Exhibition of White Earth Reservation Photographs to Tour Three Lake Agassiz Regional Library Locations

White Earth Window is a series which documents sites from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, selected in consultation with Ojibwe elders and scholars, that examine the Ojibwe experience from pre-reservation folkways and stories through the White Earth Settlement Act in the mid-1980s. Following their exhibition at The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum in fall 2021, Gudmundson donated the entire series to the museum’s Permanent Collections.

Wayne Gudmundson was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1949; he was introduced to the vast landscape of that state from the backseat of his parents’ 1954 Chevy. He met his wife, Jane, while they were both teaching in Copenhagen, Denmark. They married on 4 July 1975 in England. As a National Endowment for the Arts Artist in Residence, he was one of the original staff members at the new Creative Art Studio in Fargo where he worked for ten years. Now Professor Emeritus from Minnesota State University Moorhead, he taught photography for twenty-five years in the department of Mass Communications. He also was the director of New Rivers Press, the oldest non-profit literary press in the country.

Gudmundson’s work has appeared in eleven books, numerous exhibits, and several public television documentaries. His photography is represented by the Joseph Bellow’s Gallery in La Jolla, California.