{"id":3883,"date":"2023-06-28T19:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/?post_type=update&p=3883"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:27:09","slug":"south-dakota-welcomes-arts-midwest-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/artsmidwest.org\/about\/updates\/south-dakota-welcomes-arts-midwest-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota Welcomes Arts Midwest Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Arts Midwest Board of Directors<\/a> convened in Rapid City, South Dakota in early June to conduct annual business and get to know a part of the region that has not been visited as often in the organization\u2019s past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs this your first time to South Dakota?\u201d was a question posed to board members upon their arrival. For many, the answer was yes. And even for those who have been to the state, far fewer had been to western South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board made their home base in Rapid City, meeting with the local Rapid City Arts Council<\/a> as well as the directors of South Dakota Arts Council<\/a> and Arts South Dakota<\/a>, all of whom provided background on the arts landscape around this vast state. They revealed deep partnerships and cooperation, both beneficial and necessary to supporting the arts in communities of all sizes across South Dakota. Fun fact: South Dakota has 37 local arts councils, which are vital to providing access to the arts in a state that is geographically spread out and more sparsely populated.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n Several South Dakota arts leaders joined the board meeting. From left to right, Jim Speirs (Arts South Dakota), Patrick Baker (South Dakota Council on the Arts), Jane Rasmussen (Sisseton Arts Council and Arts Midwest Board Member), Dale Lamphere (Artist Laureate of South Dakota), Brian Bonde (Arts Midwest Board Member), and Dr. Craig Howe (Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies and Arts Midwest Board Member). \n\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n \n \n <\/figure>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

The board spent their second day engaged in an all-day bus seminar, driving in the Pine Ridge Reservation with a team from the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS), an Indian-controlled nonprofit research and education center. The seminar included stops at the Badlands National Park South Unit Visitor Center, Oglala Lakota Artspace<\/a>, Red Cloud Indian School<\/a>, and Wounded Knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While traveling, we heard from CAIRNS team members about historical events and current issues, engaging in conversations about successes, challenges, and complexity within the state and the reservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n\n\n\n<\/g>\n\n\n\n<\/clipPath>\n<\/defs>\n<\/svg> Photo Credit: Anne Romens<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n Dr. Craig Howe, Arts Midwest Board Member and founder and director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, gestures towards Rolling Rez Arts, a state-of-the-art mobile arts space, business training center, and mobile bank serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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\n \n\n\n\n<\/g>\n\n\n\n<\/clipPath>\n<\/defs>\n<\/svg> Photo Credit: Anne Romens<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n The Board of Directors visited the newly completed Oglala Lakota Artspace, a centrally located, fixed structure where Native artists have have access to studio space, working space, and gallery space. \n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n
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\n \n\n\n\n<\/g>\n\n\n\n<\/clipPath>\n<\/defs>\n<\/svg> Photo Credit: Anne Romens<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n Leslie Mesteth, Associate Director of Oglala Lakota Artspace, shared more about the space in a gallery featuring the work of young artists. \n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n\n
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