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Reception for exhibiting artists held Friday
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| Top to bottom: “Building Civilization” – Brad Bachmeier, “We are all Jesters” – Chris Vance, “A Place for Everything” – Roger Broer |
A visual artists’ reception will be held Friday, Jan. 23 from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the South Dakota Art Museum to showcase the variety and depth of three current exhibitions. The artists will speak about their work during the reception at 5:30 p.m.
Ceramic artist Brad Bachmeier, from Fargo, N.D., combined his talents with Chris Vance, a painter from Bondurant, Iowa, to create an exhibit titled “Coexistence” that showcases the talents of both artists.
The artists’ pieces give expression to the world around them in ceramic pieces and abstract paintings. Their combined work found in “Coexistence” can be viewed at the museum through Apr. 5.
In addition, monotype pieces by Oglala Lakota Nation artist Roger Broer are also on display.
Broer focuses on elements in nature and how they connect to everything around them. His work will be on exhibition through March 29.
Broer is best known for his monotype, one-of-a-kind pieces of art made with metal or plexiglass plates and ink. The artist will conduct a workshop Jan. 24-25 at the SDAM to teach his hand-burnished monoprint technique.
Reception food will be provided by the South Dakota Art Museum Guild, and Schade Winery will provide wines.
Cost for Broer’s weekend workshop is $60 for SDAM members; $75 for nonmembers. Interested participants should call to pre-register at (605) 688-5423. The Art Museum is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wellness Center rocks scales with community fitness
The Wellness Center kicks off its annual 10-week, “Rock Your Scale” program Jan. 21.
Pre-evaluation, food and exercise journals, bi-weekly meetings with a registered dietician, bi-weekly group workouts, weekly e-mails with challenges, a post evaluation and various prizes are part of the program.
Visit the Wellness Center Web site to learn more or call Shari Landmark at 688-5386.
Pharmacy students to receive white coats
Seventy students from the pharmacy program will receive their white lab coats in a symbolic White Coats ceremony in the Volstorff Ballroom Jan. 23 at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation of the white coats marks the beginning of students’ commitment to professionalism in health care. The ceremony occurs during second semester of a student’s first year in the College of Pharmacy.
This year’s keynote speaker, Kenneth Audus, will address why professionalism is important in pharmacy. His message describes what it means to be a health-care professional and outlines the duties and responsibilities associated with it.
Audus is dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas, a post he has held since April 2004. Prior to that, Audus was chair of the pharmaceutical chemistry department at Kansas.
He earned his doctorate from the KU Medical Center in 1984 after completing undergraduate studies at the University of South Dakota.
For more information regarding the White Coats ceremony, contact Dean Dennis Hedge, 688-5591.
Faculty percussion recital offers unique rhythms, sound
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| A New Zealand publisher contacted Aaron Ragsdale about making a link to Ragsdale’s recital page. Folks hear about SDSU all over the world. |
Aaron Ragsdale, assistant professor of percussion, will perform his annual faculty percussion recital Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Peterson Recital Hall.
Ragsdale’s program is titled “Twentieth Century Transcriptions, Arrangements and Appropriations.”
The performance includes music from American composers George Crumb, John Cage and Dennis DeSantis, and Canadian composer Christos Hatzis. Ragsdale will perform work by French composer Eric Sammut in an interpretation of an Argentinian tango by Astor Piazolla.
Assistant music professor and saxophonist Nate Jorgensen will join Ragsdale on the tenor saxophone for “+8” by Dennis DeSantis.
“+8” takes its name from a record label in Detroit that specialized in techno music, a distinct type of electronic tempo-modulation that Ragsdale and Jorgensen will recreate through their live playing.
A particularly interesting piece included in the recital is called “Fertility Rites” by Hatzis for marimba and electronics.
The composer visited Inuit tribes in Canada to record a special kind of “vocal game” women played, while men hunted. Hatzis took this material, altered it electronically and used it as the accompaniment for a marimba solo. Ragsdale’s recital is posted on Hatzi’s Web site http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chatzis/  in a schedule of where his pieces are played in concerts around the world.
