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2022 Exhibition Program

L A N D AC K N OW L E D G M E N T The North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival acknowledges that our festival is held on Indigenous peoples traditional homelands including the Anishinaabe the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara and the Lakota Dakota and Nakota peoples These proud Indigenous Peoples are not only a part of our past They are an essential part of North Dakota today Our festival recognizes the ever present systemic racism that perpetrates inequities against these cultures in our state and we commit ourselves indefinitely to respecting and reconciling this long history of injustice 2 3

THE EXHIBITION How to Join Us All exhibitions are free and open to the public See the exhibition space for specific viewing hours CONTENTS Land Acknowledgment 2 Welcome 4 The Exhibition 5 With Gratitude 7 Invited Artist 10 The Artists 12 January 6 27 The Plains Art Museum 704 First Ave N Fargo ND 58102 www PlainsArt org 701 551 6100 February 3 March 3 UND Art Collections at the Empire Arts Center 415 Demers Ave Grand Forks ND 58201 https und edu about initiatives art collections empire html 701 746 5500 March 10 April 9 Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative 222 North 4th St Suite 202 Bismarck ND 58501 www bismarckdac com 701 391 8803 July 27 August 26 The Taube Museum of Art 2 N Main Street Minot ND 58703 www taubemuseum org 701 838 4445 September 5 September 30 James Memorial Arts Center 621 1st Ave West Williston ND 58801 www thejamesmemorial org 701 774 3601 Cover and official poster design by Maya Zarazua 4 November 1 November 30 The Arts Center 115 2nd Street SW Jamestown ND 58401 https jamestownarts com 701 251 2496 Artists Receptions Artists Receptions will be scheduled and held at each venue as part of the festival Receptions provide an opportunity for the public to meet with and discuss works and issues with artists Unfortunately certain receptions may be hosted online instead of as an in person event due to the pandemic To learn more about the dates times and locations for artists receptions in your area visit www NDHRAF org Sale of Artwork Certain artists have chosen to host their work for sale as part of the exhibition Proceeds of the sale go directly to the artist with a small percentage supporting the hosting gallery For more information on which pieces are for sale and the purchase price visit www NDHRAF org Accessibility Closed captioning is available for certain films and pre recorded panel discussions and artists Q As To request specific accommodations email ADA human family org Connect with us Website NDHRAF org Email NDHRAF human family org Phone 701 205 0248 FAX 701 212 4197 EDQ 5

WITH GRATITUDE Our work is possible because of our members partners and volunteers Your generosity funds the work we do every day Visit www ndwomen org to become a member today Thank You The North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival would not exist without the support of organizations and venues throughout North Dakota Thank you for your investment in the arts and for supporting the discussion of human rights social justice and civil rights issues Feminist First Fridays Join us the first Friday of each month for these fun and casual gatherings and meet other equality minded people in your area Are you a high school or college aged individual live in North Dakota and want to get engaged in your community Then the NDWN Youth Action Council is for you Get more information on YAC via email at yac ndwomen org on Google Classroom with the code wyyisdm must join through a non school account on our website at www ndwomen org youth action council on Instagram and TikTok via username ndwn_yac FFF GATHERINGS HELD IN Bismarck Cavalier Devils Lake Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown Minot and Valley City Don t see an event in your area Contact Kristie at 701 712 9600 or kristie ndwomen org and find out how to start a group in your community James Memorial Preservation Society Financial Support J This project is supported in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts For more information visit www ndwomen org and click on Events Feminism Tumblers Good Stuff Exhibition dates in Fargo North Dakota are supported in part by a City Arts Partnership grant administered by The Arts Partnership with support from the cities of Fargo Moorhead and West Fargo We have partnered with the Good Stuff Boutique a North Dakota based woman owned small business to bring you 20 ounce sublimated stainless steel tumblers in four fun designs Proceeds from the sale of these tumblers will help NDWN continue our mission of improving the lives of women in ND 6 Order at https thegoodstuff boutique collections north dakota womens network NDWN 7

INVITED ARTIST I n 2021 the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival introduced an Invited Artists program Through the program the exhibition seeks out those artists creating relevant social justice work and invites them to display Invited artists receive an honorarium in support of their work and humanitarian efforts others in the black community were facing at the time A state of hopelessness fatigue and sometimes fear for both the virus and the police The painting depicts an old lady who has seen it all an Elder who has lived through many experiences yet is still surviving and standing firm She s a sign of resilience The 2022 Invited Artist to the festival is Franklin Ugochukwu Currently based in Minnesota Ugochukwu was born and raised in Nigeria West Africa His colorful and soulful art is inspired by the need to share his voice A voice that speaks about inclusion self love and diversity Franklin is passionate about growing and learning and painting is the means he has currently chosen to pursue that growth Ugochukwu s 2020 work It is Well will be traveling with the North Dakota Human Rights Film and Arts Festival throughout North Dakota The pandemic was ranging and the black community was dealing with many social justice issues in the United States This painting embodies the frustration that Ugochukwu and Franklin Ugochukwu in his studio It Is Well Franklin Ugochukwu 2020 8

