Atmospheric Thinking

July 10-August 7, 2026

Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Closing Reception-August 7, 2026-5 p.m.-7 p.m.

Music performed by Vermillion’s Fine Mess

John A. Day Gallery

Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts

University of South Dakota, Vermillion

Atmospheric Thinking encourages artists and viewers to recognize the sky not simply as scenery, but as a dynamic, layered field where perception, ecology, technology, culture, and memory intersect. As climate systems shift, digital networks expand, and questions of visibility, surveillance, and environmental justice intensify, the atmosphere becomes a site of inquiry that reflects and refracts contemporary conditions by engaging with the sky as both a material and a metaphor, illuminating the subtle forces that shape embodied experience and reveal the complex systems that surround us.

Cailey Schendel

Aaron Johnson

Michael Aasness

Cameron Stalheim

Carol Geu

Doris Symens-Armstrong

Ibec Francis

Jim Reiman

Michele David Mechling

Lazarus Burk

Angela Behrends

Christopher Meyer

Anthony DiMichele

Éireann Lorsung

Ginny Freitag

Haley Hoffer

Karen J. Lauseng

Michelle St. Vrain

Alan Montgomery

Pat Hansen

Phyllis W. Packard

Serge van Neck

Shirin Jafarizadeh

Trey Henke

Susan Hartenhoff Haygood

Dwayne LeBlanc

Susan Heggestad

Susan Wehling

Alex Davis

Andrew Hembd

Molly Fulton

Cindy Miller Gehm

Courtney Hart

Cristina Kauffman

Derek Meier