The Longspur Prairie Fund was founded in 2009. Its mission was simple: To foster the experiences, insights, and pleasures found in the native landscapes of the Red River Valley by way of advocacy, education, and conservation.
This year, LPF is beginning a new chapter of its legacy in partnership with The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum. The Rourke will host LPF’s work and will continue its mission by way of exhibits, educational activities, grants, and sustainability initiatives that explore and amplify the common ground between the arts and our shared ecology.
2025 Longspur Programming
2026 Longspur Programming
Please stay tuned to our digital calendar for more event details: therourke.org/calendar
- Chris Mortenson: The Air, thin and eager like this. (Opens 11 April)
- Gallery in Bloom (26 April)
- Spring Planting and Prairie Improvements (May)
- The 66th Midwestern: To Make a Prairie (Opens 18 June)
- Children's Gallery Exhibit: Our Prairie, Our Home
- To Make a [Micro] Prairie workshop (Thursday 7 August, 6 p.m.)
- The Return of Peter the Slug (Opens 15 August)
- Longspur Arts Activation Project Grant (November)
- Carl Oltvedt (Opens 21 November)
2026 Longspur Programming
Please stay tuned to our digital calendar for more event details: therourke.org/calendar
- Re-envisioning The Rourke's Grounds & Sculpture Court
- Gallery in Bloom (Fall 2026)
- Longspur Arts Activation Project Grant (November)
The Rourke Micro-Prairie
The Rourke Art Museum is proud to host a micro-prairie and pollinator garden, planted by the Longspur Prairie Fund, on three micro-plots on the East side of the building. Planting for the site began in the summer of 2017 in collaboration with Minnesota DNR and the Becker Soil & Water Conservation District. The site serves to create habitat where it is most scarce by creating a home for hundreds of pollinators right in the heart of downtown Moorhead.
The Rourke is proud to display two unique public artworks amidst these native grasses and flowers. In the Northeast plot: "Buffalo Spirit Totem" by Doug Coffin, a gift from Gerald A. Emery to the Permanent Collections of The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum. In the Southeast: "Topsy with Cindy Lou and Grinch Gear" by Brett Van Sant from the Permanent Collections of RAGM.
The Rourke Art Museum is proud to host a micro-prairie and pollinator garden, planted by the Longspur Prairie Fund, on three micro-plots on the East side of the building. Planting for the site began in the summer of 2017 in collaboration with Minnesota DNR and the Becker Soil & Water Conservation District. The site serves to create habitat where it is most scarce by creating a home for hundreds of pollinators right in the heart of downtown Moorhead.
The Rourke is proud to display two unique public artworks amidst these native grasses and flowers. In the Northeast plot: "Buffalo Spirit Totem" by Doug Coffin, a gift from Gerald A. Emery to the Permanent Collections of The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum. In the Southeast: "Topsy with Cindy Lou and Grinch Gear" by Brett Van Sant from the Permanent Collections of RAGM.
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