Partner directory
Our Primary Arts Partners are nonprofit arts and culture organizations, individual artists, arts-related businesses and other nonprofits using art to further their missions and contribute to the Metro’s vibrancy and economic well-being.
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Act Up Theatre
Act Up Theatre provides musical performing opportunities to high school and college students with a focus on productions that “save and change lives by positively instigating social change.”
Angels of the Muse
Angels of the Muse provides quality music to underserved and/or institutionalized populations within the Fargo-Moorhead community area.
Cass County ND Historical Society
Bonanzaville offers tours, special events, and programming year round on 12 acres. With 41 historic buildings, more than 400,000 artifacts, and millions of memories;.
Community Orchestra Academy
The Community Orchestra Academy (COA) provides high-quality performances and comprehensive music education to support aspiring performers and area music programs.
Concordia College Cultural Events
Concordia College offers a variety of performing arts events, exhibits, lectures and presentations by renowned guest artists and scholars as well as events featuring our students and our faculty.
Creative Mornings/Fargo
The Fargo, North Dakota, USA chapter of Creative Mornings is dedicated to ensuring that our monthly events are lively, inspiring, educational, and world-class. Events are held on the last Friday of the month.
Crooked Lane Farm Folk School
Crooked Lane Farm, located on the scenic Wild Rice River between Colfax & Abercrombie, ND, is an ideal, country setting for weddings & celebrations.
Fargo Park District
The Fargo Parks District hosts art classes year around as part of our Recreation programming
Fargo Theatre
The beautifully restored Fargo Theatre serves as an art house theatre featuring independent and foreign film. It is also Fargo’s hottest downtown venue for concerts and other live events.
Fiber Arts Festival
Centering on a free 2-day event in August, the festival provides an event for gathering the fiber community, educating about the fiber arts, and a marketplace for all things fiber related.
FM Area Music Club
The club supports scholarships for school and college students and young artists, promotes music education for young people and contribute to the cultural life of the area.
FM Ballet
A regional professional dance performance company recognized and respected nationally for its original choreography, employment of quality artists, and educational and outreach programming.
FM Choral Artists
The FM Choral Artists provides an outlet for musicians who are passionate about singing and preserving the art form of choral music for audiences throughout the region.
FM Opera
The mission of the FM Opera is to ignite enthusiasm for opera through brilliant singing and powerful storytelling by welcoming new and established audiences and by showcasing professional artists.
FM Symphony
The FM Symphony enriches our community through the power of live music that educates, entertains and inspires.
FM Visual Artists
The FMVA promotes and supports quality visual arts in the Metro by educating and encouraging visual artists and their communities.
FM Youth Choir
The Fargo Moorhead Youth choir strives to engage children in meaningful experiences of high quality music education and performance opportunities, through a collaborative presence within the education and music communities.
Gallery 4, Ltd.
Gallery 4 is a destination gallery and gift shop for tourists, local art lovers and enthusiasts. Conveniently located at 115 Roberts Street N. in Downtown Fargo with more than 40 artists on display.
Gooseberry Park Players
Gooseberry Park Players provides young people with a unique educational and multi-generational summer theatre experience.
Great Plains Harmony
Great Plains Harmony is an acapella chorus of 25-35 men who perform a variety of music from barbershop to vocal jazz to gospel to choral arrangements.
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County is dedicated to promoting local history in Clay County, where we direct our museum, archives, and programming. Our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and share the history and culture of Clay County, Minnesota. In short, we tell local stories.
Kicks Band of Fargo-Moorhead
The Kicks Band is a jazz arts organization devoted to providing high-quality educational and performance experiences for our community.
Lake Agassiz Concert Band
The LACB’s goal is to provide the community with free, outstanding musical performances and to create an artistic outlet for serious wind and percussion performers.
Lake Agassiz Development Group
Lake Agassiz Development Group has been helping ambitious, hard-working North Dakotans for more than 40 years. LADG is comprised of four organizations with one staff to fulfill their clients’ needs.
*ArtWORKS Participant
Learning Bank
Learning Bank is presently focused on delivering new and innovative approaches of quality arts experiences to each of the three FM school districts, thereby reducing duplication and cost factors.
Master Chorale
Master Chorale is committed to enhancing, educating, and promoting choral music in the community by presenting high quality musical events that bring an enjoyable and satisfying musical experience for audiences and singers alike.
Memorial Union Gallery (NDSU)
The student-focused MU Gallery is an interdisciplinary artspace located on the second floor of the Memorial Union at North Dakota State University.
MSUM College of Arts and Humanities
The College of Arts and Humanities creates the next generation of storytellers because the world needs your voice.
NDSU College of Business
The College of Business supports NDSU’s mission by providing quality educational experiences, research for the advancement of knowledge, and collaborations to benefit business and the greater community.
*ArtWORKS Participant
NDSU College of Science and Mathematics
The College of Science and Mathematics prepares NDSU graduates to be part of it all – working in this country and abroad in a wide spectrum of science and mathematics fields.
*ArtWORKS Participant
NDSU Press
NDSU Press has a dual mission to teach the next generation of publishers and to publish peer-reviewed fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, often with a regional focus.
New Horizons Golden Notes
The Band provides an entry-level musical experience for older adults, including beginners and those who haven’t participated in a band for many years.
Plains Art Museum
At Plains Art Museum (PAM), our mission is to connect art, artists, and audiences to foster creative, resilient, and welcoming communities that support the contribution of art and artists.
Prairie Public Broadcasting
Prairie Public Broadcasting provides quality radio, television, and public media services that educate, involve, and inspire the people of the prairie region.
Quilters' Guild of North Dakota
The Quilter’s Guild of North Dakota was formed in 1980 with the mission to promote and preserve the arts of patchwork, applique, quilting and related needlework, promote the exchange of ideas, and spread the joy of quilting.