The Butterfly Effect Film Screening + Discussion

April 20, 2017, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Independent filmmaker Deb Wallwork’s 2016 film The Butterfly Effect is a documentary film about hope, beauty, transformation and resilience. It presents stories from a variety of people, artists, teachers, farmers, Native Americans, and wildlife ecologists, who are concerned about the dwindling population of an important pollinator: the monarch butterfly. The film interweaves personal narrative, experimental film, and animation with the inspiring stories of those determined to change the world one milkweed at a time. Join us the week of Earth Day for a screening of this film and discussion with the filmmaker.

Free and open to the public


Events Calendar

December 2016

Other Exhibitions

The Queer Ecology Hanky Project

June 17, 2024 - January 19, 2025

The Queer Ecology Hanky Project (QEHP) is an ongoing traveling exhibition organized by Vee Adams and Mary Tremonte that features over one hundred and twenty artists from across North America.

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A Little Grey For Color

July 13, 2024 - March 31, 2025

Donald D. Powell, a Fargo native, was a prolific, award-winning architect and a keen art collector. Powell amassed a sizeable collection of European and American modern art in an array of media. He donated much of his impressive collection to the Plains Art Museum in several installments in 1999, 2000, 2002-3, 2005-9, and 2013.

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Emma Katka

May 18, 2024 - August 25, 2024
Glimmers of Nostalgia for a Place You’ve Never Been

Emma Katka, a self-taught artist from Grand Forks, ND, seeks solace through emotive photography and collage. Her stomping grounds for creation are often abandoned buildings, the open prairie, old magazines, and wherever inspiration illuminates moments within daily life.

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