“Landmark” Exhibition Reaches into the FM Community

"In Reflection," Britta Trygstad

"In Reflection," Britta Trygstad

This week, we opened an ArtView exhibition entitled Landmark: Views of the Moorhead Power Plant. The exhibition aims to get us to really look at and appreciate the architecture and historical memory that the Moorhead Power Plant, even though it is defunct, can still provide us. Further, the show asks the community to consider the fate of this building as its future is largely uncertain. Viewers can leave their ideas for the building’s possible re-use in the comment book with the exhibition or write your ideas here.  The work of seven artists was selected after a call for submissions: Janet Flom, Juliet Hanratty, Ann Arbor Miller, George Pfeifer, Richard Skauge, Gin Templeton, and Britta Trygstad.

The Landmark exhibition is an example of how Plains Art Museum is reaching outside of its walls to bring art and artists to audiences in our public spaces and to consider the aesthetics of our community life. Our Defiant Gardens project is an ongoing effort to create gardens and public sculpture as gathering places that will help to sustain and revive public spaces, and our Plains Inside Out series of programming asks the public to “see the art” in activities like bicycling and aerosol mural painting.  Reaching out to the public and asking them to consider new kinds of art making, often with a social component,  is the newest direction of public engagement for museums around the country. Being located as we are in a growing and dynamic community, the same holds true for us.

We believe that art provides openings for conversations and socializing, bringing people together to appreciate experience and to reflect on our lives and places. We invite you to join us in these opportunities. Please let us know about your ideas for having Plains Art Museum interact with the community in the comments, or stop on by.

(Image: Britta Trygstad, In Reflection, 2010, digital photo print, 11 x 17″, loaned by the artist.)

“Landmark” Exhibition Reaches into the FM Community

"In Reflection," Britta Trygstad

"In Reflection," Britta Trygstad

This week, we opened an ArtView exhibition entitled Landmark: Views of the Moorhead Power Plant. The exhibition aims to get us to really look at and appreciate the architecture and historical memory that the Moorhead Power Plant, even though it is defunct, can still provide us. Further, the show asks the community to consider the fate of this building as its future is largely uncertain. Viewers can leave their ideas for the building’s possible re-use in the comment book with the exhibition or write your ideas here.  The work of seven artists was selected after a call for submissions: Janet Flom, Juliet Hanratty, Ann Arbor Miller, George Pfeifer, Richard Skauge, Gin Templeton, and Britta Trygstad.

The Landmark exhibition is an example of how Plains Art Museum is reaching outside of its walls to bring art and artists to audiences in our public spaces and to consider the aesthetics of our community life. Our Defiant Gardens project is an ongoing effort to create gardens and public sculpture as gathering places that will help to sustain and revive public spaces, and our Plains Inside Out series of programming asks the public to “see the art” in activities like bicycling and aerosol mural painting.  Reaching out to the public and asking them to consider new kinds of art making, often with a social component,  is the newest direction of public engagement for museums around the country. Being located as we are in a growing and dynamic community, the same holds true for us.

We believe that art provides openings for conversations and socializing, bringing people together to appreciate experience and to reflect on our lives and places. We invite you to join us in these opportunities. Please let us know about your ideas for having Plains Art Museum interact with the community in the comments, or stop on by.

(Image: Britta Trygstad, In Reflection, 2010, digital photo print, 11 x 17″, loaned by the artist.)