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Artists Name City Web Site Link Area of Expertise/Focus
Aaron Packard Vermillion Web Site Still life and table top photography
Aaron Woodard Salem Historical writer, focus on "the fur trade and trappers"
Adam Oswald Sioux Falls Web Site Oil & Watercolor, Focus on Big Game & Golf Course Scenes
Al Wentzell Watertown Web Site Paint & instruct Gouache, watercolor, acrylic, oil &drawing. Also china painting & stained glass. Murals indoors & outdoors.
Alan Montgomery Madison Web Site Theatrical Arts Educator, Oil Painting & Mixed Media on paper
Alexis Wilson Spearfish Web Site Instructor, teaching watercolor painting, color theory and the Creative Process. Oil, Acrylic, Native American traditional designs.
Allan Fisher Madison Web Site Sculpture, clay, cast bronze,wax wire,rope & wood constructions. Unusual material. Drawing,all mediums/Art Professor
Alverna Gibson Black Hawk Likes to paint interesting people and abstracts,scenery, especially of the Black Hills. Focus: to create works of texture and rhythm.
Amy S Petrik Yankton Web Site Graphic designer, artist/cartoonist, all mediums, Focus: specialize in ink & watercolor paintings & greeting cards.
Anita Paige Rapid City Web Si te Focus: wire wrap jewelry and adorn some of my pottery with wire. An age-old medium, I use it to create contemporary pieces of gemstone or fused glass.
Anna Achziger Sundance Jewlery working with precious and semi-presious stones, seed beads and cabochons on deer skin.
Anna Vorhes Sioux Falls Email Musician - harpist, educator, solo and join ensemble groups.
Annie Touliatos Thorstenson Hot Springs Web Site I am a mosaic artist working with plant imprinted clay, semi precious stones, glass all mixed together with a little bit of cosmic space dust
Art Red Horse Tabor Web Site Realistic oil painter, usually paint on canvas or wood. Focus: Realistic Landscape/Wildlife & Native American Culture, History, Spirituality
Benjamin Victor Aberdeen Web Site Focus: Monumental Sculture
Betty L. Beer Brookings Web Site Focus: Portraiture. I have a multi-year project called "the New Pioneers", a historical documentation of people who contribute to community development along the I-29 corridor.
Bill Feterl Sturgis Website Watercolorist, illustrate in pen & ink. I enjoy painting anything antique. Focus: Images that depict rustic images of the past.
Bill Goehring Sioux Falls Commercial/advertising still photographer/videographer & filmmaker who also does personal and fine arts work in still photography & filmmaking.
Bob Anderson Web Site Mr. Twister - performance balloon entertainer - Children's shows
Bob Callis Hill City Web Site Carves Carousel horses
Bonnie Brahms Humboldt Web Site Acrylic, Oil, drawing, watercolr and photogrpahy. Enjoys doing a series on related concepts.
Boyd McPeek Sioux Falls Web Site Focus: impressionism, graphic design and art deco.  Sculptor, and computer art digital imaging.
Brenda Bruckner Colome Web Site Focus: fine artist specializing in cowboy & equine art. Primarily use colored pencil but also have works in graphite, acrylic, oil and pen & ink
Brenda Larson Hill City Web Site Focus: Jewelry created using Natural gemstones, high quality and unusual stones.
Brian Carrico Custer Web Site Photography Specializing in Nature and Old West Pictures
Camille Ann Reiner Custer Web Site Prints and artist books express her appreciation for the little things in life.
Caren Lynn Herman Hill City 30+ yrs of award-winning writing & photography. 20 yrs newspaper editor & writer; 14 yr producing magazines, & websites.
Carla Wormington Harrisburg Painter, photographer and writer. Works with oils &acrylics on abstract or representational paintings.
Carlos M. Mondragon Sioux Falls Hobby -Photographer. Specialized in digital photography & digital re-touching. Focus Nature and People
Cathleen Benberg Sioux Falls Web Site lFocus: Linoleum block prints, life drawing in charcoal, & plein air painting in soft pastel.
Charles Cecil Brookings Photographer and writer, author
Charles Taylor MFA Hartford Creative Writer, poet and photographer. Semi-Pro. 3 advanced degrees & a certificate in photography. MA English, EdS teaching, MFA creative writing.
