Participating Artists
Adam Goodge
Adam Goodge infuses thought provoking political and environmental themes with humor. His stylized images balance dark subject matter with imaginative whimsy. Adam combines his passions of Visual Art with Stand Up Comedy to create satirical takes on Pop Culture.
"Take a Stand"
This piece highlights the tension between ICE agents and peaceful protestors. The original design manifested as a frozen candle, ignited by a vibrant flame. There are two primary colors, red and blue. The red sections represent the protestors and the warmth of peace and love. The blue sections represent the frigid and unforgiving policies ICE agents are required to enforce. The red sections are depicted as spreading and melting the frozen sections like a candle melts its own wax. The center piece is open for interpretation. Some see a fist, others see a heart. The importance of this object lies in its color which is purple. This represents the heart and drive of Minneapolis, where a number of ICE related deaths have taken place. This piece is crowned with yellow and orange flowers, representing the burning passion of America's citizens for justice and equality. Though the foliage resemble flames, they also symbolize flowers on the graves of brave individuals who have given their lives in the pursuit of civil liberty.
Adrian Day
Adrian Day is freelance mixed-media artist and tattoo artist specializing in fantasy, horror, and nature themes.
“Birbs”
Tattoo style artwork featuring birds of all feathers
Alex Lunstra
Alex Lunstra's acrylic & mixed media paintings explore a uniquely colorful universe of her own creation, drawing inspiration & designing characters from the natural world around her.
Lunstra's artworks often evoke a feeling of joy & euphoria, with a touch of nostalgic comfort.
Using bold, bright colors & precise linework - this artists' work transports you to a new realm, inviting viewers to a creative reprieve, where one can explore & grow.
This multifaceted artist encourages & inspires creative expression through her own original creations, or her guided painting classes - built for artists of EVERY level & skill (because we ALL can be artists, if we pick up the brush).
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"EYE Stand for LOVE"
When asked "what do YOU stand for?" ... this Funky Flower Dude (an abstract self portrait of sorts) says EYE STAND FOR LOVE. The only thing that really matters. The one big thing that connects us all. The one thing that can save us & build a stronger community. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED.
"ICE can GOGH away"
This sculpture was inspired by the famous impressionist artist, Van Gogh. With a little play on words - this piece plainly tells it like it is. I was raised as an American, being told that the law enforcement is there to protect us, to help society. Unrightfully detaining citizens, that doesn't quite match up, ripping folks from their morning drive to work - forcing them to abandon cars, pets, family - the ICE occupation looks much differently, down here in our RED little state.
But what if we, too, stood up for our rights & our neighbors?
"Audacious HeARTS"
This piece represents the new Visual Arts Organization behind the "Stand Up Against ICE" Art Show & Auction.
We are AUDACIOUS. And yes, we are audacious enough to think we can change the world through ART.
Building community & tight-knit connections that can overcome hate - and maybe even a fascist regime.
August & Karina
August (They/Them) lives, works, and creates in Sioux Falls, SD. They employ a variety of mediums in their art, with current favorites including photography, watercolors, and all kinds of mixed media. They aim to capture feelings and experiences, and especially appreciate art that rewards the viewer for looking just a little longer.
Karina (She/Her) has never met a medium she doesn't love. With the assistance of Supervisor Hux and Supervisor-in-training Binks, she paints, sews, folds origami, and generally follows her latest creative inspiration wherever it may lead.
"Renewal"
Sioux Falls has long been rooted in diversity. Immigrants have been and continue to be an integral part of the roots that have grown Sioux Falls into the city we call home. These times are full of struggles, but this piece is a reminder that trees, like people, endure the turning of the seasons. Hard times will pass and we will persist. Dawn will always rise, as we continue to rise up against injustice. Winter always gives way to spring. ICE always melts.
Cameron Stalheim
Cameron Stalheim’s sculptures explore the space between fantasy and reality, drawing on mythology, queerness, and the human body as sites of transformation. Through figurative forms and symbolic imagery, Stalheim creates characters that exist between worlds: part human, part myth, part emotional landscape. His work invites viewers to consider vulnerability, identity, and the power of imagination to reshape how we see ourselves.
"Unbound'.
This work reflects the violence of systems that separate, erase, and detain human bodies. The figure dissolves as a reminder that no institution can contain identity, dignity, or the right to exist freely.
Courtney Pavelko
Cortney has considered herself an artist for most of her life but really dove into the art world in 2020. Cortney enjoys all types of mediums to work with and has been known to have enough hobbies for her and all of her friends, but her favorite medium to work with is stained glass. When not working on stained glass suncatchers she is also involved in the performing arts. Cortney started getting involved with aerial art back in 2023 and loves being in the air- either in a silk or lyra. You will most likely find her at an art or farmers market this summer. Either spinning in the air or at an art stall.
