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Register here for this virtual event: Herbjørn Gausta may be the best-known artist of Norwegian ancestry, but most people only know him for altar paintings. Gausta did more than 400 altar paintings, but he also captured scenes of Norway and the Midwest, painted portraits, and made satirical drawings. Even the photographs he took in preparation […]

Register here for this virtual event The LeRoy Larson Collection ( which can be found at the Mills  Music Library) documents the traditional dance music of Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in Minnesota with some overlap into western Wisconsin and northern Iowa. LeRoy Wilbur Larson (1939-2020 ) was a musician, composer, musicologist/ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and record producer. Born […]