UW Happy Jacks on concert tour through 5/21/11

UW Happy Jacks, a cappella group

5.16.11, 7:00 p.m., Newcastle HS Auditorium, free

5.17.11, 7:00 p.m., Rapid City Central HS Theatre, Rapid City, S.D., free

5.18.11, 6:30 p.m., Tongue River HS Auditorium, free

5.19.11, 3:00 p.m., Campbell Co. Senior Ctr., Gillette, free
5.20.11, 7:00 p.m., Big Horn HS Auditorium, free

5.21.11, 7:30 p.m., Kelly Walsh HS Auditorium, Casper, ticked by ArtCore

First novel by Wyoming sheriff debuts March 1

A reviewer's proof of a new book landed on wyomingarts' desk a few weeks ago. "Death Along the Spirit Road" is a mystery by deputy sheriff C.M. Wendelboe of Gillette. The book will be released March 1 by Berkley Prime Time Trade Paperback (978-0-425-24002-1, $14). Several mystery writers well-known to Wyomingites wrote blurbs for Wendelboe's first novel:

From Craig Johnson of Ucross, author of "The Cold Dish and Junkyard Dogs:" "With Lakota FBI agent Manny Tanno, Wendeloboe has intrduced a powerful new character to Western crime fiction."

Margaret Coel, Colorado author of a mystery series set on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation: "A mystery novel that grabs you by the lapels and refues to let go... This is storytelling at its best and C.M. Wendelboe is the new author to watch!"

Some comments from Publishers Weekly:

Wendelboe's debut, the absorbing first in a new Native American series, introduces FBI special agent Manny Tanno, a former Oglala Sioux tribal cop. When someone buries a war club in the head of Jason Red Cloud, an ambitious developer who put together a coalition of interests to build a resort overlooking the Wounded Knee site on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, Tanno reluctantly leaves his FBI academy teaching job to investigate. Tanno must face the enmity of acting chief Leon "Lumpy" Looks Twice as well as the tribe's distrust of FBI agents rooted in the American Indian Movement fiascos of the 1970s. To complicate matters further, Tanno's brother, Reuben, is a prime suspect. The residual animosities that divided the tribe during AIM's heyday, the awful heritage of the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the plight of the residents of the "poorest county in the nation" form a somber backdrop.

Wyoming high school students invited to Native American Art summer workshop in S.D.

The University of South Dakota hosts a summer workshop for high school students interested in Native American Art. Please help us spread the word of the Oscar Howe Summer Art Institute to high schools in Wyoming by providing them the following link to our website: http://www.usd.edu/fine-arts/art/oscar-howe-summer-art-institute.cfm

FMI: Cory Knedler, Chair, Department of Art, The University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069; 605-677-5637; 605-677-5988 (fax); Cory.Knedler@usd.edu

New mural in Newcastle

This new mural on a building in Newcastle was painted by Del Iron Cloud of Rapid City. The town's mural committee raised enough funding to commission Iron Cloud for a second mural in the near future.

Oglala Lakota artist Roger Broer returns to the BBHC

The BBHC announces:

Award-winning Oglala Lakota artist Roger Broer has exhibited in more than 35 one-man shows and over a hundred group shows. His work is featured in many national and international collections, including the Department of Interior, Washington, DC, and Pierre Cardin, Paris, France. He is "artist-in-residence" at the Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center July 14-19 where he demonstrates his technique and talks with visitors 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. each day. His appearance is free with Historical Center admission.

Broer was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1947, and at two years of age, he was adopted by Ludwig and Frieda Broer, a traditional German family from Randolph, Nebraska. He earned his bachelor's degree from Eastern Montana College in Billings, and his master's from Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington.

"I think, sometimes-when I am alone, usually when I am making art-about the elements in nature around me," Broer says. "I like to ponder relationships. How everything has its own significant place . . . how everything is somehow related to everything else. How . . . most importantly, we don't readily understand these relationships, yet if one element is missing, an emptiness exists."

Broer hails from Hill City, South Dakota, where he works in monotype, painting (mixed media), drawing, and sculpture. He also conducts workshops throughout the United States-including the 2007 and 2008 Lloyd New Art Mentorship Program for Native students held at the Center. His appearance is funded in part through a private donation. For more information on Broer and his art, visit http://www.lakotart.com/. Stay up to date with activities at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center on its new Web site, http://www.bbhc.org/

"Painted Lady" meets "The Illustrated Man"

From Works of Wyoming in Laramie:

Do you have "Sturgis Fever?"

Mark your calendars for Friday, August 6, 6-8 p.m. WOW invites you to attend this summer's tribute to a unique kind of art. Motorcycles will line the streets and tattoos of all kinds will be displayed. On the agenda for evening is a showcase event of personal tattoos along with the opportunity to walk the Tat Walk or crown the "Painted Lady and Illustrated Man." Grab the first card for your poker hand and register at our opening for Saturday's Motorcycle Poker Run.

FMI: www.worksofwyoming.org

Register now for Mountains-Plains Museums Association conference in Rapid City

Registration is now open for the Mountains-Plains Museums Association's annual conference September 13- 17 in Rapid City, S.D. Theme for this year is "Monumental Visions: Carving the Future for Museums."

