Submitted Photo A collage of activities will take place Thursday through Saturday at the 17th annual NOTSTOCK.

NOTSTOCK returns for its 17th year at Minot State University this week. For three days, guest artists will share their creativity, energy, knowledge, and artistic talents with the community inside and outside the newly renovated Hartnett Hall.

All events are free and open to the public and take place on the MSU campus or in downtown Minot Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 19-21, according to an MSU news release.

“We are excited that the epicenter of NOTSTOCK is in our new Hartnett Hall. We will spotlight printmaking, ceramics, poetry, theater, and much more in the newly updated building,” Bill Harbort, MSU art professor and NOTSTOCK co-organizer, said in the release.

This year’s guests include three designers and printers, a ceramic artist, a poet and literary artist, and regional bands.

Mike Tallman specializes in creative work for the music industry with an emphasis on gig posters and album covers/packaging. He resides in Southern California, where he works with talented clients such as Paul McCartney, The Allman Brothers Band, Phish, Billy Strings, Widespread Panic, Pretty Lights, Umphrey’s McGee, Goose, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Dashboard Confessional, Thievery Corporation, Greensky Bluegrass and many more.

Carolyn Adkins is a graphic designer, screen printer, and illustrator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some of her music clients include Billy Strings, Lotus, Umphrey’s McGee, Armchair Boogie, Them Coulee Boys and Railroad Earth.

Chris Gray operates as a partner and graphic designer at Half Hazard Press, which enriches the local art and music community with full-service graphic design, illustration, print and marketing for some of the biggest bands and properties in the market. Most notable clients include: Ram Trucks, Summer Camp Music Festival, Red Light Management, Jerry Garcia Estate, Jay Goldberg and Events, and countless touring bands such as Moe, Primus, Billy Strings, Eric Church, Slightly Stoopid, Tedeschi Trucks Band and more.

Tallman, Adkins, and Gray will print live on the second floor of Hartnett Hall all three days. Each artist will give a presentation in Aleshire Theater, Hartnett Hall. Gray will present at 11 a.m. on Thursday, and Adkins at 11 a.m. and Tallman at noon on Friday. Their works are on display now and through Saturday in MSU’s Northwest Arts Center.

WORDSTOCK returns with guest Erin Dorney. Dorney is a conceptual poet and artist based in upstate New York. She is the author of four books, many zines, artist’s books, and articles in literary journals. Her literary artwork and installations have been featured at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Hennepin Theatre Trust, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Susquehanna Art Museum.

Dorney will share her work Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Northwest Arts Center. She will host workshops as well as live poeming each day in Hartnett Hall.

Krissy Ramirez is the POTSTOCK guest ceramic artist. Ramirez grew up in the border town of Douglas, Arizona, and uses her personal border experiences in her artwork. She currently works as a long-term resident artist at The Clay Studio of Missoula, Montana, as co-founder and resident artist at Wildfire Ceramic Studio, and as a teaching artist with the Missoula Art Museum.

Ramirez will provide ceramics demonstrations outside Hartnett Hall all three days. She will give a presentation at noon. on Thursday in Aleshire Theater. Ramirez’s work will be on display in Northwest Arts Center during the event.

ROCKSTOCK is a new activity that connects the arts community with the arts of North Dakota’s past as participants discover and document artifacts. Students and guest scholars will have the chance to sift through soil samples from an ancient Native American quarry of Knife River flint in search of ancient artifacts, using wet screening.

ROCKSTOCK activities will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in the parking lot north of the MSU Dome. Come prepared to get dirty and wet.

Those who love theater can take part in the workshop Improv & Movement, led by Sarah Honerman, MSU assistant professor of theater, at 10 a.m. on Thursday and Friday in Aleshire Theater, Hartnett Hall. Daily do-it-yourself screen printing and hands-on pottery activities will be inside and outside Hartnett Hall all three days of the event.

“Saturday is community day at NOTSTOCK. It is the perfect way to spend part of a Saturday with friends and family seeing and making art,” Laurie Geller, MSU vice president for academic affairs and NOTSTOCK co-organizer, said in the release. “Print a T-shirt, listen to music, create a clay vessel on a pottery wheel, see the artists in action and view their work.”

Hours on Saturday are 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Hartnett Hall. Area groups and organizations will provide cultural activities.

The NOTSTOCK closing reception wraps up the event Saturday from 6-9 p.m. at Prairie Sky Breads, downtown Minot. Hear from the artists, see their work, enjoy food and drink, and celebrate the arts with live music from Good Doom, Disappear Forever and Helko Spillovey. The event is free and open to the public.