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Homestead Sunset
© Chris May (CM)

(pastel, 12 x 16)

A combined image, using a farmhouse that no longer exists, and a sunset over my own home. South Dakota has some breathtaking colors!
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From: Marica.Shannon@k12.sd.us [mailto:Marica.Shannon@k12.sd.us]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 3:44 PM
To: Randall, Steve
Subject: RE: SDAN involved?

Steve,

I received your contact information from April Geist, president of South Dakotans Art Education Association. As our conference coordinator, I would like to inform you of our State Conference to be held in Aberdeen on Oct. 8-9. Information about the conference can be found on our website at http://sdaea.k12.sd.us/.

Sincerely,
Marica Shannon

SDAEA Conference Coordinator

Mark your calendars now!
The 2010 SDAEA Fall Conference will be
October 8-9, 2010
Aberdeen, SD
Look for more information to come!
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Check out the NAEA website for information about the annual NAEA Convention!

TWO-DAY ROAD TRIP OFFERS ARTISTIC, ENTERTAINING VARIETY...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — Travelers can view and take part in some of the best sites and events the Twin Cities of Minnesota offer through a trip sponsored by the South Dakota Art Museum and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 7 and 8. Limited spots are almost filled, so interested people should call the museum soon to make reservations.

The two-day, overnight stay will take people to the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul to see the “Dead Sea Scrolls.” The Science Museum is the only place the exhibition is currently on display to show authentic documents and artifacts from the 1947 discovery of 2,000-year old documents of significant religious history. The Saint John’s Bible, the newest hand-written and illustrated Christian scripture written on calf-skin vellum with quills, natural handmade inks, hand-ground pigments and gold leaf, is also displayed. The 20th century bible originated at St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Participants will also visit the Walker Art Center, established in Minneapolis in 1927 as the first public art gallery in the Upper Midwest, and the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul, with over 12 acres of zoo animals and indoor and outdoor gardens in an active environment to help conserve the planet's resources that include plants, animals and whole ecosystems.

Before returning to Brookings, travelers will have tickets to see Wicked at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis. The traveling Broadway musical production tells the story of the unlikely friendship between Dorothy and the Elphaba, the green, Wicked Witch of the West, based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. The show’s music and lyrics are written by Stephen Schwartz who also composed the score for Godspell.

On the way home the group will stop at Deardorff Orchards in Waconia for a quick tour and taste of apples. Fieldstone Vineyards in Redwood Falls will make the last tour stop for wine tasting and light dinner.

“The South Dakota Art Museum is pleased to offer, with OLLI, this fun-filled, learning opportunity to patrons of both our great statewide organizations,” said Dianne Hawks, South Dakota Art Museum marketing specialist. The cost of the trip is $300, which covers the bus, hotel, all admission fees and two meals per day.

The registration deadline is Aug. 20. More registration information can be received by contacting Hawks at 605-688-4313.

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Artist to sell, exhibit pottery in final show Sept. 7-24 at SDSU

Dick Edie, professor emeritus of visual arts at SDSU, will talk about his work creating pottery from slabs of clay at a reception in the Ritz Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.

BROOKINGS, S.D. — If you peer closely and listen with your eyes, you can sense it in the shapes and shades and designs of his pottery—that certain something that made Dick Edie realize at a very young age that he was different.

“I was three, standing in my mother’s lap,” Edie recalled. “Her eyes were open and mine were shut. I could feel my mother’s eyes. That was significant. It’s my earliest memory.”

Three years later, after a thunderstorm, Edie remembered looking at a water stain and clearly seeing the image of a standing man.

“My brother, who was five years older than me, couldn’t see it,” he said. “I knew I was seeing things at a very young age that most people don’t grasp. I realized I was unique.”

Edie went on to study art and, in 1956, accepted a job at South Dakota State University, where he taught art for 31 years and, along the way, became adept at creating three-sided forms out of six-foot slabs of clay.

More than 200 pieces of Edie’s pottery will be on exhibition and for sale Tuesday, Sept. 7 through Friday, Sept. 24 in the Ritz Gallery of Grove Hall at SDSU. A reception with the artist will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.

“It’s my final show,” said Edie, professor emeritus of visual arts at State, who moved a year ago from his Brookings home to Dow Rummel Village in Sioux Falls. “I’m trying to close things down.”

Signing and Singing stones
Edie was hired as the fourth person in State’s newly-formed Art Department; before that, art was taught through Home Economics. He said he taught it all—painting, drawing, design, ceramics, printmaking and, something that has greatly influenced his work, calligraphy.

“Pottery is similar to lettering in a way because you’re working with your hands to create forms,” Edie said. “Lettering is making forms with lines. The business of making forms out of clay is a byproduct of lettering.

“You can see the calligraphic focus in the imagery of the pottery. It’s abstract music.”

The son of a Presbyterian minister, Edie sees a theological influence in his work. One piece is reminiscent of a cross. Another, a gravestone.

“I call them stones,” Edie says. “Each one of these pieces is a stone. When you set up a grave, you mark it with a stone. When there’s a change in a pathway, you set up a stone to mark the change.”

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Every potter has his own recipe for clay, Edie said, as well as a plan setting out. The latter, however, will likely change along the way.

“An artist always has an outcome in mind, but the outcome can be modified because you design things as you go along,” Edie said. “It’s the same with life itself. My life has not been planned by me. It just flows.”

Tim Steele, acting head of the Visual Arts Department, and Lynn Verschoor, director of the South Dakota Art Museum, are coordinating Edie’s exhibition and sale.

There is no admission charge to visit the Ritz Gallery, which is located in Grove Hall between Mathews and Brown residence halls, southeast of The Union on the SDSU campus. Visitor viewing hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, interested people can call the Visual Arts Department at 605-688-4103.

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Photos: Dick Edie, professor emeritus of visual arts at SDSU, will talk about his work creating pottery from slabs of clay at a reception in the Ritz Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10.