Submitted Photo “Still Life with Skull and Owl” by Joseph Holsapple is a mixed media piece on paper.

The Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University is showcasing a diverse selection of contemporary art and a solo exhibit by an internationally recognized Midwest artist.

A reception and online viewing will be held on Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University. The exhibit opened Jan. 9.

“INT’L Paperworks 2025” is the 53rd annual juried art competition sponsored by the Northwest Arts Center. Featuring 39 artworks by 32 artists from around the U.S., artworks on or constructed of paper are the focus for the show. In addition to paintings, prints, photography and drawings, the exhibit contains several pieces incorporating handmade and cut paper techniques.

Juror for 2025 is Michael Reedy, artist and professor at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Art and Design.

An art seminar series with Reedy will be held Friday at 12 p.m. at Hartnett Hall, Room 106, at MSU.

His work has been included in more than 250 national and international exhibitions, and featured in more than 40 books and journals.In “Extraordinarily Ordinary,” the drawings incorporate antagonistic cherubs, apocalyptic hordes, floating brains and more in geometric alien landscapes, cascading vortexes and hypno-spirals.

“My hope is to transport the viewer to another plane and space infused with a sense of scientific aura, moral lesson, and morbid entertainment,” said Reedy. “This point-of tension between hope and despair, humor and pain, and living and dying is infinitely interesting to me – and represents my mindset every time I look in the mirror and see another grey hair.”