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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.

Plains Art Museum is pleased to present the third annual Progressive Architectural Dinner. This year we are excited to feature the following homes, catered with a different coarse at each location. At each location: a home tour, including food and drinks from local chefs + conversations between the owners & their architect/designer about how their project came to be. Tickets are on sale now! $175 per person. Purchase today, as space is limited to 50 guests. Contact: Sarah Anstett at sanstett@plainsart.org or 701.551.6106.

Featured homes are:

• Regin Schwaen & Megan Duda – Cloudhouse
• Matt Chambers – Mod Bachelor Pad
• Marjorie Schlossman – Killer Artist Studio + Outrageous Garden
• Governor & First Lady Burgum’s SkyBarn (overlooking Broadway)

Featured caterers are:

• Kent Larson – The Chef’s Table
• Anthony Bachman – VIP Catering
• Blake Itterman – 46N Pint & Provisions
• Kayla Houchin – Indulgence Bakery

Watch Buzz Lab paddle down the river at the 3rd annual Canoe Parade on the Red River on Sunday, September 29. This year’s Buzz Lab interns collaboratively designed and created their “Urban Pollinators” float to illustrate how our community could better incorporate pollinator-friendly habitats into our urban environment, making Fargo-Moorhead a more welcoming community for our insect friends.

Inspired by the unique acoustics in the Plains Art Museum’s third floor Gallery, Dr. Tiana Grise was moved to commission a solo flute composition from New York-based composer Geoff Gersh and to explore the resonant aesthetic of the gallery and the timbre of the flute within the space. This recital is possible thanks to a grant from The Arts Partnership and will consist of 45 minutes of continuous solo flute, ending in the newly composed work by New York musician and composer Geoff Gersh. In addition, the program will include two works by composers that Grise has worked with and knows well; Grand Forks composer Christopher Gable, and an unheard work by world-renowned composer David Maslanka. Audience members are encouraged to move about within the space – even to come and go from the gallery as they please. This program is presented in conjunction with Plains Art Museum’s exhibition The Other Four and is free and open to the public.

Dr. Tiana Grisé is a professional flutist who resides in Moorhead, MN. She teaches flute at MSUM, and is the Executive Director of the Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies.

FM Crossroads Pow-Wow: Scheels Arena, 225 31st Ave S, Fargo

Join us in celebration of contemporary and traditional Native American arts and crafts from our regional artists. Meet the artists, connect with them and purchase high quality art, jewelry, and crafts during this two day celebration. The festival will take place during the Fargo-Moorhead Crossroads International Contest Pow-Wow at the Scheels Arena. Enjoy regalia, dancing, sights and sounds, reconnecting with old friends, making new friends and be sure to get an Indian taco or two while you’re there. Direct any questions about the FM Crossroads Pow-Wow to fmcrossroadspowwow@gmail.com.

FM Crossroads Pow-Wow: Scheels Arena, 225 31st Ave S, Fargo

Join us in celebration of contemporary and traditional Native American arts and crafts from our regional artists. Meet the artists, connect with them and purchase high quality art, jewelry, and crafts during this two day celebration. The festival will take place during the Fargo-Moorhead Crossroads International Contest Pow-Wow at the Scheels Arena. Enjoy regalia, dancing, sights and sounds, reconnecting with old friends, making new friends and be sure to get an Indian taco or two while you’re there. Direct any questions about the FM Crossroads Pow-Wow to fmcrossroadspowwow@gmail.com.

Artist in Residence Katy Seals and John Charles Cox will discuss work in their two-person exhibition (Un)common Threads.

Experience artwork that uses your sense of smell, taste, touch, and hearing through an interactive visit to the exhibition The Other Four. After a short snack break, create your own sensory art project in our studios. Using all of your senses, experience the world around you in new ways! 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. Parents/caregivers may request an orientation prior to the event – contact education@plainsart.org to schedule. Free.

Plains Art Museum is proud to host author, poet, and playwright Marcie Rendon as she speaks about her new book Girl Gone Missing for an evening you must not miss.

Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, and has published four nonfiction children’s books and four published plays. Rendon is a recipient of the Loft’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship in 2016-2017, and is a community arts activist who supports other native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art. Free.

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.

In conjunction with the exhibition Fueling Modernity, Meghan Kirkwood and Jeannette Unite will have a dialogue about their bodies of work responding to industrial landscapes and extraction economies in two regions: North Dakota and South Africa. Free.

Join us for a conversation with multimedia artist Brad Kahlhamer. Kahlhamer works with a range of media from sculpture and painting to performance and music to explore what he refers to as the “third place”—a meeting point of two opposing personal histories. The artist will discuss this “third place” and the complex, multilayered motifs and themes in his work. Free.

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.

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.

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.

Concordia Sax Quartet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon.  Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Dave Ferreira Trio

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon.  Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Darin Henze and Friends

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon.  Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Join us for a conversation with photographer R.J. Kern about his photographic practice and his series The Unchosen Ones. Free.

Pelican Quartet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Silver Winds Flute Quartet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

NDSU Faculty Chamber Ensemble

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Bison Brass-NDSU faculty Brass Quintet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Michelle Gelinske & HeartSprings Tremble Clef Choir

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Clarion Quartet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Dakota Rose String Quartet

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Sarah Morrau & Bekka Devries

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.

Fargo-Moorhead Opera

Enjoy FREE HOLIDAY CONCERTS from the area’s best musicians. Music starts at Noon. Purchase lunch from local caterers, 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.

Supported by Minnesota Public Radio.