B.J. Buckley - Artist in Residence

We are lucky to have with us for the next two weeks, writer and poet B.J. Buckley. B.J. Buckley will conduct workshops for our students as part of the South Dakota Arts Council's Artist In Schools and Cummunities program. She will work with various grade levels during the residency here in Big Stone City from November 27th to December 8th.

B.J. Buckley is a poet and writer with over 25 years of experience in Artists In Schools programs throughout the Rocky Mountain West, the Dakotas and Alaska. Her residencies emphasize the process of writing as a way of discovering both the external world and the internal landscape of the mind and heart. She encourages teachers to be active partners in all residence activities. Incorporating other art forms such as bookmaking, origami, painting and oral performances into her residencies, Buckley makes an effort to introduce her students to the best work of writers in their region and in other cultures. She has extensive experience working with senior citizens, Native American students, children whose first language is not English and students with special needs.
Buckely was the 1999 poetry winner of the Annual Writers Exchange, sponsored by Poets & Writers, New York, won the Rita Dove Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Joy Harjo Poetry Award in 2005. She was selected to receive a fellowship grant for a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2004. Her most recent work has appeared in CutThroat, A Journal of the Arts; Comstock Review; Owen Wister Review, and in Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poems about Birds.
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This program is sponsored by Big Stone City School with support provided by the South Dakota Arts Council with funds from the State of South Dakota, through the Department of Tourism and State Development, and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Donkey Basketball

Our students that are going to Washington D.C. held a Donkey Basketball and Spaghetti Supper Fundraiser on November 21st.