Join Parks and Recreation for your chance to perform at the Sounds of Sioux Falls pool event. All bands must audition for their chance to perform. Auditions will consist of two songs. Bands must provide their own equipment, but please scale down for the audition. No amps please. Sounds of Sioux Falls will be a family-oriented event. Call Kenny Anderson Commuity Center at 978-6924 to set up your audition time.

Audition Times: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 – 5 to 9 pm at Kenny Anderson Community Center, 3701 E. 3rd St.

Performace if Chosen: Friday, June 29, 2012 – 7 to 10 pm at Drake Springs Family Aquatic Center, 301 S. Fairfax Ave.

Exhibitor’s Applications being accepted for Main Street Square Art & Wine Festival in Rapid City, SD – June 23-24, 2012. Applications due May 31, 2012.

Local and regional artists are urged to submit applications to be a… part of the festival. Set up a booth at Main Street Square where attendees can browse and pick out a piece of your unique creation. Would love painters, sculptors, photographers, jewelry creators, art masters, wood carvers, those specializing in ceramics, drawing, printmaking, or any other type of visual art.

Go to http://mainstreetsquarerc.com/mss/events/artwinefestival/ for more information and application.

Currently seeking artists who would be interested in displaying their original artwork, poetry, sculpture, performing arts, or phography at The Gallery during the Dare to Dream Conference.

An Artist’s Reception will be held on Monday, June 11, 2012.  For Dare to Dream Conference 2012 info contact: SD Parent Connection 605-361-3171 or 1-800-640-4553 or www.sdparent.org and click on “Events”.

Artist participation is by invitation only due to limited space.

Dare to Dream Conference 2012

Sunday June 10 – Tuesday June 12

Spearfish Holiday Inn, Spearfish, SD

The Gallery 2012 at Dare to Dream is funded in part by the Black Hills Workshop Foundation.

A search is underway for stimulating ideas, design projects, works of art, captivating stories, or any alluring topic one deems appropriate for the very first Pecha Kucha Night – Sioux Falls, hosted by the Sioux Falls Design Center on Friday, May 4.

Interested in discovering the creative pulse of Sioux Falls or looking for a way to get your hard work up on the wall?

Look no further, Pecha Kucha offers an exciting, simple presentation format where you show 20 of your images, for 20 seconds each, automatically switching as you talk brilliantly about your ideas. Japanese for “Chit-Chat,” Pecha Kucha is sweeping the world.  It’s a fast-paced and entertaining way to show what you’ve been up to while the audience samples libations. More chit-chat follows the presentations with informal discussion and socializing.

Socializing begins at 6 p.m., with presentations kicking off at 7 p.m. Chosen presenters will be notified by Monday, April 2.  For more information, click the link below!

PKN No 1 Call for Presenters

We are looking for an artist to create a commemorative art piece for the annual McCrossan Boy’s Ranch Banquet.  This year’s speaker is Tom Brokaw and the theme for the event is Failure is Not Forever.  We would like the piece to have a western feel and we are open to image ideas.  The art piece will be auctioned off live at the banquet with a negotiable percentage of the profits going to the artist.

For more information, please contact Matt Luke at 605-360-2259 ext 101 or email him at matt@completemediainc.com.  Artist selection will take place by March 31st.

Grow A Scene: Film/Media  Last month’s event was an amazing success!  Carlos de Leon led an in-depth discussion on the challenges and solutions facing the Sioux Falls film scene.  The conversation was so great, the building had to shut down before we finished!  We’re already seeing new projects under development that started that night.

DOUBLE DATES IN FEBRUARY! This month we’ll be hosting two separate Grow A Scene events – Grow A Scene: Music and Grow A Scene: Visual Arts.

Grow A Scene: Music  On February 8th, we have a great pair of speakers to lead a discussion on band management. Jimmy Spiers and V the Noble One, both local musicians who are celebrated in their field, we’ll address the idea of how to get multiple creative personalities all headed in the same direction. This is an important topic for any group of artists, not just musical groups!

Grow A Scene: Visual Arts  Timothy Hoheisel of the Center for Western Studies will be presenting on February 22nd.  The title of his talk will be “The Art of Wounded Knee” and will include information on their upcoming exhibit “Interpretations of Wounded Knee 1973 and 1890.”

Both nights, the doors at the Museum of Visual Materials will open at 7pm and the conversation will start by 7:30.  And of course, there is no cover!  Come learn about the Sioux Falls art scene, how to get involved and meet connect with others like you!

BUILD A BETTER ART SCENE! Last month we hosted a panel of editors to field questions on literary art submissions.  The conversation was mediated by Thea Miller Ryan and we had an amazing turn out!  We had to ask people to leave at the end because the facility needed to shut down.  That is how you build an art scene!

If you are interested in theatre or performance, this is your month!  We put together a panel of directors, producers, theatre companies, casting agents, modeling agents and more.  This is your chance to find out what acting and performance opportunities are right here in Sioux Falls!  Find out the information you need, have your questions answered and meet artists just like you in our own community.

Join us at the Museum of Visual Materials Dec 14th at 7 pm!