Performances & Exhibitions
Extraordinarily Ordinary
The Northwest Arts Center is excited to present “Extraordinarily Ordinary” by artist Michael Reedy. Reedy currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and teaches drawing at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Art & Design. The exhibition will be on display from January 9 – February 20, 2025.
In “Extraordinarily Ordinary,” Reedy explores anatomical illustration as reminders of death. His mixed media work features “antagonistic Clip-art Cherubs, apocalyptic hordes, skull babies, floating brains, and organ ghosts…” placed amidst “…an alien landscape full of hypno-spirals, cascading vortexes, and black holes.”
“My hope is to transport the viewer to another plane and space infused with a sense of scientific aura, moral lesson, and morbid entertainment,” states Reedy.
The Walter Piehl Gallery is located in the Northwest Arts Center on the lower level of the Gordon B. Olson Library, with its own entrance on the south side of the library. It is open TWThF, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 1-5 p.m. and by special arrangement. It is closed holidays.
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.
Northwest Arts Center
500 University Avenue West, Minot
Northwest Arts Center
Home o the Walter Piehl Gallery, a public reception area, and MSU's Permanent Art Collection and Native American Collections. The Center has enriched the artistic life of northwest North Dakota with year-round art exhibitions, a performing arts series, a public lecture series, and numerous workshops and artists-in-residence activities. All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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