The North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival is a traveling exhibition that welcomes 2D, 3D and live performance artists to explore human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions and additional Protocols and other similar declarations and treaties. This annual juried arts festival features 2D, 3D and live performance artistic works. The exhibition will open on January 9, 2020 at Plains Art Museum in Fargo before traveling to Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot. Free and open to the public.
ND Human Rights Artist Talk + Reception
January 22, 2020, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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.
View Exhibition2026 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.
View ExhibitionHoming: 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.
View ExhibitionColor 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.
View ExhibitionWíwahokičhiyapi
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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