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This exhibition reflects rural or agricultural settings as viewed through the eyes and minds of visual artists. My artwork titled PATZ Paunch at Dawn was accepted into the exhibition. Prize winners will be selected by Fargo artist Mick Dunn who will announce award winners during the public reception on August 21st.
 
        
          The 66th Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, "To Make A Prairie: Meditations on Ecology, Poetry, and Place"
This annual invitational exhibition asked artists to engage with the native prairie lands of the Midwest, its history and inhabitants, the intersection of ecology and art, as well as poetry and Emily Dickinson’s poem titled “To make a prairie.” I responded with a hand colored lithograph titled Life Beneath the Surface stressing soils essential role for a thriving prairie.
Kent Kapplinger, Life Beneath the Surface, lithograph, 40” x 15”, 2025
 
        
          Constraints: What Do You Think This Looks Like?
Kent Kapplinger, Burt, collagraph, 20×16 in.
 
        
          Culture & Agriculture Exhibition 2025
This exhibition explores agriculture through the eyes of visual artists from across the U.S. Each artist provides their unique perspective on memories, experiences, and observations they have of agricultural life. PATZ Paunch at Dawn, one of my recent litho/screenprints was selected by juror James Machtan, Director of Carlsten Gallery, University of WI at Stevens Point.
 
        
          Jamestown Fine Arts Association "60th Annual Art Show"
Kent Kapplinger, Block Study 40, relief, 18" x 18", 2023
 
        
          65th Midwestern Invitational Exhibition: “The Omnipotence of Dream: A Century of Surrealism"”
Kent Kapplinger, HMM, mixed media, 20 x 16", 2024
 
        
          15th Anniversary Group Exhibit
This regional group exhibition celebrates the 15th anniversary of Kaddatz Galleries in Fergus Falls, MN.Over 250 pieces were submitted from which 36 were selected for inclusion in the exhibition. Two of my collaborative relief prints titled Block Studies 40 & 55, are included. Collaborative prints by Kent Kapplinger & Malcolm Thompson.
 
        
          FMVA Art Advocates’ Exhibition
“Outside/In…Inside/Out”, relief, 2023.
Collaborative print by Kent Kapplinger & J. Malcolm Thompson.
 
        
          The 64th Midwestern Invitational Exhibition of Fine Art: “Outside the Lines”
Eminem(t) Da Mane, mixed media, 20x16”, 2023
 
        
          DNSPE 2023
Delta National Small Print Exhibition at Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University
Juror Jenn Bratovich, Director of Exhibitions & Programs at Print Center of New York, selected 65 prints by 48 artists from well over four hundred submissions by artists around the world. I created this 20 x 15” lithograph & serigraph titled Grampa Jack’s Cabin in 2022. It reflects a boy’s love for his grandpa and the memories made at the cabin on the forest edge.
 
        
          Encounters/Spirituality with Nature: FMVA Constraint Exhibition
The Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists (FMVA) Constraint exhibition challenges member artists to produce artworks within a given theme. This year artists draw inspiration from artist Hazel Belvo’s exhibition in the museum with the theme of power in nature, or encounters with the natural world that brought about a life-changing realization, or a moment of reckoning.
 
        
          A Quiet Voice Heard: Retrospective of Kent Kapplinger
A comprehensive look at the artist’s socio-environmental imagery selected from work created over the past three decades. Renewed Energy, 2005
 
        
          Twenty Years of Marais Press: Imprinting a Campus and Collection
Blood Drive, serigraph, 28” x 22”, 2011
 
        
           
        
          To See What I Could See: An Examination of Contemporary Printmaking
To See What I Could See: An Examination of Contemporary Printmaking, Plains Art Museum’s Jane L. Stern Gallery from October 24, 2020 - March 17, 2021. Prints were curated from the permanent collection by Plains Art Museum Hannaher’s, Inc. Print Studio Manager Amanda Heidt. These prints relate and connect to one another through formalism, collaboration, narration, and process. By focusing on contemporary prints, this exhibition allows for us to see inside the realms of aesthetic and theory, and also provides a glimpse inside the processes that often mystify and intrigue viewers. Included is Leopard Frog Series by Kent Kapplinger.