Uff Da: The Folk Art of Emily Lunde

Uff Da: The Folk Art of Emily Lunde

February 26 – March 30, 2022   Touring the state of North Dakota through the Museum’s Rural Arts Initiative. Emily Wilhelmina Dufke Lunde was born in northern Minnesota and, as she says, “with a handle like that you had to have a sense of...
Frank Sampson

Frank Sampson

July 18 – October 7, 2019   For forty years Frank Sampson—now ninety-two years old—taught painting and printmaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He returns for one month in summer and one month in winter to the North Dakota family’s home in...
Elmer Thompson: The Inventor

Elmer Thompson: The Inventor

February 10 – April 7, 2019 Growing up on a farm in rural North Dakota, Elmer O. Thompson (1891-1984) developed his creative impulses with photography, educating himself in matters of staging, lighting, and processing. Mr. Thompson quickly became an expert in...
Visions of Home

Visions of Home

January 12 – April 1, 2018  Home is where we live and for most of us the place where we are most comfortable. Home is home. Beyond home is everywhere else. Or is home something we carry in our heads that has less to do with place and more with feelings evoked by...