Wicked Bees EP is ‘the bees knees’
Read ePaper Local reggae/ska-infused horn band The Wicked Bees got back together in 2023, and one short year later, here they are tooting their own horns to a fresh EP, “Knees.”The upbeat, energetic album is the product of six collaborating musicians ranging in age from 23 to 33, including an electrician, a sound engineer and […]
Message from the Executive Director: City budget decisions could be devastating for local arts sector
By Tania Blanich Executive Director, The Arts Partnership On Monday, September 30, the Fargo City Commission will consider additional cuts to the 2025 budget of “non-essential” services, including The Arts Partnership. The $90,000 city investment, combined with funding from Moorhead and West Fargo, enables The Arts Partnership to provide $92,000 in grants to local arts […]
Artist profile: Kevin Carollo, author of ‘SHRED! Running and Being’
Like so many of us, when COVID-19 hit in 2020, writer, accomplished distance runner and MSUM English Professor Kevin Carollo’s plans went awry. Instead of spending several months of his planned academic sabbatical in Italy, he ended up on his couch. “And I’ve been there ever since, really,” Carollo laughs while discussing his new book, […]
Artist Profile: Delia Touche
The sprawling floor-to-ceiling windows toss golden curls of light onto the wooden floor of the atrium at Plains Art Museum in downtown Fargo. Curator of Indigenous Programming and printmaker Delia Touché perches on the edge of a black leather couch, hands cupped in front of them like they’re holding something delicate. A porcelain figurine, perhaps. […]
‘Prairie Daughters’ book uncovers fascinating lives of two pioneer women artists
It’s a project ten years in the making for the historians at Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, and one that highlights two of the northern plains’ earliest known female artists who were creating at a time when very few women had the time, money or education to do so. “Prairie Daughters: The Art […]
Pioneering spirit: Meet Bonanzaville Executive Director Beth Jansen
The Cass County Historical Society, better known as Bonanzaville, is home to an estimated 400,000 historic artifacts, 41 original and replica pioneer-era buildings dating back to the mid-1800s, 12 acres of land and six staff members in charge of preservation, curation, events and program development. Who’s keeping track? That would be Executive Director Beth Jansen, […]
Monika Browne-Ecker takes the helm at longtime Moorhead theater
As a child growing up in Warsaw, Poland, Monika Browne-Ecker recalls feeling right at home as an audience member in the city’s bustling art and theater scene. “Warsaw is a huge city and we had access to art and exposure to different ways of doing theater,” she said. Browne-Ecker, who assumed the role of managing […]
2024 NDSU Chamber Music Festival ‘something special’ for music lovers
For the tenth anniversary of the NDSU Chamber Music Festival August 26 through 29, Challey School of Music Artistic Director and Associate Professor of Piano Tyler Wottrich wanted a classic concert series with a twist. “We were looking for a challenge this time around,” he said, reflecting on the decade since he founded the festival […]
Creativity can uncover treasured memories while grieving
In “Bird By Bird,” a classic book on the craft of writing, Anne Lamott recalls a childhood memory of watching her brother cry over a difficult school assignment about birds. Exasperated, her brother asked how in the world he would get it done in time for class the next day. Their father’s response was perfection. […]
Photographer W. Scott Olsen’s ‘The 6|7 Project’ documents early-morning life in the metro
For many, the hour of 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. is a liminal one. The night isn’t quite over and the day hasn’t yet fully arrived, or as photographer W. Scott Olsen says it is “a fuzzy, dreary, soft-focused hour.” While some are finishing a night shift, the rest of us are just waking and […]