REGISTER NOW TO GET THE CHEAPEST RATE NOW! Go to http://www.mpma.net/

* Premier educational/ networking event for leaders, volunteers, staff
* Tours of some really incredible museums, sites and galleries
* Sessions featuring new trends and solutions

Lots of workshops, tours and sessions offered

Workshops include:
1. Cleaning Museum Artifacts
2. Research Techniques
3. Your Vision - Your Exhibits
4. The Exhibition that Keeps on Giving
5. Carving the Future for Area Teachers
6. Interpretive Writing
7 Insurance 101: Protecting Your Collection
8. Can't you get a Volunteer to Help?
9. Inexpensive, Quick Custom-Made Mannequins

Tours:
1. Lincoln Tour: Northern Hills (Lead and Deadwood)
2. Roosevelt Tour - Northern Hills (Sturgis, Belle Fourche, Spearfish)
3. Washington Tour - Central Black Hills (Crazy Horse, Hill City,
Winery, Keystone)
4. Jefferson Tour - Southern Hills (Mammoth, Hot Springs, Wind Cave National Park, Custer State Park)

Sessions: Here's a sampling of the many that will be offered.

Sessions for Students
Re-Enactors
Security on a Budget
Exhibits on a Budget
Websites on a Budget
Funding Sources
Native American Artists
Archival Collections
Building A Museum
Sessions for Small Museums
Sessions on Controversial Issues
Engaging Indian artists, historians
Copyright in Digital Collections
Designing a Temporary Exhibit
Textile Care Strategies
Collecting Materials from the Present
Budget Challenges
Identifying Fakes and Forgeries
Fundraising in Tough Economic Times
Accreditation Advice
Museum Studies Programs
Collections Conundrums
Leadership in Collections Practice
Barcoding
Funding Museum Publications
HVAC - installing correctly
Web Security and networks
IMLS: Opportunities and Resources
Planning Your Museum or Cultural Center
Storage Facilities
Disaster Plans that Really Work
Murals for your Exhibit
Victorian Clothing
Stewardship of a Historic Preserve
What Art Can Teach Us About History
Volunteers in Collections
Identifying Fossils in your collection
Care of Native Collections
Planning Collections Facilities
First Person Narratives
College/Museum Partnership
Thinking Big with Small Budgets
Museums and Technology
Visual Thinking Strategies for art
State Historical Societies--What they do
Identifying and caring for Quilts

Call for entries: 2010 Custer Stampede Buffalo Art Auction

Patty M. Ressler from the Custer Stampede in Custer, S.D., sends this:

Get your application in today!

6th Annual Custer Stampede Buffalo Art Auction

Call to Artists for Table Top and Free Form Bison Art

Application Deadline - January 29, 2010

Applications available at www.custerstampede.org

FMI: 605-673-5955 or info@custerstampede.com

"Christmas on the High Plains" just over the border in Spearfish Nov. 19

Cowboypoetry.com is (not surprisingly) a great site for regional events featuring cowboy poets and musicians. Today, the site is promoting an event in Spearfish, S.D., which is not technically in Wyoming but close enough to Crook and Weston and Niobrara counties to hear the twang of the performers' voices.

Here's the info:

The popular Heritage of the American West Performance Series in Spearfish, South Dakota, is returning to the High Plains Western Heritage Center under new direction.

The original monthly show was started by Kay Jorgensen and Jim Thompson (Live! with Jim Thompson) of Creative Broadcast Services and ran for ten years, with its final show in August, 2009. Francie Ganje — the director of the shows under CBSI — has worked, with others, to continue the series.

A November 19 show, "Christmas on the High Plains," features the Cambria String Band. A pre-show exhibit and reception hosts well-known regional authors, artists, and photographers, including Mick Harrison, whose painting, "A Christmas Tale," is the show's poster and theme (the painting was a 2005 Art Spur subject); Custer author and Black Hills historian Paul Horsted with his newest book, Crossing The Plains With Custer, and cowboy and landscape photographer Les Voorhis.

A December show, with details to be announced, will feature South Dakota poet Ken Cook and Montana singer, songwriter, and poet Bob Petermann.

Find details at the High Plains Western Heritage Center web site and read about the new Heritage of the American West and find show details in our feature here.

More info about Milton Conference at USD

This comes from Wyoming native and University of South Dakota English prof Lee Ann Roripaugh:

I would like to invite you to attend and/or help spread the word about our biennial John R. Milton Writers' Conference, scheduled October 29-31, 2009, at The University of South Dakota in Vermillion. This year's conference theme is "Frontier Technology/Techno-Frontiers: Technology and the American West," and there will be writers and scholars coming to the U. from all over the country to explore this theme in both creative readings and critical papers organized into two full days of panel sessions.

We also have a very exciting roster of featured authors reading at the conference, including a special keynote reading by Maxine Hong Kingston (shown in above photo by David Shankbone), as well as readings by Allison Hedge Coke, Wang Ping, Robert A. Roripaugh, Jim Reese, and Jim Coppoc. USD creative writing faculty Ed Allen, Brian Bedard, and Lee Ann Roripaugh will also give featured readings of their work as well, per Milton Conference tradition. Readings by featured authors (including the Maxine Hong Kingston keynote reading) will be free and open to the public.

Please consider joining us for this very special literary event, and please help us spread the word as well. Additional conference information, including a conference program/schedule, information on the featured authors, and a downloadable registration form, are available at the conference website at http://miltonconference.wordpress.com

Couch and Roripaugh(s) are presenters at USD's Milton creative writing conference

Laramie writer Julianne Couch passed this along:

You might be interested in this John R. Milton Creative Writing conference at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D. Conference dates are October 30-31. Lee Ann Roripaugh is on the faculty there and is organizing the conference. Her father, Robert Roripaugh, will be one of the presenters. (I will, too). I attached a link to the conference blog. There you’ll find the schedule along with registration information. http://miltonconference.wordpress.com/

One of the events is a Father-Daughter Reading featuring Lee Ann and Robert on Friday, October 30, 7 p.m. in USD’s Farber Hall.