A celebration of art and design stemming from events dating back to the early 1900s will soon take place at the University of South Dakota. USD art department students will participate in the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) collaboration with Grounds For Sculpture to celebrate the first “International Sculpture Day” April 24  from 6 to 8 p.m. […]

Spring is a busy and inspiring time for fine arts students at the Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts. Each spring junior and senior visual arts students prepare for their annual student review. Graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students prepare to install their graduating show and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students […]

Over spring break, 18 University of South Dakota art graduate and undergraduate students — including myself and another anthropology major — spent 10 days in New York City touring various art exhibits. Sarah Sik, assistant professor of art history, was our adviser, and any student who has taken a class with Sik has had the […]

The fourth annual “Corroborations” exhibit is on display on the second floor of the I.D. Weeks Library. The “Corroborations” project pairs University of South Dakota visual arts majors with poetry majors from the English department. Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students create new collaborative work and broaden acceptance and appreciation of alternative art disciplines. Nine artist pairs were selected […]

Part of our professional development experience as Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the College of Fine Arts is creating artwork, preparing our artwork for thesis shows and entering our artwork into juried art exhibitions. Artists submit images of their work, or, in the instance of the Art Department’s 28th […]

Artwork and performances from fine arts students at the University of South Dakota will soon be on display in Sioux Falls. On Saturday, Jan. 31, the College of Fine Arts will be showcasing its faculty and students’ artwork as well as their musical and theater talents during the annual USD Night at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and […]

The end of the semester is a busy time for students across campus. It means final exams, completing research papers, finishing projects, and for graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students, a celebration of years of research with a show of their artwork in the John A. Day Gallery. Each semester, the Univeristy Art Galleries (UAG) brings in […]

“Baby, it’s cold outside,” but not too cold for the University of South Dakota ceramics students and visiting alumnus artist Johnne Law McMahan. With guidance from Law McMahan, students fired up a recently-completed, wood-fired ceramics kiln they designed and constructed outside of the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts. It has been a year-long research project led […]

This semester I am a part of the sculpture and alternative media class. There are 13 of us, including students from each major in the art department — ceramics, graphic design, painting, photography, sculpture, art education and printmaking. Many of us are also taking Sarah Sik’s art history class, where we have been studying the […]

David Langner, a senior printmaking major and president of the Student Art Association, is a dedicated printmaker with a specialization in the printmaking process of lithography. Langner is currently working on his upcoming thesis exhibition planned for spring 2015. He is also working on a cataloguing project by inventorying the entire collection of lithography stones in the […]