"We will rise again," said Colleen Sheehy, director of the Plain Arts Museum in Fargo.

She's referring to the city, not the area's Red River.

The museum plans its post-flood re-opening on Tuesday, affording a chance again to see the "Art of the Guitar" exhibit, which opened in February and closes June 7.

"The guitars are beautiful wood sculptures," said Sheehy, who curated exhibits on Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen when she worked at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

The guitar exhibit was already scheduled when she moved to Fargo in October.

"We decided to focus on regional guitarmakers because our guest curators realized there was a strong acoustic guitar-making group in North Dakota and Minnesota," she said. "We added some national and historical guitars for context."

On display is the work of luthiers Charlie Hoffman and Jim Olson of the Twin Cities and Michael Keller of Rochester, among others. Olson, who has crafted guitars for James Taylor and Leo Kottke, made one "just for the exhibit," Sheehy said.

In conjunction with the "Art of the Guitar," the museum stages the Rush Hour Music Series from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays with local musicians, including Ben Suchy this week, Carmen the Cactus on April 15 and Tom Carvell on April 22.

The museum's 13th annual spring gala on May 2 will also plug into the guitar theme with performances by globetrotting guitar star Tim Sparks of Detroit Lakes and Brenda Weiler, a Fargo native now living in Portland, Ore.