Northern Plains Summer Art Institute

2023 Staff and Student Exhibition

June 30, 2023 - September 10, 2023

Starion Bank Gallery

In its fourth year, Plains Art Museum and Circle of Nations School implement an incredible learning opportunity for Native American youth who are emerging student artists. The Museum engages some of the highest quality contemporary Native artists who are educators and mentors for these artists as they approach life as an artist after high school. Students from this year’s Northern Plains Summer Art Institute (NPSAI) will have their work exhibited on the third floor of the Center for Creativity at the conclusion of the Institute. All artwork exhibited will be created during the two-week summer intensive and be displayed by students and institute staff.

This program is generously supported by Windrose Fund of the Common Counsel Foundation.
1: Karley Heminger, Resilence Throughout, 2003, Pencil, paper, watercolor, marker, and colored pencil • 2: Chewie Mason, Land of 10,000 Lakes, 2003, Acrylic

Opening Reception
Friday, June 30, 11:30 pm
Meet the students and teaching artists who participated in this year’s Northern Plains Summer Institute. Food and beverages will be served. The reception will be held inside the Indigenous Association on the second floor of the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Center for Creativity.

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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