Landscape artist to speak at the South Dakota Art Museum

BROOKINGS The South Dakota Art Museum Guild will host a program at the South Dakota Art Museum on Oct. 28 featuring South Dakota artist D. George Prisbe-Przybysz. Coffee and social time begins at 9:30 a.m. followed by the program at 10.

This program is the second in the Art Museum Guilds 2025-26 season with monthly gatherings featuring free talks by artists, authors, curators, and museum professionals. The community is welcome to attend and encouraged to support the guilds programs and art acquisition fund with annual dues of $30. The South Dakota Art Museum is at 1036 Medary Ave. in Brookings. There is free designated parking on Harvey Dunn Street, just west of the museum.

Prisbe will present works from his Dakota Tonalism series of small traditional landscapes. These are works created under the influence of tonalism, a brief but important period in American art history. The paintings from this ongoing series depict scenes discovered while attempting to explore every mapped road in South Dakota. According to Prisbe, he learned two things from this goal. First, that it is a foolishly impossible pursuit and the second being the truth of Rembrandts words: Wherever you are born, your birthplace offers more beauty than you will ever be able to paint during your whole life.

A South Dakota native, Prisbe grew up on the wide-open prairie of the James River Valley. He worked for several decades under the protective blanket of the Black Hills and now lives in Watertown. He received his professional training as an undergraduate at Northern State University in Aberdeen and as a graduate student specializing in painting and printmaking at Ohio University at Athens. His works are in many public and private art collections, including the South Dakota Art Museum.