Cheryl Kleppin Wessington Spring Director of the local theater group, Music, Theater Arts, Costuming and set desing. Arts Council
Christopher R. Johnson Rapid City Professional guitarist (classical/fingerstyle)and teacher. Also professional glass artist (fused, carved, leaded). Wood furniture desing and Fewelry and Wearable Art.
Cindy Skillman Rapid City Music, Sculptor, drawing, potttery, ceramincs & educator.  Focus: Most of the pieces have a rustic/natural feel.
Colleen Waltner Sioux Falls Theater Arts, Textile art, involved with John Baranak's troup for Murder at the Prom a Tony & Tina type show
Damian Marchand Brandon Web Site Vocalist: Pop classical singer. Classically-styled Christmas music is latest release. Classical music as well as traditional hymns.
Daniel Goergen Sturgis Web Site Amateur wood carver and leather works. Western themed
Danielle Roethler Sioux Falls
Darwin Wolf Sioux Falls Web Site Sculptor working mainly with figurative monumental bronze. Professional figurative & liturgical sculptor. Resident sculptor in the Arts in Schools programs.
Dave Huebner Bushnell Web Site Traditional /functional potter focusing on historical reproductions & contemporary pieces
Dave Peterson Sioux Falls Web Site The watercolor and oil Paintings, Art Prints, Abstract art and Photography. Focus: realism to ambient environmental enhancement.
Dave Tunge Yankton Web Site Professional Aerial Photogrpahy - International Award Winning Photographer covering the Midwest.
David Salmen Wessington Springs Music-instrumental - Pipe organ builder & organist and have a concert hall with our home in Wessington Springs with the largest pipe organ in South Dakota
Dayle Sundberg Estelline Email Sculptor -
Deb Ehlers Huron Teaching visual arts at Huron HS. Focus: pencil drawing, acrylic and water color paiting. Experience in colored pencil, pastels, and conte crayons.
Dee Dwight Brandon Web Site Music, acrylic painter, photography, Focus abstracts, animals and pets, florals and nature, colorist.
Denise DuBroy Rapid City Web Site Professional oil painting artist. Focus: abstract - landscape based.
Diana Howey Brandon Web Site Jewelry, Clay pottery, Ceramics, Educator, Papermaking
Donna Lee Bartholow Brookings Web Site Oil and mixed media, Focus landscapes, figures, florals, animals and prints.
Duane Baumgartner Rapid City
Eric Wenger Bushnell Web Site Sculptor, metal and mixed media sculpture, Ceramics, Pottery.
Eve Fisher Madison Web Site Published mystery writer, author, poe, educator
Ginger Heinzen Hot Springs Textile Art - Primitive rug hooking on monks cloth
Greg Latza Sioux Falls Web Site Musi, Photogrpay, Writer, Journalist, Computer Art - Fine art photography, and assignment photography.
Grete Bodogaard Volin Textile Art, educator - Profesional artist: tapestry weaver, dyer and spinner.
Hailey Steele Wentworth Web Site Music, instrumental, composer songwriter, writer,
Hans Peterson Huron Music, instrumentail, conductor director, educators. Teach and play violin, viola cello and bass, also playguitar, mandolin and harmonica.
Heather Benning Redfield Web Site Music, vocal, Acrylic Painter, Airbrush, drawing, stained glass
Holly Gill Brookings Music, Textile art, sculptor, Holly makes fiber sculptures with wool fibers and wool yarn. I also make knitted felt purses.
Ildiko Wagoner Black Hawk Jewelry designer. Wildlife and western inspired.
Ira L. Olson Lead Web Site Sculptor alabastor
Jack Wayne Gully Newell Web Site Leather tooling and western wear. Chaps, chinks and cowboy gear
Jacque Callis Hill City Web Site Weaving rugs, wall hanging and wearable art.
James Johnson Hecla Sculptor, drawing, collage, photograpy, educator. The Wilderness Within South Dakota.
James Voigt Aberdeen Web Site Acrylis painter, watercolor, mixed media and literature. South Dakota rural scenes and stories, Tropical scenes. contemporary realism and part abstract
Jane Hinrichs Blunt Web Site Acrylic painter, author, journalist. My best paintings are of people - abstract realist
Jayne Erickson Sioux Falls Web Site Acrylic Painter, Photographer, Computer/Digital Artist, Emotive and beautiful exploration of humanity and nature.
