North Dakota Human Rights

Arts Exhibition

January 9, 2023 - January 30, 2023

Third Floor

Returning for its sixth year, and again demonstrating power in quality, diversity, and strength, Plains Art Museum welcomes back the 2023 North Dakota Human Rights Art Exhibition. This exhibition displays artwork that celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its standards of achievements for all peoples and nations. Artists, activists, and everyday individuals who have stories to share about social justice or civil rights issues participate with artwork created within a variety of disciplines to educate, engage, and facilitate discussion around local and global human rights topics. This thoughtful exhibition includes painting, drawing, sculpture, experimental film, video, writing, and installation pieces and will travel to select venues around North Dakota throughout the year. The North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival is managed and facilitated by the non-profit organization The Human Family based in Fargo, North Dakota. For more information on its 2023 exhibition travel schedule, please visit human-family.org.

Artist Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6:30-8 PM
Join us for a conversation with select artists from the North Dakota Human Rights Exhibition.

This project is supported by the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the North Dakota state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in part by the Arts Partnership, with support from the cities of Fargo, Moorhead, and West Fargo.
1: Agnes Woodward, Still Here, mixed media, Courtesy of the artist • 2: Fali, The Truth, Digital photomontage made of photography and digital painting

Ongoing Exhibitions

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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S.P.A.C.E.

Ongoing
S.P.A.C.E.
Kaleidoscope

The S.P.A.C.E. (Sculpture Pad Art Collaborative Experiment) project is a public art initiative undertaken collaboratively between Plains Art Museum, and the college art departments at North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University Moorhead, and Concordia College.

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The North Dakota Mural

Ongoing
The North Dakota Mural

Drawing on his childhood memories of the Great Plains, he created a work that speaks to the wide open spaces, huge vistas, and ocean-like skies of the region.

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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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