Find a story that speaks to you.

Immerse yourself in a tapestry of diverse artistic expressions and cultural viewpoints across our six galleries. Our bold and socially engaged exhibitions bring regional voices into conversation with contemporary and historical artists from across the country and around the world.

Exhibitions & Collections

Aaron Coleman: Come, Go Back, Child

Come, Go Back, Child is an exhibition of recent work by multidisciplinary artist Aaron S. Coleman whose art practice examines the entangled histories of race, religion, and power in the United States. Coleman’s densely layered prints, sculptural assemblages, and mixed-media installations explore contemporary Black experiences and critique systems of white supremacy.

FMVA Studio Crawl Preview

Each year, Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists (FMVA) presents the Studio Crawl, a popular, free event that gives the community access to professional artist studios.

Flight Without Fear

Using acrylic paint on pasted paper, the mural Flight Without Fear explores the dangers of city windows, which kill over a billion birds each year in the U.S. alone. This window painting serves a dual purpose, both saving birds by disrupting the deadly reflections in the window and educating the public on the importance of bird-safe glass.

Color Improvisations 3

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

Local Color

Local Color invites viewers on a journey through the familiar yet quietly stunning landscapes of the Upper Midwest. In her debut solo exhibition, Elizabeth Eggl captures the beauty of the Red River Valley’s winding roads, expansive fields, and tranquil waters.

Homing: Radical Re-Membering

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.

Floating Beauty

Floating Beauty examines historical perspectives on women and their depiction in art in Edo Period Japan (1615–1858). Made up entirely of woodblock prints created in the ukiyo-e style.

Murray Lemley

Fifty Years of Photography and Design is a retrospective exhibition celebrating Murray Lemley’s artistic career.

Women Artists

This exhibition represents four centuries of art created by remarkable women who struggled against gender bias to take their places in history. Until the twentieth century, women were frequently denied formal training and often had difficulty showing and selling their work.

The heart of the museum.

Catch a glimpse into the vault, the heart of our 6,000+ piece collection, representing 200 years of North American art. Our visible collection storage offers visitors a closer look at our exceptional collections of prints and Native American art.

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