The South Dakota Art Museum Guild will host a program at the South Dakota Art Museum on Oct. 22, featuring sculpture and plein air artist John Knife Sterner. Coffee and social time begins at 9:30 a.m., with the program at 10. The public is invited to attend.
Lakota Artist and Educators Spiritual Art Journey will be presented by John Knife Sterner an artist, teacher, coach, Sicangu Lakota, parent, husband, brother and son. Knife Sterner was born in Flandreau and currently resides in Marshall. He is involved in many different aspects of public and personal art. John will be highlighting his public sculptures created for Marshall as well as his other works with painting and graphic art. Working with several mediums, he sculpts in bronze, iron, fabricated steel, and wood.
Knife Sterner has taught art for more than 30 years from 1st graders to university students. He also incorporates his cultural Lakota heritage which is an important part of his personal journey making him the person, instructor and artist he is today. To learn more visit Johns website here.
Guild membership is not required to attend the free monthly programs. However, $20 annual dues support these programs and the Guild art acquisition fund. Membership is open to all. Programs begin in September and run through May.
The South Dakota Art Museum is located at 1036 Medary Ave. in Brookings. There is designated free parking on Harvey Dunn Street, just west of the museum.
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