University Libraries Presents ‘Metadata Recomposed’ Exhibition Through May 8

 University Libraries Presents ‘Metadata Recomposed’ Exhibition Through May 8

 The University Libraries at the University of South Dakota presents “Metadata Recomposed,” a solo exhibition of recent works by Daniel Martin. The exhibition opened Jan. 26 and will be on display through May 8, 2026.

https://www.usd.edu/the-south-dakotan/university-libraries-presents-metadata-recomposed-exhibition-through-may-8 

 

Rex Butler Collection of Henry and Frank H. Butler Photographs – An Exhibition

Rex Butler Collection of Henry and Frank H. Butler Photographs – An Exhibition

November 24, 2025 – May 12, 2026
University of South Dakota, University Libraries Gallery, 1st Floor I.D. Weeks

Step into the world of Henry Clay Butler, Vermillion’s distinguished first pioneer photographer and his nephew, Frank H. Butler. From Main Street to lower Vermillion to river scenes, trains, the First Baptist Church, and the town’s first log schoolhouse, these images chart a community coming into focus on the Northern Plains. The Sioux City Corn Palace in Sioux City, Iowa, as well as the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, also appear. This exhibition features never-before-seen photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, donated to the Archives & Special Collections by Rex Butler, grandson of Frank H. Butler. 

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact the Office of Accessibility at least 48 hours prior to the event. Students and the public can contact the Office of Accessibility at 605-658-3745 or accessibility@usd.edu. Faculty and staff should contact Human Resources at 605-658-3660.

https://www.usd.edu/the-south-dakotan/usd-receives-rare-butler-family-photograph-collection-exhibition-opens-nov-24 

University Libraries Presents 'Bound and Unbound VIII' Altered Book Exhibition

University Libraries Presents 'Bound and Unbound VIII' Altered Book Exhibition
The University Libraries at the University of South Dakota is presenting its biennial international altered book exhibition “Bound and Unbound VIII,” juried by Bratislava, Slovakia-based altered book artist and illustrator, Isobelle Ouzman, now through Jan. 5, 2026.
By USD
The University Libraries at the University of South Dakota is presenting its biennial international altered book exhibition “Bound and Unbound VIII,” juried by Bratislava, Slovakia-based altered book artist and illustrator, Isobelle Ouzman, now through Jan. 5, 2026.

“Bound and Unbound VIII” is located in the exhibition cases on the second floor of the I.D. Weeks Library. It is open to the public for viewing during library operating hours, which can be found online. The exhibition can also be viewed online in the Digital Library of South Dakota.

The University Libraries Art and Exhibits Committee, sponsor of the exhibition, seeks to showcase a diverse range of international altered book art, to present the work locally and to build an online research collection of altered books.

“Altered books and book art continue to push the boundaries of what it means to tell a story and the ways we can give form to narrative,” said Ouzman. “Reviewing the submissions for “Bound and Unbound VIII” has been a beautiful reminder of this power, and the amount of entries received speaks to the impact of this growing art form.”

“‘Bound and Unbound VIII’ broke two new records in 2025,” said Sarah Hanson-Pareek, assistant librarian at USD. “We received the largest number of entries in the University Libraries’ altered book exhibition and had the greatest number of countries represented. Seventy-five artists entered the call for the exhibition with 124 works from 12 countries, 29 U.S. states and one U.S. territory.”

“Each submission was truly rich in creativity and imagination, making the selection process an inspiring yet challenging task,” said Ouzman. “The entries I chose for this exhibition stood out to me as pieces that explore the theme of storytelling and experimentation, as well as pieces that challenge the capabilities of books and paper as material. My own view on altered book art has been expanded through this experience, and I’m proud to see how far this type of work is reaching.”

“With altered books as narratives, Juror Isobelle Ouzman articulates an intriguing concept, which certainly resonates with me,” said Dan Daily, dean of the University Libraries. “I have viewed the pieces selected for past “Bound and Unbound” exhibits, and I have tried to contemplate what the artists aimed to communicate and what the altered books may communicate to the USD community. “Bound and Unbound VIII” will certainly bring forward new narratives to reflect upon.”

Ouzman’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Slovakia, featured in magazines such as Hi-Fructose, Colossal, and My Modern Met, and can be found in private collections worldwide. Her work can also be found on the covers of “Alice with a Why” by Anna James and “The Whisperwicks” series, published by Simon & Schuster. Ouzman selected 35 works from 31 artists, representing seven countries.

