Enjoy five days of FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. The music starts at Noon. Purchase Lunch from Chef Sara Watson serving up classic menu items from their days as Mosaic 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% (10% for nonmembers) off store purchases, from November 24 – December 24.
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. Siblings, younger than two, can accompany the group for free.
Enjoy five days of FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. The music starts at Noon. Purchase Lunch from Chef Sara Watson serving up classic menu items from their days as Mosaic 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% (10% for nonmembers) off store purchases, from November 24 – December 24.
My kid can do that, the connection between kindergarten and how it led to abstract art
Have you ever thought, “My kid could do that” after seeing abstract or contemporary art? That may be true now, but there was a time when they probably couldn’t. Come explore how the development of kindergarten drastically changed perspectives and led to the origins of abstract art. Free.
Museum Uncrated: Do you wish to feel more comfortable in a museum or desire more from your museum experience? Plains Art Museum staff invites you to join them each month to learn about the inner workings of a museum and artwork. Each session promises insightful and significant takeaways for participants.
Enjoy five days of FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. The music starts at Noon. Purchase Lunch from Chef Sara Watson serving up classic menu items from their days as Mosaic 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% (10% for nonmembers) off store purchases, from November 24 – December 24.
Enjoy five days of FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. The music starts at Noon. Purchase Lunch from Chef Sara Watson serving up classic menu items from their days as Mosaic 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% (10% for nonmembers) off store purchases, from November 24 – December 24.
Enjoy five days of FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. The music starts at Noon. Purchase Lunch from Chef Sara Watson serving up classic menu items from their days as Mosaic 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% (10% for nonmembers) off store purchases, from November 24 – December 24.
Select Thursdays, 6:30-8 PM
For our fourth session (Fall-Winter ’23), we will read four riveting novels by some acclaimed writers. Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater, demands that we strap in and hold on as it embarks on a journey through Igbo ontology—a journey grounded in a series of refusals of both ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity.’ V. M. Burns’ Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder promises a sassy, stylish mystery set in a cozy little Michigan town—the first installment of Burns’s Baker Street Mystery series. Finally, Walter Mosely’s classic Devil in a Blue Dress takes us on a scintillating ride down mean streets, through bedeviling political plots, and right into the unconscious bedrooms of American relationships.
If this assemblage of original and diverse voices sounds compelling, please join us at Plains Art Museum on the select dates below. Light refreshments and beverages will be provided. Feel free to bring your own beverages/snacks, as well. To encourage broad participation, you may acquire the selected texts through convenient means, as per your situation. Also note: Critical Grooves Book Lab selections will also be available for purchase from The Store at Plains Art Museum. Ages 16+ are welcome. We exercise respect among ourselves.
For more information and/or participation contact Dr. Kelvin Monroe at kmonroe@plainsart.org.
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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The S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) project is a public art initiative undertaken collaboratively between Plains Art Museum, and the college art departments at North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Concordia College.
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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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