Current Exhibitions

GALLERY HOURS
MONDAY - SATURDAY | 10AM - 5PM

Creation.Story

Keith BraveHeart & Akta Lakota Museum
​09.22.23 - 12.09.23
Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K. Clark Gallery

Artists' Reception: October 6 | 4 - 6:30pm

Creation.Story is a traveling exhibition co-curated by Keith BraveHeart and Akta Lakota Museum. In addition to the original curators, each venue works with two roster artists as co-curators for their location. Jhon Goes In Center and Dwayne Wilcox are the co-curators working with the Dahl Arts Center staff. This exhibition is centered on the significance of creative expressions and traditions amongst the Ochethi Sakowin cultures. Multiple artists representing their Ochethi Sakowin heritage have provided visual artworks, artifacts and creative concepts to engage audiences with the expansive creation narratives that underlie their specific cultural identity and values. Creation.Story presents ancient spiritual entities and narrative figures culturally recognized as transcendent "relatives'', and acknowledged as the central foundation of Ochethi Sakowin beliefs and lifestyles. It is the intention of this exhibition to share and encourage a cultural continuum of those practices.

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Members' 28th Annual Celebration of Light

Northern Plains Watercolor Society
08.25.23 - 10.21.23
Denise Du Broy Gallery and Inez & Milton Shaver Gallery

This group show features nearly 60 works of art by more than 30 watercolor artists. Northern Plains Watercolor Society promotes interest, education, and appreciation for watercolor painting throughout our expansive region. This exhibition represents both intermediate and more advanced artists.

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Ladies, Bros & Clothes

Klaire Lockheart
09.01.23 - 12.02.23
Ruth Brennan Gallery

Ladies, Bros & Clothes combines two bodies of Klaire’s work, Brodalisques and Feminine Attempts. Klaire enjoys using the human form and humor as a vehicle to communicate the agency of women with viewers. Klaire has had numerous solo shows throughout the Midwest and a show at the Beard Gallery in Frotone, Italy.

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Emerging Visual Artist

The Poetry of Art
David Johnson
​08.17.23 - 09.29.23
Bruce H Lien Cultural Café & Gallery

Johnson hitchhiked from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Missoula, Montana, in 1976, and he never looked back. Johnson revived his art interests in the summer of 2014 after teaching for 30 years in Butte, Montana. He then began experimenting with different media, including wood sculpture, acrylics, and mixed media.

​Johnson met his wife, Linda, in 1976 and soon became a high school English and art teacher in Eastern Montana. He received formal art training at North Park College (now University) in Chicago. This training involved visits to Chicago art museums, where he became inspired by the old masters and more current artists, including Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-American sculptor.

​This is Johnson’s first exhibition in the Black Hills. He draws subject material from his experiences in the outdoors of Montana. As a result of his outdoor ventures, his work is primarily landscapes. He adds to each of his visual pieces an original poem. Johnson states, “The poem is a personal response to the work. The artwork is dependent upon the poem and the reverse.”