To read more about Ouzman and artists featured in the exhibition, visit the “Bound and Unbound VIII” LibGuide.https://libguides.usd.edu/BU8 

For more information about the exhibition, contact Sarah A. Hanson-Pareek, Danielle De Jager-Loftus, Cailey Schendel or Michael Boring.

 

 

Exhibit - 463: Sexual Assault Prevention

463: Sexual Assault Prevention

 Located on the Second-floor banister

The exhibit focuses on sexual assault prevention and tries to put into perspective how many people are sexually assaulted in the United States every year. There are 463 clothes pins that represent the 463,000 people who are sexually assaulted every year in the United States.

This exhibit is sponsored by Students for Reproductive Rights

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: 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

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

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

 

Public Service Colloquium

Research Posters – second floor of the I.D. Weeks library building

Monday Nov. 25th , 5-8pm


Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice

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.

Silent Witness Initiative

The Department of Political Science is sponsoring Silent Witness Initiative in I.D. Weeks Library during October.


In 1990, the Silent Witness Initiative began promoting and education to support an end to domestic violence through community based exhibits.  It started with a small group of volunteers in one state and grew into an international presence, with projects in all 50 states and 23 countries.


Silent Witness provides hope, help and healing for the victims and violators of domestic violence. Our goal is to eliminate domestic violence homicides by 2020.


Thousands of men and women die each year in acts of domestic violence in the United States.  Each one has a story.  Join our efforts to end this tragedy.

https://www.silentwitness.net/



The exhibit is located in the 2nd floor atrium

Tonight- Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma

Lecture and Discussion on Historical Trauma
Farber Hall, 7-9 p.m.
September 18, 2019

Beth Boyd, Ph.D. (Seneca) will talk about Historical Trauma and how it has affected the lives, health, and mental health of Native people in the present day. Historical trauma will be defined, experiences of historical trauma will be presented, and possibilities for healing from historical trauma will be discussed. Dr. Boyd is the Director or the USD Clinical Psychology Program and is a member of the USD Disaster Mental Health Institute. She has provided psychological services for Native children in emergency care at the Winnebago Youth Facility for 20 years. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. Boyd is a Past President of the APA Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race and of the Society for the Clinical Psychology of Ethnic Minorities.

This is part 4 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibition which was produced by the National Library of Medicine and is on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until September 25th, 2019. Native Voices explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness and cultural life for Native Americans. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices.

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

Siouxland Artists Traveling Art Show

Monday, September 9, 2019 - Thu , October 31, 2019

Art from Siouxland Artists Traveling Art Show will be on display in the University Libraries first floor and second floor gallery walls.

Siouxland Artists Incorporated has been promoting art and artists for three-quarters of a century. See facebook for more information about Siouxland Artists Incorporated. https://www.facebook.com/SiouxlandArtistsIncorporated/

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

Tonight - Healthcare: Crisis at Rosebud

Native Voices Lecture Series
Farber Hall 7-9 p.m.
September 11, 2019


Health Care: Crisis at Rosebud. Film and panel discussion led by Damon Leader Charge, a Sicangu Oglala Lakota and enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. He is currently the Assistant Program Coordinator for the Native American Healthcare Scholars Program based at the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine. Short film from 1973 examining healthcare issues on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota  (Produced by the University of South Dakota for the South Dakota Committee for the Humanities, Vision Maker Video).

This is part 3 of a 4-part Native Voices Lecture and Discussion Series coinciding with the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibition which was produced by the National Library of Medicine and is on display on the 2nd floor of the I.D. Weeks Library until September 25th, 2019. Native Voices explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness and cultural life for Native Americans. To learn more and view content from the exhibition, visit http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices.

If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate, please contact Disability Services at 605-658-3745 48 hours before the event.

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.

Exhibit - Infinity’s Edge

Location: 2nd Floor corner windows of the northwest side of I.D. Weeks library building.
When: Fall semester 2019

University Art Galleries Interim Director, Amy Fill and USD Graphic Design student, Lacey McLouth created a beautiful window installation for the I.D. Weeks library building. Using red removable vinyl, they hand cut the shapes and designs to create a symmetrical, lace-like pattern that was applied to the windows. Courtney Lavallie, UAG Gallery Assistant and Martha Aguirre, Oscar Howe Gallery Attendant assisted Lacey with the installation process. The artists state that “art does not have to exist in a formal gallery space and with this project, we hope to elevate and activate a common shared space”.