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2025 Archives

2025 image galleries are available on each exhibit’s page.

Three tall tumblers with orange-ish glaze which are wood fired.

It’s Only Clay 2025

Exhibit Opening and Reception Nov 7, 5 - 7pm. Award Presentations at 6pm. Exhibit Nov ...

Tapestry depicting a pond with a small snail in the water

Refugia: the Seasonal Pond Project – Kristen Anderson

RECEPTION: OCT 3. Exhibit: OCT 3 - JAN 30. Just as pockets of rich memory ...

a vertical vessel with jagged edges at the top representing a broken tree trunk

Mikwendamosewinan – I See Epiphanies, Eliza Klarer

EXHIBIT October 24. RECEPTION Nov 1. Eliza Klarer, a life long artist with foundations inspired ...

Ellipse shaped object painted with fuzzy colors of lake water

My Wanderlust – Cam Zebrun

RECEPTION August 15, 5 - 7pm. EXHIBIT August 15 - October 25. Zebrun's work is ...

photo of blue sky with a single orange monarch butterfly in top right corner

Through My Lens – Ann Gorman

RECEPTION Aug 8 with talk at 6pm. EXHIBIT Aug 8 - Sep 27. Gorman tells ...

forest scene with bear cub and child eating berries from bushes

Gekendamaang – What We Know

EXHIBIT EXTENDED to October 17. RECEPTION June 20, 5-7pm. Gamache (White Earth Nation) is inspired ...

Painting of storefront in yellows and reds with people in front.

Eugene Dalzotto – An Artist’s Path

EXHIBIT EXTENDED to Aug 2: For more then 50 years, Eugene Dalzotto studied, created, and ...

Colorful toucan head drawn on New York Times

The Internal Affairs of Mr. Invincible by Lou Ferreri

EXHIBIT May 23 - September 19. This exhibition features 25 prints from a series of ...

hands working on weaving a cedar mat on a table

Weaving Our Community- Art as a conversation

EXHIBIT May 3. Participants of Watermark's lastest traditional weaving workshops display work including finger weaving, ...

NEOTECTONIC PERIOD by Susan Hensel

EXHIBIT May 9 - July 26. RECEPTION May 9. Neotectonic Period deals metaphorically with the ...

two carved pan fish and one fishing lure, all painted in tones of yellow, green and touches of orange

2025 Annual Middle School Exhibit

EXHIBIT & Opening Reception May 2. Runs through May 23. Watermark Art Center presents the ...

painting of a black man's face using blue and yellow color for high and low lights

2025 Annual High School Invitational Exhibit

The Annual High School Invitational Exhibit is one of the most popular shows each year ...

Framed Insight: Learning from Galleries

EXHIBIT Jan 24 - May 19, 2025. A gallery setting fosters deeper emotional connections, inviting ...

colorful illustration of native people wearing regalia dancing

Inaaband Mitigwaki – Woodland Vision – Robert DesJarlait

EXHIBIT Feb 15 - extended to Apr 25. DesJarlait's work depicts, documents and defines the ...

Now & Then - Jonathan Thunder. Two vessels represent two tastes. One with salty accompaniments, the other with sweet. A rabbit skull sits in the foreground as a reminder to us all that time is what we make of it.

Loaded – Jonathan Thunder and Robb Quisling

RECEPTION Jan 25, 1 - 3pm. ARTISTS CONVERSATION at 2pm. EXHIBIT Jan 21 March 28 ...

metal point picturesque drawing of cliffs surrounding water a mine pit filled with water

The Rhythm of the Hill Annex Mine

EXHIBIT Jan 10 - Apr 25. In this series he used a steel brush to ...

2024 Archives

2024 image galleries are available on each exhibit’s page.

Birchbark canoe with intricate carved detail and black tarred seams

Mayaadaaboonojig – The Ones Drifting Off on the Current

RECEPTION/STORYTELLING TBD. EXHIBIT through FEB 8. Canoe building is not just building a canoe. It ...

Shino vase, Stoneware, 2024 - Barbara Bujold-Martinez. Tall narrow vase with widened top and bottom. Neutral colors with bold white design.

