Emerging and established visual, literary, and performing artists are invited to enter A Woman’s Perspective on Ritual Multimedia Art Exhibition, Literary and Performing Event held February 1-March 30, 2013, at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead MN. Entry forms are due postmarked Tuesday, January 15, 2013, for visual art in all media, and for literary and performing art including prose, poetry, music, vocals, dance, theatre, and film. Performing and literary art will be presented at the public reception and performance event Sunday, February 17, 2013.
A Woman’s Perspective is a nonjuried, multi-venue series of multimedia arts exhibitions and events open to artists age 15 and above. There are no entry fees.
Exhibitions and events are supported in part by Quilters’ Guild of North Dakota, Prairie Public, HandWorks, and American Association of University Women-Fargo/Moorhead with venue support by Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County at the Hjemkomst Center, 202 First Avenue North, Moorhead MN. For information and entry forms, visit http://awp.handworks.org or call (701) 232-5389.
Nicole Crutchfield Named Planning Administrator
FARGO, N.D.– Nicole Crutchfield has been selected to be the Planning Administrator for the City of Fargo Planning and Development department. She will supervise three planners and have administrative responsibility for land use planning, land development code administration, and downtown redevelopment.
Nicole has a Bachelors Degree in Landscape Architecture and a Certificate of Community and Regional Planning from Kansas State University. She has 10 years of private sector development experience as a Landscape Architect and Urban Planner. Prior to working for Fargo, she worked for 5 years as Principal Planner and Development Review Committee Chair for the City of Round Rock, Texas, a fast growing suburb of Austin. Nicole has been a Planner with the City of Fargo for the past 5 years, working with development review, “The Fargo Project”, the development of the University Mixed Use Zoning District and other planning projects.
Nicole Crutchfield is replacing Senior Planner Jim Hinderaker, who resigned to take a job as Chief City Planner for Grand Prairie, Texas. She will also assume some of the administrative duties of Senior Planner Bob Stein who will retire in January.
As part of the Planning and Development Department reorganization, Senior Planner Dan Mahli will now have the title of Community Development Administrator. He will continue working with housing and community development programs, but the title will better describe his responsibilities.
GHOST IMAGE: ARTWORK BY JONATHAN RUTTER
The Rourke Art Gallery, 523 4th Street South, Moorhead, MN
December 21, 2012 – February 24, 2013
The Rourke Art Museum is pleased to present an exhibition of recent small paintings and drawings by Moorhead native Jonathan Rutter.
“We’re pleased to welcome back Jonathan for his fourth solo exhibit at the Rourke Art Gallery,” said Tania Blanich, executive director of the Rourke. “His technique harkens back to the masters, yet he definitely brings something fresh to the viewers.”
Rutter grew up in Moorhead and graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead with a degree in art. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. As Rutter tells the story, he has been painting and drawing for seven years as a result of his inability to find summer work in the lucrative field of grocery bagging. A student internship at the Rourke Art Museum in 2001 allowed him to realize that making art was something he could do well.