Current Exhibitions

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Water Talks

September 14, 2024 - February 23, 2025
Photographs from Sierra Gorda, Mexico and Standing Rock

Water Talks features photographs of Indigenous communities in Standing Rock and the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in Mexico affected by water access and sustainability issues.

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Experiential Sketching

October 8, 2024 - December 29, 2024
A Dialogue Between Architecture, Space, and Experience

This exhibition highlights exemplary projects from HCE 743: Experiential Sketching, a course led by architect and professor Nicholas Wickersham at North Dakota State University.

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Gigawaabimin

October 12, 2024 - February 9, 2025
See You Later

Anna Johnson bridges the gap between the world she lives in and the culture she came from. When she feels or experiences discrimination, she is moved to have an impact on social injustice, religion and spirituality, and other issues that Native Americans, women, and people everywhere face daily.

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Out of the Vault

October 26, 2024 - December 1, 2024
Eerie Selections from Local Collections

This fall, Plains Art Museum will feature selections from our Permanent Collection relating to aspects of the supernatural.

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The Queer Ecology Hanky Project

June 17, 2024 - December 15, 2024

The Queer Ecology Hanky Project (QEHP) is an ongoing traveling exhibition organized by Vee Adams and Mary Tremonte that features over one hundred and twenty artists from across North America.

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A Little Grey For Color

July 13, 2024 - March 31, 2025

Donald D. Powell, a Fargo native, was a prolific, award-winning architect and a keen art collector. Powell amassed a sizeable collection of European and American modern art in an array of media. He donated much of his impressive collection to the Plains Art Museum in several installments in 1999, 2000, 2002-3, 2005-9, and 2013.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

S.P.A.C.E. 2024-2026

Ongoing
S.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.

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No Time For Despair

Ongoing
No 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.

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Bee in Flight

Ongoing
Bee 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.

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Fragile Preservation

Ongoing
Fragile 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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