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Past Exhibits

<p class="font_8">The Dakota Prairie Quilt Guild(DPQG) is a 501 (c ) 3 organized to promote and educate people about the art of quilting and foster camaraderie among new and experienced quilters.</p>
<p class="font_8">DPQG meets the fourth Monday of the month at Trinity Lutheran Church. Currently they have 65 members from Yankton and the surrounding areas. If you are a quilter or would like to learn more about quilting, come join the fun! New and experienced quilters are welcome.</p>

Dakota Prairie Quilt Guild

Bi-Annual Quilt Show

<p class="font_8">The 2025 Mighty Mo Photo Exhibit theme, "Life Downtown," invites artists to explore and interpret the dynamic essence of downtown life through their unique lenses. We are excited to see how each artist captures the vibrant stories, moments and hidden gems that make downtowns come alive. With the theme open to interpretation, we anticipate a diverse and captivating collection of work that reflects the artists' perspectives.</p>

Mighty Mo Photo Exhibit

Life Downtown

<p class="font_8">Phyllis is a fiber artist utilizing multiple fiber techniques to create 2D images of land and sky scape. </p>
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<p class="font_8">Her images are fiber reflections of the world around us - sunset on the Missouri River, moon rising over a garden, Yellow Mounds of the Bad Lands, pines of the Hills, or the amazing sky. </p>
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<p class="font_8">"I am sharing my view of the amazing environment we live with, portrayed with wool, silk, cotton and assorted fibers and woven."</p>

Phyllis Packard

Landscapes in Fiber

<p class="font_8">Theresa Preheim - Drawn towards texture, color, and things found in nature, creating collage art has always been the most logical way to express the beauty that I see in everything.</p>
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<p class="font_8">Olivia Barkl - My pottery reflects my deep reverence for nature and my commitment to craftsmanship. Using stoneware clay, I handcraft each piece with care, infusing them with the natural beauty that surrounds us.</p>
<p class="font_8">Firing my creations to cone 6 ensures both durability and aesthetic appeal, making them both functional and visually captivating. Influenced by the organic shapes and colors found in the natural world, my work exudes a sense of calm and harmony.</p>
<p class="font_8">What sets my pottery apart is the personal touch I bring to each piece. I take pride in creating my own glazes, often incorporating ingredients I've gathered myself. This hands-on approach adds authenticity and a unique connection to each creation.</p>
<p class="font_8">Through my art, I seek to share the beauty and tranquility of nature, inviting others to find solace and joy in the simplicity of handmade functional art.</p>

Theresa Preheim & Olivia Barkl

<p class="font_8">MY WORKS SPAN MANY YEARS OF EXPLORING DIFFERENT ARTISTIC MEDIUMS. EVEN MY CAREER OF INTERIOR DESIGN;TEXTURES WERE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN CREATING A BALANCED DESIGN PROJECT. THE COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT ART TECHNIQUES HELP CREATE UNUSUAL COMPOSITIONS. I AM DRAWN TO TEXTURE AND MANY OF THE PIECES IN THIS EXHIBIT DEMONSTRATE THE IMPACT OF TEXTURE IN ALL FORMS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. I HAVE INCORPORATED FELT, OLD SCRAPES OF WATERCOLOR PAPER,ACRYLIC PAINT AND HAND MADE PAPER INTO THIS EXHIBIT. I FIND THESE COMPOSITIONS CHALLENGING AND UNIQUE FOR CREATING MY OWN STYLE OF WORK.</p>

Ann Smith

<p class="font_8">The collection is unique, one-of-a-kind pieces that includes woven wall hangings and sculptural rock art pieces that are inspired by nature and the beauty that surrounds us in everyday life.</p>
<p class="font_8">The pieces start with a single element of inspiration like a specific rock, twig, branch, or antler. The work evolves as it is being created and incorporates other elements that fit the composition. In my hands it feels as if the rock and branch are making their own art emerge! Items like buffalo horn rings, antlers pieces, turkey and pheasant feathers, dried pods and grasses, and leather are a few of the things I like to weave into my art.</p>
<p class="font_8">Showcasing this unique collection would allow the community served by the Yankton Art Council to experience art not only inspired by nature but made with the actual natural elements.</p>

Julie Dent

Inspired by Nature: Weaving, Sculptures & Paintings.