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EXHIBITED ARTISTS ACRYLIC Chris Oledude Alyssa Dann SCUPTURE Lisa Arnold Ruchita Jeremy Colbert Beth Bradley Phoebe Chingying Man Rebecca Lee Martens Kayla Branstetter Kathryn Masterson Kimberly Christianson INTERACTIVE FILM Joe A Larson Maxime Pluvinet and Jeremy Salazar C sar Ortiz L pez Franklin Ugochukwu TEXTILES Kimberly Christianson Sister Nancy Gunderson MIXED MEDIA Rebecca Oehler ANIMATED FILM Adam Bursack Casual Affairs Jeremy Colbert VIRTUAL REALITY Mat Charles Laura M Forgie Malia Bruker Nate Dorr Melissa Ann Kugler Elizabeth Leister Gauthier Humbert Rebecca Lee Martens Ken Winikur Gustavo Leal Faga Melo and Kathryn Masterson Maya Sanbar Angie Swiec Justin Stephenson WRITTEN WORD Rhonda Gilbertson Evans OIL Kelly Kaur AUGMENTED REALITY Kimble Bromley Liz Minette Asavari Kumar Jonathan Harris Nita Ritzke AVA ABRYZO NI O TRISTE 13 x 10 DRAWING BISMARCK ND Katherine Shehadeh CHALK PHOTOGRAPHY Heather Peterson Shane Balkowistch Paul Gatto DRAWING Frances Taylor Ava Abryzo Ted Martin SCREEN PRINTING My name is Ava Abryzo I am a 16 year old student at Century High School in Bismarck ND This is a charcoal portrait Brett Lysne EXPERIMENTAL FILM Amanda Frost SCRIPT WRITTING Pamela Falkenberg Jack Dawn Brown Cochran Daniel Smith Parisa Ghaderi With so much social unrest in our in our world today this piece represents the voice of the child who should be heard instead of silenced Oliver Egersdorf Boyum Iraca Katarina Krstic ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram ava_abryzo Previous page Angel of Justice by Joe A Larson 12 13

LISA ARNOLD JUSTICE 16 x 20 ACRYLIC AND GOUACHE ST PAUL MN Lisa Arnold is a multi disciplinary art mutt who specializes in community art projects nature art and themes of social justice SHANE BALKOWITSCH UNCOVERING OUR LOST CHILDREN 11 x 14 CANVAS WETPLATE REPLICA BISMARCK ND Digital photography of today relies on past and I want it to continue today It has technology Wet plate photography relies been said that you do not take a wet plate on 160 year old chemistry a bit of magic photograph it is given to you and this is so and some luck I think it is essential that very true as technology moves forward we embrace and continue to celebrate and not She likes to create work that connects us in the quest for social justice and human rights and challenges the status quo forget important processes from the past By questioning authority perspective and privilege her work implicates and empowers us in injustice issues and pushes us to make a change to see differently understand anew feel deeply take action My goal is to capture as many people as Wet plate photography is one of those processes I can in this process Friends family loved ones or complete strangers do not matter ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook xolaartsandobjects Instagram Xolaoutloud I want to share this beloved process with as many people as possible that dates back to 1848 Wet plate photography was such an important medium for expression in the 14 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website sharoncol balkowitsch com wetplate htm Facebook nostalgicglasswetplate Instagram balkowitsch Twitter balkowitsch 15

BETH BRADLEY CRICKET ANYONE 16 x 20 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS FARGO ND KAYLA BRANSTETTER CASTE 11 x 17 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS PURDY MO Beth Bradley is a self taught painter who lives Kayla Branstetter is an English professor for She recently received an art award from in Fargo She has written about art and Crowder College mother writer artist and Rome Italy She currently writes for her own artists for local publications is a photo photographer from Missouri She holds a personal blog Kayla s Art Literature and enthusiast and has always been a gallery MALS degree in Art Literature and Culture Culture Chat rat But she never thought she could paint from the University of Denver In November of 2018 she finally got the She was recently inducted into Marquis courage to pick up a paintbrush and now Who s who of America Her creative she can t put it down Her biggest goal is to nonfiction poetry art fiction and make a difference in the world with her art photography have appeared in numerous journals including High Shelf Press The Esthetic Apostle Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review Buringword Literary Journal ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook BethBradleyFargo Instagram boomerbliss Twitter boomerbliss 16 Recently her art piece Life s Dance was featured in the Fable exhibition for M A D S ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook KaylaBranstetter a contemporary art gallery in Milan Italy 17

