“UFF DA! The Folk Art of Emily Lunde,” a traveling art exhibit from the North Dakota Museum of Art (NDMOA) in Grand Forks, ND, comes to SW North Dakota and NW South Dakota, Tuesday, August 30, through Thursday, September 8, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm MT at Dakota Buttes Historical Society/Museum in southeast Hettinger, ND.

Lunde’s art, in Grandma Moses style, records the life of immigrants settling the prairies and small towns of the area in the early 20th century. Colorful and energetic, they are crowd pleasers most can identify with. Lunde began painting in the 1950s and always painted from memory. Her oils are widely collected. Dr. Robert Bishop, the late Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, personally gave over forty of her paintings to the Art in Embassies program for loan around the world.

This professional art exhibit comes to the area from North Dakota’s official art museum located in Grand Forks, ND, the NDMOA. The NDMOA provides touring exhibitions to towns throughout North Dakota through its Rural Arts Initiative program, begun in 2003. People in the area may remember the first touring exhibition at Dakota Buttes Museum in Hettinger, a black and white original photography exhibit on North Dakota shelterbelts. “Uff Da!” is its second.

“We’re excited to be able to have another NDMOA exhibit at the museum,” said one of the museum’s board members. “Their exhibits are always high quality, interesting, and reflective.”

Area schools have been invited to this exhibition with lesson plans and background material on the display provided by the NDMOA at no cost. Area ABLE Homes, care centers, Assisted Living groups or others who wish to view the exhibit as a group are also invited and encouraged to call 701-928-1551 to set up a viewing appointment or to come during the hours listed above.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.