Join us for a conversation between local printmakers Kent Kapplinger and Anna Johnson. Listen as they discuss process, inspiration, and their work in the exhibitions Beautiful Recollections: The Changing Seasons and Northern Lights by Kent Kapplinger and Layer by Layer: Recent Works by Anna Johnson.
Kent Kapplinger is a Professor of Art emphasizing in printmaking and drawing at North Dakota State University, where he is also Director/Master Printer for the department’s Printmaking, Education, and Research Studio (PEARS) Institute. His work addresses socio-environmental issues and focuses on balance, order, and regeneration.
Anna Johnson received her BFA from NDSU in 2010, where she was a student of Kapplinger’s. Johnson is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her work seeks to bridge a gap between the world she lives in and the culture she came from.
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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.
View ExhibitionDonald 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.
View ExhibitionEmma 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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