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Winter 10-1980

South Dakota Memorial Art Center News, October-November- December 1980

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Follow this and additional works at: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news October-November-December 1980 NEWS

SOUTH DAKOTA MEMORIAL ART CENTER

On permanent view. Selections from the Center collection of Paintings, Marghab Linens, and Native American Arts continue at the Center. Exhibitions At The Center

October 5 - November 2. South Dakota Art Faculty. Teaching artists from South Dakota colleges and universities have been invited to submit two works for exhibition Participating are· Carl Grupp and Paul John Koehler of Augustana College; Stephen Andersen, Laura Audrey, Richard DuBois, Richard Hicks, James Knutson, and Dick Termes of Black Hills State College; Stephen Henslin and Connie Herring of Dakota State College; L.D. Carlsgaard, Jim Gibson, James L. Lauver, Mark W McGinnis, and Mark Shekore of Northern State College; Marie Thielen, Presentation College; Jay Olson, Sioux Falls College, Alice Berry, Don Boyd, Richard W. Edie, Gerald Kruse, Mark Lazarus, Helen Naden Morgan, Mickey Sellard, Mel Spinar, Joseph M Stuart, and Signe Stuart of South Dakota State University, John Banasiak, John Day, Jeff Freeman, Kenneth Grizzell, Wu Chien Lem, Martin Wanserski, and Bill Wold of the University of South Dakota; Ed Gettinger of -- USO/Springfield; and Phyllis Whitcomb-Packard of Yankton College. Stoneware Form, 141/," high, by Richard Edie of South Dakota State University, shows in South Dakota Art Faculty exhib1t1on. October 5. December 28. Women Artists Today. This exhibition was organized in 1978 through the November 9 · 30. South Dakota Photography 'BO.This support of the University Galleries, University of exhibition has been organized for exhibition and South Dakota; the South Dakota Committee on the tour by the Center in conjunction with the South Humanities; American State Bank, Yankton; and the Dakota Memorial Art Center's Tenth Anniversary Yankton Area Arts Association, and toured under the Celebration. South Dakota photographers were auspices of the South Dakota Memorial Art Center's invited to submit works for selection by juror, Touring Exhibitions Program. Fifty-seven artists were Carroll Hartwell, Curator of Photography at the represented in this exhibition. Funds for sixteen Minneapolis Institute of Art. Ten works are to be purchase prizes were donated by the South Dakota purchased and become part of the collection of the Federation of Women's Clubs for permanent Center following the tour. collection at the South Dakota Memorial Art Center following its tour. This selection of sixteen works, December 7 - 28. Dolls from Norway. This exhibition the first to show since its tour, includes works by presents twenty-six dolls by Norwegian artist Debra Bakken, Talitha Campbell, Georgiana Kettler Ronnaug Pettersen, dressed in Folk Costumes Cooper, Ann De LaVergne, Judith L. Eastburn, Mary representing almost all of the districts of Norway, Farwell, Mary Groth, Sonja Hutchinson, Jan from the southern valleys to the far north. Pettersen Kemerling, Emily Martin, Dyan McClimon, Sharon was born in North Norway and in her youth studied Petraitis, Karin Schminke, Jo Siddens, Signe Stuart, in Germany and Spain. The exhibit comprises a wide and Mary Kay Ulness. selection of the finest dolls that she has created - over the past forty years. Pettersen feels that pride October 7 · 25. Oscar Howe Paintings show at the of place goes to the dolls dressed in Lapp costumes. First National Bank in Mitchell. Sixteen paintings The villages of Kautokeino and Karasjok are both from the Center collection by this distinguished well represented; the four Lapp dolls are some of Yanktonai Sioux artist from Vermillion comprise this the most colorful in her collection. exhibition.

December 7 - 28. Norwegian Stave Churches. This November 10 • 17. Karl Bodmer's Travels in the exhibition consists of fifty-six high-quality color Interior of North America shows at the Bemidji State photographs of thirty stave churches of Norway, University Talley Gallery in Bemidji, Minnesota. built from the 12th to 14th centuries. Fifty panels Twenty-three intag I io prints from an 1839 folio make up the exhibition with both interior and constitute the exhibition, on loan to thP Center from exterior shots accompanied with narrative texts. Hoadley Dean of Rapid City and his sister, Mary Jewel Ledbetter of Pierre. The prints are based on drawings and watercolors made by Swiss artist Karl Touring Exhibitions Program Bodmer (1809-93) during an 1833-34 expedition across America, organized by the German amateur October 2 · 24. Art from the Red Cloud Indian scientist, Alexander Philip Maximilian, Prince of Schoo/ at Pine Ridge shows at the Huron College Wied-Neuwied. Their travels took them along the _Library under the auspices of the Memorial Art Missouri River through what is now South Dakota, Center's Touring Exhibitions Program. R.C. Gorman as several prints attest. (Navaho), Mary Adair Horsechief (Cherokee). and Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache) are among the November 1 · 26. Oscar Howe Paintings show at twenty-one artists represented. Bank West in Pierre.

