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Yankton Area Arts is excited to be hosting an array of artwork from Yankton High School students as part of our Youth Art Show 2012! The exhibit runs from February 3 through March 13 and will kick off on Friday, February 3, with a First Friday artist reception from 5-7 PM at G.A.R. Hall. YAA’s Youth Art Show is held in conjunction with Youth Art Month, an annual national event in March which emphasizes the value and benefits of excellent K-12 arts education programs.

With the gallery floor work now complete, YAA will be resuming regular business hours as of Friday, February 3. Hours are 1-5 PM on weekdays and 1-3 PM on Saturdays, and the gallery is free to the public. Call 665-9754 or email yaa@iw.net with any questions.

The Yankton Area Summer Band will be performing its 14th annual Christmas concert at 4 PM on Sunday, December 18, at the YHS Theatre. This year’s conductor is Brian LeMaster from Mitchell, SD, and rehearsal for all volunteer musicians begins at 2 PM in the YHS Band room. The concert is free to the public, and cookies and cider will be served in the Commons following the musical program!

Join us at the GAR Gallery for our 6th annual Crimson Door Holiday Show!  Over thirty area artists have created one-of-a-kind holiday gift items for sale, all priced between $5 and $100.  Items range from fused glass jewelry to woolen mittens, from beeswax candles to paper art, from wood sculpture to beaded wine stoppers, and then some!  The exhibit first opens to YAA members at a VIP reception on Friday, November 25, from 5-7 PM where light refreshments will be served and a 10% discount will be enjoyed. The GAR gift boutique opens to the general public the next day, November 26, Saturday, from 1-4 PM. The gallery will be open from 1-4 PM every Saturday and Sunday throughout December in order to better accommodate holiday shoppers!

Next year, YAA would like to expand the “Art of Healing” program by seeking volunteer teaching artists from the Yankton area to offer free Arts classes to cancer survivors and their caregivers. These classes will include, but are not limited to, watercolor painting, guitar, puppetry, yoga, jewelry making, and gourmet cooking. Through these regularly scheduled classes, patients will be able to experience healing in a creative and social environment as they shape their lives and experience the transformative power of the Arts. And with an ongoing program and monthly classes, YAA can continually reach out to cancer survivors and have a broader impact in the community!

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Deadline for teacher sign-up is November 25th, 2011! Amy at YAA will then make the Course Calendar for January-March, 2012, and we will begin advertising and signing up students at local clinics, hospitals, and health care facilities during the month of December.

Questions? Call Amy at YAA…yaa@iw.net or 665-9754. Many, many thanks!

Yankton Area Arts will be sponsoring the Sixth Annual Holiday show at the G.A.R. Hall Art Gallery during the month of December. The gallery will be filled with artwork for holiday buying. The past year’s show was exceptionally successful, and we are excited to host again this year!

This is an invitation to sell your work on consignment in a gallery setting. The atmosphere of this show is festive and we ask that the price range of each work be under $100. Yankton Area Arts will handle all sales; artists are not required to be present at the gallery to sell work. The gallery will take a 30% commission for each item sold. A check will be mailed to you mid-January for all of your items sold during the event.

Yankton Area Arts will also be promoting the show on-line and through the local media outlets. Artists will be featured throughout the month on our website www.YanktonAreaArts.org , YAA Facebook page along with links to your websites for additional promotion.

If you are interested in being a part of the show, you must fill out the Holiday Show Form!! (You may either email it to yaa@iw.net, or print and mail it to 508 Douglas, Yankton, SD 57078.) The deadline to return it to us is September 30, 2011! If juried in, your work must be delivered to the gallery November 4-11 between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00pm. All unsold items must be picked up January 9-13, 2012.

Download form here.

Questions? Please contact our Executive Director, Amy Miner at Yaa@iw.net or 605-665-9754!

Administrative position managing Yankton Area Arts and GAR Hall Art Gallery. Requires strong public relations, computer skills (Microsoft Suite and WordPress), fundraising through business sponsors and membership. Grant writing ability desired. Salary based on 30+ hours/wk and qualifications.

