Art Galleries & Exhibits

Center for Visual Arts at AU

In addition to studios for printmaking, sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing and graphic design, the Augustana University Center for Visual Arts in the Fryxell Humanities Center is home to:

Additional exhibition spaces on campus include The Center for Western Studies, which seeks to improve the quality of social and cultural life in the Northern Plains, and has rotating exhibits of regional artists.

Termes: The Total Picture Exhibit in the Eide Dalrymple Gallery

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Dr. Lindsay Twa

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Augustana University
Center for Visual Arts
2120 S. Grange Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57197

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Danny Shektybayeva, “Last Days We’ve Spent Together,” markers, 2021
Augustana’s Eide/Dalrymple Gallery Features ‘The Augustana Senior Show’

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University opens “The Augustana Senior Show,” on view through Saturday, May 20. As part of the Augustana Senior Show, a wide variety of works, including ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, digital photography and graphic design are on exhibit.

Sandy de Lissovoy, detail of “Titled Walnut (Cole Mountain, elev. 3960)”
Augustana’s Eide/Dalrymple Gallery Features Sandy de Lissovoy’s ‘Here: Suspending Color, Falling in Place’

The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University opens Sandy de Lissovoy’s installation “Here: Suspending Color, Falling in Place,” which will be on view through Saturday, April 22.

A.Reich, Washroom, Sunrise, Wyoming, 2022, archival pigment print
Augustana Staff, Faculty and Alumni Featured in Traveling South Dakota Art Exhibition

Seven members of the Augustana community are featured as part of the juried South Dakota Governor’s 10th Biennial Art Exhibition traveling throughout the state of South Dakota in 2023-24.

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Exhibition Schedule

Augustana Student Summer Invitational

Juried works selected from the Augustana Art Department’s sophomore and junior portfolio reviews

  • June 3-Sept. 6, 2024 (Summer Hours — M-F, noon - 4 p.m.)
  • Closing Gallery Reception | Friday, Sept. 6 | 7-9 p.m.

Worlds Coming Together: Revelations Over Time

Brad Widness '82 and Ann Kronlokken Widness ’83 | Printmaking, Drawings & Mixed-Media Works

  • Sept. 12 - Oct. 5, 2024
  • Homecoming Reception | Friday, Oct. 4 | 7-9 p.m.
    • Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m.

Augustana Faculty Biennial

  • Oct. 10 - Nov. 7, 2024
  • Gallery Reception | Friday, Oct. 25, from 7-9 p.m.
    • Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m.

We are All Weeds: Susan Heggestad

New sculpture and embroidered paper works dealing with the confluence of the human and natural world, utilizing found furniture, cast paper, plaster and natural materials

  • Nov. 15 - Dec. 12, 2024
  • Gallery Reception | Friday, Nov. 15 | 7-9 p.m.
    • Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m.

Augustana High School Invitational

  • Jan. 15 - Feb. 7, 2025
  • Closing Reception, Awards & Open Studios | Friday, Feb. 7, 2025
    • Gallery Reception at 6-8 p.m.
    • Awards at 7:30 p.m.

Comptoir de Commerce: Luminol: Ceramics by Chotsani Dean

A ceramic and mixed-media installation artist, Dean is a professor at the University of Minnesota.

  • Feb. 13 - March 6, 2025
  • Gallery Reception | Thursday, March 6 | 7-9 p.m.
    • Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m.

Man Before a Mirror: Gaylord Schanilec

Internationally acclaimed printmaker and book artist

  • March 20 - April 16, 2025
  • Opening Reception | Friday, March 21 | 7-9 p.m.
    • Gallery Talk at 7:30 p.m. 

Augustana Senior Show

In collaboration with the Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center

  • April 25 - May 24, 2025
  • Gallery Reception | Friday, April 25 | 7-9 p.m.
    • Awards & Artist Talks at 7:30 p.m.

Augustana Student Summer Invitational

Juried works selected from the department's sophomore and junior portfolio reviews.

  • June 2 - Sept. 5, 2025
  • Closing Gallery Reception | Friday, Sept. 5 | 7-9 p.m.
  • Summer Hours | M-F | Noon - 4 p.m.