Conversation Pieces
Selections from the Permanent Collection in Dialogue
Jane L. Stern Gallery
Plains Art Museum is home to over 4,000 diverse national, regional and local works of art. Art communicates ideas and feelings between artists and viewers, but art pieces are also often in dialogue with other works of art. These conversations develop from the intentions of the artist and the context from which artworks are made. What do artworks communicate? To explore this, we present to you “Conversation Pieces: Selections from the Permanent Collection.” Join the conversations around artistic ideas, cultural identity, expression, aesthetics, and more, as you engage with regional and national treasures from the permanent collection.
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Joesph Albers, JHM–1, 1973, serigraph, Permanent Collection -
Jaune Quick–to–See Smith, Ghost Dance Dress, 2001, lithograph, Permanent Collection
Ongoing Exhibitions
No Time For Despair
To say that right now is the ideal time to make art that speaks directly to the people about social justice is an understatement. Because the very nature of art is to undertake or assume the role of a healer by shading light on the human condition.
View ExhibitionBee in Flight
Community artist and school art teacher MeLissa Kossick, who guides youth classes at the Museum on art, gardens, and pollinators, has created an enchanting mosaic design in the Creativity Pathway in the Serkland Gallery called Bee in Flight.
View ExhibitionS.P.A.C.E.
Kaleidoscope
The S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) project is a public art initiative undertaken collaboratively between Plains Art Museum, and the college art departments at North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Concordia College.
View ExhibitionThe North Dakota Mural
Drawing on his childhood memories of the Great Plains, he created a work that speaks to the wide open spaces, huge vistas, and ocean-like skies of the region.
View ExhibitionFragile Preservation
A Tallgrass Community
While the Tallgrass Prairie is a community made up of a great diversity of species, Fragile Preservation represents a selection of them.
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