Keith BraveHeart: Stepping on the Stars, Reaching for the Sun
 

Oct 24 – Dec 7, 2008
Bruce Lien Cultural Café
and Gallery

Opening Reception
Fri, Oct 24, 5-7pm
Everyone is Welcome, Free Refreshments, Childcare Available.

Keith BraveHeart represents a new generation of Native American artists and the Dahl Arts Center is proud to present the first solo show for this emerging talent. The exhibit will feature 20-30 new works including paintings, mixed media and original prints. BraveHeart, who is Lakota and Isleta, grew up in New Mexico and South Dakota and currently lives in Rapid City.   A 2006 graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Keith received the Diederich award for Most Improved Artist at the Red Cloud Indian Art Show 2007, numerous awards in 2007 & 2008, and was an instructor for the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute in Vermillion in 2008.

The exhibit is sponsored by: Doug and Justine Estes, McCarthy Properties and Great Western Bank
 

Impacted Nations

Aug 1 - Oct 18, 2008

Dahl Education Complex
Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery

Opening Reception: Fri, Aug 1
5-7pm

Organized by Honor the Earth (see below), this exhibit has invited Native American artists to submit works to address these issues in their own or other Native communities, focusing on current impacts or future positive alternatives. The goal is that by bringing Native art and resistance into the spectrum of mainstream fine arts and culture, artists can affect positive social change.

Artists List:  Nadema Agard  ▪  Neal Ambrose-Smith  ▪  Muriel Antoine  ▪  Carl Beam  ▪  Shonto Begay  ▪  Richard Castaneda  ▪  Cameron Chino  ▪  Kelly Church   ▪  Blake Debassige  ▪  Jim Denomie  ▪  Judy Dow  ▪  Ivan Eagletail  ▪  Bunky Echo-Hawk, Jr.  ▪  Aaron Freeland  ▪  Ted Sitting Crow Garner  ▪  James L. Grant, Sr.  ▪  Phyllis Grant  ▪  Hiko'ula Hanapi  ▪  Thomas Haukaas  ▪  Alyssa Hinton  ▪  Michael Horse  ▪  Peter Jemison  ▪  Jean LaMarr  ▪  Erica Lord  ▪  Jack Malotte  ▪  L. Frank Manriquez  ▪  America Meredith  ▪  Donald Montileaux  ▪  Norval Morrisseau  ▪  Sean Nash  ▪  Native youth from Hintil Ku Ca Development Center  ▪  Joaquin Newman  ▪  Harinani Orme  ▪  Jaune Quick-To-See Smith  ▪  LisaNa M. Macias Red Bear  ▪  Apolonia Santos  ▪  Joe Senungetuk  ▪  Ryan Singer  ▪  Rabbett Strickland  ▪  Star Wallowing Bull  ▪  Brando Welhelm  ▪  Richard Ray Whitman  ▪  Dwayne Wilcox  ▪  Edward Willie.

HONOR THE EARTH
Honor the Earth’s mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources using music, the arts, the media, and indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard. Read more about Honor the Earth and Impacted Nations at www.honorearth.org.
 

End of Youth - Luke Gorder
The Aberdeen Tarot  - Altman E. Studeny

The 4th exhibit in this series which showcases young “emerging” artist’s work. Luke’s large-scale oil paintings depict the primitive aspects of human and the juxtaposition of human and animal worlds.  Altman’s acrylic paintings are inspired by traditional fortune-telling Tarot cards, but take an unusual twist as queens, fools and deities are presented as depicting everyday people in their surroundings.

Peace
Black Hills Workshop Exhibit

July 9-26, 2008

Dahl Education Complex
Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery

Artists Reception:
Fri, July 18, 5-7pm
Free and open to the public

Artists from the Black Hills Workshop's Suzie Cappa Center for Art and Enjoyment will display their work at the Dahl Arts Center July 9-July 26. This year's show is titled Peace. One of its featured paintings, Doves, is by Black Hills Workshop Artist of the Year Sara Mellegard. Many mediums are included in the show, including painting, quilting, and sculpture.

Coincidentally, 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Symbol, a fact the show's organizers didn't discover until they had already decided on the theme. The symbol was first used in a protest at an atomic bomb facility in Britain.

This year Black Hills Workshop also celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. Black Hills Workshop serves more than 600 people with a variety of disabilities including mental retardation, autism, brain injury, physical disabilities and others.

The Suzie Cappa Center provides those it serves with education in a variety of art forms as well as exposure to the work of other artists.

