www.sturgisareaartscouncil.org Volume 36, No.4

July/August 2015

Armchair Travelers Book Club The Armchair Travelers have decided to read and discuss Adventurous Women at its Thursday July 2 meeting at noon in the Lushbough Room of the Sturgis Public Library. The librarians have a few books pulled and displayed if anyone needs a suggestion for what to read. As always, anyone may join in the fun and we always welcome newcomers. Because the Rally falls during the usual meeting date, the group will meet on Thursday, August 13th, to discuss the writing of Ivan Doig, a Seattle author who set many of his novels in Montana. He died last April, so the Travelers chose to honor his memory by concentrating on his works for the August meeting. The library staff will pull their collection and display it for the group. Looking ahead, the September meeting (9-3) will feature the works of William Kent Krueger, the author of the SDHC One Book SD, Ordinary Grace. Krueger also has written the Cork O’Connor mystery series. He has a sequel to Ordinary Grace, This Tender Land, due to be published in 2016. Sturgis Area Arts Council has scheduled a discussion of the One Book SD with Kathy Antonen, a professor at SDSM&T, on September 17th at 7:0opm in the program room of the library. Copies of Ordinary Grace will be available to borrow late in July at the library so stop in and pick one up and join us for this event as well.

Northern Hills Community Band

Once again, the Sturgis Area Arts Council is so very pleased to help sponsor the Northern Hills Community Band as they present the second of two summer concerts here in Sturgis. The Northern Hills Community Band, which is made up of volunteer musicians from the Northern Hills area, plays a wide variety of selections ranging from marches to show tunes to patriotic music. You can check out more about the band at their website; www.northernhillscommunityband.com Here you can see their concert schedule and get information on how to join the band as well as see pictures and help sponsor the band. Their second concert here in Sturgis will be held on Sunday, July 19th, at 7:00pm. The concert location is a bit tentative - they were hoping the new Harley Davidson Plaza would be finished and they could perform there, but it’s looking like that’s not going to happen. Plan on it being in the Sturgis City Park (on the east end of the park near the concession stand), but keep an eye on our website and facebook page and we’ll try to get everyone updated if that changes. We ask that you please bring along a lawn chair or a blanket and relax with an evening of fine music by this talented and well-loved group of area musicians.

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Arts In Action

Artists of the Month Alicia Maslo is our Artist of the Month for July.

She is a military spouse and mother of two. At the age of 12 she started with chalk landscapes and is self-taught in oils and acrylics. All of her work is original, no reproductions are done. She specializes in night land/waterscapes. She gets her inspiration from her extensive travel and from fellow international artists. You can see her work and follow or contact her at her facebook page - www.facebook.com/AMasloArtistry

Deborah Mitchell is our Artist of the Month for August, Her Series is titled “The Lone Road Series”, Here’s what she has to say about it and herself.

“Travel has always inspired my art and recording my journey informs the art I have created for The Lone Road. I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota where motorcycles are a part of life. The riding here is beautiful and I try to extend each riding season as long as possible. I am inspired by the people I meet, the various machines they ride, the history, and the sensation of riding. Each summer I log thousands of hours riding my motorcycle in some of the most beautiful country in the United States; Hundreds of those miles with only the sound of rubber on asphalt. I absorb the myriad smells each season brings and take in the visuals with a painter’s eye. The abstract monotypes are the result of long hours in a meditative state. The images are an attempt to express the colors of weather, glimpsed farmsteads, plowed fields, late snows, bloody road kills, billboards, and lights reflecting off wet pavement. The paintings are an exploration into the fractured way the world goes by as we ride. Since its imperative to keep our eye on the road only small glimpses come into focus at a time. The large realist drawings are derived from the photographs that I take while traveling.” And ... a note from the Library - there will be a very casual Meet and Greet with Deborah on Friday, July 31st, from 1:00-3:00pm. The show hours during the Rally are Mon-Fri from 8:00-4:00. They will be closed both Saturdays of the Rally (Aug 1st and 8th).

