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What's on View at the South Dakota Art Museum'
August 17, 2011
Brookings, South Dakota
As part of the South Dakota State University, the South Dakota Art Museum takes pride in enriching lives through the arts. The museum has seven spacious galleries and an extensive permanent collection, much of which highlights Native-American and South Dakota artists. Exhibits range from the traditional to the contemporary, and includes works by children’s illustrator Paul Goble, Yankatonai artist Oscar Howe, as well as the world’s largest collection of Marghab linens. After touring the museum, Blue Star families can enjoy free ice-cream cones at the SDSU Dairy Bar. It’s the sweetest way we can think of to end a day of art and culture! Below are a few of our favorite exhibits currently on view at the South Dakota Art Museum.
Klickitat basket by Elsie Thomas. From the collection of the South Dakota Art Museum, 1992. Photo courtesy of the museum The Art of the Basket (through September 18, 2011)
The Art of the Basket explores how many Native-American nations used baskets not just as useful tools, but as works of art. The basket shown above is from the Klickitat Nation, and is one of the many examples on display from the museum's permanent collection. Made of cedar root and bear grass, the basket was woven by Elsie Thomas, whose masterful work inspired her daughter-in-law, Nettie Jackson, to pursue a similar path of traditional basketweaving. Jackson went on to become an NEA Heritage Fellow in 2000.
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