It’s Only Clay 2024

RECEPTION Nov 1, 5 - 7pm. AWARDS at 6pm. EXHIBIT Nov 1 - Dec 23." ...

Cliffs of Moher against an aqua colored sea.

iPhone Artistry – William Petersen, Photography

RECEPTION Oct 4, 5 - 7pm, TALK at 6pm. EXHIBIT Oct 4 - Dec 28 ...

Gustave Baumann print of tree with orange falling leaves on a hillside

Some Pieces Whisper

EXHIBIT Sep 16 - Jan 10, 2025. This exhibition showcases prints and ceramics that, though ...

Smart Wars

EXHIBIT UPDATED through Nov 22, 2024. The costumes share the story of indigenous reality where ...

Sabe Gauntlet fur mittens made by Cindy Hamilton

2024 Bi-Annual Members Show

Sep 6 Reception. EXHIBIT Sep 6 - Oct 25, 2024. Member artists submit their own ...

Tree painting, Sue Rauschenfels. abstract painting of trees done in what looks like different color scraps of paper torn and laid vertically to represent trees in blacks, blues, reds, and browns with the background being of torn pieces of blues, reds, blacks, for the ground running horizontally, with an orange sky as the background.

For the Love of Trees – Sue Rauschenfels

EXHIBIT July 12 - Sept 28, 2024. OPEN HOUSE July 12, 5-7pm. Sue Rauschenfels’ For ...

Arcana, detail, Susanna Gaunt. The use of metal, paper, other ephemera to shape a mixed media insect for use in curiosity cabinet.

(Re)Collect with Susanna Gaunt, Mixed Media

EXHIBIT June 7 - Aug 21. TALK & RECEPTION June 7. Inspired by nature and ...

Grand Marais Wolf, Zimmerman. Background is a starry sky upper with a pastel pink na dyellow moon, deep blue sky, black mountain hils and white snow covered ground. A wolf looks toward the viewer with yellow golden eyes. it is done in a picallatted fashion indicating fur and texture with browns, tans, and whites.

Bi-mawadishiwewaad – When They Come to Visit

EXHIBIT May 17 - August 17. RECEPTION June 28. Zimmerman reimagines the symbolism of the ...

Sliver cloud painting by Poleski. A circle in center with red, green, and yellow rings. They encircle a light blue sky, a horizontal white cloud whih extends from the middle of the circle to beyond the outside ring almost to the edge of the square white background paper. Beneath the cloud is a black hill and beneath that a blue lake.

Water is Life

EXHIBIT opens May 3, 2024. Contemporary artists continue to engage with water as a subject ...

Maidenhair in Autumn - Sonja Larsen Print is done in browns, tans, and deep greens, with red stamp of artist to the left at bottom. The print fills the top half of paper with stem in the middle down to the bottom.

Creating Art from Nature – Sonja Larsen

EXHIBIT March 25 - June 22. Detailed and accurate print making is painstaking and demanding ...

2024 Ethan Anderson, Bemidji High School. Blue-green top background, orange in center and dark green bottom, depicting car on road going toward the horizon.

2024 High School Invitational Show

OPEN HOUSE April 5, 5 - 7pm. EXHIBIT April 5 - 26. Watermark Art Center ...

2024 Middle School Show

OPEN HOUSE May 3, 5-7pm. EXHIBIT May 3 - May 24, 2024. The exhibits showcase ...

Tosa Two Hearts' design on male model wearing jacket with red sleeves and four pointed stars, elks tooth front and back. The background is of a lake with ducks and a meadow. Around the water's edge are rocks.

Wobliheca – Energy to Create

EXHIBIT Feb 14 - May 10. RECEPTION Mar 2, 2 - 4pm. Tosa weaves a ...

Fabric art featuring men's shirts sewn together as wall-hanging, in various colors.

Reassemble

EXHIBIT Jan 22 - Mar 23 (updated). In taking apart and making anew, Breen addresses ...

Woodcut in black and white, featuring trees and various abstract animals on the ground below.

