VIDEO: Events, exhibits and Women’s History Month

President Armacost and guests preview Women’s History Month Breakfast set for Friday, Feb. 28

President Armacost invites Krista Lynn Minnotte, department chair and professor of Sociology, and Anna Arnar, curator of modern and contemporary art at North Dakota Museum of Art, to take part in his latest video message to campus.

Minnotte and Arnar have both been involved in planning upcoming events ahead of Women’s History Month in March.

The University Council of Women+ and the NDMOA are jointly hosting this year’s Women’s History Month Breakfast — including a panel discussion — on Friday, Feb. 28, featuring Monika Fabijanska, curator of the “Women at War” exhibit currently showing at the NDMOA.

The event is open to all, Minnotte says. Those interested are asked to register online or contact UCW+ for more information.

Armacost asks about the exhibit and how it came to display at the museum.

“Women at War” features 12 contemporary, Ukrainian women artists in an exhibit that “flips the script” on the common perspective of war, history and the writing of history, Arnar says. Spurred by the ongoing war in Ukraine, following the invasion by Russia in 2022, the exhibit’s art also extends further into the region’s history through the eyes of women, children, elderly and marginalized people.

Arnar says she was able to connect with Fabijanska while working on a separate project and eventually convinced the Polish curator to bring “Women at War” to the Midwest and to North Dakota.

The exhibition will be shown at the museum until the end of March.

While on campus, Fabijanska will make an appearance at the NDMOA on Thursday, Feb. 27, for a gallery talk that will be livestreamed. After the UCW+ event on Friday, Fabijanska will meet with students on campus, and later appear at the Empire Arts Center for a screening of films produced by artists included in the “Women at War” exhibition. More information is available on the museum’s website.