Jean Larsen Beresford
Jean Slevy-Wyss Rapid City Email Textile artists work with tapestry, sculpture and jewelry. Focus: SD Cowgrils images in tapestry.
Jennifer Stone Watertown
Jim Myers Howard Acryllic painting of motorcycle/biker themed subjects. Available at Adaptations Furniture in Sioux Falls.
Jim Pollock Pierre Web Site or Web Site 2 or Sketching, Watercolor , Outdoor sketching and patining
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Jo Vander Woude Sioux Falls
JoAnn Peterson Sioux Falls Web Site Oil painter, photographer. Focus is on nature photography
Joanne Bird Brookings Web Site Acrylic painter and Scultpure, Native American Dance, Focus is mainly on Native American themes.
Joe Riis Pierre Web Site Photographer, Journalist, Photojournalist, Educator. Focus is on Missoui River Conservation.
Joel Strasser Sioux Falls Web Site & Web Site Music, Photographer, publisher. Focus: South Dakotas past, rural America, Sioux Indians and general scenics.
Joeleen Osborn Colton Email Freelance writer/author, Playwright, Interpreter, Actor, Dancer, Singer. Text for websites and newsletters, children's stories, and theatrical play manuscript. Extensive Baton Twirling expertise. Ballroom dancing including: Lindy Hop Swing, Tango, Salsa, and Two-step. Extensive acting experience. Some fencing experience
John Ashlock Sioux Falls Web Site Drawing, graphic pencil, Computer digital art. Focus: illustrative designer
John Backlund Rapid City Web Site Musician/instrumental, Composer Song writer, Drawing, Watercolor, Mixed Media.
John Beranek Sioux Falls Web Site Theater Arts, Focus: Off-the-Cuff Stuff is a small theatre company dedicated to adding interactive dinner theatre
John Lopez Piedmont Web Site Sculptor, Mixed media, Wood and metal, Focus: Western, Wildlife and U.S. Presidents
John Scott Woodhall Custer Stained Glass, wood furniture. Focus: I enjoy different styles and themes although the mountain theme with the wild animals.
Johnny Swatek Wagner Web Site or Web Site Music, Acrylic, Airbrush, Oil Painter, Drawing, Watercolor, Mixed Media, Photography. Focus: Rural landscapes
Jon Crane Hill City Web Site Watercolor, plein air, oil painter. Focus: Primarily nostalgic rural landscapes. "Art That Takes You Home." (TM)
Joy Crane Sioux Falls Jewelry and wearable art, mixed media, sculptor. Focus: Professional visual artist specializing in beadwork and bead sculpture. Very unusual art.
Julie Czmowski Huron Instrumental, vocal, director, teacher. Works for the Huron High School. Vocal Music Director and Drumline Instructor. I am also an active percussionist
Julie Kittelsrud Sioux Falls Web Site Wearable art/jewelry. Handmade glass beads are at the center of my work. I do all of the silversmithing, and design for my creations. Abbey Beads specializes in borosillicate (pyrex) lampworked glass beads and pendants.
Julie & Lisa Jones Sioux Falls Web Site Theatrical performing group. Create and fun environment with colorful ballons, event decorationss and entertainment services.
Kara Lamport Hecla Web Site Artists that hand-paint and/or hand-design each piece of fine porcelain china, replicated after fine vintage pieces from an era gone by.
Karen Gage Sioux Falls One of a kind Santas I sculpt and bake the faces and hands, build the armatures and make the costumes with my own patterns.
Karen VanderWal Brookings Web Site Jewelry design, from natural materials found in and around South Dakota.
Kathy & Ron Linton Web Site Affordable SD digital photos specializing in nature, wildlife and the SD people.
Kathy Sigle Spearfish Web Site Portrayer of western light and life. Watercolorist
Kaye Haug Huron A musician, teacher and writes contemporary Christian music and lyrics. I sing and perform secular music too. I write contemporary Christian music.
Kaye Sperb Belle Fourche Web Site Pencil and oil painter, specializing in horses & ranch life.
Kevin Wormstadt Spearfish Web Site artist/sculptor/drummer - currently working 24' x 28' map of dakota territory for the black hills & ft. pierre roundhouse
Kurt Holdorf Sioux Falls Web Site Drawing, Computer digital images, Focus: pencil drawings, portraits, animals, cars
Laura Dahle Watertown SD
McAllen, TX		 Web Site Jewelry, clay pottery, and educator.
