Art Day 2025

October 8, 2025 

Dear Art Teacher,

Chadron State College is hosting their annual Art Day for area high school students who excel in the visual arts. On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, you are invited to gather for workshops in a variety of art and design mediums with the students, staff, and faculty of the CSC Art Department. A CSC Admissions table will set up in the Memorial Hall Lobby with an Admissions representative available to talk with students and teachers.

In the Main Gallery in Memorial Hall is Morse Clary: The Story and The Mystery - a Retrospective, works by Morse Clary, CSC Alumnus. He worked as a professional artist for over 50 years and taught art at the college level in Nebraska, Ohio, Idaho, and Washington, including at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Southeastern Washington for 25 years. On the 2nd floor of Memorial Hall in Gallery 239 (top of the stairs and left) is an exhibit from prominent African American sculptor, William E. Artis, who taught at CSC from 1954 -1965. He studied with well-known Harlem Renaissance artist, Augusta Savage.

Teachers are welcome to sit in on workshops or relax and get acquainted with one another in our Teacher Hospitality Center in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center. Also, at the Center you can find exhibits about Mari Sandoz, famous writer from the Sandhills and other exhibits of local history and imagery. In downtown Chadron, you can take a walking tour of Chadron’s own Art Alley and mural projects, located in the alley just west of Main Street between 2^nd and 3^rd Avenues. Chadron also has a cooperative art gallery, Chadron Open Art, at 223 Main St.

Each school is asked to limit their numbers to no more than 10 students (preferably juniors and seniors) due to facility size and staff numbers. For lunch on your own, there is a cafeteria on campus as well as local restaurants in town.

We need to have teachers and each of your students who plan on attending to register individually at https://www.csc.edu/academics/art/art-day/ no later than Wednesday, October 22^th.  We are hoping to provide Art Day T-shirts again this year so please remember to include your size on the registration form, just in case.  For more information on CSC Art Day or any questions, please contact Valarie Graf at vgraf@csc.edu, 308-432-6317 or 1-800-CHADRON ask for Valarie Graf  or Mary Donahue.