South Dakota Governor’s 8th Biennial Art Exhibition opens at South Dakota Art Museum
The South Dakota Art Museum hosts the South Dakota Governor’s 8th Biennial Art Exhibition, featuring works from 64 South Dakota artists, Jan. 25 to April 20. The showing, the first of four statewide, represents all regions of the state and a wide variety of art forms.
Wounded Knee massacre victims commemorated
Dec. 29 marks the 128th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre. To commemorate the estimated 300 Lakota men, women and children killed that day in 1890, South Dakota Art Museum and the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS) invite the public to visit the Campus Green behind the South Dakota Art Museum any time from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 29.
South Dakota Art Museum Hosts American Basketry Exhibit
Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, an expansive exhibition chronicling the history of American basketry, opened Oct. 19 at South Dakota Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view through Jan. 12, 2019.
South Dakota Art Museum receives grant to conserve Ada Caldwell artwork
Artist and professor Ada B. Caldwell played an important role at South Dakota State University. She led the art department from 1899 to 1936 and taught famous illustrator Harvey Dunn. The South Dakota Art Museum houses many of Caldwell’s works and nine of those important works are in need of conservation treatment.