<p class="font_8">Art changes the way I experience life as an adult. Instead of a busy workday filled with things that seek to dehumanize me, I meditate on swaying grasses, rolling hills, or the shadows along a slowly moving creek. My growing focus is landscapes with suggestive details and dramatic skies. These paintings give impressions of waterways, grasses, and mountain scenes in a way photographs cannot quite romanticize. They are gentle reminders of the subtle but striking views of the heartland.</p>
<p class="font_8">My paintings are visual impressions of nature with dreamy compositions. I use watercolors to capture vibrant skylines, views of trees and windblown grasses. I communicate with broad, expressive movements of granulating color and tiny, precise flicks to capture the essence of a moment in time.</p>

Danna Kolbeck

Impressions of the Heartland

<p class="font_8">Artist Klaire A. Lockheart has assembled many portraits as an art installation, and she claims these oil on canvas paintings are from her family history. She affirms that the collection of portraits is a work of art in and of itself because she has taken and taught too many art</p>
<p class="font_8">history and theory courses, and now she doesn’t know how else to exist as a painter in a world where critics have declared that “painting is dead” more times than she can count. This collection of portraits appear to represent the astonishing Lockheart lineage, which includes pirates, flappers, and other notable characters. Some viewers question if these are authentic historic portraits of Klaire Lockheart’s ancestors. The odds are slim that all of her extraordinary predecessors commissioned portraits that are all the same size. It’s suspicious that these paintings, some of which should date back</p>
<p class="font_8">to the Renaissance, are in remarkably good condition. It’s also very unusual that Lockheart could have inherited all of these paintings. However, there is a chance that Lockheart is immortal, and she created these paintings to commemorate each identity she has assumed over time. Rumors have it that she is a vampire, time lord, or possibly possesses some sort of magical amulet. Despite the artist’s insistence that these portraits represent her lineage, skeptics proclaim that Lockheart simply created this series of paintings to construct a sense of belonging because she is a domestic abuse survivor and enjoys the concept of chosen family. It’s possible she made these paintings since she lacks family heirlooms. If this hypothesis is true, then Lockheart may have forged these portraits as a way to inspire viewers to feel empowered when constructing their own personal narratives.</p>

Klaire Lockheart

Lockheart Legacy

<p class="font_8">This art has been created as examples for the students to inspire their own projects and show different techniques.</p>

Yankton School Art Teachers

Yankton Teacher Exhibit

Crimson Door Holiday Vendor Boutique

Crimson Door Holiday Vendor Boutique

<p class="font_8">It feels a little bit disorganized. With my creative shoots I don't really go in with a specific plan. I'll have an idea in my mind, I'll get there and try to make it happen. I'll bring some props, play around and try things out until I think it will work."</p>

Britton Hacke

<p class="font_8">“River Reflections” is about the Missouri River and the towns next to it. I have lived up and down this river in Mobridge, Pierre, and Chamberlain. At one time my husband and I had also looked at a house in Yankton; considering moving there. My mother’s family migrated to the USA from Norway where they lived on the west coast in the Fjords area. I have certainly inherited that feeling of loving to be near water and hills. </p>
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<p class="font_8">When I respond to something in nature, I am moved to translate that feeling into art. Sometimes it is the exuberance of a child, the sun shining and casting shadows or the simplicity and beauty of a flower. To me, it is this emotional response that creates the need to do my art. The gift to create, as well as being able to respond to these feelings, comes from God, and my purpose in my art is to glorify His name by translating the beauty of His earth into something that all people can enjoy.</p>

Doris Symens-Armstrong

"River Reflections"

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