Dacotah Gallery

The Dacotah Gallery on the Museum's second floor is a small gallery in which we showcase our smaller-scale treasures.

Now Showing:

Art Celebration
(through May 14, 2012)

Art defines childhood because it involves everything children value as most important in life – imagination, fantasy, and fun! “Art Celebration” is a new exhibit open now at the Museum through May 14, in which art students from Simmons Middle School let their imagination and sense of fun shine.

Ross Hettinger, Simmons new art teacher, is enjoying some unique ways to teach his art students the basics of color, drawing, and design. “Oaxcongg Animals” is a project which involves concealing and animal within a colorful design. This “hide and seek” idea is one that is just as fun to decipher as it is to create.

“Value Drawings” allow the students to focus on graphite drawing techniques as well as learning to draw the accurate form of an animal or bird. “Contour Hands” give the students the opportunity to draw detailed representations of their own hands in action and then surround them with abstract designs of color.

Finally, “Horse Masks” offer a 3-D paper sculpture of a Traditional Native American art form by which a horse and its master are connected with a spiritual bond. Friends, family, and everyone who loves celebrating art is invited to enjoy South Dakota Children’s Art Month with the “Art Celebration” at the Dacotah Prairie Museum.

Museum hours: Tuesday – Friday, 9-5 and Saturday and Sunday, 1-4. Closed Mondays. “Art Celebration” is open every day until May 14, 2012.

For information on past exhibits in the Dacotah Gallery, please click here.