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“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 […]

For most of us, the 1990s bring us back to childhood. Certain memories like toys, TV shows and movies will always hold a place in our hearts as “the good ol’ days” before adulthood hit us and ruined everything. The 1990s was also a great decade for entertainment in the movie business because more than 40 movies made […]

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 […]

The ninth album by the rock band Weezer, “Everything Will Be Alright in the End,” is a perfect mixture of pop rock and the band’s indie punk style. Weezer seemed to want to write an album based on their upbringing as a band and also pay homage to those who inspired them, like the 1970s legendary […]

The summer after you graduated high school was probably filled with parties and hanging out with your clique of friends until it was time to leave for college in the fall. On the last night before you and your friends parted ways, you most likely had a last hurrah, getting together one last time. In 1973, […]

University of South Dakota sculpture graduate students and sculpture professor Chris Meyer are preparing for another iron pour with their recently constructed cupola. This will be the second pour in three months, with the cupola built by Meyer and Jordan Eaton, sculpture Bachelor of Fine Arts alumni. Since our first pour in July, we have continued […]

When four already-famous artists come together to create a band, it seems as though anything can happen. Animal Collective is the perfect example. With 12 albums under its belt and even more single releases, the band is doing a fine job of pushing the limits. Released in 2012, the album “Centipede Hz” is just one example of Animal […]