Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

Exhibition Dates: July 10-August 28,2026

Location: John A. Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts

The University Art Galleries invites emerging, mid-career, and established artists to submit work for Atmospheric Thinking, a juried exhibition examining contemporary interpretations of the sky as subject, medium, and metaphor. Across disciplines, the sky has served as a site of scientific observation, spiritual imagination, environmental urgency, and aesthetic inquiry. In the context of a rapidly changing atmosphere— meteorological, political, and digital —this exhibition invites artists to interrogate, disrupt, and reimagine the sky beyond its traditional role as background or horizon.