Looking Back: A Retrospective for Laura

EXHIBIT Jan 12 - Apr 27. Reception TBD. This exhibit pays tribute to Laura Goliaszewski, ...

2023 Archives

2023 image galleries are available on each exhibit’s page.

Endanakiiyaan – “Where I am on Earth”

RECEPTION Dec 9, 2-4pm. EXHIBIT Nov 18 - Feb 9, 2023. Land, sky, and water ...
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Lake Itasca: True Source of my Inspiration

RECEPTION Friday December 1, 5 - 7pm. EXHIBIT Dec 1 – Feb 24, 2024. Bedford ...
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It’s Only Clay 2023

RECEPTION Nov 3, 5 - 7pm. AWARDS at 6pm. EXHIBIT Nov 3 - Dec 23." ...
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The Heart of Design

EXHIBIT Extended through Dec 2023. The most successful works of art utilize design elements to ...
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Illuminated Terrains, Amber Jensen, Textile Artist

EXHIBIT Sept 8 - Nov 25. Reception TBD. Jensen is a painter, textile artist, and ...
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Ninanda-minwaajim – “I seek to tell a good story”

RECEPTION Sep 15. EXHIBIT Sep 9 - Nov11. Joyce Arndt was cut off from her ...
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An Abstract Conversation with E. Lindell and R.A Hanggi, Jr.

ARTISTS TALK SEP 26 AT 6:30. EXHIBIT Aug 11 - Oct 21. Mixed Media artists ...
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Out of My Hands – M.E. Fuller

RECEPTION: May 12 5-7pm. EXHIBIT: May 12 - August 26. M. E. Fuller Is a ...
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Clans Gather with Chholing Taha

EXHIBIT May 26 - Sep 2, 2023. "Clans Gather" was created as an acknowledgement that ...
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“Becoming” with Blair Treuer – Textile Artist

EXHIBIT June 9 - July 29. BOOK SIGNING June 10, 10 - 4pm. This body ...
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2023 Middle School Show

OPEN HOUSE May 5, 4 - 7pm. EXHIBIT May 5 - May 25. Enjoy artwork ...
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Aanikoosijigaade – It is Linked

RECEPTION March 18. EXHIBIT March 6-May 20. Aanikoosijigaade - It is Linked. Converging across generations, ...
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A Celebration of Women Artists

EXHIBIT Feb 3 - May 12 (updated). This show celebrates the women artists in the ...
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Wild Whimsy of the Northwoods

RECEPTION Feb 10. Exhibit Feb 10 - April 28.The lively, whimsical paintings explore the stories ...
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2023 High School Show

OPEN HOUSE 11am - 3pm on Saturday, April 1. EXHIBIT April 1 - 28. Enjoy ...
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The Unchosen Ones: Portraits of an American Pastoral – R.J. Kern

RECEPTION & Book Launch Jan 20. EXHIBIT Jan 13 - Mar 25. Four years after ...
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2022 Archive

2022 image galleries are available on each exhibit’s page.

Gaa-miinigoowiziyang – What We were Given

RECEPTION Jan 14, 2 - 4pm. EXHIBIT December 8- extended to February 25, 2023. The ...
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Portrait of a Lake

RECEPTION Nov 11. EXHIBIT Nov 11- Jan 27, 2022. Community residents created this 50 photo ...
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Art as Mirror

EXHIBIT Oct 3 – Jan 20. Artists hold up a mirror to society asking us ...
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It’s Only Clay 2022

RECEPTION Nov. 4, 5 - 7pm. EXHIBIT Nov 4 - Dec 23. 17th Annual It’s ...
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Inaabandam – He Dreams in a Certain Way

EXHIBIT Aug 26 - Nov 26. RECEPTION Sep 10 with Jonathan Thunder, multi-media artist ...
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Bi-dibaajimowag – The Eagles Come Telling Stories

EXHIBIT Aug 5 - Oct 28. STUDENT RECEPTION Aug 26, 4 -6pm. Falcon Gott, Photographer ...
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Umbrellas of Unity

