Dahl Arts Center

The Dahl Arts Center is a municipal arts facility in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, managed by the Rapid City Arts Council (RCAC). Gifted to the city by Arndt and Agnes Dahl and opened in 1974, the center nearly tripled in size following a $7.8 million renovation completed in 2009. Today it houses five visual arts galleries, an interactive children's gallery, artist classrooms, and the Cyclorama Mural, a 191-foot oil-on-canvas panorama of two centuries of U.S. history painted by muralist Bernard P. Thomas. Beyond its galleries, the Dahl Arts Center offers a 300-person performance venue available for private and corporate rentals, well suited to receptions, reunions, holiday parties, seminars, and meetings. Guests booking the space celebrate surrounded by rotating art exhibitions and the center's performance stage, and nonprofit rental rates are available.