Exhibit - Never Again: The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota

Never Again: The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota

I.D. Weeks - 2nd Floor Atrium

From Nov 8- Dec. 10, 2021

Students for Reproductive Rights has created an exhibit that features the testimonies of the women who have had to work through the state of reproductive rights in South Dakota. 

 

Lecture: Takuwe lecture

Takuwe lecture

October 21, 2021
6-7:15pm. Reception 5:30-6pm
University Libraries, University of South Dakota, 2nd floor.

Zoom link: https://usd.zoom.us/j/98780234463

Presented by Craig Howe, Ph.D., CAIRNS director

Dr. Howe will discuss the Takuwe exhibit, organized by the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, which depicts the historical context leading to the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890, along with contemporary context related to land issues and opportunities at Wounded Knee today.
 

 

Lecture: Harmony and Disharmony: the Struggle for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination among Native American Voices of Wounded Knee

Lecture: Harmony and Disharmony: the Struggle for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination among Native American Voices of Wounded Knee

October 14, 2021
4-5pm
University Libraries, University of South Dakota, 2nd floor.  
 
Zoom link: https://usd.zoom.us/j/95301459519

Presented by Samuel Herley, Ph.D., & Tawa Ducheneaux

The lessons of the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation are as crucial as ever in the twenty-first century, as Native American communities persevere to maintain identities, demand rights as sovereign nations, and strive toward self-determination. This presentation offers a look into the complexities of the legacy of the occupation through a series of oral history clips, transcript excerpts, photographs, and other materials.

Library Exhibits Walkthrough/Open House

Library Exhibits Walkthrough/Open House
Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. 2-5pm
2nd floor landing
 
Please join us as we acknowledge the exhibits currently showing in the library. Snacks will be available.
Takuwe exhibit
Siouxland Artists Traveling Art Show
Bound and Unbound VI: Altered Book Exhibition
 

Takuwe exhibit

October 1-October 31, 2021.
University Libraries public hours listed at www.usd.edu/library/hours
University Libraries, University of South Dakota, 2nd floor.  

Takuwe is an educational art exhibit organized by the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, which focuses on the December 29, 1890 massacre of Lakotas at Wounded Knee. The exhibit consists of songs, visual artworks and poems by forty-seven contemporary Lakota artists. Its narrative structure organizes the words of Lakotas who were there in 1890 and 1891 into seven chronological sections.

The exhibition is funded in part by:
South Dakota Humanities Council
USD Institute of American Indian Studies and Native American Studies Program
USD University Art Galleries

Bound and Unbound VI: Altered Book Exhibition

 The Art and Exhibits Committee, University Libraries, at the University of South Dakota, present the 2021 Bound and Unbound VI international juried altered book exhibition.The exhibition is open to the public during library operating hours.

More information can be found at libguides.usd.edu/BU6

Bound and Unbound VI: Altered Book Exhibition is photographed and cataloged, and placed in the Digital Library of South Dakota.

https://explore.digitalsd.org/digital/collection/exhibitions/search/searchterm/Bound%20and%20Unbound%206%3A%20Altered%20Book%20Exhibition/field/relatig/mode/exact/conn/and?fbclid=IwAR2rAGz1eUXoLEojEb1LB4SsMF72bWpJ6D8_dqPLY6vMC5db7Q55muO93MI

https://www.usd.edu/news/2021/university-libraries-at-usd-presents-bound-and-unbound-vi-altered-book-edition

Exhibit - The Story of the Coyote: A Visual History of USD Athletics

 The Story of the Coyote: A Visual History of USD Athletics was curated by Leah Dusterhoft, BFA Fine Arts – Graphic Design ’21 as part of an art history independent study course taught by Art History Professor Dr. Lauren Freese. Dusterhoft is a USD Student-athlete, throwing the discus for the track and field team during her time at USD. Since the fall of 2019, she has worked as a graphic design intern for the Sports Information Department, making graphics for social media. 

The exhibit will be on display in the 2nd Floor Gallery from April 28- Aug. 6

ART 100 FYE Altered Book Exhibit

 On display now until the end of the semester in the second floor cases in the library.