ONLINE AUCTION OCT 3 - 12. EXHIBIT Aug 19 - Oct 22. Visitors are invited ...
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Inspiration from a Flower

EXHIBIT June 1 - Sept 23. Artists are drawn to the evocative qualities of flowers ...
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Aabijijiwan – It Flows Continuously

EXHIBIT MAY 13 - AUGUST 17. RECEPTION MAY 15 - This exhibit is the culmination ...
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The Human Journey: Works by Joachim Berthold

RECEPTION MAY 6. EXHIBIT MAY 6 - AUGUST 13. The Human Journey reflects artist Joachim ...
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2022 Bi-Annual Members Show

Held every other year, member artists submit pieces of their own work to be juried ...
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Rights of the Child

EXHIBIT MARCH 5 - MAY 6. This series of digitally illustrated posters and surreal paintings ...
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2022 Middle School Show

Opening Reception April 1. Exhibit April 1 - 29th. The exhibit showcases work by students ...
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The Art of the Process

Exhibit: February 1 - May 13, 2022. Selected prints and ceramics from BSU's Harlow-Kleven teaching ...
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2022 High School Show

Opening Reception April 1. Exhibit April 1 - 29th. The exhibit showcases artworks of local ...
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A Quilter’s Perspective – 1915 to Present Day

Exhibit Discussion March 24. Exhibit Feb 5 - March 26. Open house Feb 5, 2 ...
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Remembering Marley Kaul

Open House: Nov 12, 5 to 7pm. Exhibit Nov 12 - Jan 29. Curated but ...
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2021 Archive

2021 image galleries are available on each exhibit’s page.

painting by Alice Blessing of a purple and yellow flowered wreath like hat on a young girl with long brown hair and twinkly eyes.

Thirteen: Nonconformity – Alice Blessing

Artist's Talk March 26, 2 - 4pm. Exhibit: Extended to March 26. With her newest ...

Indigenous Expressions – David Ben White

Open House January 8, 2 - 4pm. Exhibit Dec 6 - Feb 25. This collection ...

Marley Kaul painting shelves of art materials and supplies.

Remembering Marley Kaul

Open House: Nov 12, 5 to 7pm. Exhibit Nov 12 - Jan 29. Curated but ...

Abstractions x Four – Charles Alberti

Reception: Oct 1, 5-7pm. Exhibit: October 1 – November 27, 2021. This exhibit is the ...

"Bad Spirits Around the House", Jason Clark

Say It with Color

Exhibit: October 1, 2021 to January 21, 2022. Prints and ceramics selected for the exhibit ...

Quilt - "Swallow", bright white circles on red and grey background squares.

Dakobijige “She Ties Things Together” – Maggie Thompson

Exhibit extended to November 30, 2021. Maggie Thompson derives her inspiration from the history of ...

Earth Matters

Online Reception for "Earth Matters" Sept 23. Exhibit September 3–October 30, 2021. Watermark Art Center ...

Reflections of Northern Minnesota – Lowell Wolff

Presentation September 16 6pm. Exhibit July 2 - Sep 25, 2021: The word “reflection” can ...

Takimori, Two women (or more) on clay vessel in white and black with red from nipples and yellow cheeks.

A Degree of Connectedness

June 2 - September 17, 2021. A Degree of Connectedness invites you to explore the ...

Here, There, and Everywhere -Artists of Studio 10

Exhibit & Online Gallery. May 7 - August 21, 2021 (extended). A journey across the ...

BURY THE HATCHET: Prayer for My P’ah-Be, John Hitchcock

Exhibit & Video: May 5 - July 24, 2021. Working from the theme of the ...

2021 Bemidji Middle School Exhibit

Exhibit: June 4 - June 25, 2021 - The Annual Middle School Show will showcase ...

2021 High School Invitational

Exhibit May 7 - May 24, 2021. The exhibit will showcase work by students from ...

A Different Way to Look at It – Harlow | Kleven Gallery

Exhibit & Online Image Gallery: February 5 - May 21, 2021: From Bemidji State University's ...