DAWN BROWN KIMBLE BROMLEY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 50 x 42 OIL ON CANVAS FARGO ND CHIEF NIP FEATURE LENGTH SCRIPT EGG HARBOR NEW JERSEY Kimble A Bromley originally from Iowa has theme of Moby Dick flower paintings and 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz by Indians Of served as a visiting artist throughout the most recently a series BACK TO THE POND All Tribes Leads to current standoff upper Midwest Ecuador and Mexico He a more abstract approach to the Standing Rock Involves NIXON AIM and has painted abroad in Cuba Jamaica Ec pond paintings the FBI Counterculture of hippies and drugs too Based on true story uador and Mexico Since moving to North Dakota in 1996 he has completed a number of series of paintings including several landscape series of the North Dakota plains works inspired by a residency in Chicago paintings using discarded billboards a group of duck paintings and drawings inspired by judging the ND High School Duck Stamp painting ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST competition a series of paintings of his ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Minnesota pond a more introspective Website www kimblebromley com personal series of paintings around the 18 Website sterlingscripts com Facebook omdevisheroes Instagram sibillafilm 19

MALIA BRUKER THRESHOLD VIRTUAL REALITY TALLAHASSEE FL ADAM BURSACK BLEAK SUMMER 14 x 17 MIXED MEDIA FARGO ND Malia Bruker is a filmmaker and Associate Festival Antimatter Video Art Sarasota I am a multidisciplinary artist from Fargo ND Professor of Digital Media Production at Film Festival winning awards at Third Coast My primary visual art mediums are mixed Florida State University Bruker works Dance Film Festival ScreenDance Miami media and photography primarily in documentary but has produced and ADF s Dance for Camera Festival genre bending work in the realms of dance I am also a musician and writer and the DJ film artists moving images and other host of Adam s Archive on the nonprof experimental disciplines it public radio station KNNZ 89 1 FM After working primarily in photography as a Her films have screened at International Film visual medium for several years the deaths Festival Rotterdam Athens International Film of several people among my family and and Video Festival Philadelphia Film close friends over the past year seemed to Festival Chicago Underground Film compel me back to mixed media art Festival and many more I can t pretend to know the reason there Her dance films have screened at Sans is no direct correlation with the people lost Souci Festival of Dance Cinema but it opened a floodgate of inspiration for Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film one reason or another 20 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook adam bursack Instagram adam_bursack_art Twitter AdamsArchive891 21

CASUAL AFFAIRS MAT CHARLES Casual Affairs is a French electronic music duo formed in 2018 by two friends with backgrounds in arts design and cinema Mat Charles is a journalist and filmmaker For their first single they joined forces with Sacramento rapper Chuuwee on this dark animated short Service and The Telegraph newspaper DANCING IN MY SADNESS ANIMATED FILM FRANCE OPERATION BERLIN THE CHILDREN WHO FOUGHT WAR IN COLOMBIA ANIMATED FILM COLOMBIA based in Colombia where he works as a freelance foreign correspondent covering the country s civil conflict for the BBC World Mat has produced documentaries for BBC News and his films have been broadcast on network television across Europe He s won several awards on the film festival circuit and has taught journalism and documentary production in both Colombia and the UK ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Twitter local_program Mat has a PhD and also works as a researcher for the Colombian Organised Crime Observatory at Universidad del ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Webits mihistoria co Rosario in Bogot 22 23

KIMBERLY CHRISTIANSON JEREMY COLBERT Kimberly Christianson is an artist essence Kimberly is known for often adding precious Born and raised in southern Oklahoma These lessons and stories were precious to nature photographer and photojournalist and semi precious gems and minerals along among the rivers rolling hills and beautiful me and I was afraid of allowing them to with Missouri River sand to her artwork land I was taught to respect nature and to become clich through my artwork As I A native of North Dakota that has returned embrace my rich Native American heritage have become more comfortable with to her roots after traveling extensively as a of the Chickasaw Nation myself my art and my content I have ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE 31 x 41 TEXTILES BISMARCK ND EPIDEMIC SOLUTIONS 14 X 5 X 14 MIXED MEDIA LEXINGTON KY career flight attendant The opportunity to found it important to face the challenge travel and discover different cultures has left My connection to the Chickasaw tribe has of exploring my Native American heritage her interested in environmental concerns always been important to me although through sculpture and a sincere desire for equal rights and for many years I avoided using the Native inclusion of all people American content in my work My grandfather a Chickasaw Legislator taught me Kimberly is a member of Bismarck to be proud of my heritage my people and Downtown Artist Cooperative She was a would tell many stories about the Chickasaw participant in the 2019 ND Human Rights Art Festival and 2019 Bismarck Library The Art of Books 24 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook Christianson Studio Tribe and its importance to the American Nation He shared lessons about our culture traditions and stories of our family ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST FaceBook jeremycolbert Instagram jeremydale74 25

