from local primary schools create drawings of trees using formsof writing from a variety of cultures and historical periods, spanningancient Chinese pictographs, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Cuneiform script,Arabic, English and more. The drawings may be purchased through theInternet. Every two dollars you spend will be converted into 10 newlyplanted seedlings. To learn about Xu Bing’s new project, or to buy draw-ings, visit www.forestproject.net.

MUSEUM CONCERT SERIES: ETA3 TO PERFORM SUNDAY,DECEMBER 7, 2 PM, IN THE MUSEUM GALLERIES.Repeat Concert Monday at Mayville State University, 7:30 pm

Named after a luminous and spectacular star-forming Nebula in ourgalaxy, ETA3 is a classical trio comprising American flutist EmilyThomas, Japanese Pianist Tomoko Nakayama and Russian ClarinetistAlexey Gorokholinsky. Formed at The Juilliard School during spring of2006. The Trio was recognized by Juilliard as one of three prominentemerging chamber music groups of 2006 leading to their Alice TullyHall debut.

NEW YORK, November 17, 2008 - MetLife Foundation todayannounced the grant winners of its 2008 Museum and CommunityConnections program. The grants, totaling $1,000,000, were awardedto sixteen museums for exhibitions, artist residencies, and other pro-grams that extend their reach into diverse communities and make art apart of people’s lives. The goal of the competitive program is to broad-en arts programming and promote museums as centers of educationwithout boundaries. Winners were selected on the basis of their poten-tial to engage diverse populations in the arts, creativity and innovation,and commitment to community.

NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART RECEIVES $65,000 TO EXTEND THE RURAL ARTS INITIATIVE TO SCHOOLS IN NORTH-WEST MINNESOTA

EDUCATION PROGRAMMING

November 22-23, Animal Mask Making, two-day workshop, Ages 12and older, 1 - 3 pmNovember 22, Vivienne Morgan lecture, 6 pm December 6, Masks and Totems workshop, Ages 6 and up, 1 -3 pm December 27, Art Party for adults and children of all ages. 10 - 4 pmwith music and food. All materials provided.

Sue Fink, Museum Curator of Education Call 777-4195 for information.

MARY LUCIER: THE PLAINS OF SWEET REGRET CONTINUES TOUR

The Museum’s commissioned video installation filmed in westernNorth Dakota and at the Devils Lake Roughrider Rodeo is currentlyshowing at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November15 - February 15, 2009.

Thanks to you who are including us in your year-end giving, and to all of you who have renewedyour memberships—despite the current economicdownturn. We as a community are grateful.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: New staff member Miriam Clapp is seeking

volunteers for both the holiday season and for regular shifts. Your gift oftime is as valuable as your gifts of money.

SAVE THE DATE:Museum Benefit Dinner

and Silent AuctionFebruary 7, 2009

North Dakota Museum of ArtANIMALS: THEM AND US

AT THE MUSEUM THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2009 PUBLIC RECEPTION: Saturday, November 22, 5 - 7 pm

Music, wine, hors d’oeuvres, Vivienne Morgan lecture at 6 pm

The biological definition of animal refers to all members of thekingdom Animalia, including humans who are only one of thenine or ten million species of animals that inhabit planet Earth.In curating the exhibition, Museum Director Laurel Reutersearched for art that exhibits contrasting and conflicting visions,points-of-view, assumptions, assertions, and historical remem-brances of other members of the kingdom Animalia, andhuman relationships with them. The exhibition includes monu-mental and miniature paintings, drawings, sculpture, videos,objects, and an array of photographs. Artists included:

Thomas Allen, Coloma, MI — Albert Belleveau, Puposky, MNBarton Lidice Benes, New York, NY — Kim Bromley, Fargo, ND Thomas Brummett, Philadelphia, PA — Cecelia Condit,Shorewood, WI — Don Gahr, Springbrook, WI Lynn Geesaman, Edina, MN — Vance Gellert, Minneapolis, MN Guillermo Hart, Buenos Aires, Argentina — Henry Horenstein,Boston, MA — Susana Jacobson, Salt Lake City, UT Kate Javens, New York, NY — Frank Kelly, Grand Forks, NDAdam Kemp, Grand Forks, ND — Stuart Klipper, Minneapolis,MNChris Pancoe, Winnipeg, MB — Roberta Paul, Newtownville, MAIngrid Restemayer, Minneapolis, MN — Amy Ross, Boston, MATim Schouten, Petersfield, MB — Mary Sprague, St Louis, MO.

Cecelia Condit, ALL ABOUT A GIRL, 2004 Video, 5.25 minutes

Henry Horenstein, COWNOSE RAY, from the AnimaliaSeries, 1995-2001, C-print, 34 x 26 inches

Stuart Klipper, EMPEROR PENGUIN, SEA ICE EDGE, MCMURDO SOUND

SEA ICE, ROSS SEA, Antarctica, 1999, C-print, 12 x 38 inches

Animals: Them and Us was created as a holiday gift to theMuseum’s audience. The exhibition is supported by Museumfriends, Whitey’s Cafe, and the North Dakota Eye Clinic, withadditional funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board, theNorth Dakota Council on the Arts, and the City of Grand Forksthrough the North Valley Arts Council.

VIVIENNE MORGAN: A SENSE OF PLACE

AT THE MUSEUM THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2009

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST

Saturday, November 22, 5 - 7 pm. Morgan will lecture about her work at 6 pm.

After living in the United States for nearly thirty years, I still definemyself as English. I almost live in two worlds, watching BBC televi-sion, listening to BBC Radio 4: all my news and sense of America isfiltered through those sources. It keeps me happy to remain connect-ed, but when I leave my house the whole wild wooded landscape ofNorthern Minnesota tells me plainly: I'm not in England anymore. Ofall things English, my identity is most closely tied to the English land-scape. This series of photographs is part of my conscious effort tobecome connected, to feel truly present in my local landscape.

I walked in Minnesota along a part of the Continental Divide, an areawhere I hope to live some day, and through a field close to my house.The grasses grow wildly at the edge of the forest and the fields trans-form into pastoral hayfields. I went out every day, often in the gloam-ing, watching the rapidly shifting light, soft mists, or swift cloudschange the sense of space. At this time of day, everything hidden in theshadows is slowly revealed. Standing in this light, I could almost beanywhere in the world. There isn't much color in the gloaming—onlyforms—but there are sounds as the world wakes up. For a fewmoments as the sun hits the horizon everything turns golden, filledwith transcendental light. I feel a sense of connection, a sense of beingpresent in the world. The sweet light moves quickly. The only thingthat keeps me in the same frame of mind—an acute awareness ofbeing alive and present—is the weather. Foggy mornings are quiet andshrouded, paring the world down to what is underfoot. There is asense of intimacy in the fog, which falls away when the sun burnsthrough. Only that moment when the sun sits in the fog is the landfilled with a transcendental light.

During this exploration of the American landscape I felt akin to thenineteenth century, European–influenced Barbizon painters. Likethem, I look for tranquility, familiarity, and intimacy in the wild wood-ed landscape around me. Like those painters I saw how much lighttransforms the sense of place. —Vivienne Morgan

Vivienne Morgan created this splendid body of work for ourNorth Dakota Museum of Art exhibition. The sublime, theromantic, and the gorgeous are seldom found in contemporaryart. Come and celebrate with us. It is the goal of the Museumto place these photographs of our own place in private andpublic collections and to make sure it is seen by audiences farbeyond our own. — Laurel Reuter, Director

North Dakota Museum of Art

June 1at 6:10:29

June 25 9:02:32

August 15 at 7:34:18

September 31 at 6:20:46