Laura Kieser Wessington Springs Web Site Pottery artist wokring with Clay pottery and raku methodology.
Laura La Porte Spearfish Web Site Photography, music, printmaking, mixed media, and computer digital imagery. Focus on nature and landscape photographer of South Dakota
Les Voorhis Spearfish Web Site Nature, wildlife and outdoor recreation photographer
Lilah Pengra Buffalo Gap Wearable art/jewelry, writer, educator. Special focus on decreasing racism by recognizing similaries and respecting differences.
Linda Nelson Claire City Web Site Acrylic painter, hand made wire sculptor, Jewelry designer, poet.
Lisa Shoemaker Colman Web Site Watercolor and oil painter. Focus: Abstract work inspired by various regions of the central plains.
Lisa Vande Vegte Sioux Falls Web Site Arts educator for pre-school through adult; acrylic and oil painting, portraiture and figurative
Lois Beckner Aberdeen Acrylic painter, textile art, sculptor, jewelry, watercolor, pottery, ceramics, collage, art educator. Focus on earthy, ethereal, transcendental, primal, ethnic, ambient, facetious.
Lois Lacey Brown Sioux Falls
Lon Oleson Aberdeen Web Site Wood and pine bark carving, teaches carving. Whimisical and delightful wood carvings.
Lonnie Schumacher
"Dental Records" - record company and publisher		 Fort Pierre Web Site Instrumental jazz group, easy listening, traditional or classic jazz consisting of piano, bass & drums. Lonnie specialisted in the electric bass guitar and acoustic upright bass. Dental Records is a company that handles CD mfg and distribution for Jim Szana Trio & Rochford Jazz Ensemble, along with performances by the Duo and outside projects with other musicians.
Lora Hazelrigg Sioux Falls Acrylic pinter, who creates one of a kind murals.
Loren Harrison Keystone Web Site Segmented woodturning, hand finished beautiful pieces. Our mission to to provide high quality original artistry in wood, basketry, wood crafts and gardening.
Lorenzo Black Lance Rapid City Acrylic painter, feather painter.
Lorie Luers Pierre Web Site Music & Jewerly design. Focus: wire work and bead creations.
Lowell Perman Artesian Email Children's storyteller and hand tooled leather
Lynn Assimacopoulos Sioux Falls Web Site Writer, poet, Focus on non fiction stories and book on various themes and ideas.
Margaret Schmidt Lane Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor, printmaker, drawing, mixed media, photogrphy, square dancing, sculptor. Teaches art classes
Marian Henjum Sioux Falls Web Site Drawing, watercolor, mixed media, art educator. Focus on Midwest landscapes, florals, figures.
Marian Sprecher Huron Web Site Oil and watercolor pinter, images and designs of a diversity of subjects from the rural environment to everyday scenes and florals
Marie Ann Robinson Wallace Mixed media, flower/botanical, pressed flower/botanical art
Marie Ann Robinson Clark Mixed media art
Marie Louise Tesch Rapid City Web Site Acrylic, drawing, mixed media, educator, "Moderate Abstraction" is the term Tesch has coined for her style of painting.
Marilyn Jones Sioux Falls Drawing, watercolor, cartooning, collage, Focus on Portraiture
Marilyn Kratz Yankton Writer, poetry, childrens stories, storyteller
Marilyn Zimmermann Sioux Falls Photography Focus: Discovering beauty in obscurity
Mark Anderson Sioux Falls Web Site Painter wildlife and sceneary Focus: Duck Stamp specialist
Mark McGinnis Hot Springs Web Site Oil, Pencil, Watercolor, Educator, Printmaker, Writer.
Marsha Selle Sioux Falls
Mary Berger Sioux Falls Web Site Portraits from photographs in pastels and charcoal. Newer projects include still lifes and landscapes done with acrylic and oil as well as my usual charcoal and pastel pieces.
Mary Gab Eureka One of a kinds hand made Santas, Visual arts sculptor-hobby
Mary Jo Marcy Custer Web Site Acrylic painter, sculptor, jewelry, raku pottery and mixed media. Create pottery that uses real leaves in the process.