NATE DORR OLIVER EGERSDORF BOYUM Nate Dorr took a winding path to the I learned how to do stop animation in Fargo present moment He studied neuroscience over the summer and decided on a police but fell through photography into film For brutality story where the people fight back eight years he operated a rodent behavior and win My passion is to help people and lab and curated a science film festival for I hope this film will help other kids think seven for themselves about what s going on SANCTUARY EXPERIMENTAL FILM BROOKLYN NY SLIME MAN GETS ARRESTED ANIMATED FILM FARGO ND in America In the meantime he s written about music and film for various outlets self published zines and stories drawn the collapse of the anthropocene and become routinely lost in unfamiliar places hiding in plain sight close to home Recent films Urban Growth Drift Roads and Iron Triangle trace aspects of the secret histories of New York s waterfront 26 27

ELIZABETH LEISTER PAMELA FALKENBERG JACK COCHRAN Elizabeth Leister s practice includes video Pam is an independent filmmaker who margins which sounds better than saying performance drawing XR which act as received her PhD from the University of Iowa that as filmmakers they re oddballs meditations on the unreliability of memory and taught at Northern Illinois University and cranks and the passage of time conceptualized St Mary s College and the University of through a feminist lens Notre Dame Jack is an independent ALL HER BODIES VIRTUAL REALITY LOS ANGELES CA SCARY PLACES SHAPES SIZES EXPERIMENTAL FILM ROCKFORD ILLINOIS filmmaker who has produced directed or Her art has been presented in museums shot a variety of experimental and personal galleries and artist run spaces nationally projects As a DP he has extensive and internationally She is Assistant Professor experience shooting commercials of Emerging Media in CTVA at CSUN independent features and documentaries For over five years they have been making personal films together again ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Websiteelizabethleister com Instagram allherbodies under the name Outlier Moving Pictures They hope their work will prove worthy of the name avoiding the usual patterns and approaching their subject matter from the 28 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website outliermovingpictures com Facebook outliermovingpictures Twitter outlierpics Instagram outliermovingpictures 29

LAURA M FORGIE AMANDA J FROST Laura M Forgie is a mixed media artist Amanda Frost is a queer visual artist who assumptions of intimacy sexuality and specializing in collage photography and works in illustration printmaking gender identity fiber arts photography sculpture and performance DEATH OF A BIRD 48 x 32 COLLAGE MIXED MEDIA MOORHEAD MN SEX EDUCATION EXPERIMENTAL FILM FARGO ND art She grew up in the Fargo Moorhead Within these mediums she explores death area and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts violence sexuality and gender topics with an emphasis in printmaking and a minor Raised in Eastern Iowa she has been in art history from Minnesota State University working out of the F M area for the past Moorhead seven years Frost focuses on activist issues within feminist and LGBTQIA communities using experimental methods Intimacy and anti establishment subjects are common themes Frost incorporates into her work She ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram la mifo 30 often involves androgynous bodies and figures to challenge viewers on their 31

PAUL GATTO PARISA GHADERI The only statement I can make is through Parisa Ghaderi Tehran Iran is a visual artist she explore moments of pause filled with the lens of my camera curator and filmmaker who earned her BA vulnerability silence and contradiction HOLDING HANDS 48 x 41 PHOTOGRAPH OTTAWA ONTARIO THE IMPOSSIBLE ROOM II EXPERIMENTAL FILM EAST LANSING MICHIGAN in Visual Communications from Art Architecture University Tehran Iran and her MFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan USA in 2014 She moved to the U S in 2009 Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally Her experience of living in Iran and the U S has revealed an in between state about distance she never fully arrived and never ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website pgattophoto smugmug com entirely left In her work she is am dealing with emotional and physical distance compounded loss and the opacity of ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website pghaderi com language Using photography and video 32 33

RHONDA GILBERTSON EVANS SISTER NANCY GUNDERSON My name is Rhonda Gilbertson Evans I am Sister Nancy is a Benedictine sister of Sister Nancy has used her art as a teaching a 35 year survivor of Lupus a Case Manager Annunciation Monastery where she taught tool in her classroom and has used her art in for those persons experiencing homeless in the School of Arts and Science at the retreats combining art and spirituality where ness and an activist University of Mary She is primarily a participants made creations of their own WHY I DO THIS WORK WRITTEN WORD MOORHEAD MN LAMENTATION 19 x 19 TEXTILES BISMARCK ND self taught artist who loves to dabble I am the proud wife of Brian the mother of 2 incredible women the grandmother of 5 a punk rock poet and a spoken word performer As Sister Nancy states Both nature and spirituality have been rich sources of creative energy for me I seek to create works with meaning that invite people to come closer and enter a world I have opened to discover its mysteries and intricate beauty Sense of place would ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Twitter RhondaGilberts7 Instagram gilbertsonevans 34 as she calls it in fibers and color describe what influences many of her works from what she sees out her window or on her walks 35