Students in the ART 100 FYE class created an altered book for exhibit. The class goal was to transform a discarded book into a creative artwork that encompassed a theme and utilized a variety of media and techniques.  

University Libraries Call for Entries for Altered Book Exhibition

VERMILLION, S.D. – The University of South Dakota University Libraries is seeking entries for their sixth international biennial altered book exhibition, “Bound and Unbound VI: Altered Book Exhibition,” scheduled for display Aug. 23, 2021 – Jan. 3, 2022.

Sponsored by the University Libraries Arts and Exhibits committee, “Bound and Unbound VI” features an exhibit of altered books, which are a mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form by altering its state or meaning. Books from any source utilizing any medium are eligible. All work must be original and executed within the last three years.

“We are very excited to have Melissa Stern as juror this year,” said committee member Sarah Hanson-Pareek, digitization and photographs curator at the University Libraries. “Her expertise in journalism (written word), sculpture, artmaking and cross-discipline endeavors will bring a fresh and unique perspective to the jury process.”

Melissa Stern, an artist, professor and journalist living in New York City, has worked in sculpture, photography and drawing for over 30 years, exhibiting throughout the United States as well as Europe and Asia. Starting in 2012, her multi-media installation exhibition, "The Talking Cure," has traveled to museums around the states and will open at the Fuller Museum of Art in 2021. Her work is featured in a number of prominent corporate and museum collections, including: News Corporation, JP Morgan/Chase, Arkansas Art Center, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Racine Art Museum, International Center for Collage, Bucknell University, Library of Congress: Rare Books and Special Collections, Museum of Art and Design, Arario Gallery and the Weisman Art Museum.

With a background in anthropology, Stern’s work reflects both non-Western and outsider-art influences. Her drawings, collages and figurative sculptures are richly drawn and deeply layered, with quirky, often dark humor.

Stern has taught and lectured throughout the New York area, including the School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design and New York University. She was the lead art critic for New York Press and City Arts from 2006-2014 and is currently a contributing writer for Hyperallergic, Romanov Grave, and Vasari 21. Learn more about Stern at her website.

Entries for “Bound and Unbound VI” are open to the public and artists can submit up to three entries by March 5, 2021. There is no fee to enter the exhibition and selected works will be on display at USD’s University Libraries second floor exhibition cases from Aug. 23, 2021 through Jan. 3, 2022 as well as entered into the altered book collection on the Digital Library of South Dakota and the Digital Public Library of America. A full prospectus and entry form for the exhibition can be found at https://libguides.usd.edu/BU6.

For more information, please contact Hanson-Pareek at Sarah.HansonPareek@usd.edu, Danielle De Jager-Loftus at Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu or Michael Boring at Michael.Boring@usd.edu. 

Originally posted https://www.usd.edu/news/2020/university-libraries-call-for-entries-for-altered-book-exhibition

The Art of International Education Week

The University Libraries will be displaying the work of international students Anita Shrestha, Yazmin Moktan, Pal Subharaj and Leila Ghasempor on the first and second floors in the library building.

https://yazminmoktan.wixsite.com/portfolio/nepal?lightbox=dataItem-jgzn8ilw7

http://volanteonline.com/2021/01/a-peek-into-an-international-students-world/

The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota

The Students for Reproductive Rights will be hosting a poster exhibit “The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota” from October 19 - November 3 in the library, on the second floor.  The SFRR states: “When we talk about abortion policy, we often overlook the personal impact these laws have on pregnant people. This display will help us conceptualize the effects of these policies by explaining South Dakota and Federal reproductive laws in conjunction with the testimonies from women who have had to work around them”.

Title: Never Again: The State of Reproductive Rights in South Dakota
Name of Organization - Students for Reproductive Rights
Dates: October 19th through November 3rd
Where: Second floor gallery in the IDW library
Description: When we talk about abortion policy, we often overlook the personal impact these laws have on pregnant people. This display will help us conceptualize the effects of these policies by explaining South Dakota and Federal reproductive laws in conjunction with the testimonies from women who have had to work around them.

University Libraries Exhibits Art by Janet Braun-Reinitz

 

The “Painted Ladies Speak” exhibition by artist Janet Braun-Reinitz of Brooklyn, New York, is currently on view at the University of South Dakota University Libraries, on the second floor, through Oct.16.