Chanterelles, connected in a circle by roots, trees and moonlight in center with two people by more Chantrelles.

Restorative Loops – Kristen Anderson, Visual Fiber Artist

Exhibit & Online Image Gallery February 17 - May 1, 2021: Years of witnessing plants ...

The Sacred Truth of Clouds at Sunset, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 30", Mark Granlund.

Unutterable Spaces- Landscapes of Northern Minnesota – Mark Granlund

Exhibit & Online Image Gallery: February 5 - May 1, 2021. Granlund's regular visits to ...

Revolution by Ne-dah-ness Rose Greene. Four women in black and white.

“Mashkawiziiwag” – Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene, Photographer

Exhibit, Slideshow & Online Gallery: January 13 - April 24, 2021. Ne-Dah-Ness is a well-known ...

2020 Archive

2020 VIRTUAL EXHIBITS GALLERY >>

Show Me a Story – Harlow | Kleven Collection

Exhibit & Virtual Exhibit: November 2, 2020 – January 22, 2021. These selected works from ...

2020 It’s Only Clay

Exhibit & Online Slideshow: November 7 - December 23, 2020. The 2020 exhibit is dedicated ...

Bird Land and the Man with Enormous Wings - Karlyn Atkinson Berg

Nature Envisioned and The Real Transformed – Karlyn Atkinson Berg

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit through November 20, 2020. This collage series was inspired by the ...

Train of Thought – Quinton Decker

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit extended to mid November, 2020. “Train of Thought” draws from expressionism, ...

Monarch Butterflies – Young Artists

October, 2020. Kaul Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibit “Patient Nature”, Watermark Art Center has ...

Richard Hook - Pelican Eyes, photo of four pelican

Patient Nature & Traveling Audubon Photography Awards Exhibit

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit runs September 12 – October 31, 2020. “Patient Nature” is ...

Pharis Jar, clay light yellow and brown glaze

From Line to Form – Harlow | Kleven Collection

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Exhibit through October 15. On display are selected works from the Harlow/Kleven ...

Invisible Valley – John Pearson, Photographer & Printmaker

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: June 5 - July 31, 2020. “Invisible Valley” presents a ...

Kathy Gustafson "Peek-a-boo" Watercolor/mixed-media

2020 Members Show

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: June 12 - August 23, 2020. This year’s show features ...

“Wezhichigewaad” – Thomas Stillday, Master Bead Artist

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: March 6 - extended to July 31, 2020. Thomas comes ...

2020 Bemidji Middle School Exhibit

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Bemidji Middle School Exhibit May 2020. Grades 6, 7, 8: 1st ...

Kenzi and Hootie, Anoka County Fair, Minnesota, 2016

The Unchosen Ones – R.J. Kern, Photographer

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Instagram Live Event AVAILABLE. One isn’t born a winner or loser, ...

2020 Schoolcraft Portraits with oil and pastel

Schoolcraft Learning Community – Grades 4 & 5

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> This Education Studio exhibit by Schoolcraft Learning Community was influenced by ...

"The Student" -William Carver, 2019, Trek North

Annual High School Invitational 2020

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE>> Show MOVED to independent home High Schools. This year’s annual High School ...

Other Dimensions – Natalia Himmirska, Painter & Print Maker

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: February 7 - May 8, 2020 Closing Reception: CANCELLED. The ...

Looking for America – Paula Swenson, Painter

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: February 7 – April 25, 2020 (extended). "Artwork is a ...

Portraits – Blair Treuer, Textile Artist

VIRTUAL EXHIBIT AVAILABLE >> Exhibit: January 10 - March 28, 2020 "I am a storyteller ...

Beyond Whiteness – Monika Lawrence

November 1 - January 31, 2020. The world puts on a monochrome blanket, forests become ...

Terri O’Connor - My Spirit is Still Here

Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island

October 11 - November 30, 2019. "Bring Her Home" addresses the epidemic of violence against ...

Looking East – Japanese and Western Prints and Ceramics

October 7 - January 24, 2020. "Looking East" is a combination of Japanese and Western ...

