Hey! How about some color with your coffee? Common Grounds in Spearfish has graciously invited me to display some of my paintings for their caffeinated customers this month. The back nook has room for a combination of my older paintings…
Posts tagged as “arts”
Good morning from Pierre! I'm in our glittering state capital to judge the South Dakota State Oral Interpretation Festival. I just heard Jennifer Jones on SDPB describe this weekend's event as the equivalent of the state championship/ She said students…
I know Madison and Kansas City are two very different places. But Kansas City appears to grasp a key economic development principle that Madison does not: a blue-collar town can also boost itself as an artistic and cultural center. Kansas…
Our Native American neighbors post a couple of positive cultural notes this week: The Red Cloud Indian School's Heritage Center has received a $110,000 grant from ArtPlace, a collaboration of the federal government and private foundations promoting the arts as…
Some hearsay: More than twenty years ago, Madison's community leaders decided to build a theater in Madison to keep SDSU's Prairie Repertory Theatre from leaving town. When various members of Madison artistic class asked to be involved in the design…
The latest Dakota Poll finds moderate concern among South Dakotans that our K-12 public school system is not giving sufficient emphasis to foreign language, music, and art. The Oldham-Ramona school district plans to give the arts even less emphasis. Oldham-Ramona…
Little Wound teacher Dan Snethen (right) and student in "Reservation Realities" The South Dakota State Film Festival happens this week, Thursday through Sunday, in Aberdeen. My friend and neighbor Dan Snethen is taking nine of his students from Little Wound…
Last weekend's New York Times had a wonderful story about creative cultural development in Perm, Russia. Perm was one of the Soviet Union's "closed cities." Westerners couldn't go there; Perm didn't even appear on Soviet maps. The Soviets built tanks…