Join us at Plains Art Museum and learn how Creative Planned Giving is not about money but the credibility and legitimacy of generosity in supporting the future of another organization. Led by Chantal Stennerson, Senior Tax Manager at Eide Bailly LLP and Board Treasurer, Red River Valley Estate Planning Council.
Coffee, Juice, & Donuts Served. FREE register at 701.551.6106 / sanstett@plainsart.org.
Holiday Art Sale Preview
Museum members are cordially invited to join us for this third annual event . . . FREE.
Non-members $15 but if you become a member that night (or now), you will immediately be offered a 10% discount on all Holiday Art Sale items. Event is open to all members and interested parties 21 and up.
Support local art and artists at our 6th Annual Holiday Art Sale! The Holiday Art Sale features unique works of art in ceramic, printmaking, and jewelry by talented regional, professional and emerging area artists including studio members and instructors at the Center for Creativity. Proceeds support the participating artists and the Robert Kurkowski Ceramic Studio in the Center for Creativity.
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Support local art and artists at our 6th Annual Holiday Art Sale! The Holiday Art Sale features unique works of art in ceramic, printmaking, and jewelry by talented regional, professional and emerging area artists including studio members and instructors at the Center for Creativity. Proceeds support the participating artists and the Robert Kurkowski Ceramic Studio in the Center for Creativity.
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Plains staff will be baking and slicing up freshly baked bread the last Thursday of the month, June – November. Enjoy a piece of bread and stimulate your sense of taste and smell. Continue this sensory experience inside the exhibition The Other Four.
Free and open to the public.
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Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Select Tuesdays
October 1, November 5, December 3
A time for our youngest visitors and their grown-ups to foster creativity and imagination through stories, songs, and hands-on art activities. Each month we will offer a unique theme and a new art project for the child to create and take home. Suggested for children ages 2-5. Younger siblings are allowed to accompany the group. $5 per person.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Join us for a conversation with photographer R.J. Kern about his photographic practice and his series The Unchosen Ones. Free.
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Pelican Quartet
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
In and out, over and under. Explore mixed media artwork by Brad Kahlhamer in the gallery and create your own wire weaving project in the studio. Kid Quest is a FREE drop-in program designed for the whole family to explore and create at your own pace. Each month has a unique theme with new artwork to explore and art projects to create.
Silver Winds Flute Quartet
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch Chef’s Table Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch Chef’s Table Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch Chef’s Table Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch Chef’s Table Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from Urban Foods Catering, take in the galleries for FREE, and 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 29 – December 24.
City Geode, created and installed in May 2019 by students and Professor Josh Zeis from NDSU is the latest creation. In response to the work, the lead artists said, “What is a city? This City Geode incorporates many of the things that we thought a city needs; buildings, streets, electricity, drainage, and above all else, the human spirit.
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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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Drawing on his childhood memories of the Great Plains, he created a work that speaks to the wide open spaces, huge vistas, and ocean-like skies of the region.
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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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