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Check out NDCA's Prairie Arts May 2024 newsletter for the latest in statewide and national arts-related news. It includes upcoming EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES, and an article celebrating the accomplishments of outgoing Executive Director Kim Konikow.

During her tenure at NDCA, Executive Director Kim Konikow successfully advocated to increase the agency’s budget, introducing new programs for underserved communities, and expanded staff capacity to manage those programs.  

By Rhea Beto

NDCA and North Dakota Tourism are displaying prints of the winning photographs from the 2022 and 2023-2024 Governor's Photo Contests through May 2024.

North Dakota Council on the Arts announces request for qualifications for placemaking in Region 8.

Check out NDCA's Prairie Arts April 2024 newsletter for the latest in statewide and national arts-related news. It includes upcoming EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES, and two STORIES: NDCA Fellow and playwright Kathleen Coudle-King gives an update on her project and Arts Across the Prairie unveils their new brand strategy. 

NDCA FY24 Individual Artist Fellow and playwright Kathleen Coulde-King gives an update on her project, "Whispers in the Wind: North Dakota's Disappeared Speak,” a play about people who seemingly disappeared after they became associated with mental institutions in North Dakota. 

By Rhea Beto

The Region 6 Selection Committee for Arts Across the Prairie: Placemaking in Rural North Dakota announces large-scale sculptor James Culleton was selected for their project titled "Flyways, Byways, & Waterways."

Check out NDCA's Prairie Arts March 2024 newsletter for the latest in statewide and national arts-related news. It includes upcoming EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES, and two STORIES: Ireland-based ND artist Mollie Douthit and high school students make music video with teaching artist Stuart James. 

Over the course of a week, the students at Four Winds High School had not only written a song together but had also arranged it, produced it, and filmed it, creating their own video during a workshop led by Teaching Artist Stuart James.

By contributing editor Lisa McCallum

Born and raised in North Dakota, artist Mollie Douthit always felt a strong connection to her family's European roots. Learn how she reconciled her desire to belong by following her own path.

A first-person account by artist and contributing editor Mollie Douthit