In an effort to shift the community’s ethos toward public art and design while providing much needed green spaces in three downtown locations, the Plains Art Museum will develop three collaborative, artist-led creative placemaking projects called Defiant Gardens
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See below for recent updates, press, and events from this project
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Jul 31, 2015
After a winter of planning, the Defiant Gardens projects have been steaming along since May and we have good news and bad news to report... Read More
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Jul 31, 2014
By Karis Thompson Update and reflection This month’s Defiant Gardens for Fargo-Moorhead blog features an extended update on the Pollinator Garden for the Plains Art... Read More
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Mar 24, 2014
Photo of the new light plant, circa late 1890s; photo: Moorhead Public Service Updates This month’s Defiant Gardens for Fargo-Moorhead blog by Karis Thompson features... Read More
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Feb 24, 2014
NDSU architecture student Nicholas Anderson listens as Professor Regin Schwaen discusses student Crystal Rinkenberger’s Fargo Fern Grotto rendering; photo by Karis Thompson Updates This month’s... Read More
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Jan 30, 2014
Plains staff Tim Patterson, Colleen Sheehy and Mark Ryan review and revise the Pollinator Garden master plan; photo by Karis Thompson Updates In the midst... Read More
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Jan 07, 2014
The preliminary plan for the Museum’s Pollinator Garden from Barr Engineering Updates Pollinator Garden Kurt Leuthold, civil engineer and vice president, and ecologist, horticulturalist and... Read More
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Dec 10, 2013
A bee visits the Pollinator Garden at Plains Art Museum; photo by Cody Jacobson Though the growing season in Fargo-Moorhead is done for the year,... Read More
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Oct 20, 2013
The plan sketch for the Moorhead Power Plant Defiant Garden; courtesy of Rob Fischer and Kevin Johnson Updates Defiant Garden for the Moorhead Power Plant:... Read More
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Sep 09, 2013
Update and Reflection Colleen Sheehy, Defiant Gardens project director, hosted a gathering in July to bring together the respective artists and community members working on... Read More
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Jul 23, 2013
At Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, we dug into our three projects for “Defiant Gardens for Fargo-Moorhead” in June and July after being... Read More
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May 08, 2019
The Pollinator Garden transformed cement parking lots into profuse gardens to support bees, butterflies, and more—while also nurturing cohorts of young people to became advocates...Read more
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Dec 11, 2018
As Forecast Public Art wraps up its 40th year, we join the celebration by sharing out some of the useful, valuable resources they produce for...Read more