Frogman's humble beginnings date back to 1979 when Professor Lloyd Menard led five school teachers from Sioux City, Iowa to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a drawing class. Prints were first introduced in 1981 and the workshops evolved into the Black Hills Print Symposium which took place at various sites in Western South Dakota. The Black Hills set an amazingly beautiful backdrop to the workshops, but by 1996, the workshops had outgrown the confines of Hills and were moved to Beresford, South Dakota, home of Frogman's Press & Gallery. The workshops would only spend two years based out of Beresford before making their final move to Vermillion, South Dakota and the tremendous facilities of the Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts at the University of South Dakota.
Printmakers can visit USD for a week or two week workshop with some of the best teachers in the nation. The studios are open until midnight, instructors give slide lectures and a general sense of cooperation and fun prevails. I highly recommend the program to anyone who works in 2-D. By the way, there is a lot of wheat and corn in Vermillion and surrounds.
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