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22-03-2025
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Visiting musicians to perform in concert, offer outreach activities for all ages
Mar. 21—GRAND FORKS — A panel of musicians will present a one-hour panel discussion, "Career Paths in Music for Women," beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 22, at the North Dakota Museum of Art, 261 Centennial Drive, on the UND campus. The panelists are pianist Simone Dinnerstein and violinist Rebecca Fischer, from New York; Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flutist and UND music faculty member; and Naomi Welsh, executive director of the Northern Valley Youth Orchestras. Dinnerstein and Fischer will be in town to perform in concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 23, as part of the Myra Presents: Concerts in the Galleries series at the museum. The program will include works by Bach and Beethoven, as well as polished displays of their solo artistry with modern-day compositions by Missy Mazzoli and Keith Jarrett. In their "Career Paths in Music for Women" conversation Saturday, the musicians will discuss some of the ways in which they have been supported and challenged as they built careers that are professionally and artistically satisfying, according to Brian Loftus, director of membership and marketing, North Dakota Museum of Art. Following that discussion, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Dinnerstein and Fischer will conduct masterclasses and chamber music coaching sessions. Intermediate- and advanced-level musicians are welcome to participate. Both the discussion and the classes are free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Box lunches will be available at no charge for masterclass participants and at a nominal charge for other guests. Reservations are accepted by email Chambermusic@ or calling Jenny Tarlin, (701) 777-4195. Student violinists and pianists who are interested in lessons — or coaching sessions for chamber groups — will be contacted by the museum to schedule 30-minute sessions. Dinnerstein and Fischer will also be participating in outreach activities during their three-day visit here. They will perform a 45-minute concert for children and families beginning at 3 p.m., Saturday at the Grand Forks Public Library Children's Room. All are welcome. On Monday, the pair will be at Valley Middle School, and perform for residents and their guests at the Edgewood assisted living facility in south Grand Forks. These visiting musicians have built distinguished careers in music, primarily as successful performers and concert musicians, but also as teachers, mentors and directors of music programs. Both are faculty members at the Mannes School of Music in New York. Dinnerstein is a Grammy-nominated recording artist and founder and director of the chamber orchestra Baroklyn. She has made 13 albums, all of which topped the Billboard classical charts, with repertoire ranging from François Couperin to Philip Glass. Dinnerstein has played with orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and Montreal Symphony Orchestra to the London Symphony Orchestra and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Italy. She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Arts as well as prestigious concert halls in Germany, Switzerland, South Korea and Australia. Fischer, concertmaster of Barokyn, performs as a soloist, chamber musician and as a member of the art-music duo The Afield. Executive director of the Greenwood Music Camp in western Massachusetts, she is best known in Grand Forks as the former first-violin for the Chiara Quartet, in residency here from 2000 to 2002. She has held residencies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University. Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, the Atlanta Contemporary Museum, and the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Support for the musicians' visit to Grand Forks has been provided by the Myra Foundation and the Women's Fund of the Community Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Region.
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26-02-2025
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North Dakota Museum of Art to host gallery talk, film screenings to complement Ukraine exhibition
Feb. 26—GRAND FORKS — In connection with its "Women at War" exhibition, the North Dakota Museum of Art is hosting a gallery talk Thursday, Feb. 27, and a film screening event Friday, Feb. 28. The gallery talk, set for 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday will feature guest art historian and curator Monika Fabijanska at the museum, 261 Centennial Dr. on the UND campus. It will be followed by a question-and-answer discussion and a reception in the galleries. The talk will also be live-streamed at . The museum will host the screening of three short art films by Ukrainian artists beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers Ave. A brief question-and-answer session with the artists, live via Zoom from Ukraine, will be led by moderator Christophe Wall-Romana, a scholar of cinema studies at the University of Minnesota. These free events are meant to further explore the impact of the Russian invasion of and war with Ukraine, which, as of Monday, Feb. 24, is entering its fourth year. Fabijanska, a New York-based independent art historian, curated the "Women at War" exhibit on display through March 30 at the North Dakota Museum of Art. The exhibition and programming are underwritten by UND, said Brian Lofthus, NDMOA director of membership and marketing. Fabijanska's exhibition, which was listed among the best art shows of 2022 by the Washington Post and the magazine Frieze, "provides context for the ongoing war, as represented in art across media," she said in the event announcement. "Several works in the exhibition were made immediately following February 24, 2022, when Russia began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; others date from the years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Republics' in Donbas in 2014. "War is central to history," Fabijanska said. "History has been written (and painted) by men. This exhibition provides a platform for women narrators of history and also examines gendered perspectives of war." The exhibition has been displayed in Connecticut, Florida, Winnipeg, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The North Dakota Museum of Art is its final stop on the tour. The films to be screened Friday at the Empire Arts Center were produced by Alevtina Kakhidze and Dana Kavelina, both of whom have works featured in the "Women at War" exhibition. Kakhidze's film "All Good?" will be making its North American premiere. Kakhidze, a native of Ukraine, acts as the UN Tolerance Ambassador in Ukraine and was awarded the Kazimir Malevich Artist Prize in 2008 by the Polish Institute in Ukraine. "All Good?," which runs 19 minutes 57 seconds, was shot in Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, in early 2024. Through the mirror of her family's history, the artist analyzes how an empire has ruined the lives of generations and how its influence eventually manifests itself, according to the NDMOA announcement. Two films by Kavelina will be shown, "Marc Tulip, Who Spoke with Flowers" and "There are No Monuments to Monuments." The artist uses animation and video, as well as drawing, installation and painting. Her works often address military violence and war, seen from gender perspective — especially regarding the position of a victim as a political subject — as well as the distance between historical and individual trauma, and memory and misrepresentation. The North Dakota Museum of Art is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There is no admission fee; donations are suggested. Parking is available in front of the museum using the Passport parking app with a smartphone, or stop in the museum for assistance. All parking is free after 4:30 p.m. and on the weekend. For more information, call the museum at (701) 777-4195 or visit .
