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Governor makes appointments to South Dakota Arts Council
PIERRE, S.D. — Gov. Mike Rounds announced today the appointment of Linda Anderson of Rapid City and Jim Speirs (SPEERZ) of Sioux Falls to three-year terms on the South Dakota Arts Council (SDAC).

“Linda and Jim bring a diversity of experience to their new positions with the Arts Council,” the governor said. “They are uniquely qualified to serve the state in our continuing commitment to the arts in South Dakota.”

Anderson is executive director of the DahlArtsCenter and the Rapid City Arts Council. During her tenure, the Dahl completed a $7.8-million, 40,000-square-foot expansion, making it one of the premier arts facilities in the state. Anderson serves on the South Dakotans for the Arts’ Community Arts Network advisory board. She is a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and a past Rushmore Honors Award Winner. She has a special interest in the role that the arts play in economic development.

Speirs is the founding member of Dakota Jazz Collective, a regionally recognized ensemble committed to taking its passion for jazz to audiences across the state. Noted for its quality musicianship, the group plays private parties, jazz clubs and formal concerts. Speirs helped develop and is an active participant in the Jazz Diversity Project (JDP), a program pioneered by the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society to introduce young people to live jazz while linking the music with American history.

Anderson and Speirs join an 11-member, governor-appointed advisory board. They replace Ruth Brennan of Rapid City and Karen Lindbloom of Pierre, who have completed multiple terms on the board.

“Ruth and Karen have served the Arts Council and the people of South Dakota with distinction and will no doubt continue to support the arts in their home communities,” said Rounds.

Re-appointed by the Governor to additional three-year terms on the board were SDAC members Don Montileaux (mahnt-ih-LOW’), a visual artist from Rapid City, and Spearfish writer Paul Higbee.

The South Dakota Arts Council is a state entity attached to the Department of Tourism and State Development, providing grants and services to artists and nonprofit organizations in South Dakota with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and state government.

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Photo – Dunn cover: The South Dakota Art Museum is taking orders for “Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West” by Walt Reed. The book, a comprehensive volume of Dunn’s work, teaching methods and students, is expected off the press in November.
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South Dakota Art Museum shows select works of Harvey Dunn

BROOKINGS, S.D. — The South Dakota Art Museum and the greater South Dakota State University campus community pay tribute to its most famous art student, Harvey Dunn, with an exhibition in the museum gallery that incorporates his well-known and lesser-known oil paintings. The paintings will be on display through December.

The museum will also begin taking orders for “Harvey Dunn: Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West” by Walt Reed, a well known art historian, author of books on illustration and founder of Illustration House in Westport, Conn. The book, a comprehensive volume of Dunn’s work, teaching methods and students, is expected off the press in November.

“We’ve had a long relationship with Walt Reed, a noted Dunn art historian, and are facilitating the publishing of his book,” said Lynn Verschoor, director of the South Dakota Art Museum.

Dunn was born on March 8, 1884 in the little town of Manchester in Kingsbury County.

At an early age, his artistic talent was recognized and encouraged by his mother, Bersha. One of his best-known paintings, “The Prairie is My Garden,” honors his mother.

As a South Dakota State student, Dunn’s teacher Ada Caldwell, encouraged him to study at the Chicago Art Institute where he was introduced to Howard Pyle, the top illustrator of the day. Pyle invited Dunn to study with him in Delaware. Under Pyle’s tutelage, Dunn became one of America’s most successful illustrators.

But he never forgot his South Dakota roots, and before he died in 1952, he gave a significant number of his paintings to South Dakota State University
 

The Prairie Is My Garden
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Photo – Harvey Dunn exhibition: Some of the most recognized paintings of noted artist Harvey Dunn, including his “The Prairie is My Garden,” are on display at the South Dakota Art Museum through December.
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Some of his pieces included in the current exhibition are “The Prairie is My Garden” and “The Prairie Trail,” along with commissioned portraits, paintings created to illustrate magazine stories and others painted for artist’s pure enjoyment and love of the prairie landscape.

Reed’s forthcoming volume of Dunn’s work is a 304-page, hard-bound book with printed dust jacket that includes 73 black and white images and 294 color plates of his paintings, locations of Dunn’s art in public collections and a listing of his published illustrations. The coffee-table book has a section devoted to the artist’s working and teaching methods, a reprinting of “An Evening in the Classroom” and a comprehensive list of his students with work samples.

Further information about the exhibit or the book is available by calling the South Dakota Art Museum at 605-688-5423 or email sdsu_sdartmuseum_store@sdstate.edu. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

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