Regional Arts Programming

Features various upcoming arts presentations throughout the region, including SEMAC-funded exhibitions and performances. To request that your event be added, email communications(at)semac.org with information.

Exhibits

now thru Aug 31, 2025 – Kathleen Hawkes, The Cherry Blossoms You Missed, Rochester Art Center, Rochester
Apr 16-Jun 10, 2025 – Samantha Reiter-Johnson, Through Bees’ Eyes: Floral Perspectives, Quarry Hill Nature Center, Rochester
Jun 6-Jul 25, 2025 – Suzanne Szucs, Photographic Printing and Framing, James Wegner Gallery, Riverland Community College, Austin
Jun 17-Jul 26, 2025 – Rocky Casillas Aguirre, U are the Universe, Northfield Arts Guild and Mercado Local, Northfield
July 1-31, 2025: Lisa Becker, Advocating for Native Plants through Art, Saint Charles Public Library
Aug 9 to Sep 23, 2025: Scott Roberts, Lost Heroes of the Imagination, Owatonna Arts Center
Aug 11-Sep 27, 2025 – Judy Saye-Willis, Sharing the Knowledge, Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault
Aug 19-30, 2025 – Julie Yost, Always Leaving: There Must be 50 Ways to Love Your Leaves, Gallery 24, Rochester
Sep 3-11, 2025: Ivete Vaz, O Gaúcho beyond languages and borders, Northfiels Arts Guild
Sep 29-Nov 15, 2025 – Kate Langlais, I Am Minnesota (part 3), Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault
Oct 1-31, 2025 – Natasha Roozen, A Spiritual Dive into Hahawakpa and Land of My Oyate: Explorations in Native Material Culture, Red Wing Arts, Red Wing
Nov 1-30, 2025 – Carla Gallina, Dances in Nature, Chatfield Center for the Arts, Chatfield
Jan 5 to Feb 21, 2026: Barbara Schwenk, Climate-sensitive Birds in SE Minnesota, Paradise Center for the Arts, Faribault
Jan 12 to Mar 6, 2026: Kate Bauman, Surfaces for Sculptural Clay Forms, Rochester Community and Technical College Art Gallery
Feb 12 to Mar 21, 2026: Kent McInnis, What Lights Our Way, UP Gallery, Northfield Arts Guild
Mar 2-31, 2026: Dawn Tevis, Experimental Aqueous Surface Design, Winona Public Library
Apr 1 to May 10, 2026: Rosei Skipper, Assembling the Artist, Threshold Arts, Rochester
Apr 11 to May 9, 2026: Melissa Wray, Sewing Rural Seeds of Plenty Quilts from on Display at The Wired Rooster Coffee Shop, Caledonia

Performances

Apr 30-May 2, 2025 – Louis Epstein, The Odyssey: The Musical, St Olaf College, Northfield
May 4-7 2025: Maggie Panetta, Love My Neighborhood Week Murals, Olmsted County Fairgrounds, Rochester
Sep 12-13, 2025: Shari Setchell, You do not have to be good, Northfield Arts Guild Theater
Oct 1, 2025: Andrew Kranz, Drawing Fundamentals, Winona Arts Center
Oct 24-26 & Oct 30-Nov 1, 2025 – Margaret Shaw Johnson, Mallory’s Ghost, Historic Masonic Theater, Winona