JONATHAN HARRIS CRITICAL RACE THEORY 16 x 20 OIL REPRODUCTION DETROIT MI Jonathan Harris is a visual artist who was strives to accomplish through his visual and born and raised in the city of Detroit After curatorial work attending the Detroit School for the Fine and Performing Arts he attended Henry Ford where he majored in Graphic Design and minored in Studio Art Oil paints acrylics and charcoal are his media of choice He has become known for and perfected an oil enamel technique resulting in graphic high contrast portraits without the use of a brush and world issues in addition to instilling pride Gauthier Humbert is a director graphic designer and illustrator originally from the Vall e de Vill Alsace France His short film Sylve won the jury prize at the Lab Film festival as well as the prizes for the best image and the best sound during the Marathon 48h de Strasbourg Jonathan s work is emotive with a focus on experience Bringing awareness to social LUMEN ANIMATED FILM KIRCHHEIM FRANCE After studying graphic design photography and drawing he created his first stop motion video clip for a local group He continues with the creation of a sound and video recording studio Green Valley Records which will give him the possibility of scripting and producing his first live action clips Community College and Oakland University current events and the African American GAUTHIER HUMBERT ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website jonathanraymondharris com into the black community are goals that he 36 37

Women Rising Up When I was born my father placed me at the familiar altar of patriarchy I ranted and raved Stomped screamed and shouted until reluctantly my father s infinite love gave me powerful degrees one for each hand band inspired by the rhythms of the When my daughter was born I breathed intense joy into her lips carved words of power onto the canvas of her skin propelled her ahead of lines of dissent deconstructed dialogues of traditional expectations celebrated her strength and her passion whispered in her ear that Barbie was too skinny and no one needed to wear high heels WOMEN RISING UP WRITTEN WORD CALGARY ALBERTA unless they wanted to let her embrace her glorious size perfect shape and seamless color Kelly Kaur grew up in Singapore and came Affair going to the moonautonomy twice It will be showedis her the map to female to Canada to study at the University of included in time in the from lessons learntcapsules in classrooms andNova on theColstreets Colombian Andes which through its lyrics Calgary Kelly is a lecturer at Mount Royal recovers and enhances the ancestral stories University and Athabasca University Her first of the Muisca indigenous community novel Letters to Singapore published by IRACA CUANDO YO TE VUELVA A VER EXPERIMENTAL FILM BOGOT COLOMBIA IRACA is a Colombian electronic music KELLY KAUR Stonehouse Publishing will be released Since 2017 we have represented Colombia on May 1 2022 in various festivals and music markets In May 2021 we premiered the song When I See Her work will be in upcoming anthologies You Again a song that poetically questions Transformative Stories of Canadian the loss of a loved one in an unfair way was Immigrant Women and Growing Up in Indian recorded at the Peace and Reconciliation in Singapore Memory Center a very representative space in the search for justice and peace ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook iracamusic Instagram iracamusic She is also on UNESCO s Ulyanovsk Cities of Literature Project The Only Question Project This year her work will travel even lection of the Lunar Codex Nova C mission And she became June 2022 and the Polaris Collection sassy feisty intelligent vivacious beautiful Grifdynamic spirited confide fin mission Fall 2023 adventurous self sufficient wise brave broadminded inquisitive amb We all need just one advocate Rise up for our mothers sisters and daughters Rise up for the oppressed muted and nameless Rise up for invisible women of the world until on her own every single woman in the universe Rises up for herself ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram kellykaur3 Twitter Kellykaur15 further Her poem A Singaporean s Love 38 39

ASAVARI KUMAR A NEW NORMAL AUGMENTED REALITY LOS ANGELES CA Asavari is a Filmmaker Visual Artist from New Delhi India currently based in Los Angeles She owns and operates the studio Supernova Design through which she creates commercial and personal projects while collaborating with POC and women artists her She is a former artist in residence for Adobe Aero and is currently exploring how Augmented Reality can be a compelling medium for telling personal stories 40 FROM NIRVANA TO SILVANA EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERBIA Katarina Krsti has been in love with film industry and art since her early childhood She graduated from the Svetozar Markovic High School of Economics Currently she is a fourth year student of the Academy for Drama and Film Arts Asavari s award winning films new media work and graphic narratives have been showcased at numerous festivals and exhibition spaces Drawn to cross cultural narratives Asavari uses character driven storytelling to parse her evolving cultural and political identity Through her body of work she hopes to generate a discourse surrounding ideas of home and belonging and find where her own narratives intersect with those around KATARINA KRSTI Her mentors are Dejan Ze evi director Milena Predi editor and Rade Vladi cinematographer ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website frances taylor4 Facebook supernovadesigninc Twitter suprnovadesign Instagram supernovadesigninc 41

