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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS

Ceramics Alumni Exhibition

John A Day Gallery East Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States

Event Contact: amy fillContact Email: amy.fill@usd.eduContact Phone: 6056583437Event Locator: 2024-ACBBGZConnection through Function, USD Ceramics Alumni Exhibition celebrates the works of former USD Ceramics Department Students.

Photography Exhibit: Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature

Coyote Gallery East Main Street, Vermillion, S, United States

Step into the colorful world of Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature! In this collection, photographer Tim Schreiner foreshortens what we see, almost to the point of abstraction. Colors might be the entire point of the composition, or a flat scene becomes bands of intense, saturated color. It's an intense array. Tim also has a [...]

Free

Stories of Resilience-A Conversation About Hope When Facing Life’s Challenges

University of South Dakota, Muenster University Center-Rooms 216/216A; E Cherry St, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA East Cherry Street, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States

This event is part of the Stories of Resilience project, which features stories from people who have faced challenges related to mental health or suicide and found help, hope and healing.   Learn more at: https://30stories.resilienttoday.org/ Scholar:  Heidi Marttila-Losure Sponsored by:  Lost&Found For more information, contact:  Erik Muckey

High Strung: Five Centuries of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

National Music Museum Groves Gallery

Event Contact: National Music MuseumContact Email: nmm@usd.eduContact Phone: 605-358-3450Event URL: https://www.nmmusd.org/special-exhibitionsEvent Locator: 2024-ACABQBFor over 600 years, stringed keyboard instruments have served as repositories for human imagination, science, technology, craft, artistry, and music. They are admired for their stature – and oftentimes stunning beauty – alongside their ability to play both melody and harmony. Keyboard innovation [...]

Ceramics Alumni Exhibition

John A Day Gallery East Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States

Event Contact: amy fillContact Email: amy.fill@usd.eduContact Phone: 6056583437Event Locator: 2024-ACBBGZConnection through Function, USD Ceramics Alumni Exhibition celebrates the works of former USD Ceramics Department Students.

Speaking of Health: Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha

Wegner Health Sciences Library West 22nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

Following last year's successful "Speaking of Health" series, this first of several events kicks off a totally new health-related series, and features Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha discussing her book What the Eyes Don't See. This New York Times notable book focuses on the Flint, Michigan water crisis and how Dr. Hannah-Attisha and her team helped to expose [...]

Photography Exhibit: Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature

Coyote Gallery East Main Street, Vermillion, S, United States

Step into the colorful world of Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature! In this collection, photographer Tim Schreiner foreshortens what we see, almost to the point of abstraction. Colors might be the entire point of the composition, or a flat scene becomes bands of intense, saturated color. It's an intense array. Tim also has a [...]

Free

Veterans’ Writing Workshop

Brookings Public Library, 515 3rd St, Brookings 3rd Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

In 2024, SDHC will offer a series of writing workshops in two locations statewide. Below are the primary goals of the workshops.To connect veterans with others who have shared or similar life experiencesTo provide a welcoming and comfortable place for veterans to “tell their stories”To create a collection of stories that can be shared with [...]

Steve Smith on Piano

Trio Jazz Club 340 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

https://www.triojazzclub.com #triojazzclub #fellowshipjazzcenter

Stories of Resilience-A Conversation About Hope When Facing Life’s Challenges

South Dakota State University State Avenue, Brookings, SD, United States

This event is part of the Stories of Resilience project, which features stories from people who have faced challenges related to mental health or suicide and found help, hope and healing.   Learn more at: https://30stories.resilienttoday.org/ Scholar:  Heidi Marttila-Losure Sponsored by:  Lost&Found For more information, contact:  Erik Muckey

Young Artists Hangout – Theatre Workshop

GRAC Green Room Main Avenue, Lemmon, South Dakota, United States

Are you a young person in your teens or twenties interested in music, theater, film, photography, painting, digital art, fiber crafts, paper crafts, assemblage art, singing, drawing, chalk art, etc.?? Swing by the Grand River Arts Council Green Room (door just left of the Palace Theatre in Lemmon SD) for a fun evening with fellow [...]

Free

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

High Strung: Five Centuries of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

National Music Museum Groves Gallery

Event Contact: National Music MuseumContact Email: nmm@usd.eduContact Phone: 605-358-3450Event URL: https://www.nmmusd.org/special-exhibitionsEvent Locator: 2024-ACABQBFor over 600 years, stringed keyboard instruments have served as repositories for human imagination, science, technology, craft, artistry, and music. They are admired for their stature – and oftentimes stunning beauty – alongside their ability to play both melody and harmony. Keyboard innovation [...]

Ceramics Alumni Exhibition

John A Day Gallery East Clark Street, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States

Event Contact: amy fillContact Email: amy.fill@usd.eduContact Phone: 6056583437Event Locator: 2024-ACBBGZConnection through Function, USD Ceramics Alumni Exhibition celebrates the works of former USD Ceramics Department Students.

Photography Exhibit: Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature

Coyote Gallery East Main Street, Vermillion, S, United States

Step into the colorful world of Abstract Geometry in Architecture and Nature! In this collection, photographer Tim Schreiner foreshortens what we see, almost to the point of abstraction. Colors might be the entire point of the composition, or a flat scene becomes bands of intense, saturated color. It's an intense array. Tim also has a [...]

Free

The Times’ Four

Trio Jazz Club 340 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

https://www.triojazzclub.com #triojazzclub #fellowshipjazzcenter

POWER OF POSSIBILITY: The Impact of Public Art in South Dakota Communities

The Journey Museum 222 New York St, Rapid City, SD, United States

This one-hour documentary includes a visual tour of public art in towns across the state, along with interviews with local leaders in the arts, to explore the effects of public art in their communities. Also featured are interviews with Joan Benefiel (the artist who created “Power of Possibility”), sculptor John Lopez, Dale Lamphere (South Dakota [...]

Free

Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of “Yellow Ore, Yellow Hair, Yellow Pine: A Photographic Study of a Century of Forest Ecology”

South Dakota State University Alumni Center-Woster Celebration Hall Medary Avenue, Brookings, SD, United States

This program explores the photographic history and transformation of the Black Hills landscape since 1874, as captured in two works: "Yellow Ore, Yellow Hair, Yellow Pine" by Donald Progulske and Richard Sowell, and the 2023 "Exploring with Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition, Revised 4th Edition" by Paul Horsted and Ernest Grafe. Speakers Paul Horsted [...]

Free

Photographic History of the Black Hills

South Dakota State University Alumni Center-Woster Celebration Hall Medary Avenue, Brookings, SD, United States

This is a livestreamed event.  See below for meeting info.Fifty years ago, the SDSU Agricultural Experiment Station released Yellow Ore, Yellow Hair, Yellow Pine by Donald Progulske and Richard Sowell, a publication of comparative photographs of Black Hills trail sites from 1874 and 1974.  Images from these same locations were captured again in the 2023 [...]

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

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