"Migration"
Drawing a parallel between animal migrations and the human experience. Their journeys not being questioned, seen as natural and beautiful. Yet, for people, crossing borders is often met with fear, resistance and division. This piece invites viewers to reconsider the narratives around immigration
CynFull Art
Hi! I’m Cynthia… I am CynFull Art, I’ve been creating art for as long as I can remember and have always been interested in weird and strange things. I’ve been using natural resources like animal bones, dried florals and natural stones to create “pretty dead things” since 2021. I live in South Dakota and travel the country selling my art at World Oddities Expo events as well as a few local events in the Sioux Falls area. I am very proud to create and curate everything I sell, knowing that all of my products are ethically sourced.
"Do we learn from history?"
Collage featuring a variety of Life magazine articles from various 1966 editions containing information about the political landscape at the time. I was motivated by the similarities to recent and current events. The gold cracks in my piece represent Kintsugi, the traditional Japanese art highlighting the history of damage rather than trying to hide it. Suggesting that instead of trying to forget historically traumatic events, we can learn from them.
Dana Andersen
I love making art and learning to make different art. Right now I'm hooked on heavy texture acrylic and bold color. Making pieces that are bright and thick.
"De Colores"
I used mostly traditional Hispanic colors for celebration and marigolds and white roses as are used on Dia de los Muertos. To show a small bit of the beauty of the Hispanic heritage. I'm slowly learning Spanish and dia de los Muertos is my birthday, so to plunge into the richness of the culture around it is exhilerating. The colors and flowers reminds us that hope dwells in the darkness.
Black 2.0
Heavy texture acrylic
JE Krueger
JE Krueger, has worked with optical science extensively for many years and incorporated it into his art. He is also the author of a young adult fantasy series, The Books of 9&10 Penance
“Changing perception in color”
Optical illusion: The Bezold effect. To best describe this illusion, the Bezold effect takes two strips of pairing colors as the background and utilizes alternative colors in the foreground. For this piece I used an array of colors to highlight and show the function of this effect. As the colors interact with each other, a unique change happens among them, altering the perception of the hues slightly in some areas, and greater in other areas.
When we interact with a wide variety of human beings there is a change or altered perception, though in reality we’re all the same.
Jody Fleischhacker
Jody is a multifaceted Sioux Falls artist who works with a range of mediums - from collage, to painting.... on various objects, from canvases to recycled doors.
Recently retired, she chooses to share kindness through art, participating in protests to change for the better, and supporting her community by uplifting artists, students, and people from all walks of life.
"Signs of Our Times 2025/2026"
This piece reflects all of the protests & all of the chaos with the current political climate. Jody & her husband have been active protestors, standing with others who are like-minded. They protest with intention; in a peaceful, nonthreatening manner.
Little Liam Ramos' blue bunny hat is foremost on Jody's mannequin; a symbol of the extreme & disturbing actions of many ICE agents - children should not be used as bait, or ever have to go through anything like this.
The preamble for the constitution is on the back of Jody's mannequin; a personal reminder, that is part of who we are (& who we should be) as Americans. These words are not being upheld by those in power.
The New Colossus is spelled out, carefully across the bottom of the mannequin: a poem intended to welcome immigrants to the US. Jody carefully wrote this over & over, processing & immersing in the meaning of the words.
The line "Mother of Exiles" is striking & heartbreaking as we realize; the U.S. is no longer a welcome place for the exiles, people in refuge, the tired, the poor.
Julianna Reinius
Julianna's first form of artistic expression, beginning in childhood, was her love for fashion, textiles, and jewelry. Personal style was her first canvas. This became a creative outlet in her early twenties when she began repurposing/upcycling clothing to sell at music festivals and local shops. She then also began designing jewelry with semi-precious gemstones and fine metals.
While traveling to music festivals around the country, she would temporarily settle in numerous locales, including the most influential cities in her life, New Orleans, LA, and Asheville NC. Landing back home in Sioux Falls in 2016, changed by collected experiences, inspired by her newfound motherhood, and many adventures, she would discover her favorite medium, acrylic painting, through which she would continue to showcase her original inspirations of fashion and textiles.
"Mother's Blood"
This piece is intended to be a visual queue and symbol of how it might feel to lead with a mother's heart. A mother's heart is broken every single time anyone loses their life, especially under circumstances of hate. A heart may be any size, shape, or color or it may break in ways that differ from our own, but regardless of those differences, our hearts can still bleed with theirs.
Julie Artista
South Dakota artist who creates from different mediums at times, generally working in acrylic paints. She has 3 grandchildren who paint and come up with fantastical ideas for collaborative pieces.
“America & America in Chaos”
The piece goes from every day peaceful America to complete chaos and deadly cruelty by our government.
Kassie Menagerie
Kass is a self-taught dabbler of many mediums, but especially loves painting and working with wood. Their love of being in nature, fire, humor, and passion for mental health, personal growth and social justice are themes that show up in their art most often. Their whole adult life has been a journey of healing from complex trauma and their biggest allies in that journey have been Art, Nature, and the love of their Chosen Family.
"Through Unity, Survival."
