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Past Exhibits

Cheryl Halsey

Connecting Artists

<p class="font_8">Art changes the way I experience life as an adult. Instead of a busy workday filled with things that seek to dehumanize me, I meditate on swaying grasses, rolling hills, or the shadows along a slowly moving creek. My growing focus is landscapes with suggestive details and dramatic skies. These paintings give impressions of waterways, grasses, and mountain scenes in a way photographs cannot quite romanticize. They are gentle reminders of the subtle but striking views of the heartland.</p>
<p class="font_8">My paintings are visual impressions of nature with dreamy compositions. I use watercolors to capture vibrant skylines, views of trees and windblown grasses. I communicate with broad, expressive movements of granulating color and tiny, precise flicks to capture the essence of a moment in time.</p>

Danna Kolbeck

Impressions of the Heartland

<p class="font_8">Artist Klaire A. Lockheart has assembled many portraits as an art installation, and she claims these oil on canvas paintings are from her family history. She affirms that the collection of portraits is a work of art in and of itself because she has taken and taught too many art</p>
<p class="font_8">history and theory courses, and now she doesn’t know how else to exist as a painter in a world where critics have declared that “painting is dead” more times than she can count. This collection of portraits appear to represent the astonishing Lockheart lineage, which includes pirates, flappers, and other notable characters. Some viewers question if these are authentic historic portraits of Klaire Lockheart’s ancestors. The odds are slim that all of her extraordinary predecessors commissioned portraits that are all the same size. It’s suspicious that these paintings, some of which should date back</p>
<p class="font_8">to the Renaissance, are in remarkably good condition. It’s also very unusual that Lockheart could have inherited all of these paintings. However, there is a chance that Lockheart is immortal, and she created these paintings to commemorate each identity she has assumed over time. Rumors have it that she is a vampire, time lord, or possibly possesses some sort of magical amulet. Despite the artist’s insistence that these portraits represent her lineage, skeptics proclaim that Lockheart simply created this series of paintings to construct a sense of belonging because she is a domestic abuse survivor and enjoys the concept of chosen family. It’s possible she made these paintings since she lacks family heirlooms. If this hypothesis is true, then Lockheart may have forged these portraits as a way to inspire viewers to feel empowered when constructing their own personal narratives.</p>

Klaire Lockheart

Lockheart Legacy

Yankton High School Students

Yankton High School Art Show

<p class="font_8">This art has been created as examples for the students to inspire their own projects and show different techniques.</p>

Yankton School Art Teachers

Yankton Teacher Exhibit

Crimson Door Holiday Vendor Boutique

Crimson Door Holiday Vendor Boutique

<p class="font_8">The Dakota Prairie Quilt Guild(DPQG) is a 501 (c ) 3 organized to promote and educate people about the art of quilting and foster camaraderie among new and experienced quilters.</p>
<p class="font_8">DPQG meets the fourth Monday of the month at Trinity Lutheran Church. Currently they have 65 members from Yankton and the surrounding areas. If you are a quilter or would like to learn more about quilting, come join the fun! New and experienced quilters are welcome.For more information about DPQG, contact</p>
<p class="font_8">Dakota Prairie Quilt Guild Leadership Team</p>
<p class="font_8">President - Joni Lowe</p>
<p class="font_8">Vice President - Mary Boyer</p>
<p class="font_8">Treasurer - Peggy Thranum</p>
<p class="font_8">Secretary - Dawn Atkins</p>
<p class="font_8">Or Email Dakotaprairiequilts@gmail.com</p>
<p class="font_8">Find us on Facebook at dakotaprairiequiltguild</p>

Dakota Prairie Quilt Guild

The Art of Quilting

<p class="font_8">As an artist I find inspiration in everything. Art is everywhere… In peoples smiles, in the starry starry night, and, most of all, in unconditional love. Michelanglo Buonarroti did not create art simply because he felt divinely inspired. Inspiration serves as a reminder- as Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying, “when he thinks, he becomes”! Conceptual growth is important not only for human growth, but in learning to understand one another as human beings on Earth. For example, when I am talking to children, I get down to their eye level, and speak to them softly. When I consider the fact that we are only here for a short period of time in compairison to eternity; I try to make use of every moment, realizing that creativity serves as a medium toward positive growth just like how a nurse uses a stephascope as a tool for human healing. The radio show entitled, “The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders”, is a great way to use one of our five senses; sound. Francisco Goya lost his sense of hearing (sound), but still created incarnations of different realities based on his own experiences. Francisco Goya, the most enigmatic Spanish Romantic Artist, created spiritual incarnations of the Spanish War, nightmares (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters), and most importantly, love (La Maja Vestida).</p>
<p class="font_8">I remember sitting in front of Andy Warhol’s silkscreen entitled, “Cambell Soup Cans”. The Warhol print was placed next to a classical painting by the artist Peter Paul Rubens at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo Ohio. As an artist I thought to myself, Holy Toledo, how art has evolved? Right then and there I had an epiphany, art is essential. It allows us to become what we see, and to be a part of life itself- AS a Professor of Fine Art here at Mount Marty University-I teach a wide variety of Fine Art classes… They include Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, Design, Ceramics, Art Appreciation, Photography, and at times Printmaking.  In addition, I am also the director and curator of The Bede Art Gallery. When a person is being creative, synopsis from the brain are being activated. For example, an individual has five senses-touch, sight sound, taste, smell. As teachers, I strongly believe our main objective is to provide lifelong learning. When an individual is able to put to use his/her senses by way of the Fine Arts, I believe they able to feel truly alive and most of all appreciated. Fine Art is not only essential in the class room it should be considered paramount for human intellectual and cognitive growth, which goes hand in hand with a person’s physiology  In conclusion, much lik  the Fine Art work of Peter Paul Rubens, Vincent Van Gough, art brings a smile and a sense of accomplishment and visual appreciation and understanding.</p>

David Kahle

<p class="font_8">This year the photographers are to submit photos that they believe interpret the theme "seeing red."</p>

Mighty Mo Photo Exhibit

"Seeing Red"

<p class="font_8">It feels a little bit disorganized. With my creative shoots I don't really go in with a specific plan. I'll have an idea in my mind, I'll get there and try to make it happen. I'll bring some props, play around and try things out until I think it will work."</p>

Britton Hacke

<p class="font_8">“River Reflections” is about the Missouri River and the towns next to it. I have lived up and down this river in Mobridge, Pierre, and Chamberlain. At one time my husband and I had also looked at a house in Yankton; considering moving there. My mother’s family migrated to the USA from Norway where they lived on the west coast in the Fjords area. I have certainly inherited that feeling of loving to be near water and hills. </p>
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<p class="font_8">When I respond to something in nature, I am moved to translate that feeling into art. Sometimes it is the exuberance of a child, the sun shining and casting shadows or the simplicity and beauty of a flower. To me, it is this emotional response that creates the need to do my art. The gift to create, as well as being able to respond to these feelings, comes from God, and my purpose in my art is to glorify His name by translating the beauty of His earth into something that all people can enjoy.</p>

Doris Symens-Armstrong

"River Reflections"

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