Saturday, June 10, 2017 (Same day as Think-Off) @ 10am-Noon This event is sponsored by the NYM Library and the Viking Library System and held at the Cultural Center. New York City Themed foods provided by Friends of the NYM Library. Open House 10:00 – noon....
Little Big Year Event At Cultural Center Friday, June 16, 2017 @ 7pm The Little Big Year, a project of the Cultural Center, welcomes Angie Morales, the raptor expert from the Headwaters Science Center in Bemidji, to the Cultural Center on Friday, June 16 at 7:00 p.m....
June Artist in Residence, William Berger, Creative Content Producer for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, offers a writing workshop at the Cultural Center. Using performance as a springboard and catalyst for wordplay and text construction, this workshop will...
Annual Regional Adult Art Show Gallery Exhibit May 31 – June 24, 2017 Reception Friday, June 2, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Featuring music by The Jazz Committee The Cultural Center is pleased to announce its 21st annual Regional Adult Art Show. This is a favorite gallery exhibit...
Crazy About You: Sifting for Sanity in the History of the Insane A Song & Story Concert by Elisa Korenne Plus, Workshop & Children’s Concert Saturday, June 17, 2017 After the success of her crowd-pleasing concerts “Madams, Matrons, and Madwomen” and “’Oy...
Submit your work and be a part of our Annual Regional Art Show at the Center. Everyone is welcome, all media are accepted, and this is a non-juried show. Each regional artist is invited to submit up to two works. 21st Annual Regional Adult Art Exhibit Wednesday May...
Cultural Center announces Mini Pop-Up Polymer Clay Exhibit in the Gallery Opens Saturday, May 27, 2017 (10am-3pm) Come meet Visiting Artist Keith Andrews Mini Exhibit features polymer clay figures created during workshop with Arts Retreat visiting artist, Dr. Keith...
Artist in Residence at the Cultural Center holds a polymer clay workshop on Wednesday, May 17 @ 6:00pm. The class covers making small polymer caricatures and reviews these steps: building armature, bulking the figure, preparing and applying clay, sculpting and...
Opening Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at the Cultural Center in New York Mills is the annual Regional “Best Of” Elementary Art Show! A twist on the perennial exhibition, this year’s show is juried by the art teachers so impressive works by the youngest budding...
Required registrants not met. Rescheduled for the fall. Discount included for a same-day adult class. Saturday, May 20, 2017 Bring your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and neighbors’ kids to this fun “Bubble Hands” Wet Felting class with Lisa...
Spring 2017 Gardening Classes at the Cultural Center: April 22: Transplanting May 6: Garden as if Your Life Depended on It May 20: High Tunnel Gardening All of the classes are from 10am to 11:30am on a Saturday this Spring. Come and enjoy some fun in the...
The Great American Think-Off essay contest finalists will come to New York Mills to debate each other before a live audience on Saturday June 10, 2017. These four deftly and expertly, from their computer desks or chaise lounges, answered the 25th annual...
Annual Spring Fundraiser May 5, 2017 Come see the Garden Party Gallery Show from April 27 through May 5. Start bidding early on local artists’ work, or “Buy Now” to make sure your favorite piece goes home with you! Free to view and open to all during...
Concert May 6, 2017 Galactic Cowboy Orchestra (GCO) comes to the Cultural Center to round out the spring 2017 concert series. Join community members at 7:30pm on Saturday, May 6, 2017 for the music and fun! Hailing from Minnesota’s Twin Cities, GCO are a...
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. the Cultural Center in New York Mills welcomes the Fargo-Moorhead Gay Men’s Chorus to perform their spring concert, Memories and Momentum: Best of FMGMC, held at the NYMills School. Formed in 2013, Fargo-Moorhead Gay Men’s Chorus...
CLIMB Theatre, an award winning and nationally recognized company, is collecting stories as part of the Humans of Minnesota Project. To gather stories for this project, professional theatre artists will be leading community dialogue and story sharing workshops....
Annual student gallery exhibit April 12 – 26 Each Spring the Cultural Center hosts the annual Minnesota State High School League Arts Festival for Region 6A North. This year the show will be in the gallery April 12-26. The festival will be on Wednesday,...
Join us at the Cultural Center for the Lacey Guck EP Release Party & Concert, celebrating the release of Lacey’s debut live EP, “Will Play for Coffee” on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. The evening will include a live music performance, as...
Click on the link below and vote for your favorite t-shirt design to be used for the 2017 Great American Think-Off 25th Anniversary T-Shirt! Enter to win a t-shirt or a pair of tickets to the Great Debate on June 10th! Don’t forget to submit your 750-word essay...