The Story Within

June 6 - July 5, 2008
Bruce H. Lien Cultural
Café & Gallery

Sponsored by:

Don Herrmann Agency, Inc.

& 

Pailing Grant through the
Allied Arts Fund Drive

Join us for the June 7th Saturday Art Adventure from 10am-12pm  for guided tours of the exhibit and hands-on book art.

And if you'd like to try your own hand at bookmaking, check out our Bookmaking Workshop!

In the unique exhibit, twenty-four artists joined in artistic dialogue through the creation and sharing of handmade and altered books. The resulting artwork is not always a traditional book format.

The work began with one artist created the basic format for a artwork. The book then passed to the other seven artists in the group for addition and alterations. The pieces explore a range of ideas, size and structure.

Be prepared to open drawers, unlock a padlock, untie threads or turn pages as interaction with each artist’s book allows for an intimate view into their world, much like finding treasures in someone’s attic or closet.

Artists in this exhibition come from five states, including Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia and North Carolina. The artists include: Becky O’Bannon  ▪  Holly Bishop  ▪  Helen Brown  ▪  Dianne Dorset  ▪  Liliane Francuz  ▪  Laura Guinan  ▪  Jean Gumpper  ▪  Caren Hegna  ▪  Helen Hoff  ▪  Sonja Huff  ▪  Linda Lyman  ▪  Florence Alfano McEwin  ▪  Sharon Merschat  ▪  Bronwyn Minton  ▪  Linda Nix  ▪  Amber Battista Olson  ▪  Stephanie Jo Painter  ▪  Elizabeth Posapio  ▪  Linda Ryan  ▪  Sue Sommers  ▪  Nancy Stroh  ▪  Susan Thulin  ▪  Lu Del Walter  ▪  Donna Wilson.

Opening Reception:
Friday, May 9, 5-7pm

Sponsored by:
Security First Bank

Opening Reception & Awards
Friday, April 18, 5-7pm

SEE the exhibit! VOTE for
YOUR favorite!
The Peggy Sagen People's
Choice Award...

This year's People's Choice
Prize, a blown glass piece entitled

"Striations" created by
Pete Hopkins.

The Dahl Mountain Photo Competition is a juried exhibition open to everyone and based on mountain culture (landscape, wildlife, mountain sport or extreme sport).  Judged by Rapid City Journal photographers and independent artists, at least 40 photographs will be selected for the exhibit.

$1,000 in cash prizes (courtesy of the Rapid City Journal) will be distributed among winners in three categories:  Youth (18 & under), Amateur Adult, and Professional. 

Winners will be announced at the opening reception, along with gifts for honorable mentions awarded from various sponsors.  The Rapid City Journal will print the winning photos in the newspaper and Dahl Arts Center visitors will be asked to vote on a Peg Sagan's People’s Choice Award.

EXHIBIT WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

The following photos were selected for this year's exhibit! Prizes will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, April 18th, 5-7pm.

Darrell K. Sweet is a professional illustrator best known for providing cover art for science fiction and fantasy novels, in which position he has repeatedly been nominated for Hugo awards. He also produces art for trading cards and calendars. He is famous for providing the covers of the fantasy epic saga The Wheel of Time. He is also the illustrator for the well-known Xanth series by Piers Anthony and the Saga of Recluce series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., as well as the original cover artist for Stephen R. Donaldson's series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. As of 2005, Sweet had produced over 3000 original images images.

Darrel Sweet moved to the mountains of Cody Wyoming eight years ago and currently calls himself retired.  He’s still drawing covers for New York publishers.  But he’s not doing as many as he used to.  He is also developing western images that he had been thinking about doing for many years.  

Book Autograph Session
Saturday, April 5
12noon - 1pm
Bring YOUR own sci-fi and fantasy books with covers by Darrell K. Sweet to get autographed.

Opening Reception: Fri, Feb 22, 5-7pm

Sponsored by:

Spizzirri Press
Midcontinent Communications
A&B Business
South Dakota Arts Council

Endless Imagination celebrates the diversity, creativity and excellence found in the work of artists from all across our state. The 3^rd Biennial features more artists, more artwork and more venues interested in the project’s mission to recognize and encourage South Dakota artists, to promote the artistic identity of South Dakota and to celebrate the cultural and artistic heritage and future of South Dakota.

The exhibit will remain on display in Rapid City through April 12, 2008.  It will then travel throughout South Dakota in 2008, with exhibitions planned at Dakotah Prairie Museum, Aberdeen; the South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; the University of South Dakota Galleries, Vermillion and the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center, Pierre.