Cultural: Art Show
Art Show
Schedule
December 16th-20th, 2025
Tuesday, 9:00 am MT:
Art Drop off, LaCroix Hall
Wednesday – Friday: 8:00am – 6:00pm MT
Friday: 6:00 pm MT – Art pickup
Registration
INVITE ONLY
$500/school
Send Payment to:
Lakota Nation Invitational
3213 W Main St #425
Rapid City, SD 57702
Location
LaCroix A and B
The Monument
444 Mt Rushmore Rd,
Rapid City, SD 57701
Art Show Coordinator
Madonna Crow Eagle & Scott Fishel
Coordinators
605.747.2297
mcroweagle63@gmail.com
Know Before You Go
Registration is INVITE ONLY.
Workers
Each school must bring one line judge. Submit your workers name to Dani Walking Eagle one week in advance.
All other tournament positions will be staffed by LNI.
Head Referee – Joe Drabb
Programs
Each school must submit a 15 player rooster and team photo two weeks prior to the tournament. Please send to Katie at Clark Printing, katie@clarkprinting.com. If the deadline is missed, schools will not be in the program.
When You Get Here
There will be not practice times as games being Friday morning.
Locker rooms will be available.
Please turn in your rooster to the announcers before game starts.
Official Rules & Conduct
GENERAL
- Any student, in grades 6-12, is allowed to submit art through their school.
- All art must be received prior to 4:00pm on Tuesday, unless prior arrangements have been made.
- Please no frames or duct tape to hold art to paper frames, it does not display well.
- All artwork must have a label of each exhibit (front & back labels) with your respective school’s name.
- If you do not pick up your Art on Friday night, it will be packed up and placed in the LNI Information Center, room 101, and will be available for pick-up on Saturday, 9:00AM until 2:00PM. After that time, all remaining Art will be the sole property of the LNI Art Show.
- A Waiver has been added on to the Registration Form-Intent to Participate.
- If you have students that are looking for community service for college scholarships applications, we will have applications from various colleges/universities.
Awards
Individual Awards
- Crystal Plates – 1st Place, Directors Choices, Unity Award, and People Choices
- Rosette Ribbons – 2nd, and 3rd place in each category
Team Awards
- Team awards will be awarded Vases for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place.
- For team awards, 1st place will be awarded 5 points, 2nd place will be awarded 4 points, 3rd place will be awarded 3 points. Each school will be awarded 1 point per entry, with a maximum of 25 points per school for entries that do not place.
Categories
- LEDGER ART
- Traditional Plains Indian Narrative Drawing Style
- WATERCOLOR
- A painting created using watercolor paints and/or watercolor pencils
- CERAMICS
- Art made from ceramic material, including clay. It makes take forms including art, vase, pottery or tile.
- DRAWING (BLACK & WHITE)
- Pencil, Charcoal, Ink and Scratchboard
- DRAWING COLORED
- Colored Chalks, Colored Inks or Pencil, etc.
- PASTELS
- All Forms
- ACRYLIC
- Painting
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- Single photographs entries using (either) 35mm, pinhole or digital (either colored or black and white). Digital photographs that are extensively edited will be moved to the
- MULTI-MEDIA
- CATEGORY AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COORDINATORS.
- PRINTMAKING
- Relief printing, silk screens, intaglio, processed hard copy print, etc.
- THREE DIMENSIONAL
- Clay, Metals, Wood, etc.
- CRAFTS
- Functional Pottery, Book Art, Paper Crafts, Stained Glass, and Fibers.
- TRADITIONAL ART
- All forms of Cultural Art, with exception of Beading.
- BEADING
- All forms of Bead and Quillwork.
- MULTI-MEDIA/GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Computer aided Art that uses technology to create a specific work.
- MIXED MEDIA
- Two or more mediums combined to create a finished product.
Champions
Register Your School
Have Questions?
Get in Touch!
We’d love to hear from you! Whether you have questions about participation or event proposals, we’re here to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out.
