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

Sponsored by:

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.
 

Middle School Students Art Show Exhibit
Feb 28 - Mar 15, 2008

Bruce H. Lien Cultural Cafe Gallery
at the Dahl Arts Center

Opening Reception: Thurs, Feb 28

Bruce H. Lien Cultural Cafe Gallery
at the Dahl Arts Center

Opening Reception: Fri, Jan 18, 5-7pm

Sponsored by:

Black Hills Corporation
Security First Bank
Pepsi-Cola Seven Up

CALLING ALL RANCHERS!
Get your photograph taken by
Carl Corey! Click HERE to find
out how.

Carl Corey’s photographs portray the real American West, capturing the landscape and the people , exploring their daily lives and intense love of the land. A career artist since 1979, Corey is a fine-art photographer and print maker. His photos offer an opportunity for strangers to look beyond the theme park West of honky-tonk songs and color straw hats to the reality of worn boots, stained headgear, and to the ranchers themselves—an honorable people of tenacity, pride and constancy.

Opening Reception: Fri, Nov 30, 5-7pm

Sponsored by:

Pet Pantry
Great Western Bank
Stanley J. Johnsen Concrete Contractor, Inc.
VanBachs & Seeleys
Courtesy Subaru

Looking for a cool way to warm up this winter? The Dahl brings a hot art form to its new space. Come check out our Glassified show, where an ancient art form is presented with a new and exciting perspective. These four Black Hills area artists have been creating art that encompasses a variety of glass art techniques, including flame working, glass blowing, slumping, stain glass and mosaic.  Inspired by their surroundings, their spirituality and unique self-reflection, these glass artist masters have individually created work that is guaranteed to further ignite interest in this unique art form. Be inspired by the soft lines and smooth curves they have coaxed, through breath and fire, from a seemingly unyielding material. 

The art of glass has ignited intense interest for centuries and the artists who choose this medium fascinate their audiences. The element of art and heat combined with chemistry and creativity requires that the individual be both scientist and creator.

Aug 17 - Oct 31, 2007
Central Gallery

Sponsored by:

Don Herrmann Agency