MELISSA ANN KUGLER JOE A LARSON A self taught artist that has finally found her Joe A Larson is an artist and enjoys creating place Kugler started using jigsaw puzzle paintings and mosaics Since 2016 he has pieces in her watercolor and acrylic served St Mark s Lutheran Church in Fargo paintings when the pandemic started and was the first openly queer clergy called WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME AIR 12 x 12 MIXED MEDIA PLYMOUTH MN ANGEL OF JUSTICE 9 x 12 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS MOORHEAD MN by a Lutheran congregation in She intends to use the gift of art to help North Dakota people by sharing and by providing inspiration Joe received his B A from Gustavus Adolphus College and Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary His painting in this show is entitled Angel of Justice acrylic paint and gold leaf it depicts Raguel who in Judeo Christian traditions is the archangel of ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram bymelissakugler 42 justice fairness harmony vengeance and redemption ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram joelarson26 43

GUSTAVO LEAL FAGA MELO AND MAYA SANBAR FOOTSTEPS ON THE WIND ANIMATED FILM S O PAULO BRAZIL BRETT LYSNE FLOWERS FOR 2020 25 x 19 SCREENPRINT FARGO ND Brett Lysne is a visual artist and designer who Artists from the film industry are always looking for opportunities that have a positive impact on the world works in drawing printmaking artist books and digital media He holds an MFA from Washington State Films are known as a tool that spread messages change opinions arouses emotions and why not change lives Change Lives This is what we believed since we started this project University 2012 and a BA from the University FOOTSTEPS ON THE WIND is a film made for refugees For kids Not just to represent them and show their hard journey Footsteps On the Wind is a tool to shows that they are not alone and yes they can have a better life Currently Brett teaches printmaking and 44 of Minnesota Morris 2008 and has partaken in artist residency programs in Washington Vermont Finland rural Minnesota and at NDSU drawing courses at Minnesota State ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website footstepsonthewind com University Moorhead ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram brett lysne 45

PHOEBE CHINGYING MAN REBECCA LEE MARTENS Phoebe Man is a filmmaker multimedia Rebecca Martens is a sculpture student who specializes in metal artwork POST METOO EXPERIMENTAL FILM HONG KONG artist independent curator and Associate Professor of the School of Creative Media AUSTRALIA WILDFIRES 31 x 21 x 8 MIXED MEDIA FARGO ND Growing up in a welding shop really influenced her use of materials Metal is a material she feels comfortable with because it is familiar City University of Hong Kong Her current work involves materials that explore the patina of age Martens is currently attending MSUM to finish up her bachelor of fine arts 46 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website freecoloringifiwere wordpress com Facebook phoebemanrelationalart Instagram shop_girl_art 47

TED MARTIN KATHRYN MASTERSON Ted Martin grew up on a farm ranch in western North Dakota A retired teacher living in Fargo drawing has been a life long hobby Kathy Masterson is a sculpture artist living in Moorhead Minnesota CLAIMING THE WHEATFIELDS 38 x 25 5 DRAWING FARGO ND LADYLIKE 18 x 6 x 24 MIXED MEDIA MOORHEAD MN She will graduate from Minnesota State University Moorhead MSUM in fall of 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts with an emphasis in ceramics Her art addresses personal history and feminist issues Kathy received the MSUM Art Excellence Scholarship and the Fargo Fine Arts Club Scholarship in 2021 She is actively involved in the MSUM ceramics guild and serves as the president Kathy was awarded best in show at the 2021 Student Juried Exhibition juried by Naomi Ramona Schliesman in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery 48 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram therealpotteryer 49

LIZ MINETTE REBECCA OEHLER Liz Minette has participated in the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival for the past three years She makes her home in Esko Minnesota near Lake Superior Rebecca Oehler is a visual artist living in Fargo ND ARGONNE EGG AND BERRY ASSOCIATION WRITTEN WORK ESKO MN The poem Argonne Egg and Berry Association was written after reading about the Argonne Farms Veterans Self Sufficiency Project created in 1922 to give injured WWI veterans a place to live and farm The land was inhospitable for such an endeavor TRIGGER HAPPY 28 x 18 TEXTILES FARGO ND Often using repetitive mark making and imagery she creates artwork about mental health and feminist issues such as abortion rights ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook liz minette 50 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram rebecca oehler 51

