{"id":175390,"date":"2019-07-10T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=175390"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:55:51","slug":"elmer-thompson-exhibit-barnes-co-historical-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=175390","title":{"rendered":"Elmer Thompson Exhibit Barnes Historical Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Valley City\u00a0 (CSi) The North Dakota Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Barnes County Historical Museum, is pleased to announce the opening of Elmer Thompson: The Inventor<\/em> on July 22nd. There will be a public reception from 4-6pm on July 22nd<\/sup> and a short discussion given by the North Dakota Museum of Art. \u00a0The exhibition was organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art and is touring the State through the Museum\u2019s Rural Arts Initiative program.<\/div>\n
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Growing up on a farm in rural North Dakota, Elmer O. Thompson (1891-1984) developed his creative impulses with photography, educating himself in matters of staging, lighting, and processing. Mr. Thompson quickly became an expert in the use of his 5 x 7 camera. His early photographs show the development of a talent that would lead him first to the State Normal and Industrial School in Ellendale, where he served as the official school photographer. He went on to earn an electrical engineering degree at the University of California, served in the Signal Corps in Paris in WWI, and then moved to the center of technological innovation in New York City.
\nMr. Thompson earned the first six of his ultimate thirty patents at the AT&T Headquarters at 195 Broadway. From there he moved to RCA Victor, then spent several decades at Philco, where he earned two dozen more patents, including the first wireless radio remote control (Philco\u2019s \u201cMystery Control\u201d) and a phonograph that transferred the signal from record to the amplifier by means of an optical sensor (the \u201cBeam of Light\u201d system).<\/p>\n

Mr. Thompson\u2019s progress\u2014from the prairies of North Dakota to the technological heartland of the early radio and television age\u2014illustrates the marriage of artistic elements with technological innovation. This exhibition illustrates that career with large framed prints of his photographs, many of which were taken in and around Ellendale and near his home in Cavalier County.\u00a0These include individual portraits, landscapes, buildings, and staged trick photographs.<\/p>\n

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The North Dakota Museum of Art is the State\u2019s official art museum. As it is located in Grand Forks, it can be difficult for schools to plan day-trips to the Museum. Due to the great distances some schools face, the Museum began bringing exhibitions to towns throughout the State. Exhibitions have been installed in all corners of North Dakota, including smaller towns such as Crosby, Pekin, and Bowman, and larger cities such as Jamestown, Fargo, and Bismarck. Through this program the Museum delivers and installs exhibitions of original artwork free-of-charge to North Dakota communities who are interested. In addition to touring exhibitions, the Museum\u2019s Education Department creates lesson plans and makes them available on the Museum\u2019s website at www.ndmoa.com.<\/p>\n

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A Primary goal of the Museum\u2019s Rural Arts Initiative program is to provide North Dakota schools with quality arts education opportunities. The Museum works with community members to bring schools within a 50 to 60-mile radius of the exhibition site to participate in this unique arts education program. To assist schools with out-of-pocket expenses, the Museum offers travel reimbursements for North Dakota schools wishing to participate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Valley City\u00a0 (CSi) The North Dakota Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Barnes County Historical Museum, is pleased to announce the opening of Elmer Thompson: The Inventor on July 22nd. There will be a public reception from 4-6pm on July 22nd and a short discussion given by the North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175486,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175390\/revisions\/175486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}