September 25 • October 23. The Frank and Anna Dudeck Collection of Eastern Sioux and Ojibwa arts shows at the American State Bank in Yankton. This exhibition has been organized for exhibition and tour by the Center in cooperation with Jerry (Mrs. Oscar) Abel of Brookings, daughter of the Dudecks and co-owner of the collection with her sister, Florence (Mrs. Harry) Dahlner. The collection was assembled during 1914-27 by Frank Dudeck. During those years, Dudeck owned and operated the Opitz general store in Peever, South Dakota, and traded with Indian neighbors for the material His first acquisition was a pair of moccasins with a trade value of $1 50. The collection includes over one hundred and eighteen objects (not all will be on exhibit), including outstanding examples of Sioux pink-dyed quillwork and Ojibwa floral pattern Special exhib1t1on at the Center, South Dakota Weavers. beadwork. September 7 28

Touring Exhibition, Frank and Anna Dudeck Collection October 23 - December 9. South Dakota Weavers are showing at 7:30 p.m., free to the public, and in show at the American State Bank in Yankton. This conjunction with Introduction to Film and Film exhibition was organized by the Robinson Museum Narrative classes at SDSU. in Pierre, and will be circulated in the state under the auspices of the Center's Touring Exhibitions October 2. Robert Montgomery's The Lady in the Program. Works by Doris Beug of Sturgis, Kathleen Lake (U.S., 1947). This Raymond Chandler thriller Cheever of Brookings, Carol Jo Evans of Webster, stars director, Robert Montgomery, as Philip Ruth Golv of Brookings, Grete Heikes of Fort Pierre, Marlowe. With the use of "subjective camera," the Phyllis Packard of Vermillion, Ruth Pengra of audience is placed in the detective's field of vision, Brookings, Susan Schlesinger, formerly of Pierre, increasing the viewer's involvement into the case Mark Shekore of Aberdeen, and Alexis and David and the exploits of the cynical sleuth. Xenakis of Sioux Falls are included. October 23. Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of Charles Greener Paintings December 11 - January 6. God (Germany, 1973). Herzog, in his willingness to at the Dakota Prairie Museum in Aberdeen. show explore the battleground of the human soul, pits a Thirteen paintings from the Center collection make small band of 16th century conquistadors against up the exhibition. Charles Greener (1870-1935), a the Peruvian jungle in search of El Dorado, the native of Lancaster, Wisconsin, moved with his mythical City of Gold. Slow descent by makeshift family to a homestead in Hand County, Dakota rafts down a forbidden river begins what is Territory, in 1883. The family moved to Faulkton, obviously a dangerous journey Hate festers on the South Dakota, in 1890, where Greener established a raft - mutiny, fever, starvation. lust - as one by one studio and spent the rest of his life. As a youth, the band is put to death Greener studied at the art school of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks; at Galesburg, Illinois; with Anson K. Kross in Boston; at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cincinnati; and with J.J. Kaumeyer in Minneapolis. His greatest coup was the 1928 commission from the Young Citizens League of South Dakota for a painting to be presented to President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge in remembrance of their 1927 summer vacation in the Black Hills.

December 9 - January 6. South Dakota Photography '80 shows at the American State Bank in Yankton. This is an exhibition of South Dakota photographers, a touring exhibition organized by the Center as part of its Tenth Anniversary Celebration. Works were selected for exhibition and purchase by juror, Carroll Hartwell, curator of photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

December 12 - January 7. South Dakota Weavers show at the Klein Museum in Mobridge. lhursday Evening Film Series - The Overcoat. December 1 - 20. WPA Prints show at the Bethany Lutheran College library in Mankato, Minnesota. November 6. Alexei Batalov's The Overcoat This exhibition was organized by the University of (U.S.S.R., 1959). A poor copy clerk, Akakiy South Dakota Art Galleries and Yankton Area Arts Akakiyevich (Rolan Bykow) can no longer patch his Association from the collection of the South Dakota old overcoat so he spends his Christmas bonus and Human Services Center in Yankton. John Steuart his life savings to buy a splendid new coat. The Curry, Raphael Soyer, and are among the overcoat alters his personality and elevates his printmakers represented. status in the office. Dazed by his social success, the clerk is attacked by thieves on his way home, and rebuffed when he calls upon an important person Thursday Evening Film Series for assistance.

This series is supported by grants from the Karl E. November 13. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will Mundt Historical and Educational Foundation and (Germany, 1934-36), documents the gigantic rally at the South Dakota Arts Council, the latter with funds Nuremburg in connection with the 6th Annual Party from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with Congress staged by Hitler. The film, a crowning the resources of the College of Arts and Science and achievement of Nazi propaganda, introduced Hitler the South Dakota Memorial Art Center. The films and his followers; laid down the principles of Nazi - doctrine; and established a permanent record to be exhibition, of which he is juror. Hartwell is a shown, not only to the German people, but to graduate of the Naval School of Photography, the sympathizers throughout the world. University of Minnesota, and studied independently in Japan. He served as an aerial photographer in the November 20. Claude Coretta's The Lacemaker U.S Marine Corps and worked in commercial (Switzerland, 1977). In this film, Coretta follows the photography before joining the Institute staff in subtleties of a relationship between new found 1963. lovers, Pomme (Huppert) and Francois (Yves Beneyton). The film is built upon countless little December 7, 3:00 P.M., Carl Sunde, Professor for observations and happenings which lead us through Foreign Language at South Dakota State University, gratifying experiences until we come to know them Brookings, will present a short slide presentation intimately. With Pomme's difficulties in relating to and talk entitled, "From Stave Churches to Folk inner qualities, or even discovering what they are. Costumes-an Overview of the Arts in Norway." what begins as a romantic theme turns out to be a Sunde will discuss the role of I.C. Dahl, the father nightmare of Norwegian painting, in preserving the Stave churches. Special Events Guild Topics for the 1980-81 year, submitted by Limen Smythe, Guild President, are as follows. The November 9, 3:00.J>..M.. Carroll Hartwell. Curator of lore of the print-prints vErrroSreproductions. the Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, market, and the originality of a print; Women in will speak on major directions in contemporary American photography and its historical origins. Art-recognition and equal opportunity; and Administrative policies - acquis ition, conservation, Hartwell's talk will be in conjunction with the interpretation, and exhibition design. opening of the South Dakota Photography '80

C;irl Sunde, Brookings, guest lecturer "From Gutld members at 1980-81 orientation meeting, September 8. Stave Churches to Folk Costumes."

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