The exhibition, which features a selection of Braun-Reinitz’s recent collages, is hosted by the University Libraries’ Art and Exhibits Committee and curated by Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek, committee member and curator of photographs and digital projects at the University Libraries.

“Implicit in my work are stories waiting to be re-told – remembrances of recent events and those fading from memory that resonate in many registers, formal, narrative and personal,” Braun-Reinitz said. “The troubling nuances and tensions between what is observed in passing, and what lives in memory, produce an art with explicit social and political content. I find conceptual parallels and formal connections to works as diverse as the narrative predellas of Italian altarpieces and the mixed media art of Betye Saar.

“The collages in the “Painted Ladies Speak” series borrow from icons of art history and add a contemporary ‘comment’ to critique the ongoing, still unresolved problems facing women today and, alas, tomorrow. Artists are here to disturb the peace,” said Braun-Reinitz.

The exhibition was originally planned to open in April, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed.

“A lot has happened since then. Janet’s work reflects current events and is always fresh. She keeps up with the topics of the day in her work. So, if one thinks back to April, you can see a definitive timeline in her pieces, pausing right at the pandemic. And yet, her pieces are also timeless. The topics she works with, the stories she relates, the narratives created, are sincere and are well documented by many artists throughout time and place, thus her references to them,” said Hanson-Pareek.

“The University Libraries is honored to host the exhibit,” said Dan Daily, dean of the University Libraries. “Braun-Reinitz’s 2018 exhibit at I.D. Weeks Library with Sarah Maple was well-received, and I anticipate the same for ‘Painted Ladies Speak.’”

Braun-Reinitz is a muralist, painter, teacher and activist committed to social justice. Since 1984, she has collaborated in painting more than 60 community murals – in many venues in New York City, including public schools, health care facilities, day care centers, community gardens and more – as well as elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally. Between 1992 and 2013, she was the director of Artmakers Inc., a NYC community mural organization.

Her ongoing commitment to social justice began in 1961 when she was a freedom rider, arrested and jailed in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is frequently an artist-in-residence, most recently in 2019 at the Lakkos Residency to paint the mural “Denied, Detained, Welcomed,” in Heraklion, Greece, and in 2017 at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy.

Braun-Reinitz has co-authored two books, “The Mural Book: A Practical Guide for Educators” and “On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC.”

For more information, please contact Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek at Sarah.HansonPareek@usd.edu, Danielle De Jager-Loftus at Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu, or Michael Boring at Michael.Boring@usd.edu.

The exhibition is located at the top of the stairs on the second floor of the library, open to the public during library operating hours.

Originally posted at https://www.usd.edu/news/2020/usd-university-libraries-exhibits-art-by-janet-braun-reinitz

 

Bound and Unbound V reception

The University Libraries invites you to a reception on October 18, 4-6pm, second floor I.D. Weeks, for Bound and Unbound V, international juried altered book exhibition.

For more information: http://libguides.usd.edu/BU5.

Bound and Unbound V

More information can be found at https://www.usd.edu/news/2019/university-libraries-at-usd-presents-bound-and-unbound-v-altered-book-exhibition 

Native Voices Schedule of Events

Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness will be on display at University Libraries, 2nd floor, August 14th – September 25th.


Native Voices Lecture Discussion Series:

August 28
•    Opening Ceremony led by Gene Thin Elk, Wednesday, August 28, 7 – 9 p.m., 2nd floor of I.D. Weeks library building.

September 4
•    Storytelling and health as experienced by Native Americans led by Dr. Gary Cheeseman, Wednesday, September 4, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.

September 11
•    Film and Discussion—Health Care: Crisis at Rosebud followed by a panel discussion led by Damon Leader Charge, Wednesday, September 11, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.

September 18
•    Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma, led by Dr. Beth Boyd, Wednesday, September 18, 7 – 9 p.m., Farber Hall.


September 9 - 13
Story Times and art projects based on Sherman Alexie’s THUNDER BOY during the week of September 9th, Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library.

Art Exhibition Posters

From the collection Fine Arts, Exhibition Posters and Announcements, 1917-2016, USD Archives

See the exhibit on 2nd Floor