Qualla: Plains Art Museum https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/7/4/plains-art-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Plains Art Museum https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum Plains Art Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum/ Photo credit AJ LEON, CC BY 2.0. A Warhol hangs in an old farm equipment warehouse on the northern plains. That single fact captures the unlikely story of the Plains Art Museum in downtown Fargo, North Dakota, where approximately three thousand works of art -- spanning Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, James Rosenquist, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, traditional American Indian art, and regional folk art -- fill a renovated turn-of-the-century International Harvester building. The museum is one of only two in North Dakota accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, a distinction earned in 2003. It arrived at this address after a journey almost as restless as the prairie landscape it serves.

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/7/4/plains-art-museum-wp/cb74-plains-art-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Plains Art Museum: From Post Office to Warehouse https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum/ Photo credit AJ LEON, CC BY 2.0. The museum's story begins not in Fargo but across the Red River in Moorhead, Minnesota. In 1965, the Red River Art Center opened in a former Moorhead post office, bringing organized fine arts exhibition to the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area for the first time. A decade later, i...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/7/4/plains-art-museum-wp/cb74-plains-art-museum-warhol-meets-the-prairie.mp3 0:06 3 full Plains Art Museum: Art on Eighteen Wheels https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum/ Photo credit AJ LEON, CC BY 2.0. In 1993, the Plains Art Museum launched one of its most inventive programs: the Rolling Plains Art Gallery, a climate-controlled semi-trailer that carried curated selections from the permanent collection to communities across North Dakota and Minnesota. The semi-trailer was not m...

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]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/c/b/7/4/plains-art-museum-wp/cb74-plains-art-museum-art-on-eighteen-wheels.mp3 0:06 4 full Plains Art Museum: Indigenous Voices on the Air https://qualla.com/plains-art-museum/ Photo credit AJ LEON, CC BY 2.0. The museum's commitment to American Indian art extends beyond gallery walls. Joe Williams, director of Native American programs at the Plains Art Museum, hosts the weekly podcast '5 Plain Questions,' where he interviews Indigenous artists about their work and creative processes. ...

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