American Indian art exhibit opens at CSC
An exhibit of paintings from the collection at the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School near Pine Ridge has opened in the Main Gallery of Memorial Hall at Chadron State College.
There are 29 pieces in the exhibit. Ken Korte, exhibit design and display specialist at Chadron State, said most of works are by American Indian artists from the Southwest and the Southern Plains. A couple of Canadian artist also are featured. Fifteen tribes are represented.
Korte believes the public will enjoy the exhibit. He said it includes works by both master painters and those whom he described as “up-and-coming.”
Korte added that Chadron State is proud to display materials from the vast collection of art that is possessed by the Heritage Center.
“The collection is one of the best kept secrets in the country,” he said. “It has both quality and quantity.”
Each year since 1969, the Heritage Center and the Red Cloud School have invited Native American artists from North America to enter their works in a juried show. The show is open to the public seven days a week from the first Sunday of June through the third Sunday in August. All the works in the shows are offered for sale.
A display of works by Kristy Deetz, an art instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, also opened this week in the Gallery 239 of Memorial Hall. The show is titled “Earth Texts,” and contains Encaustic pieces on carved wood that are “a visual metaphor of book form, as well as autobiographic explorations,” said Dietz.
Both shows will remain open through Jan. 27. The galleries are open from 9 a.m through 4 p.m. each weekday.
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