MaryEllen Connelly Sioux Falls Oil painter, plein aire, mixed media, writer. Focus on native plants, nature, gardening, all plants, landscapes
Mavis Madison Rapid City Web Site Sculptor Focus on western themes
Michael Shapiro Volin Web Site Photographer, Focus on Documentary and Portraiture. Photo journalist/photo stories.
Michael & Angelique Verver Colman Web Site Wood furniture
Miguel Apaza Custer Web Site Music, staging, lighting, sound, printmaking, drawing, pencil drawing, wood/Metal, papermaking, photogrphy, computer art, web design, digital imaging, film making video editing and Dance.
Michelle Eischen Sioux Falls Web Site Artist - Oil Painter, Portraits, Landscapes, Writer, Professor
Mike Stoner Sioux Falls Web Site Sculptor, jewelry and collage. Focus on what is found in nature is a canvas for my photography.
Mikki Caspers Hecla Web Site Visual arts, mixed media, Focus on feather art.
Nancy Barker Hot Springs Web Site jewelry, focus on gemstone jewelry
Nathan Cantwelll Aberdeen Web Site Artist - Oil Painter, Drawing. Contemporary fine art related to biology and nature
Nick Wendell Brookings Web Site Administrative, booking agent for SDSU events.
Oscar Thompson Letcher Web Site Wood furntiure design, wood and metal media. Focus on hardwood wood projects one of a kind pieces
Pat Lindemann Custer Email Clay pottery and raku, Every person is a vessel, and every vessel has a journey.
Pati Deuter Ree Heights Web Site Watercolor. Focus on Native American themes
Paul Dezotell Sioux Falls Web Site Costuming, Set Desing, Staghing, Lighting, Sound, Acrylic painter, Sculptor, Graphic Design, Mixed Media, Wood, Metal, Stenciling, Faux Painting. Focus: The Joy of Creating.
Paul Peterson Sturgis Web Site Acrylic painting, airbrush, watercolor. The paintings are colorful, emotionally autobiographical and reflect my feeling of connection to the land.
Phil Baker Sioux Falls Web Site Vocal, Composer Focus: young audiences, children , produce children's music videos for SD Public Broadcasting
Rachel Pettit Tooele Web Site Oil painter. Focus: Plen air, studio, landscapes and still life works
Ree Bachmeier Web Site Acrylic painter, drawing, raku pottery.
Rich & Lori Murphy Sioux Falls Web Site Music, photography, videographer, Focus: Photography with a hometown feel
Richard Stedman Mitchell Web Site Watercolor, mixed media, photography, web design, ditigal imaging, Focus: Landscape and architecture
Rita Tate Astoria Web Site Oil paitner, sculptor, drawing, watercolor. Focus: Free hand original art - realist
Robin Doty Alcester
Rod Wilson Spearfish Web Site
Rodger Ellingson Sioux Falls
Roger Broer Hill City Web Site
Roger Wagoner Black Hawk Web Site or Web Site
Ronald Nelson Lake Preston
Sabrina Harmon Newell Web Site
Sam Hurst Rapid City
Sam "Judith" McGinnis Hot Springs
Sandy Newman Rapid City Web Site and Web Site
Sarah Peterson Hot Springs Web Site
Sean Conrad Vermillion Web Site
Shirley Jane Hobbs Custer Web Site I paint impressionistic Black Hills Landscapes on silk water color techniques.
Shirly Holt Gary Web Site
Slim & Darlene McNaught New Underwood Web Site
Sonja Holy Eagle Rapid City Web Site
Steve Boint Sioux Falls Web Site
Steven Larson Sioux Falls Web Site Acrylic abstracts, landscape and mindscapes.
Sue Lev Sioux Falls
Susan Heggestad Vermillion Web Site Printmaking, papermaking, music
Susan Overholt Madison Web Site
Suzanne Sunshower Scotland Web Site
Suzanne Willadsen Sioux Falls Web Site
Tim Peterson Spearfish Web Site
Tom Bartholow Brookings Web Site
Tom Eastburn Hot Springs Web Site Buffalo are often portrayed on my clay items, although recently I have started employing a new glazing technique I've developed creating wild and vibrant colored wall platters.
Travis Hinton Sioux Falls
Vickie Schumacher Sioux Falls Web Site
Virginia Sneve Rapid City
William Schultz Yankton Web Site

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