Journeys to the Edge
The Artistic Legacy of Waud, Burns, and Crane
EXHIBITION
Journeys to the Edge: The Artistic Legacy of Waud, Burns, and Crane
On display August 23rd, 2025 – April 4th, 2026
The Journey Museum is pleased to announce the opening of an exciting new art exhibition, Journeys to the Edge: The Artistic Legacy of Waud, Burns, and Crane, on August 23rd, 2025. This exhibition is included with regular museum admission and will be on display through April 4th, 2026.
Journeys to the Edge explores the artistic legacy, family connection, and the enduring power of place. This unique exhibition brings together the works of three artists: Alfred R. Waud, Milton J. Burns, and Jon Crane, whose lives and art are interwoven across generations.
Though separated by time and place, each artist shares a common thread: a deep connection to travel, observation, and artistic expression. From Jon Crane’s Great-Great Grandfather, Alfred R. Waud’s on-the-ground Civil War sketches and illustrations, his Great Grandfather Milton J. Burns’ vivid maritime scenes, to Crane’s own tranquil renderings of the prairies and Black Hills of South Dakota and other rural landscapes, their works document the changing of America through place and time.
Journeys to the Edge invites visitors to not only see the scenes that shaped these artists but to understand how place and time influence creativity across generations. Through original sketches, paintings, and interpretive displays, the exhibition offers a rare view into a lineage of art that spans over 150 years.
This exhibit is particularly special, because all the artwork by Waud and Burns are part of Crane’s private collection and all carefully framed by the Jon Crane Gallery and Custom Framing. Their legacy lives on not just in the subjects they captured, but in the hands of a descendant who continues the family’s artistic journey.
Picturing The West
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Highlights From the Roseland Collection
EXHIBITION
Picturing The West: Highlights From the Roseland Collection
On display February 1st, 2025 – July 13th, 2025
The Journey Museum is pleased to announce the opening of an exciting new art exhibition, Picturing the West: Highlights from the Roseland Collection, on February 1, 2025. The family friendly exhibition is included with regular museum admission and will be on display through July 13th, 2025.
Picturing the West aims to capture the rugged spirit, resilience, and traditions of the American West. Through vivid imagery and dynamic compositions, these works celebrate the heritage and daily life of cowboys, ranchers, animals, and the landscapes they inhabit.
This original exhibition will feature the artwork of major Northern Plains artists including Dale Lamphere, Dan Deuter, Teri McTighe, Mick Harrison, Grace French, and more. Showcasing a diverse range of work such as oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and sculptures from regional artists, the exhibit marks the first time these pieces have been exhibited together.
Pat Roseland has been collecting art since 1994 and has amassed a collection of over 500 works by regional artists. His collection focuses primarily on Rapid City, Western, and Native American artwork. A long-time resident of Rapid City, he is a retired Certified Registered Nurse of Anesthetist, City Alderman, and has served on several local non-profit boards including the Black Hills Historical Society at the Journey Museum.
These Noble Brutes
Noble Brutes
Engravings of the American Bison
EXHIBITION
These Noble Brutes: Engravings of the American Bison
On display May 31st, 2025 – October 5th, 2025
We are excited to feature this special traveling exhibit curated and collected by Lee Silliman.
This exhibit is a cornucopia of vintage engravings depicting the iconic mammal of the American West. These engravings span 160 years of art, from early European copperplate engravings by artists who never saw the animal, to nineteenth century woodblock engravings by American artists who saw the animal in its wild state. Many prints are beautifully hand-tinted, and a few works are colorful chromolithographs. All of these original prints are attractively matted and framed in handsome hardwood moldings. In addition to imagery, text panels with prose and poetry relate the history of the animal so central to the story of the American West. The exhibit also includes a special selection of Native American artifacts related to the bison from Rapid City’s Duhamel Collection.
Aspects of the bison story that are illuminated in this exhibit include: the animal in its wild state and its natural enemies; Native American and Euro-American bison hunting techniques; the utility of bison products; the horrendous slaughter of bison in the 1800s by robe and hide hunters; and, finally, the scavenging of bison bones after near extermination. Images and commentary blend together in this exhibit.
The list of notable frontier artists whose paintings were the source of these derivative engravings includes Frederic Remington, George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, John Mix Stanley, Seth Eastman, Felix Darley, Peter Rindesbacher, and William M. Cary. Also in the exhibit is an original “Map Illustrating the Extermination of the American Bison” by William T. Hornaday, the Smithsonian scholar who wrote the 1889 definitive report on the specie’s near extirpation.
The exhibit is free to public in the museum’s Adelstein Gallery from May 31st through October 5th, 2025.
From the Sandhills to the Black Hills
Essence of the Hills
EXHIBITION
Essence of the Hills: From the Sandhills to the Black Hills
On display May 31st, 2025 – October 5th, 2025
The Sioux Indian Museum, Indian Arts and Craft Board announces the opening of a new exhibit, Essence of the Hills: from the Sandhills to the Black Hills featuring Uriah Little Hoop. The exhibition features paintings, beadwork, traditional regalia, and sculpture that showcase Uriah’s multi-talented artistry, and will run from July 1 through September 25, 2025.
Uriah Little Hoop is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe. Her heritage also includes Sicangu Lakota and the Navajo (Diné) bands of the Tachiinii and Kiiya’annii. She earned the name Whirlwind Dancing Woman through ceremony at age 13. She grew up in the Sandhills of western Nebraska where she attended schools in Alliance. After high school, she went on to Western Nebraska Community College and Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas.
Uriah is a multi-talented artist, and this exhibition showcases her paintings, beadwork, traditional regalia, and sculpture. She utilizes traditional methods with contemporary content. Raised in a family with many artists, as both a self-taught and a family taught artist, she has received their encouragement in all her artistic endeavors: painting, singing, dancing, public speaking, and sculpting. She credits her spiritual and cultural inspiration to the traditions and practices that she focuses on each day.
Uriah lives contently in the area she values: that space encompassing both the Sandhills and the Black Hills. She stays inspired and loves the many creative outlets into which she immerses herself. Her engagement in each day is one where she follows her priorities and principles; asserting “I will always strive to honor my family, my cultural traditions and remember to be appreciative and accountable to the artist I am and the continually evolving artist I desire to be.”
The Sioux Indian Museum, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, is located in The Journey Museum, 222 New York Street, Rapid City, SD 57701.