ArtView Exhibitions

As part of the Museum’s ongoing support of local and emerging artists, we are happy to announce the return of Fargo-born (and now Minneapolis-based) Amy Jo Hendrickson Flattum. A designer and printmaker, Hendrickson Flattum blurs the lines between high art and commercial design. Humor and nostalgia runs throughout her well-designed and precisely executed prints. This [...]

Plains Art Museum, in partnership with Hospice of the Red River Valley, presents the exhibition Witness to Life: A Photo Journal of Hospice Care October 14 – February 5 in the Xcel Energy and Serkland Law Galleries. Witness to Life features the work of three photographers affiliated with the Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) documentary photography department [...]

The Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists (FMVA) will offer a tantalizing peek into artists’ studios throughout the FM area during the annual Studio Crawl, to be held October 1 and 2. The crawl is the ultimate way to survey the immense amount of artistic talent in the area and our preview serves as your quick reference [...]

Tom Kemmer got his first skateboard, a Variflex Terror with an image of a wolf face on the bottom, in fifth grade for his birthday. From the first rolls down his driveway, skateboarding gave him a sense of adventure like nothing else he had ever experienced and, eventually, its challenges made him fall in love. [...]

Renner’s mixed-media works seek to illustrate the difficulty of meaningful discourse in a world filled with clashing belief systems and competing cultural narratives. Pseudo-diagrams and mock scientific graphs create a context of confusion and alienation. Faces and figures are juxtaposed with symbols from opposing belief systems, exposed brains, bits of binary code, and disconnected fragments [...]

Rachel Breen’s Abundance is a new site-specific charcoal drawing appearing on the west wall of Café Muse. Her black paper stencils used to make the wall art work are displayed in the café windows. Breen’s artwork inaugurates a new site-specific series for Café Muse called Art = Food. Plains Art Museum will commission regional artists [...]

Su Legatt’s Significant Boxes is a series of 12 small sculptural installations comprised of mixed-media and photography depicting a specific place. The photographs are matched with a narrative of someone whose life has been impacted by that location and are seen by the viewer through a lens to enhance the intimacy of the narrative. “Our [...]

See the inspiring artistry of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Café Muse this summer. Several of the Minneapolis-based theatre’s large-scale “Connector” puppets will be on view as a preview of the theatre’s residency in Fargo-Moorhead in August. Made from simple materials—papier maché, paint, cardboard—the puppets are beautiful figures that [...]

This Art View exhibition presents the work of seven artists from the region who responded to a call for submissions for views of the Moorhead Power Plant. Work in oil, pastel, watercolor, mixed media, and photography range from bird’s eye views of the building’s setting on the Red River to close-up details of the structure. [...]