Wing Young Huie: Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight

Through December 29

Wing Young Huie joins us once again to present images taken during his residency at the Museum last October. Huie’s subjects come from the everyday: people whose faces we see but often fail to notice.

Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison

June 16, 2013 – September 1, 2013

Throughout a career that took him from Chippewa City, Minnesota to New York and Paris, George Morrison developed an aesthetic that proved to be an essential part in Modernism and Abstract Expressionism.

Now offering classes for all ages including painting, drawing, and ceramics.

Register now for classes in the new Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center for Creativity.

photo by Britta Trygstad

Creative Actions: Selections from the Permanent Collection

September 30, 2012 – Ongoing

Plains Art Museum is thrilled to unveil a re-imagined Permanent Collection show, which focuses on and engages with the ideas and creative actions of artists. In this newly curated show, the audience will visually unpack several “acts” that express artists’ processes, intensions, narratives, or functions.

Current Exhibitions

Beyond Convention: New Work by Jessica Wachter

Presenting painting, prints, and installation, this exhibition showcases new work by regional painter Jessica Wachter. Her contemporary mixed media work is strongly gestural, often containing personal celebrations, struggles, joys, loves, and losses. Wachter expresses these personal experiences through her use of color, texture, and composition. Working with abstraction, the artist seeks to imbue the work [...]

Creative Actions: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Plains Art Museum is thrilled to unveil a re-imagined Permanent Collection show, which focuses on and engages with the ideas and creative actions of artists. In this newly curated show, the audience will visually unpack several “acts” that express artists’ processes, intensions, narratives, or functions. Creative Actions is a re-hang for Plains Art Museum Permanent [...]

Hand Picked An Art = Food Installation by Su Legatt

Recently food has been become more and more politicized. The production, importation, manufacturing, even how much we consume, have all become hot button issues, and there has been an emerging “grow it yourself” mentality. In Fargo, we see tomato plants being gifted to residents by an unknown source. This new relationship allows consumers to be [...]

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From the Blog

Free Summer Admission to Active Duty Military

May 23, 2013 – Today Plains Art Museum announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2013. Leadership [...]

Museum Awarded ArtPlace America Grant

– ArtPlace America announced today the award of a $260,000 grant to Plains Art Museum for its public art projects, Defiant Gardens for Fargo-Moorhead. The Museum’s project was chosen from over 1,200 applications as an exceptional example of creative placemaking. The Museum was one of only 54 organizations across the United States to receive a grant [...]

Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight

May 9, 2013 – Plains Art Museum will open the exhibit Wing Young Huie: Hidden Fargo in Plain Sight on Thursday, May 16 at 7 PM. Minneapolis-based photographer Huie joins the Museum again to present images taken during his residency at the Museum last October. Huie’s subjects come from the everyday: people whose faces we see but [...]

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