40 Greatest Hits
Celebrating the Museum’s Permanent Collection
As Plains Art Museum prepares for a year-long celebration of our 40th anniversary starting in Fall 2015, we open this summer with 40 Greatest Hits, a new permanent collection exhibition. We invite you to enjoy these 40 artistic highlights from the Museum’s collection, which now includes nearly 4,000 objects.
40 Greatest Hits is a wonderfully eclectic display that marks milestone acquisitions and artworks representing the collection’s strengths and rarities. The show also includes noteworthy contributions from private collectors, such as Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, Fred Scheel, and Donald Powell.
The selected works represent an array of art media and disciplines by local and regional artists along with nationally and internationally acclaimed figures. Visitors will also be dazzled by artwork from the Museum’s renowned contemporary Native American Art collection and impressive holdings of works on paper, including photographs, prints, and drawings.
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40 Greatest Hits is a wonderfully eclectic display that marks milestone acquisitions and artworks representing the collection’s strengths and rarities.
Ongoing Exhibitions
Convergence:
Hope, Love, Resilience, Rest, Community
This installation was created specifically for the atrium at Plains Art Museum as part of the exhibition Convergence: Health & Creativity. Inspired by Labovitz’s research on the psychological benefits of art, this piece celebrates the connection between art and well-being.
View ExhibitionS.P.A.C.E. 2024-2026
The S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) project is a public art initiative led by Plains Art Museum in collaboration with NDSU, MSUM, and Concordia College. Sculptures are displayed for two years.
View ExhibitionNo Time For Despair
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.
View ExhibitionBee in Flight
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.
View ExhibitionFragile Preservation
A Tallgrass Community
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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