South Dakota arts organizations receiving Arts Midwest Phase 2 Resilience Fund grants:
Midwestern arts and culture organizations receive $1.5M to support Covid-19 recovery An additional 61 Midwestern arts and culture organizations received Covid-19 relief grants from Arts Midwest through Phase 2 of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund. The organizations receiving funding include eight South Dakota arts organizations. The Resilience Fund’s goal is to invest in historically under-resourced arts and culture organizations across the United States as they work to weather the pandemic. In line with these priorities, 32 of the funded organizations are based in rural areas, 25 are led by and serving people of color, and five are led by and serving Native and Indigenous communities. The organizations each received between $10,000 and $50,000 as a one-time investment. Recipients may direct United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund grants to their most pressing needs and opportunities, from response activities to investments that build resiliency and sustainability. The impact of Covid-19 has created incredible financial obstacles for the arts, with Americans for the Arts estimating current losses for the creative sector at over $14.5 billion dollars and counting. These losses exacerbate deep, existing inequities present across the Midwest and the nation. Historically under-resourced communities and organizations now face an additional lack of access to critical support, investment and capitalization to weather the pandemic, putting their work acutely at risk.
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Aberdeen Arts Council, $25,000 Crystal Theatre Cultural Association, Flandreau, $10,000 Chautauqua Craftsmen & Artisans of the Black Hills, Hot Springs, $10,000 Pierre Players Community Theatre, $10,000 He Sapa Wacipi Na Oshkate (Black Hills Pow Wow Association), Rapid City, $35,000 Racing Magpie, Rapid City, $35,000 Harmony South Dakota, Sioux Falls, $30,000 Sisseton Arts Council, $10,000
Governor announces student art winners overnor Kristi Noem recognized 12 students chosen for their artistic talents through the inaugural Governor’s Student Art Competition. An exhibition of the winning artworks is on display in the South Dakota Capitol Building through September 2021. “We launched the student art competition this year with the intention of honoring and encouraging the work of outstanding young artists in South Dakota,” the Governor said. “Arts education is an important part of a well-rounded school curriculum, and we have hundreds of talented young artists in our midst. We received more than 200 submissions in the first year of this program, and we’re thrilled to open the exhibition on the first day of Legislative Session.”
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“Bright Cityscape” by Tinley Hoffman, grades K-2 category.
The student winners are as follows: grades K-2, Tinley Hoffman and Charlize Vogelsong, both from Brandon Elementary, and Yohance Flores, Fred Assam Elementary; grades 3-5, Gabriella Eichmann, Canistota Elementary, Soraya Karim, St. Elizabeth Seton School, Rapid City, and Kili Cole, Batesland Elementary, Summerset; grades 6-8, Bria Shay Neff, Sioux Falls homeschool student, Ella Herron, Stagebarn Middle School, Piedmont, and Sienna Roberts, Tea Area Middle School; and grades 9-12, Hannah Hofer, Colton homeschool student, Alex Weber, Roosevelt High School, Sioux Falls, and Sarah Poncelow, Wessington Springs High School. A panel of 10 professional artists served as judges for the competition. The top-three ranked pieces in each age division make up the exhibition. View the entire Governor’s Student Art Competition exhibition brochure at https://artscouncil.sd.gov/events/student_art_Main.aspx. The program for student artists is a collaboration between Governor Noem and the South Dakota Arts Council. At left, “Goat Tying” by Sarah Poncelow, grades 9-12 category.
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