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FROM ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE SOUTH DAKOTA ARTS COUNCIL
Montrose: Porter Sculpture Park
Eagle Butte: RedC
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A Free Passport to Doing What I Love to Do? Yes, state tourism and arts leaders are awarding prizes to travelers who explore our cities and backroads for art and culture
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ost travelers never imagine that they are welcome to just stop at Dick Termes’ Termesphere Gallery in Spearfish. They may not even realize that John Lopez’s sculpture studio is in the little town of Lemmon, on the border between the Dakotas. And who among us wouldn’t want to visit Dave Huebner’s pottery shop, a 50-year treasure in the tiny town of Bushnell — if only we knew how to find Bushnell. Travelers are welcome at those and dozens of other art and cultural treasures in South Dakota, and the new State of Create Passport Program makes it simple to find your way. In fact, the mobile-exclusive passport
even awards prizes for the most accomplished explorers. “We’ve always known that South Dakota has a rich and vibrant arts scene,” says Erin Weinzettel, the global marketing and brand manager of South Dakota Tourism. “We also know that our visitors increasingly are looking for new ways to enjoy and explore the state, and that especially includes learning more about our arts and culture.” Weinzettel says the new passport program, which was developed with the South Dakota Arts Council, is intended as a fun way to let people know that there are theaters, playhouses, galleries, studios, sculptures, murals and museums to be discovered and enjoyed.
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PASSPORT STOPS Aberdeen: Capitol Theater & Cinema Avon: Johnny Swatek Fine Arts Black Hills Film Festival Brandon: Wilde Prairie Winery Brookings: South Dakota Art Museum Bushnell: Dakota Stoneware Pottery Canton: Sioux River Folk Festival Chamberlain: Dignity of Earth & Sky Custer: Crazy Horse Memorial, The Custer Beacon music venue Custer State Park: Black Hills Playhouse Deadwood: D eadwood Alive re-enactments, Paha Sapa Cowboys & Indians Art Festival, Wild West Songwriters Festival De Smet: Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant Eagle Butte: RedCan Graffiti Jam murals Faulkton: Grain elevator murals Freeman: Heritage Hall Museum Hill City: Quilt Show
Forty-five “stops” have been incorporated into the launch of the new program. Some will be very familiar even to travelers from afar, such as Crazy Horse Memorial near Custer and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant in De Smet. However, others may be new territory even for veteran backroad afficionados. How many people know about the bicycle sculpture at Pringle, the Chautauqua Artisans Market at Hot Springs, or the RedCan Graffiti Jam in Eagle Butte? The Department of Tourism and the state Arts Council partnered with Bandwango, which has provided technical support for similar travel programs in the U.S. and Canada. South Dakotans and prospective visitors can receive their free mobile passport and all the details about the program on the tourism website at TravelSouthDakota.com/StateofCreate.
Hot Springs: Chautauqua Artisans Market Keystone: Dahl’s Chainsaw Art Lead: Homestake Opera House Lemmon: John Lopez’s Kokomo Inn Mitchell: C arnegie Resource Center, Corn Palace Mobridge: Oscar Howe Murals Montrose: Porter Sculpture Park Pierre: South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center Pringle: Bicycle Sculpture Rapid City: D ahl Fine Arts Center, Racing Magpie gallery & studios, Suzie Cappa Art Center, Tusweca Gallery Pine Ridge: The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School Sioux Falls: B ronze Age Casting, Jennifer White’s Post Pilgrim Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center at Washington Pavilion Sisseton: Nicollet Tower & Interpretive Center Spearfish: Termesphere Gallery, Matthews Opera House Vermillion: National Music Museum, University of South Dakota Art Galleries Watertown: Goss Opera House
Prizes range from local artist stickers to gift certificates, vintage South Dakota park posters, custom Vans shoes and even a chance to win a South Dakota vacation, which will be awarded in January of 2023. For more information visit — TravelSouthDakota.com/StateofCreate
WHY THE ARTS? • Every $1 invested in the arts returns $21 to the South Dakota economy. • South Dakota has 1,352 arts-related businesses and they employ 6,489 people. • SDAC’s Artists in Schools & Communities program brought artists to 57 sites across South Dakota and provided 183 total weeks of education residency in 2020 despite the pandemic; more than half of those residencies served veterans, at-risk youth, and other underserved individuals.
Arts are the soul of South Dakota. Visit ArtsSouthDakota.org to learn more and become a member with a donation.
Arts South Dakota, a non-partisan and non-profit service organization, advances the arts for South Dakotans and our visitors by connecting, advocating, and educating.
The South Dakota Arts Council is a state agency serving South Dakotans and their communities through the arts.
Arts Alive is presented in partnership with South Dakota Magazine.
PO Box 2496 Sioux Falls, SD 57101 605-252-5979 November/December 2022 • 3 info@ArtsSouthDakota.org www.ArtsSouthDakota.org