CHRIS OLEDUDE ALYSSA DANN HEATHER PETERSON As a singer songwriter and performer Chris Owens has been musically active for nearly 55 of his 62 years He studied piano cello recorder and African drums and also sang in numerous choruses Owens had been in bands and school musicals but no videos or films Heather Peterson is a self taught expressionist artist originally from the Fargo Moorhead area GEORGE FLOYD SAY THEIR NAMES EXPERIMENTAL FILM BROOKLYN NY Alyssa Dann was a quiet and reserved child raised in a very musical household Her father is a highly regarded bass and guitar player and her mother is a singer For Alyssa music has always been her voice She started lessons at the age of five and songwriting by seven By 13 Alyssa was playing bass on her father s gigs at clubs in New York City Fast forward to 2018 and Alyssa while still in high school was performing in New York City and Boston and releasing her own recordings 52 THE LIFE YOU SEE 24 x 18 CHALK PASTELS FARGO ND She discovered her love for art at a very young age when she came across acrylic paints amongst craft supplies in her childhood home This led to a lifelong journey of self discovery as she learned to develop her own technique and artistic voice ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website oledude rocks Facebook ChrisOledude Twitter oledudeworld Instagram oledude world Though the subject matter varies her art is always inspired by emotion Heather has enjoyed many other art styles throughout her life however painting and chalk pastels continue to remain her passion Just recently she decided to focus more on her personal art career after spending many years working as a freelance artist ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Facebook heatherpetersonartist Twitter stewieis4 Instagram lbpawlak 53

Lines That Bind MAXIME PLUVINET C SAR ORTIZ L PEZ MY DAY WILL COME INTERACTIVE AGUASCALIENTES MEXICO Maxime is from the south for France and works as Habesha Project s Visual Content Creator in Aguascalientes Mexico He has a Master s in International Relations from Sciences Po Toulouse Before working for Habesha Project he interned at the Lebanese newspaper L Orient Le Jour in 2017 and the Mexican newspaper Reforma in 2015 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website www proyectohabesha org Twitter MaximePluvinet 54 We are waiting for Fernando to arrive Fernando drives the box truck to resupply us so we can supply the refugees In our only common language their weary eyes plead with me to hasten time and mine plead with them for still more patience They want blankets shoes food for the babies I want to get them blankets shoes food for the babies The calm eyes of the elders seem relieved that the lines onto then off of the trucks boats planes and busses are recessing like my grandparents may have looked on Ellis NITA RITZKE in aK holding pattern as they stood before someone like me LINES THAT BIND WRITTEN WORK BISMARCK ND on the way to lives with less fear less torture less death Nita Ritzke lives and works in Fernando will be here soon Bismarck N D He is from Costa Rica where his family has electricity sometimes He was a Merchant Marine and now volunteers to get what is needed where it is n The children have fallen asleep on the shoulders bearing their weight We all scan the headlights as they approach the center then we look back down when they do not stop All is quiet Bare feet shift Then I hear someone in back softly crying I hand the first person a travel sized pack of tissues and the line passes them back Some hands are missing fingers I watch the hands connecting letting go connecting letting go until the crying stop Then approaching headlights stop Fernando has come and like THAT the sea of people parts toENGAGE the sideWITH andTHE Fernando rolls open the back of the t ARTIST hands open pallets and Fernando says Hola and boxes are relayed into th Facebook NitaRitzke and people pat their hearts and packages are opened and hands pass the bl around and people say tashakor and thank you and manana and welc because they will be warm and babies will be fed and people can get55some we all smile at Fernando who has beaten us to the punch before he drives o

RUCHITA STACKING EXPERIMENTAL FILM FLORIANOPOLIS BRAZIL Ruchita is a aultimedia visual artist focused on the intersection of photography installation video and performance art Ruchita holds a degree in Communications from the International Fine Arts College in Miami 2001 2005 constitutes the vehicle enabling the perception of the fluid boundaries between the concrete nature of space and the infinite potential for abstraction that resides in all things Between 2001 and 2007 while residing in Miami she worked as an assistant for the photographer Nick Garcia and the creative office Clear Channel handling musical production projects Her artwork consists of images elaborated from performances for camera that yield installation pieces composed of videos and or photographs Therefore physical experience as a working tool serves as the basis of my production The body 56 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website www ruchita art JEREMY SALAZAR DEFENDER OF HIS PEOPLE ACRYLIC REPRODUCTION ALBUQUERQUE NM Native American artist Jeremy Salazar is a contemporary painter based in Albuquerque New Mexico hands and also painted stories of color and faces of the Native American people He specializes in vibrant acrylic portraitures with a combination of abstraction and realism What I try to emphasize in my work are the eyes and facial expressions of my characters making these more realistic and full of depth while the rest of the composition fades away into abstract colors The color schemes sets the mood while the face gives life to the painting Using a bold and vibrant color palette in every painting jeremy has come on scene as a promising emerging artist Making both a statement of reclaiming authentic native artwork done by native ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website three feather studios com 57

