Rolling Plains Art Gallery

Introduction:

Rolling Plains Art Gallery (RPAG)—Plains Art Museum's signature education and outreach program—is located in a 48-foot semi-trailer that has been renovated into a climate-controlled, handicapped-accessible mobile art gallery. Developed to provide rural communities with free access to visual art, RPAG spends one week in up to 22 rural communities each year. In addition to a high quality art exhibition, RPAG offers communities with a menu of related educational activities. Since its inception in 1993, RPAG has touched the lives of more than 150,000 rural residents of North Dakota and Minnesota.

Current Exhibition:

The current biennial exhibition is entitled Creative Tradition-Living Culture. The exhibition portrays powerful affirmations of Native American Indian image and identity. The exhibition spans generations, expressing honor and respect for a living culture that is in a process of renewal and is drawing upon its creative tradition to meet new cultural challenges. This exhibition opens in Fall 2006 and tours the Minnesota and North Dakota communities through Spring 2008.

Exhibition Schedule, Fall 2007:

Making Rolling Plains Possible:

The current exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sustaining support for RPAG is provided by the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education at Plains Art Museum Foundation.

Corporate sponsorships for this high-profile program are available. Contact our development assistant, Camille Weber, for information.

Each host community pays the Museum a $750 booking fee. The community also provides electricity for the week (including a licensed electrician to hook up and disconnect electrical power), a suitable community location with good visibility for the semi-trailer, and a volunteer Community Event Organizer (CEO) to coordinate the RPAG visit.

To Learn More:

If you would like to inquire about scheduling an RPAG visit in your community, please complete an information request form or contact Pam Jacobson, curator of outreach, at 701-238-7614. Media representatives should call 701.232.3821 x121 for background materials and assistance with images and captions. If you have questions about corporate sponsorship of RPAG, call 701.232.3821 x151.