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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 [...]

Event Series GIVING THANKS Art Exhibit

GIVING THANKS Art Exhibit

Serendipity Studio Gallery & Gifts 230 S. Phillips Ave., Suite 204, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

We are looking for artists to participate in our next art exhibit! You can learn more on our website. Step into Giving Thanks, an immersive art exhibit that celebrates the universal power of gratitude. Through a array of artwork, this exhibit explores how people from diverse cultures and time periods express thanks—whether in sacred rituals, [...]

Free

Cosmos and Cocktails

Washington Pavilion 301 South Main Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

It’s time for science, art and stars after hours! Experience the Kirby Science Discovery Center, Visual Arts Center and Wells Fargo CineDome & Sweetman Planetarium during our adults-only (21+) deep space-themed Cosmos and Cocktails event! Run wild in three floors of interactive science exhibits, marvel at artwork in eight art galleries, sip on tasty cocktails [...]

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Chorus rehearsal

Performing Arts Center 601 Columbus St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Poetry on the Road

Full Circle Book Co-op West 10th Street, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

Poetry on the Road returns for another year!  South Dakota’s State Poet Laureate, Bruce Roseland, along with other South Dakota State Poetry Society (SDSPS) member poets and special guests, will be visiting towns across South Dakota monthly through April 2025. At each location, SDSPS members will give poetry readings and host a Q&A session along [...]

Event Series Mean Girls Jr.

Mean Girls Jr.

Orpheum Theater Center North Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, S, United States

Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming [...]

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On View: “Worlds Coming Together: Revelations Over Time”

Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University 2120 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, Sioux Falls, United States

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University opens “Worlds Coming Together: Revelations Over Time,” which will be on view from Sept. 12 through Oct. 5. A homecoming gallery reception will be on Friday, Oct. 4, from 7-9 p.m., with a talk by artist Brad Widness at 7:30 p.m. This is an exhibition of 25 years of [...]

The Augustana Faculty Biennial

Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University 2120 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, Sioux Falls, United States

Recent works by the Augustana University art faculty, instructors, and faculty emeriti will be on view at the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana.  This diverse show features both two- and three-dimensional pieces and includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and examples of public art projects completed in stained glass. Featured faculty artists include Izia Lindsay, [...]

Ritual, or Habit

Brookings Arts Council 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Artist Statement Throughout its all too often tragic history, humanity has turned to the comical, the bizarre, and the extraordinary in order to maintain a sense of lightheartedness. This tendency is often reflected in my work on a personal, sociological, and autobiographical level. An inclination on my behalf towards satire as well as a sardonic [...]

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 [...]

Event Series GIVING THANKS Art Exhibit

GIVING THANKS Art Exhibit

Serendipity Studio Gallery & Gifts 230 S. Phillips Ave., Suite 204, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

We are looking for artists to participate in our next art exhibit! You can learn more on our website. Step into Giving Thanks, an immersive art exhibit that celebrates the universal power of gratitude. Through a array of artwork, this exhibit explores how people from diverse cultures and time periods express thanks—whether in sacred rituals, [...]

Free

Jesse Christen Album Release!

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

Jesse Christen releases his new album, Don't Forget To Tip The Band, with a weekend of shows at Trio Jazz Club Shows are November 15 & 16. Show times 6:30pm and 9pm each night. https://jessechristen.com https://www.triojazzclub.com

Event Series Mean Girls Jr.

Mean Girls Jr.

Orpheum Theater Center North Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, S, United States

Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming [...]

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Fall Reading: TBA

Johnson Fine Arts Center Lobby 101, Johnson Fine Arts Black Box 112, Johnson Fine Arts Center Vestibule 100

Event Locator: 2024-ACAXFX Join the NSU Theater for a reading of, TBA.

Event Series You Can’t Take It With You

You Can’t Take It With You

Grand Opera House 109 S Pierre St, Pierre, SD, United States

At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings [...]

Jesse Christen Album Release!

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

Jesse Christen releases his new album, Don't Forget To Tip The Band, with a weekend of shows at Trio Jazz Club Shows are November 15 & 16. Show times 6:30pm and 9pm each night. https://jessechristen.com https://www.triojazzclub.com

On View: “Worlds Coming Together: Revelations Over Time”

Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University 2120 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, Sioux Falls, United States

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University opens “Worlds Coming Together: Revelations Over Time,” which will be on view from Sept. 12 through Oct. 5. A homecoming gallery reception will be on Friday, Oct. 4, from 7-9 p.m., with a talk by artist Brad Widness at 7:30 p.m. This is an exhibition of 25 years of [...]

The Augustana Faculty Biennial

Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University 2120 S Grange Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, Sioux Falls, United States

Recent works by the Augustana University art faculty, instructors, and faculty emeriti will be on view at the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana.  This diverse show features both two- and three-dimensional pieces and includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and examples of public art projects completed in stained glass. Featured faculty artists include Izia Lindsay, [...]

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