Best Gallery In South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum / 2024 WORLD ART AWARDS
The World Art Awards has announced the 20 Best International Galleries and/or Museums for the year 2024, with South Dakota Art Museum receiving the award for the Best Gallery or Museum in South Dakota (one of six selected in the USA). Selections were based on years established, industry reputation, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, online presence, represented artists — and references from artists, clients, and visitors.
World Art Awards: “Since 1970, for 54 years, the South Dakota Art Museum beautifully houses the artistic legacy of South Dakota in all its diversity. 7,000 objects in its collection include Harvey Dunn paintings, Native American art, Marghab Linens, and much more.”
South Dakota Art Museum delivers everything a top museum offers and consistently surpasses expectations. SDAM always wows visitors from around the world, featured artists, and the students and faculty at South Dakota State University who are able to incorporate its exhibits and collections into their course work.
SDAM exhibits work from many artists with ties to South Dakota, including acclaimed painter Harvey Dunn, children’s book author and illustrator Paul Goble and noted Native American artists such as Arthur Amiotte and Oscar Howe, as well as many emerging Native artists. It also seeks out artists and traveling exhibitions that bring fresh and challenging perspectives from outside the state such as sculptors Richard Van Buren (Maine/NY) and Gisela Colon (CA), Ojibwe painter Rabbett Before Horses Strickland (WI) and many more. In fact, with 15–17 exhibitions per year rotating through its seven galleries there seems to always be something new to experience in person and online.
Also of note is the museum’s groundbreaking collaboration with the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies (CAIRNS) to deliver educational art exhibitions addressing challenging issues such as the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 and the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Contemporary Lakota artists, poets and musicians create works that explore these topics from a fresh and personal perspective that stimulates conversation as well as reflection.
MORE ABOUT THE MUSEUM:
Since 1970, the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings has been a place for people around the world to enjoy the artistic legacy of South Dakota in all its diversity. Rotating exhibits feature Harvey Dunn, Native American art, Marghab Linens and Paul Goble; as well as exhibits curated from regional, national and international artists.
The museum has more than 7,000 objects in its collection including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and ceramics. The museum store features jewelry, pottery, and original works of art by local and regional artists in addition to books on South Dakota history and culture.
The South Dakota Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). This accreditation recognizes the Museum’s commitment and demonstration of the highest professional standards for education, public service and collections care.
The museum’s mission statement: As stewards of the state’s art treasures, the South Dakota Art Museum collects, preserves and exhibits visual art to provide access and education, to foster appreciation of the visual arts for the people of South Dakota and its visitors.
South Dakota Art Museum: On the South Dakota State University campus on Medary Ave at Harvey Dunn Street, next to the Campanile.
1036 Medary Ave., Brookings, SD 57007 / 605.688.5423
HOURS: Monday-Friday 10 AM — 5 PM / Saturday 10 AM — 4 PM / Sunday 12 PM — 4 PM
Closed Sundays January through March and all SD state holidays.
WEB SITE: www.southdakotaartmuseum.com
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/sdartmuseum |
FACEBOOK:www.facebook.com/SDArtMuseum
TWITTER: www.twitter.com/sdartmuseum
World Art Awards: “This year we awarded art establishments with buildings hundreds of years old presenting Old Master originals, and conversely we selected new boundary-pushing art facilities. We opted for many high-rated private galleries representing important young work, from painting to digital to photography to sculpture. Most of these focus on advancing their regional artists, be they Burmese, Chilean, Colombian, Georgian, Latvian, Malaysian, Moroccan, Japanese, Portuguese, African, American, Latin American or Native-American.
“Our diversified roster this year includes a renowned three-story London showplace and a Prague institution (offering Czech legends of the 19th-20th century as well as European masters like Renoir, Chagall and Picasso). We chose an Australian gallery made of Australian materials specializing in Australian wood sculpture — and the only gallery in Taiwan that has focused on the art of photography for over 15 years. We also tributed large, modern art facilities with influential international presences in Morocco, Japan, Israel and USA.”
World Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2024 are:
Best in Australia: Bungendore Wood Works Gallery
Best in Chile: Isabel Aninat Gallery
Best in Columbia: Beatriz Esguerra Art
Best in Czech Republic: Knupp Gallery
Best in Georgia: UGallery
Best in Israel: Corridor Contemporary
Best in Japan: Nanzuka Underground
Best in Latvia: Galerija Romas Darzs
Best in Malaysia: Gallery des Artistes / Gallery@Tropicana
Best in Morocco: Comptoir des Mines Galerie
Best in Myanmar: New Treasure Art Gallery
Best in Portugal: Underdogs
Best in Taiwan: 1839 Contemporary Gallery
Best in United Kingdom: Miart Gallery London
Best in USA / Alabama: Alabama Contemporary Art Center
Best in USA / Arizona: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art
Best in USA / Iowa: Moberg Gallery
Best in USA / Nebraska: Kiechel Fine Art
Best in USA / South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum
Best in USA / Utah: Ogden Contemporary Arts
www.WorldArtAwards.net annually awards the 20 Best International Galleries, and with their critique months later, awards 300+ living contemporary artists (painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists).
