Submitted Photo Guests and other visitors at the grand opening of Minot State University’s Northwest Arts Center, the Walter Piehl Gallery and the Native American Artifact Collection are shown in these photos by Rick Heit of Minot State University. The grand opening was held Thursday. Keith Bear of New Town, a Mandan-Hidatsa storyteller and musician/educator, and D.W. Groethe, of Bainville, Mont., a cowboy poet and songwriter, provided entertainment. Groethe was commissioned to write a poem about Piehl. The Northwest Arts Center is located in the lower level of the Gordon B. Olson Library.

Submitted Photo Guests and other visitors at the grand opening of Minot State University’s Northwest Arts Center, the Walter Piehl Gallery and the Native American Artifact Collection are shown in these photos by Rick Heit of Minot State University. The grand opening was held Thursday. Keith Bear of New Town, a Mandan-Hidatsa storyteller and musician/educator, and D.W. Groethe, of Bainville, Mont., a cowboy poet and songwriter, provided entertainment. Groethe was commissioned to write a poem about Piehl. The Northwest Arts Center is located in the lower level of the Gordon B. Olson Library.

Submitted Photo D.W. Groethe, left, a cowboy poet and songwriter from Bainville, Mont., sang at the grand opening reception of the Northwest Arts Center, Walter Piehl Gallery and Native American Artifact Collection Thursday at Minot State University, shown in this photo by Rick Heit of MSU. At the right is Shadd Piehl from Mandan, Walter and Becky Piehl’s son who is also a cowboy poet. Groethe also was commissioned to write a poem about Walter Piehl.

Submitted Photo The Walter Piehl Gallery in the Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University is named for Walter Piehl, shown in this photo by Rick Heit of MSU. A grand opening of the center was held Thursday.