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All sessions are developed and instructed by Plains Art Museum Education Staff and Special Education professionals for families with children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder. Art & Autism is sponsored in part by Red River Area Learning Center, Moorhead, Minnesota, through support from The Barry Foundation; and Kiwanis Club of Fargo.

FREE, click here to register.

For every Art + Autism, participants explore artworks through hands-on art activities in one exhibition space, have a snack and create their own work of art to take home. Parents/caregivers may request an orientation prior to the event – contact krieck@plainsart.org to schedule.

In 1976, a Mi’gMaq teenager (Devery Jacobs) plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent (Mark Antony Krupa) who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.

Free and open to the public.

Artist in residence Jason Moore will present an overview of his artistic practice.

Free and open to the public.

Museum members are cordially invited to join us for this second annual event. If you are not a member, become one that night and immediately receive the 10% discount. Click here to become a member.

• Enjoy samples of port, red, white, and rosé from Luna
• Devour delectable chocolate confections from Nichole’s Fine Pastry
• Receive a 10% discount on all Holiday Sale items

Stop by Plains Art Museum and support local art and artists at our 5th Annual Holiday Art Sale! Find the perfect gifts or add to your own collection.

Stop by Plains Art Museum and support local art and artists at our 5th Annual Holiday Art Sale! Find the perfect gifts or add to your own collection.

Everyone is welcome for the November International Potluck and For Freedoms Town Hall conversation on Saturday, November 3.

Following a potluck lunch, join a Town Hall conversation considering the four freedoms articulated moderated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. For Freedoms Town Halls provide safe platforms for conversations that seek to encourage a more active, collaborative, inclusive, and empathetic community. Town Hall conversation will be moderated by Alex Cyusa.

After the Town Hall, create a lawn sign to define freedom in your own way. You can add your lawn sign to a collaborative installation along 7th St. N. in Fargo, or place it in your own yard.

Schedule:
11:00 am – Welcome + drop off your potluck dish
11:15 am – Potluck
12:15 pm – For Freedoms Town Hall / kids activities
1:15 pm – Lawn Signs

This program is part of the @ForFreedoms #50StateInitiative.

Ceramic artists featured A Place at the Table will spark your imagination with their fantastic plates, cups, and mugs. Are your own dishes just too plain? Join us to create your piece at the table out of clay.

Free.
Register here.

Made possible by a grant from Xcel Energy, with additional support from Minnesota Public Radio and Kiwanis Club of Fargo.

Screening at Downtown Fargo Public Library, 102 Third Street North.

Cory Lambert is a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. When the autopsy reveals that she was raped, FBI agent Jane Banner arrives to investigate. Teaming up with Lambert as a guide, the duo soon find that their lives are in danger while trying to solve the mystery of the teen’s death.

Free and open to the public.

Stop by Plains Art Museum and support local art and artists at our 5th Annual Holiday Art Sale! Find the perfect gifts or add to your own collection.

Screening at Downtown Fargo Public Library, 102 Third Street North.

Reel Injun is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmakers Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film.

Free and open and public.

Photographers Wayne Gudmundson, Drake Hokanson, and Stuart Klipper will discuss their shared interest in photographing rural regions of the United States. This gallery program will highlight each artist’s photographic practice and unique perspective on the regional landscape. Free and open to the public.

Celebrate new fall exhibitions at your art Museum with live music, hors d’oeuvres by Milk Maid and a cash bar. Exhibiting artists will be present for you to meet.

Members, partners, Native artists FREE, $10 nonmembers, $5 students

Inspired by the overhead electric power lines, specifically the parallel circuit lines that look like dresses, help create a sculptural poem with artists Denise Lajimodiere and Laura Youngbird. Poems composed during this workshop will be embossed onto circular tins for a sculptural jingle dress. The dress will be built out of chicken wire and other materials. Please bring forlorn pieces of hardware that may be floating around in your junk drawer to add to the dress.

The collaborative sculpture and poem will be presented in the Spring 2019 exhibition Dress: Work by Contemporary Native American Women Artists.

FREE; registration required. No previous artistic skills are necessary.

Please join us for Plains Art Museum’s next gathering in the Art & Business Breakfast series. This innovative program brings Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo artists together with business and cultural leaders. Through presentations, conversations, and activities, we explore the connections art and business share.

Coffee & juice, pastries & bagels served.

Featured Speaker:

Peter Remes, Founder & CEO First & First, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

First & First is committed to reimagining historically significant sites within the Minneapolis and St. Paul urban landscape. First & First transforms these neglected spaces into inspired places that facilitate creative and cultural experiences. Each First & First site ultimately becomes a place where creativity and productivity embrace each other while enabling dreams to become reality. These revitalized places build bridges to the future that enable us to see both where we are going and also where we have been. First & First endeavors to build inspired environments that remind all of us that our time on this planet is brief and that it is our human imperative to create.

Reservations requested for this FREE event generously sponsored by Heartland Trust Company. Please contact: Sandy Thompson / sthompson@plainsart.org / 701.551.6122.

The festival will cap off the Native American Heritage Month celebration in the Museum’s Atrium. The festival will showcase arts and crafts of Native American artists from Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas. This is a great opportunity to find unique handmade gifts in time for the Holidays. Please contact Mary John at mary.john@gmail.com to collaborate, donate or volunteer.

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Daughters of the Earth, Fargo Public Library, Cultural Diversity and Plains Art Museum

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

An unemployed Maori living in the Auckland slums, Jake Heke (Temuera Morrison) has a terrible temper that he takes out on family and strangers alike. His wife, Beth (Rena Owen), takes regular beatings after he’s been at the pub, and his kids do what they can to sidestep trouble. Nig (Julian Arahanga), the eldest, is joining a street gang; Boogie (Taungaroa Emile) has been placed in a foster home, and Grace increasingly retreats to the pages of her journal.

Free and open to the public.

Enjoy music from some of the area’s best musicians over your lunch hour (noon – 1 pm).  Purchase lunch from local caterers, take in the galleries for FREE, shop artful gifts at The Store and have them wrapped for FREE. Museum memberships make great holiday gifts! Members get 20% off store purchases, November 23 – December 24.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.