Past Events

NDCA needs your input to help brand Arts Across the Prairie – Placemaking in Rural North Dakota.

Fluffy Fields Vineyard & Winery
2708 21st St. E, Dickinson, ND
Visit with NDCA Staff and Board Members.
Enjoy light appetizers, cash bar.

RSVP by Friday, May 26
Email: arts@nd.gov

The 2023 North Dakota State Poetry Out Loud Competition will be held on Monday, February 27^th at the ND Heritage Center and State Museum, in the Russell Reid Auditorium.

If you attend an arts event of any kind in ND through April 2023, please take this very short survey while you are there!

Please join us for a special ceremony where Governor Burgum will announce the winners of the 2023 North Dakota Governor's Awards for the Arts on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at the Heritage Center in Bismarck.

Please join us for our biennial Statewide Arts Convening in collaboration with the Main Street ND Summit 2022, October 24-26 at the Bismarck Event Center. The Convening will feature several sessions focused on the arts community. *Free and open to the public. 

Please join us for an Accessibility in the Arts Convening webinar on Thursday, Oct. 13, from 8:30am to 12:30pm. The main topic will be how to make ND's art organizations more accessible to artists and the general public. The event will include local and national speakers, with a Q&A session at the end. *Free and open to the public. 

All are invited to attend a Community Reception to learn more about the Arts Across the Prairie project underway in Region 1 at the Writing Rock State Historical Site.

Picturing Writing: Fostering Literacy Through Art® is an innovative approach to teaching writing and fostering literacy designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learners. Developed by Beth Olshansky, this evidence-based model uses quality picture books and simple, captivating art techniques to teach the art of writing. This August, Central Regional Education Association (CREA) and NDCA are teaming up to provide ND teachers with TWO Virtual Picturing Writing workshops.