Sculptor gets grant for Rapid City artwork

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RAPID CITY — A $2 million public art commission has been awarded to granite sculptor Masayuki Nagase to carve low-relief impressions of western South Dakota’s natural and cultural past, present and future in Rapid City.

Nagase will create 21 granite pieces for a downtown public square, an economic development group announced recently. The project is jointly funded through two local foundations and ranks this city of 70,000 as home to one of the biggest privately funded public art works underway in the U.S. Work on the project will span three to five years.

The economic development group teamed up with the region’s largest private foundation, the John T. Vucurevich Foundation, to back the artwork.

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