2019 First Place Award Nathanial, Lidded Beast with Spoon by Molly Uravitch

2019 It’s Only Clay National Juried Exhibit & Competition

"It's Only Clay", October 4 - December 21, is a National Juried Ceramics Exhibit & ...

Nibikaang – From the Water

A group show featuring artists living within the Mississippi Watershed, Great Lakes or Red River ...

Mixed Messages: Acrylic Paintings by Lonnie Knutson

Mixed Messages Acrylic Paintings by Lonnie Knutson. Aug 9 - October 25. Opening reception: Aug ...

Existential Psychoanalysis (What is Life?)

Psychedelic themes by painter Tawnee Corning. August 9 - October 25. Opening reception: Aug. 9 ...

WAC Members Show 2019

Exhibit June 7 to July 27, 2019 ...

Creating from Nature: Inspiration from the Landscape

Creating from Nature: Inspiration from the Landscape ...

Middle School Exhibit

Middle School Art Show ...

5th Grade Invitational

May 4 - May 25. Opening reception: May 4 | 12 - 3 p.m ...

Minogwaasowag – They Stitch Well

Featuring bead work by Nancy Kingbird and blankets by Rick Kagigebi. April 5th – June ...

Annual High School Spring Exhibit

Annual High School Spring Exhibit. April 6 - April 27 | Opening Reception: April 6, ...

Madwewe – It Is Heard

Multi-media exhibit. January 11 - March 30. Opening Reception: Jan 11, from 5 - 7 ...

A Work In Process

The Artwork of Joachim Berthold. Jan 4 - March 24. Reception: Jan 4, from 5-7 ...

On Native Land

Group photography exhibit. Jan. 7 - Mar. 24. Artist Reception: Feb. 1, from 5 - ...

Creatures of Common Place
BSU Harlow|Kleven Gallery

2018 Archive

Spirit of Ukambani

Fiber art and photography exhibit by Mary Therese and Monika Lawrence. Oct. 12 - Dec ...

Mazinigwaaso

Three award-winning bead and quill work artists. Nov. 9 - Dec. 22. Artist Reception: Nov ...

First Place. Large Bottle with Bird & Fence. David Swenson

2018 It’s Only Clay Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2018 It's Only Clay award winners! ...

Gidibaajimomin – We Tell Stories

Print & Mixed Media exhibit by Gordon Coons & Anna Johnson. Sept. 4 - Nov ...

America’s River Re-Explored

Paintings by Thomas Paquette. Sept. 7 – Oct. 28, 2018 ...

Bagakaande – It is Brightly Colored

Paintings by Sarah McRae and DG House. Artist Reception: July 26, 5-7 p.m. Exhibit runs ...

The Way I See It

Multi-media exhibit featuring The Artists of Studio 10. Aug. 6 - Sept. 29. Artist Reception: ...

Elements of Nature

Sculpture by Bud Burger and photography by John & Marilyn Walsh. Exhibit runs through August ...

The Internal Affairs of Mr. Invincible

Drawings by Lou Ferreri. Exhibit runs through July 28 ...

“Indanishinaabekwew – I am an Anishinaabe Woman” by Hillary Kempenich

Exhibit runs May 4 - June 23. Artist reception: May 10, 5-7 p.m ...

2018 5th Grade Invitational

Exhibit runs May 4-19. Opening reception: May 4, 4-6 p.m ...

Spring High School Exhibit

April 6 - 28, 2018 Reception: Friday, April 6 • 4-6 p.m. Enjoy artwork ...

Biitoosinoon – There Are Layers

Opening Date: March 9, 2018 Closing Reception and Artist Meet & Greet: April 28, 2018, ...

Salvaged Time 1970 – 2018 by Don Knudson

Join Watermark for the opening reception of Salvaged Time 1970-2018, works by Don Knudson. Meet the artist during ...

Ojibwe Star Knowledge Events

Traveling art exhibit, plus a painting workshop and storytelling sessions presented by the Northwest Indian ...

Being Here

Being Here
BSU Harlow|Kleven Gallery