Inspired by a quote from my favorite book by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass:
“[Mycorrhizal Fungi] weave a web of reciprocity, of giving and taking. In this way, the trees all act as one because the fungi have connected them. Through unity, Survival. All flourishing is mutual. Soil, fungus, tree, squirrel, boy - all are the beneficiaries of reciprocity.”
I think the best chance humanity (and all the Life we affect) has to survive, is to quit experiencing ourselves as something separate from Nature and to remember we are of this Earth. The forests that keep air in our lungs have so much wisdom for us if we can stop our greed and violence long enough to listen. The community between species born from a need to survive, forming quiet treaties of give and take in their search for balance. The ancient understanding that survival depends not only on the fittest, but on the collective, the variety, the whole. Peter Wohlleben, another of my favorite scientists, says "A tree can only be as strong as the forest that surrounds it."
If you need hope now, look for the humans with the wisdom of old growth forests in their bones, nurturing relationships and mutual cooperation, lending a hand to friends and strangers, searching for balance and thinking of the collective rather than the individual.
Dearest Kim
Dearest Kim is a Sioux Falls artist who specializes in acrylic pop art and originals. She began painting in 2022 as a way to nurture her mental well-being. Her work is whimsical and colorful, and reflective of her animated personality and energy. Painting from the heart, she strives to inspire emotions that nourishes the soul.
“Break Ice Not Rights”
Imagery of cold ice shards to represent ICE’s assault on our rights; in contrast the warm skin tones symbolizes humanity’s resilience, softening and dissolving the shards. A prominently placed axe reinforces the message: a call to break ICE and challenge the systems it represents.
Laura Gilbertson
Laura Gilbertson’s immersive Mixed Media Art draws on expanding the imagination with small details and layered portrayals. By depicting whimsical worlds and honest reality, she strives to show how subtle details can change the emotion behind a piece. Laura hopes her audience will appreciate the change that can happen with even the smallest of intentions.
“Disappeared”
Mixed Media piece depicting a young woman being abducted from a public space by an ICE agent. She, like many, may be placed in detention with no contact with her family. This piece was created with paint, fabric, clay, wood and recycled objects.
Matt Kappen
Matt Kappen focuses primarily on photography and poetry that highlight our connection with nature.
"We the People"
This mannequin is painted to symbolize the Stars and Stripes. The red is created through gunshot wounds, representing the increasingly violent state of our country and government. Despite the wounds, the mannequin stands to show that the people will not be silenced. Even when they murder the people, our message lives on. We the people hold the power.
Shannon Ward & Kristin Catlett
Shannon is the face behind Good NAtured; she is a professional dabbler, enthusiastic space-maker, and a builder of community.
Kristin is the Fairy Gay Mother - an emotional Manifestor, a channel for truth-telling & a queer creative - known for her lifestyle management & concierge support.
Together, they have combined powers to create unique & thought-provoking artwork.
"Grounded In Awakening"
Around the base, you see clips from newspaper articles from the Minneapolis area; showing protestors & various efforts to build community & support their neighbors.
Around the legs are various negative & fearful thoughts, "I don't know how" or "I can't do it"
This mannequin is clothed with an intricately woven origami skirt, covered with inspirational & positive quotes; urging the viewer to stay forward focused.
Steve Bormes
As an outsider artist who specializes in found object sculpture, I like to deconstruct the answer and twist its perception of reality into a rhetorical question that I’m able to manipulate into a coherent solution. My parts are plucked from rural routes of the Midwest, and, coupled with elements of the space age from my youth, they add up to my own brand of Prairie Funk; a form of fence-postmodernism, if you will.
“Step Off”, 2026
When a solo voice gains the support of a chorus, she may have inadvertently created a movement.
Tirzah Rojas
Tirzah Rojas is a young artist located in Sioux Falls, SD and her main focus is traditional art. She likes to paint with acrylic and oil paint, but she is willing to try any medium or art form. If one finds themselves feeling whimsical, they can go to the 300 building downtown and find Tirzah's first-and only- mural. If one feels whimsical AND joyful, they can go give Tirzah's art account (alive.and.thriving.artist) a follow. Support and love is always appreciated! Anyways, time to bid thee farewell because Tirzah hates writing this in the third person.
"Are We Not All Human?"
I have always been confused about why we find it so easy to hate each other. Why we decide to discriminate and hurt others based on perceived differences. Are we not all just human beings living on a planet, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in a whole ass entire universe? If we all look outward, we begin to grasp how small we truly are. It makes all these arbitrary, imaginary laws and lines we've made up to define our society seem so detrimental. We are separating families, killing, and hating based on those laws and borders, ignoring any concept of morality. But can't we see that we're all the same? All human.
That's why I made my mannequin space themed, to portray looking outwards. And the spirals are a pattern that can be found all throughout nature (a snail's shell, the cochlea in our ears, the vine going up a broken wall) so I wanted to incorporate it to show how we are all connected through the simplest of ways. Oh, and then there's the melting ice cube that the mannequin is standing on, because you know, f*ck ICE.