Khan Younis 1956 Torn away from my peaceful sea dreams my puppy dog ears are bombarded Sounds of my Daddy s sharp siren wails fill our home with echoes of air raid warnings to come His brother this time I uncover as I lie JUSTIN STEPHENSON ADRIAN SUTHERLAND POLITICIAN MAN ANIMATED FILM WINNIPEG CA Justin Stephenson is an award winning filmmaker and moving image designer His recent work includes directing editing and animating Gord Downie s Secret Path in Concert for the CBC Distributed a 360 degree video work commissioned by the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab and the animated film for Gord Downie s The Secret Path also for the CBC Justin s work focuses on materialities the physical qualities of subjects and media For example the ink paper and letterforms used in his title work for David Cronenberg s A Dangerous Method in which the narrative of the film is staged against handwritten letters between the main characters 58 Developing concepts through process Justin takes a hands on approach with all aspects of production from the design editing and animation through to post production KATHERINE awake SHEHADEH My baby sister who is still KHAN YOUNIS 1956 WRITTEN WORK CORAL GABLES FL hypnotized by the lifegiving sounds of Katherine Shehadeh is a writer and mom who resides with her family in Miami Florida our mother s womb lays nestled beside me When not writing she spends time with her family including her two young children and pursuing degrees in Creative Writing Religious Studies Many of her pieces are directly influenced by these adventures My playtime fingers ride the blemishes of the stone slab wall abutting our family She s interested in exploration of the interconnection of nature humanity religion and our place in the universe as well as human rights and social justice related issues You will probably find that a lot of her writing is centered on these themes bed as a fullness washes over me ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website adriansutherlandmusic com Facebook attaboyadrian Twitter attaboyadrian Instagram attaboyadrian Feeling the cool sandpaper grit with ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website www katherinesarts com Instagram katherinesarts my fingerprints the opulence of every bump wags its tongue at the old camp 59

DANIEL SMITH ARBAKAI FEATURE LENGTH SCRIPT WOODBRIDGE VIRGINIA Daniel W Smith USA grew up on Long Island New York and Japan After graduating from Marquette University he volunteered for military service a feature length documentary and has three documentaries and two web series in post ANGIE SWIEC TRAGIC BEAUTY 16 x 20 MIXED MEDIA BISMARCK ND Angie Swiec is a visual artist who lives and creates in Bismarck ND Her work focuses on the environment activism and beauty After deploying to Bosnia Iraq the Horn of Africa and Germany Dan retired from U S Army Special Forces in 2008 He then worked as a civilian operations planner at U S Africa Command and then at a U S Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron supporting U2 operations Daniel graduated from George Mason University with an MFA in Poetry and the New York Film Academy with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing He has written seven screenplays and four documentary scripts He has produced and completed three short films 60 ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website veritasartpictures com Facebook Veritas Art Pictures LLC 2074419149448620 Instagram a swiec art 61

FRANCES TAYLOR FRANKLIN UGOCHUKWU My name is Frances Taylor I m a senior Media Production student at the University of Mary and I ve been a supporting member at the Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative for over a year Hello My name is Franklin Tochukwu Ugochukw and I m a painter I was born in Kano Nigeria where I graduated high school in 2013 I moved to the United States in 2014 US VS THEM 8 x 10 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY BISMARCK ND 62 To express myself and let my voice be heard through my artwork A voice that promotes Nigerian African culture and creativity As a painter my approach to my work comes from a deep love for capturing nature s beauty as it reveals itself to me This comprises of everything that nature embodies humans wildlife and vegetations Sexuality is a hard topic to bring up in North Dakota For those of us who subscribed to anything other than the normative state it often seems easier to hide who we are out of fear for what will happen if we show ourselves In this photo I wanted to capture how our sexuality identity is woven into our very fabric and how through acceptance we can better realize radical love IT IS WELL 16 x 20 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS FARGO ND ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Instagram frances taylor4 Born and raised in Nigeria West African I was richly blessed daily with the color palette of my surroundings and culture This is one of the reasons I paint so passionately I believe that as a creator artist I have a mantle to share my ideas to the world ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website franklinugochukwuarts carrd co Facebook FranklinUgochukwuArts Twitter Frank__freezy 63

KEN WINIKUR A PROMISE KEPT VIRTUAL REALITY BISMARCK ND Ken Winikur Creative Director and Principal of Winikur Productions Winikur is a documentary filmmaker who has made extensive work exploring Jewish stories He has created projects for the History Channel the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center and others ENGAGE WITH THE ARTIST Website ilholocaustmuseum org exhibitions a promise kept 64 Human Family org 65