Join Executive Director Betsy Roder, the Board of Directors, and staff at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Cultural Center on Monday, April 10th from 5:30 to 6:30pm. All Cultural Center Members are Invited and Encouraged to Attend! Hear about the 2016 year in review....
Click Here to Apply! Artists! The deadline to submit your application for consideration to visit New York Mills and stay at our Arts Retreat house is Saturday, April 15th. That day fast approaches. Click anywhere on this sentence to go to our application page. Stay...
Gao Hong Chinese Storyteller & Pipa Maestro Thursday, March 23 Talk @ 6:30pm, Concert @ 7:30pm Gao Hong, a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa, began her career as a professional musician at age 12. She graduated with honors from...
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Ceramic Tile-Making in 2 Easy Sessions: March 16 & 23 @ 5:30pm With Ceramicist, Brad Wegscheid Make ceramic tiles to hang on your wall! Bring natural objects, lace, fabric, rubber scrapbooking stamps, or baby feet to make impressions in your tile. Some items...
Art Adventures Art History Class with Pam Robinson March 2nd & March 30th 6:30pm Every year the Cultural Center facilitates the ‘Art Adventure’ program in area elementary schools. Community volunteers visit classrooms to teach students about 6 different works of...
Comedian Tommy Ryman Saturday, March 11 @ 8pm Tommy Ryman grew up with a new-age, folksinging mother and a traditional, Lutheran insurance-agent father. This XY equation evidently equals: acclaimed comedian. Ryman has earned the title of Semifinalist on NBC’s Last...
Women Are the World – Gallery Show Wednesday, March 8th through Saturday, April 8th Reception / Presentation Friday, March 10th @ 5-7pm From Hypatia to Zora Neale Hurston to Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo to Marjane Satrapi, women have been exploring, creating, and...
This exhibition highlights the work of Elle Hettinger, a regional artist who lives in Orono, Minnesota. After suffering a series of illnesses years ago, Hettinger took classes at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) in drawing, watercolor, acrylic,...
Acrylic Painting with Aleda Windels Students will complete a still life orchid painting to take home in addition to honing skills. This “Art Rehabilitated” class will help participants utilize the relaxation which comes from creative exercises to de-stress,...
Consider becoming a 2017 Picture Person Like art? Like kids? Becoming an Art Adventure Picture Person is the perfect way for you to share your passion for art with youth, expanding their knowledge and critical thinking skills. Art Adventure is a program developed by...
Deuces Wild tickets are selling fast with just 48 tickets and 4 VIP tables remaining as of January 5th! Because the Center is closed in January, we have a couple of different options for you to purchase tickets: NYM Public Library — purchase tickets with cash or...
Our Sit N Stitch group will take a break in January 2017 due to the Center being closed for the month. Meetings will resume on Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 and will continue weekly on Tuesdays from 5:30-8pm. During this time, community members gather to practice and...
“Has the 2016 election changed our perception of truth?” The Great American Think-Off committee announced this, the 25th annual Think-Off question, today, January 1, 2017. The Think-Off is a philosophy competition held each year in tiny New York Mills, MN....
“Has the 2016 election changed our perception of truth?” The 25th annual Great American Think-Off question is a heavy-hitter in that it not only addresses the 2016 election for timely relevance, but also tackles the...
Midwinter Benefit Concert Friday, January 20th, 2017 at 8pm Held at NYM City Hall Ballroom Doors open at 7pm It’s a clap along, sing along musical comedy show where the audience is always a part of the action. And no one does it better than Dave & Ted,...
Finale to Fall Concert Series The Longest Night Music Festival Wednesday, December 21 @ 7pm Winter Solstice Jubilee celebrating the return of daylight, local and regional music, and another trip around the sun! Join us for FREE. Musical Artists...
Local artist/volunteer hosts holiday fundraiser for Center December 14-17 To help take some of the pressure off this holiday season, AND add an artists’ touch to your packages, let Cultural Center volunteer and local artist Lynn Kasma wrap your holiday gifts for...
In the Gallery The Tiny URL Show December 16th through 31st Highlighting the small paintings of Christy Johnson, redshoes26. www.redshoes26.com Christy Johnson uses her training in graphic design, illustration, photography, and writing to create pieces in a variety...
Shop Local at the Cultural Center Gift Store December 6-10, 2016! Artist Bazaar December 6 – 10, 2016 The 2016 Artist Bazaar is back by popular demand, and kicks off on Tuesday evening, December 6th, from 5-8 p.m. Join us at the Center to get first dibs on these...
Fall Concert Series newberry & verch Sunday, December 11th 7:30pm, doors @ 7 Joe Newberry is a Missouri native and North Carolina transplant who has played music most of his life. A frequent guest on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” Joe performs in a...
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