Fall Party

November 02, 2023, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

You AUTUMN know it’s time to party!

Join us as we celebrate the opening of recent exhibitions. An eventful night full of live music, food, drink, fun and art as we welcome Amy Fill, Gallery Director at the University of South Dakota, to discuss Oscar Howe and the importance of his artistry in the Indigenous community.

CELEBRATE

• Oscar Howe: Ikíćiksapa
• The Practice is the Point
• This is Not Black and White
• Annalise Gratovitch: Carrying things from Home
• FMVA Studio Crawl Preview & FMVA Art Advocates’ Exhibition

EXPERIENCE

• Oscar Howe Gallery Talk with Amy Fill
• Hors d’oeuvres by Bernbaum’s & Cash Bar
• Music by Kalyn Fay

Free admission, registration is requested.
Museum members receive one free beverage. Not a member? Become one today here.

Artwork above: Oscar Howe, Dance of the Tree Dwellers (detail), n.d., Casein on paper 3.25 x 25.625 in., Courtesy of the University of South Dakota

Events Calendar

December 2016

Other Exhibitions

Art Camp

March 02, 2026 - March 29, 2026

Plains Art Museum presents Art Camp 2026, highlighting the creativity of North Dakota K–12 students through a vibrant exhibition of their artwork.

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2026 Scholastic

February 16, 2026 - March 08, 2026
Art & Writing Awards Exhibition

This annual exhibition celebrates the creativity, vision, and talent of North Dakota’s teen visual artists and writers.

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Homing: Radical Re-Membering

January 31, 2026 - July 05, 2026

Homing is a solo exhibition featuring the work of regional multidisciplinary artist Alicia Hauff. This body of work examines the disconnect between contemporary life and the ecological, ancestral, and somatic systems that have sustained human and non-human communities.

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Color Improvisations 3

March 14, 2026 - August 23, 2026

Color Improvisations 3 features 42 colorful, larger-than-life quilts that celebrate the expressive possibility of color in contemporary textile art.

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Wíwahokičhiyapi

April 25, 2026 - February 07, 2026
They Promised Things to Each Other

Treaties are living documents that are "the supreme law of the land" and remain legally binding agreements that establish the political relationship between Native Nation and the United States government. These agreements have established land boundaries, resource rights, reservations; they determine Tribal Nation citizenship and outline mutual obligations.

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