Student Exhibitions
School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art Month
Join us for the 11th annual School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art Month exhibition of regional student artwork. The purpose of this exhibition is to support regional school arts programs, showcase the talents of regional K-12 arts students, increase community awareness and appreciation of regional arts programs, encourage creativity by valuing the process of art-making, and [...]
Oil and Water: Student Print Exchange
The exhibition Oil and Water investigates the use or mis-use of our natural resources. Whether dealing with issues of flooding and the diversion in the Red River Valley or oil development and fracking in the Bakken Oil Formation, printmaking students and faculty from Minnesota State University Moorhead, North Dakota State University, Concordia College, University of [...]
Playful Pollinators
A Garden-Art Project by the 4-H Club at Madison Elementary School
Curated by Melissa Kossick
Look for the Madison students’ mosaics of pollinators in the Creativity Gallery of the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center for Creativity as part our Celebrating our Creative Community. Students in the Go-Green 4-H Club at Madison Elementary collaborated on making 14 mosaics of [...]
2012 S.P.A.C.E. Sculpture
On May 4, three student artists, under the direction of North Dakota State University professor of art David Swenson, assembled the newest S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) sculpture to grace our outdoor sculpture pad. With bright colors, fun and quirky treatment of windows and doors, the untitled piece is a whimscial treatment of a [...]
Architecture for the Birds
Birdhouses of a slightly different feather will be on display in the Museum atrium through April 1. The houses, created by architecture students at North Dakota State University, are part of an annual project called Architecture for the Birds. Students randomly choose a Pritzker-Prize winning architect and a species of bird or bat, then set to [...]
School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art Month
Join us as we recognize the next generation of artists! March is Youth Art Month, a national observance emphasizing the value of art education for all children and encouraging support for quality school art programs. Enjoy the School Spirit exhibition and celebrate the work of hundreds of young artists from schools across the region.
Cultivating Truth: 2011 S.P.A.C.E. Sculpture
On May 3, we got a new resident on our outdoor sculpture pad thanks to some talented artists … and a little elbow grease.
The sculpture, entitled Cultivating Truth, was designed by Concordia College student artist Kyle Meerkins and is the 2011 selection for our S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) series. Meerkins, who had help [...]
School Spirt: Celebrating Youth Art Month
The kids are alright! March is Youth Art Month and a perfect opportunity to emphasize the value of art education for all children and to encourage support for quality school art programs. The School Spirit exhibition at Plains Art Museum celebrates the work of hundreds of K-12 student artists from schools across the region.
Student Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibition
See the fresh ideas of young artists from the University of Manitoba, North Dakota State University, Concordia College, and Minnesota State University Moorhead, who will display new prints in the experimental tradition of Vermillion Editions Limited.
The Birdhouse Project
See the inventive designs of NDSU architecture students and cast your vote for your favorite birdhouse in this short-term exhibition in the Museum Atrium.
Architects sometimes move outside of designing buildings to design objects that meet other needs. During the display of The Birdhouse Project at the Museum from March 4 through 10, architectural students will [...]