Mary Groth grew up living next door to her grandparents, listening to their stories shared around dinner tables, and her early imagination was sparked. Her love of the prairie landscape and the interconnection of people to the land and to each other became the narrative for the visual stories expressed in her art. Mary’s artistic goals are simple: to create meaningful evocative work, to be technically excellent, to remain curious and open to ideas and materials, and to not give up when the first three goals aren’t working. She was commissioned to create the official South Dakota Centennial print in 1989.