Lakota woman’s talk on native use of plants at Ag Museum
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| Lanniko Lee speaks about plants growing along the Missouri River outlining their use for medicines, food and other tribal traditions. |
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal member, Lanniko Lee, will talk about medicinal and nutritional plants collected and used by Native Americans at the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum next Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m.
Her presentation looks at historical and contemporary practice with native plants that have been used by tribal people. The talk is part of the Ag Museum’s hosting of the Smithsonian exhibition, “Between Fences.”
“Medicine, Mosaics and Other Matters” describes how to locate and harvest native plants. Lee practices using native plants in a number of ways according to what she learned from her relatives.
She takes a historical look at plant trade in the upper Midwest recounting the practice of people intimately connected to the land, part of which drastically changed after the building of Missouri River dams.
Lee was born and raised along the Missouri River in what was formerly Armstrong, now Dewey, County and received her bachelor’s degree from Arcadia University in Pennsylvania and a master’s from the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. As a published author, she has written for a variety of publications and lectured throughout the country.
The “Between Fences” showing comes through the Smithsonian’s “Museum on Main Street” and is coordinated by the South Dakota Humanities Council.
For more information, contact the Ag Museum, 688-6226.
Capers variety show reviews songs of 80s, 90s and today
The theatre fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega (APO), hosts Capers 2009, their annual variety production, Jan. 27-31 at 7:30 p.m. nightly in Doner Auditorium. A matinee performance will be given Jan. 31.
This year’s theme, “Capers Kicks It Old School,” features skits and songs that highlight and reminisce about music, television shows, movies and toys from the 80s, 90s and today.
The cast includes more than 150 SDSU students who rehearse three hours a day for two and a half weeks before the show. The original show is written, choreographed and directed by members of APO
who also design and build the set, create props and develop and sew costumes. Nick Castillo, a graduate student in communications studies and theatre, directs this year’s production.
Tickets go on sale Jan. 26 at the Doner box office and in The Union. Doner box office hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Jan. 26-31. The box office can be reached by phone at 688-6425. Tickets go on sale in The Union from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Jan. 26-30.
Admission prices are $11 for reserved seating, $9 for adult general seating and $7 for SDSU students with ID and high school students.
For more information, contact Kari Eliason, 688-6131.
Budgeting, credit basics are topics of TRiO workshops
TRiO Student Support Services will host workshops on budgeting and credit basics in two sessions at The Union.
The first session, “Budgeting Basics,” will be held Jan. 27 at 4 p.m. and repeated Jan. 28 at noon in Oakwood Room 273. The second session will take place Feb. 10 at 4 p.m. and repeated Feb. 11 at noon in Black Hills Room 271. The second session will focus on “Credit Basics and Saving for the Future.”
Donna Bittiker, a graduate student and an SDSU Extension Educator with Family and Consumer Sciences in Moody County, will present the workshop. Mike Niles, financial aid counselor, will also be available for consultation regarding financial aid questions.
For more information, contact Laurie Johnson, TRiO Retention Advisor, 688-6653.
OSHA to offer safety, health course for ethanol industry
The office of Engineering Extension is offering a 10-hour, OSHA voluntary compliance safety and health course for the ethanol industry Jan. 21-22 at the Days Inn on East 6th Street.
The cost of the 10-hour workshop running Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m. to noon, is $160. Companies bringing 10 or more attendees pay $140 for each employee.
Course topics during both days of critical training include an outline of OSHA standards, environmental health controls, fire protection, grain handling and conveyor safety, electrical safety, and railroad and materials handling safety.
SDSU Engineering Extension has been cited as a leader in promoting ethanol safety guidelines and has brought national recognition for their training curriculum.
Businesses can register employees for the course by contacting Engineering Extension at 688-4101 or by e-mailing Mary.Reeter@sdstate.edu.
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