Preservation Thursday
Date and Time
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
Location
150 Sherman Street, Deadwood
Description
DEADWOOD – Deadwood History, Inc. and the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission will host a lecture by educator and women’s history advocate, Donna Fisher.
The event is wheelchair accessible. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
What followed when a classically-trained New England artist stepped off a stagecoach into the dusty Main Street of 1885 Rapid City? Thanks to images from Grace French’s 40-year career making and teaching art, sketchbooks, and a business ledger, Donna Fisher has discovered the entrepreneurial and independent woman behind the myth of the artist supported by her father's Homestake Mine stock.
Fisher has a M.Ed. degree from South Dakota State University. She was an educator for 12 years in English and journalism, and 13 years in school library media. Fisher and her husband, Richard, retired and moved to the Black Hills in 2001. Currently Fisher is a volunteer at The Journey Museum and coordinated the Grace French exhibit at the museum in 2007. She wrote Pursuit of Art: Grace French, Pioneer Artist and Teacher, published by The Journey Museum in 2007. Fisher also works as a tour leader for the Black Hills Educational Institute Road Scholar program, and leads three to four week-long tours in the Black Hills and Badlands each summer.
Preservation Thursday is co-sponsored by the Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission, Deadwood History, Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation, Saloon No. 10, Fresh Paint, Historic Homestake Opera House, Celebrity Hotel, Jerry Greer's Engineering, tdg, and the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.