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Causes: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts
Mission: To grow the economy by making
Programs: Sculpturewalk is an exhibit of fifty-six outdoor sculptures loaned by the artists for year round display in downtown sioux falls. The sculptures are installed in may of each year and are removed in april of the following year to make room for the new incoming sculptures. Since the inaugural year of 2004, six-hundred and sixty-four sculptures have been through sculpturewalk, and one hunder sixty have been sold or commissioned. The program is going into it's 14th year in 2017. Satellite programs are avera mckennan hospital ten indoor sculpture exhibit, university of sioux falls twelve sculptures on campus, university of south dakota with seven sculptures, city of vermillion, sd with four sculptures, city of watertown, sd with eleven sculptures and twenty-three other sculptures on lease at various locations in sioux falls, sd. The sculptures are available for sale and compete for people's choice award. The winning sculpture is purchased by the city of sioux falls. Approximately three hundred thousand people experience sculpturewalk every year.
arc of dreams - a $1,600,000 privately funded (by the public) monumental sculpture that will span the sioux river in downtown sioux falls. Installation is scheduled for the summer of 2018.
the south dakota sculpture trail is a collaborative effort of organizations and communities that have invested in public art sculptures to premote local tourism and actively promote art and culture in their communities. The cities that are participating in this program are watertown, vermillion, yankton, pierre, rapid city, sioux falls along with crazy horse memorial and mount rushmore national monument.