Send resume by July 18 to:
Carla Addy
Yankton Area Arts
3307 Mulligan Drive
Yankton, SD 57078

or AddyCarla@aol.com

Yankton Area Arts is pleased to be able to partner with Dakota Aerials and bring our members a wonderful opportunity to own one of Dave Tunge’s most recent photos. Dave is donating a limited number of prints of his photo Crimson Dawn - this photo is a beautiful view of Yankton. These prints will be gifted to Yankton Area Arts members who join or renew their membershipat a Household/Family Level or above in 2011. Please contact the office for further details – thank you for supporting the local arts!

An advocate, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a person who defends or maintains a cause, one that supports or promotes the interests of another. If they were looking for an example of a person who exemplifies those qualities, a great choice would be the new Yankton Area Arts Advocate of the year, Joan Neubauer.

While Neubauer only returned to Yankton a few years ago, she has made an immediate and large impact on arts in the area.

“I am and always have been a Yankton resident, even when I wasn’t living here,” Neubauer said. “I went to grade school here, high school here and then, I went to Yankton College.”

In the mid 1990’s, while still living in California, Neubauer was invited to become a member of the Board of Trustees for Yankton College and was soon elected to be the Chair of that Board which she continues to do today.

According to a release from the Yankton Area Arts Association, “Yankton College alumni know Neubauer as the spiritual “cheerleader” for college activities, which are too many to enumerate. She has merged her areas of interest by producing, directing and performing in productions in the Y.C. Alumni Hall; she blended her interests in education and music by creating, along with the Yankton Children’s Choir Board (of which she is President) a Summer Day Camp for aspiring young singers. She celebrates the history of Yankton by telling of those who came here by stagecoach to create the religious and educational foundation of, not only the city, but also the state.”

In December of 2007 Neubauer returned to Yankton and, since then, there has been no stopping her.

“I feel like the arts have given me so much — this community has given me so much — that I need and want to give back,” she said.

Neubauer who has been a life long teacher fell in love with theater while attending Y.C. From those first plays performed in Yankton, she went on to become a member of the Vanguard Theatre Group. In 2000 she returned to Yankton and did a summer performance of “The Curious Savage” at the Lewis & Clark Playhouse at the lake. Along the way she received awards for her acting skills, building a resume’ of over 100 professional productions. Since returning to Yankton she has once again been active in LCTC and in doing productions through Yankton College.

She is on the Center Board and helps organize activities there. She is active in the First United Methodist Church, singing in the choir, reading from the pulpit and creating family activities for the Evangelism Committee. She belongs to the Yankton Women’s Club and entertains there with humorous sketches. She sings with various groups at the local care centers, serves on the Community Liaison Board for the Federal Prison Camp, is a member of the Retired Teachers group, volunteers for Yankton Area Arts, and has just been elected to the Board for the Cramer-Kenyon home. With all of this (and more) she manages to spend at least 30 hours per week working on her Y.C endeavors, all the while being grateful for the community to which she has returned.

“Neubauer is an amazing advocate for the arts in Yankton,” said Pam Meylor, executive director of Yankton Area Arts. “For all of these reasons and more we are privileged to have Neubauer as our 2010 Arts Advocate of the Year.”

April 30th, 2010 is Yankton Art Night. Here are the locations of the participating organizations. You can click each marker for times and other event information.

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Miniature show is due Friday March 5th
Oneten Fine Art Inc located at 213 West Third Street Yankton.

Show opens Saturday March 6th 1-3 pm and runs through the 3rd of April.
Prizes awarded for best of show, second and third place. Artwork may be sold by students.

Size is restricted to 4″ x 4″ any medium.
No signature on the front
The following information on a separate piece of paper fastened to the back name, address, phone.

Categories are the following:Abstract
Landscape
Portrait
Still life
Wildlife

Any questions please feel free to ask. I will be out of town February 12-22.

Jennifer Cull
505-664-0110