291 Campus Drive
Klinefelter Hall-DSU
Dickinson, ND 58601
Carol Eacret-Simmons, Director
Benni Privatsky, Assistant Director
701.483.2312 Office
FAX: 701.483.2006
Email: carol.eacret-simmons@dickinsonstateu.edu

The Dickinson State University Art Gallery began operation in 1972 by Dennis Navrat,
a Professor of Art at Dickinson State University, under the name of Mind's Eye Gallery.
The solitary gallery in Dickinson was a cooperative venture of the Department of Art,
The Badlands Art Association, and Stoxe Library. All three provided operational funds.
The gallery was located in Stoxen Library.
   In August of 1997 the Dickinson State University Art Gallery was moved to its present
location, in the newly remodeled Klinelfelter Hall on campus, with seventy-owe running
feet of usable wall space. The name change wa also implemented at that time.
   The mission of the Gallery is to address the visual arts educational and cultural needs of
southwestern North Dakota. This goal is accomplished through individual exhibitions by
emerging artists, touring shows by established artists, guest artist presentations and work-
shops, art demonstrations, and group shows sponsored by local schools and the Dickinson
State University Art Department. Annually, ten to eleven visual art exhibitions are scheduled
form September through June.
    The gallery today is funded by Dickinson State University, private donations, and a grant
form the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from state legislature,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The gallery is open from 8:00 am. to 8:00 p.m. weekdays, and by request on weekends.

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