Open House
July 19, 2025 | 11 am – 4 pm
2015 - 2025 | 10th Anniversary Celebration
Join us for the reveal of new photographs in the collection Countenance, during the 6th annual Open House at Grandview Gallery.
We welcome you to gaze upon the landscape that fuels inspiration, enjoy home-raised beef appetizers, and experience art on the prairie.
The dream of transforming this schoolhouse into a gallery/art space is becoming a reality as we continue to raise funds towards Phase III – electricity!
Countenance
Countenance
In many ways trees give us a sense of calm: their
composed lifetime of establishing roots, landmarks, and refuge.
Without a word, trees tell us of water, wind direction and their health.
Trees in South Dakota take up only about 4% of the state’s landscape, mostly in the Black Hills National Forest.
Across the open prairie trees are sparse, yet their presence is highly valued by those who steward and dwell within this land.
Please join me in the reveal of five new photographs featuring trees in the showing, Countenance, at Grandview Gallery.
To commemorate the past 10 years, all award-winning and nationally recognized photographs will be on display together for the first time.
"She (wisdom) is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who hold her fast."
-Proverbs 3:18
"The world of beauty that does in fact exist can have originated nowhere else than in the creation of God. The world of beauty was thus conceived by God, determined by His decree, called into being by Him, and is maintained by Him."
-Abraham Kuyper
History of Grandview Gallery
Grandview Gallery was formerly known as Grandview Township school.
Built around 1911 on a homestead in western Jones County, the school served the namesake township until 1959.
In the 1980’s, the school house was moved six miles east to it’s current location where my husband and I now ranch. Since then, the building has observed the seasons from its hilltop vista, waiting for the sound of laughter to fill it once again.
In 2022, with the help of generous givers, we starting the renovation project of Grandview Township school into a year round functional building for a gallery/studio as well as an art education space, Grandview Gallery.
Location
26316 SD Hwy 248 | Okaton, SD 57562
Directions: I-90 exit 183; turn east on Hwy 248 (frontage road that parallels the interstate on the south side) and travel 1.5 miles.
From Murdo: Follow Hwy 248 (also Old 16) west of Murdo and travel seven miles (from the west edge of town).
A housekeeping item: We now have an outhouse!
Tour the Gallery
2022 Open House video