NSU Art Department

09/18/2026

Weeks three and four have been crazy! Our students are working hard✨
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Be on the lookout for a new commercial featuring + our wonderful Drawing I students ✍️
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This week, our painting students participated in a color workshop inspired by Josef Albers’s Interactions of Color in preparation of their first still life paintings! 🌈 .art
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In Sculpture, students finished their Hundreds + Thousands project and started their Deconstructed, Reconstructed Chairs 🪑
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Advanced Graphic Design students finished their Hundreds Brisbane Olympics pitches ⭕️
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Research + Capstone Seniors shared their current projects ✨
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And the President’s Gallery is featuring new work from the permanent collection. Check it out!
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The Art Guild held their first Paint + Sip .artguild
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09/15/2026

low res images; high res art
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always so proud of our students and artists we get to share on campus! thanks everyone for a great first celebration!
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08/31/2026

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 33rd Annual Northern State University High School Art Day, taking place Tuesday, November 3, 2026! Our Awards are open to all high school students nationally. Please share with your state high school art teachers.

This year’s event features:

-- Art Exhibition Awards open nationally with awards of $300, $200, and $100, plus four honorable mentions of $50 AND Top 50 shared on the NSU Art Department page (note, this is virtual only)
-- Mural Competition with Blick gift card awards for the school in amounts of $300, $200, and $100, plus two honorable mentions of $50 (note, this is in-person only)
-- Opportunities for high school students to showcase their creativity and connect with the NSU Art Department

Registration deadline: October 16, 2026

Please use the QR codes on the attached flyer or links below to register for the Mural Competition and/or Virtual Art Exhibition. Additional information on the events are attached.

Mural Competition Sign-Up: https://forms.gle/2M3LJnncDLXbWcnJ8

Art Exhibition Awards Sign-Up: Art Exhibition Awards Sign-Up

If you have any questions, please contact the NSU Fine Arts Department office at 605.626.2514 or Chair Epiphany Knedler at [email protected].

08/29/2026

Week One ✨
so wonderful to see the studios alive again!
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08/14/2026

a busy summer for Art Department Professors Tim Rickett + Epiphany Knedler! they have a collaborative exhibition at Ipso Gallery at Fresh Produce in Sioux Falls, SD! if you’re in the Sioux Falls area, swing by the reception, Friday, August 14 from 6-8P.

facsimile
08.03.2026 - 09.25.2026
Exhibition by Tim Rickett + Epiphany Knedler
“To be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world.” – Rebecca Solnit
Nothing is original, it all comes from something. As time passes, memories and truth start to blur, like a game of telephone, becoming idealized or artificial versions of what once was. Copies are rarely perfect, hinting at their unoriginality through seam lines, offsets, tears, and smudges, becoming more artificial over time. facsimile explores this phenomenon through the resilience of Midwest notions and ephemera. The Midwest is romanticized with a timelessness of the frontier. The mythology is rooted in legends of individualism, persistence, and historical conquests. Midwest mythology is a tangled labyrinth of rural complexities. From the rugged cowboys traversing the land to the persistent spirit of the pioneers and the consistent exploitation of the land, the region is ripe with discrepancies. These ideals are a reflection of ourselves, both who we were and who we have become as a society. Using found objects, photographs, and ephemera, facsimile plays with what has survived and what can be reproduced, copied, and made into something new. These reconstructions create connections and stories, yet accentuating their flaws and disparities.
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08/01/2026

The NSU Art Department is excited to welcome Erin Keating to our faculty! Erin will be serving as a Lecturer of Art, teaching Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking this year.
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Erin Keating is a painter and printmaker born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Alfred University in 2026 through its bi-continental MFA program based between Alfred, New York, and Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2020, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont with a concentration in visual arts, music, and media studies. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries and art fairs across Florida, Vermont, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Germany.
Keating’s paintings explore embodiment, intimacy, and identity through the expressive potential of the human hand. Working from personal archives, photography, and lived experience, she creates psychologically charged images that examine memory and desire. Alongside her studio practice, Keating teaches drawing, painting, and illustration at the collegiate level, emphasizing color theory and visual culture.
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Images:
1. MFA headshot, photo by Emily Woo
2. “Doomscroll”, 2024, oil on canvas, 38” x 50”
3. “Pearl Diver”, 2025, oil on canvas, 43” x 51”
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06/30/2026

apply by tomorrow at midnight before we start our reviews! 🐺✨

The Northern State University Art Department is seeking applications for an Instructor/Lecturer in undergraduate Art and Design.

* Qualifications:
• MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting, Printmaking, or Drawing, or closely related field.
• Preferred evidence of creative achievement in contemporary practices.
• Preferred two years teaching experience as higher education instructor of record in Art.

* Responsibilities:
• Teach undergraduate level art classes in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital Illustration, and Art Appreciation as needed.
• Engage with contemporary art practices and pedagogy.
• Serve on University Committees as assigned.
• Participate in department activities including recruitment, student advising and mentoring, department planning, field trips and student advocacy.

https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/48705

06/22/2026

The Northern State University Art Department is seeking applications for an Instructor/Lecturer in undergraduate Art and Design.

* Qualifications:
• MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting, Printmaking, or Drawing, or closely related field.
• Preferred evidence of creative achievement in contemporary practices.
• Preferred two years teaching experience as higher education instructor of record in Art.

* Responsibilities:
• Teach undergraduate level art classes in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Digital Illustration, and Art Appreciation as needed.
• Engage with contemporary art practices and pedagogy.
• Serve on University Committees as assigned.
• Participate in department activities including recruitment, student advising and mentoring, department planning, field trips and student advocacy.

https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/48705

06/07/2026

We extend our congratulations to graduate thesis student Chad Nelson. Your compassion and connections with your students past and present shone through on Friday night. This exhibit runs through June 18th. If you have not seen it, there is still time.

05/24/2026

thank you for a great year! congratulations to our seniors + happy break to our students + faculty; more fun to come this summer!
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