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.” Willa Cather

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Arts In Action

Dale Lamphere named South Dakota’s “Artist Laureate” Sturgis artist Dale Lamphere has been named South Dakota’s “Artist Laureate”. He is the first artist to be given this honor since the death of renowned Native American artist Oscar Howe. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Howe’s birth. Since the state hasn’t named an artist laureate in decades, Mr. Lamphere was understandably in disbelief when he got a call congratulating him (on April Fool’s Day, no less). “It was the introduction of other parties, the executive director of the South Dakota Arts Council, for example, that convinced me it wasn’t a gag, he said. Governor Dennis Dauggard, who announced the honor. says “South Dakota has a rich tradition in the arts, and I hope that reestablishing the artist laureate position will emphasize that heritage. Dale Lamphere is an outstanding sculptor, and I know he will be an advocate for the arts and for South Dakota artists.” Dake Lamphere has been a professional sculptor for more than 45 years. Among his prominent works in South Dakota are the State Capitol rotunda sculptures representing wisdom, courage, vision and integrity; the “Spirit of Dakota” sculpture at the Crossroads Convention Center in Huron; and “Dignity”, a forty-foot sculpture that he’s busy working on now. It depicts a Native American woman and it will be erected on the river breaks near Chamberlain sometime in the near future. His works here in Sturgis include “Kinship” at the Sturgis Community Center, “Tall Grass 2” at the Sturgis Library and the Jesus statue at Grace Lutheran Church. Under the terms of the executive order he will serve a four-year term that ends on July 1, 2019. Future governors will have the opportunity, every four years, to name a new artist laureate to promote the arts and represent South Dakota’s varied artistic traditions.

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Sturgis Area Arts Council’s Upcoming Events Thursday, July 2 Armchair Travelers Book Club Topic is “Adventurous Women” Sturgis Public Library, 12:00 Noon Thursday, July 16 Sturgis Area Arts Council Meeting Sturgis City Hall Meeting Room, 7:00pm Sunday, July 19 Northern Hills Community Band Concert Sturgis City Park, 7:00pm ***Watch our webpage for possible changes to this location Thursday, August 13 Armchair Travelers Book Club The works of Ivan Doig Sturgis Public Library, 12:00 Noon Thursday, August 13 Sturgis Area Arts Council Meeting Sturgis City Hall Meeting Room, 7:00pm Thursday, September 3 Armchair Travelers Book Club Sturgis Public Library, 12:00 Noon Thursday, September 17 One Book SD Discussion “Ordinary Grace” is the book Sturgis Public Library, 7:00pm

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“You Look Marvelous” coming in September The Arts Council is happy to once again sponsor Dakota Players as they put on the “Theater in a week” experience for the students in the Sturgis/Whitewood Schools. Their residency will start Monday September 21st and performances will be held Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th. All students in the Sturgis and Whitewood schools are welcome to participate. Auditions will be Monday starting at 3:30 and students selected will need to be available for rehearsals every day that week after school as well as the evenings of the performances. Parents - look for a letter that will come home with your child when school starts. A bit about the show....... Once upon a time there lived a Suzerain - the most royal, unique, extravagant and above all vain Suzerain whose only worry in life was to dress in elegant clothes. This Suzerain was so busy mismatching her wardrobe that the rest of the kingdom was in shambles! Enter the gypsies, who, to teach the Suzerain a lesson, devise an ingenious plan convincing the Suzerain that clothes made of their “magic thread” are just what is needed to really distinguish the townsfolk, for only those worthy can see it. Naturally, everyone chooses to praise the invisible work of these gypsies in order not to be looked on as fools. While parading through town in her royal undergarments and invisible suit, the facade collapses. The young apprentices can’t take it anymore and stop pretending to see something that is not there. Just because everyone else is saying something is true, doesn’t mean it is! In the end, the Suzerain realizes the error of her ways and is able to laugh at herself and start fresh with the townsfolk. Come join this highly entertaining, clever retelling of the popular Hans Christian Anderson fable about the pitfalls of vanity and greed and the outstanding truth of the statement that there are no stupid questions .... such as “WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES?”

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