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Left to right are State Veterans oin us and donate to Home Superintendent Col. Brad Arts South Dakota Richardson, South Dakota Arts Council Director Patrick Baker, for the inaugural Arts South Dakota Director Jim #GivingDay in South Speirs, South Dakota Humanities Council Director Sherry DeBoer, Dakota! This year, we’re National Endowment for the pleased to be supporting Humanities Chair Jon Parrish Peede and Lt. Governor Matt Michels. the new Arts Initiative at the State Veterans Home Our Veterans have in Hot Springs, SD. important stories to tell, South Dakota’s first and in South Dakota we ever statewide Day of value their service and want Giving kicks off at midnight to provide service to them on Giving Tuesday, Novemin return. Engagement in ber 27, 2018 and continues the arts increases healing until 11:59 pm that night. By Andrew Reinartz, and quality of life. The Nonprofit 501 (c)(3) Arts South Dakota Community Development Director initial arts programming at organizations across the the State Veterans Home will include many activities, from concerts state will unite to celebrate generosity by asking their community and residencies, to book clubs and discussion groups, to programs of supporters to raise as much money as possible for nonprofits, and raise awareness for their missions. designed to pair schoolchildren and songwriters with the residents On Giving Tuesday, November 27, 2018, people like you who to write the Veterans’ stories and then set them to song. love South Dakota have an opportunity to ignite a movement of Any gift you give between Veterans Day (11/12/2018) and the giving all across the state (southdakotagives.org). Our state’s Day Day of Giving (11/27/2018) will go to support and honor our state’s of Giving is unique, in large part as the organizing group will take Veterans. Donate, share your news and join hundreds of South $0 of the donations this first year, passing through all of the Dakotans in supporting nonprofits and make this first Giving Day a donations to the individual nonprofits. That means every dollar success! Go to artssouthdakota.org/giving-day/ for more details you give goes directly to supporting our Veterans in South Dakota! on ways to give.
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Three South Dakota a graduate degree residents with strong from South Dakota ties to the arts and State University. extensive experience Currently president in organizational and CEO of the administration have Brookings Area joined the board of Chamber of Commerce, directors of Arts South Merhib worked in the Dakota: Dr. Alan arts field for 14 years LaFave, Aberdeen; at the Hirshhorn David Merhib, Museum and Brookings, and Shelley Sculpture Garden, Dr. Alan LaFave David Merhib Shelley Stingley Stingley, Sioux Falls. the Sonoma County Dr. Alan LaFave, provost and vice president of academic Museum, the South Dakota Art Museum and the Visual Arts affairs of Northern State University, served as director of bands Center at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. He serves and dean of fine arts at NSU before being named provost. He is on the Public Arts Commission of the City of Brookings. a graduate of NSU with a doctoral degree from Arizona State Shelley Stingley recently retired as the director of the Rural University, Tempe. LaFave is an active guest conductor, Health Program, Helmsley Charitable Trust, and was educated as adjudicator and soloist throughout the United States and a music teacher. Stingley says that for the last 45 years the arts Canada and past president of the South Dakota Music Educators have played a role in most of her professional life as well as Association. He serves as the director of Rushmore National being a grounding part of who she is. She has been involved in Music Camp in Keystone. many notable art programs, including founding the Healing in David Merhib is a graduate of the University of Oregon with the Arts program at the Sanford Cancer Center.
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