Discover how Labovitz integrates community engagement and cutting-edge research into her practice to create art that uplifts and inspires. Free.
First Sunday of every month from 11 AM – 2 PM
We embrace the unique qualities of all who walk through our doors and appreciate that many visitors need to explore the Museum in different ways. For individuals and families who prefer a quiet, less sensory-stimulating environment, we offer Sensory Sundays on the first Sunday afternoon of every month. At each event, loud gallery sounds and bright lights are turned down and attendance is limited. Fidgets will be available for checkout.
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Discover how Labovitz integrates community engagement and cutting-edge research into her practice to create art that uplifts and inspires. Free.
Celebrate the opening of Murray Lemley: Fifty Years of Photography and Design, featuring five decades of photography. Enjoy light refreshments, meet members of the curatorial team, the museum’s senior staff, and experience an exhibition that honors memory, place, and visual storytelling. Free.
First Sunday of every month from 11 AM – 2 PM
We embrace the unique qualities of all who walk through our doors and appreciate that many visitors need to explore the Museum in different ways. For individuals and families who prefer a quiet, less sensory-stimulating environment, we offer Sensory Sundays on the first Sunday afternoon of every month. At each event, loud gallery sounds and bright lights are turned down and attendance is limited. Fidgets will be available for checkout.
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This curatorial team-led tour offers insight into the cultural, social, and artistic contexts that shaped ukiyo-e during Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867). Free.
Join Theatre NDSU, ND Academy of Dance, Fargo Public Library, and Plains Art Museum for a day full of art and activity with your little ones ages 5 and under. Choose your own art adventure from dance class, art activities, drama exploration, music class, and story time. Older siblings and families are welcome to participate! Littles Art Day is an entirely FREE art event for families. See the schedule above to plan your day of fun!
• 8:30-8:50 AM: Music, Story Time, Art
• 9-9:20 AM: Dance, Drama, Art
• 9:30-9:50 AM: Music, Story Time, Art
• 10-10:20 AM: Dance, Drama, Art
• 10:30-10:50 AM: Music, Story Time, Art
• 11-11:20 AM: Dance, Drama, Art
First Sunday of every month from 11 AM – 2 PM
We embrace the unique qualities of all who walk through our doors and appreciate that many visitors need to explore the Museum in different ways. For individuals and families who prefer a quiet, less sensory-stimulating environment, we offer Sensory Sundays on the first Sunday afternoon of every month. At each event, loud gallery sounds and bright lights are turned down and attendance is limited. Fidgets will be available for checkout.
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This curator-led tour highlights Lemley’s long history with Plains Art Museum as well as his large body of photographs that capture the quiet poetry of everyday life, from urban streets to rural landscapes.
This Artside Chat promises a conversation with a special guest focusing on Rimer Cardillo and the multi-site exhibition Deep Ecologies / Sacred Natures / Temporal Geographies. A leading voice in environmental art, Cardillo’s work spans more than five decades and reflects a sustained commitment to ecological consciousness, cultural preservation, and sacred symbolism. This conversation will explore the philosophical and visual frameworks of Cardillo’s practice—from his early printmaking in Uruguay to his sculptural installations that draw from reliquaries, altarpieces, and endangered ecologies. With reverence for land, memory, and spiritual continuity, Cardillo’s work invites us to reflect on our own entanglements with the natural world—and the urgent need to protect it. Free.
Deep Ecologies / Sacred Natures / Temporal Geographies – This curatorial team-led tour promises a deeply engaged discussion about the interconnectedness of all living beings and the imperfect balance of living in, with, and through ecological contradictions.
First Sunday of every month from 11 AM – 2 PM
We embrace the unique qualities of all who walk through our doors and appreciate that many visitors need to explore the Museum in different ways. For individuals and families who prefer a quiet, less sensory-stimulating environment, we offer Sensory Sundays on the first Sunday afternoon of every month. At each event, loud gallery sounds and bright lights are turned down and attendance is limited. Fidgets will be available for checkout.
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This installation was created specifically for the atrium at Plains Art Museum as part of the exhibition Convergence: Health & Creativity. Inspired by Labovitz’s research on the psychological benefits of art, this piece celebrates the connection between art and well-being.
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The S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) project is a public art initiative led by Plains Art Museum in collaboration with NDSU, MSUM, and Concordia College. Sculptures are displayed for two years.
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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.
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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.
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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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