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Corn Palace Murals/Panels
Each year the exterior panels of the Corn Palace are decorated with locally grown corn. The process usually starts in the spring and is completed by the end of September. A different theme is chosen each year, and murals are designed to reflect that theme. Cherie Ramsdell is the current panel designer. Ramsdell is an Assistant Professor of Art at Dakota Wesleyan University. "America's Destinations" has been selected as the theme for the 2008-2009 Corn Palace decorating. “Tourism plays such a major role in the City of Mitchell, and the World’s Only Corn Palace is known as one of the great attractions across the United States. It is fitting for the Corn Palace Festival Committee to select America’s Destinations as this year’s theme,” said Corn Palace Director Mark A. Schilling. While there are many great destinations in America, the Corn Palace Festival Committee selected panels depicting such sites as Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Golden Gate Bridge, the St. Louis Arch, the Alamo and Davy Crockett, Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, the Kennedy Space Center and South Dakota’s great Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument and the Corn Palace. Please visit the Corn Palace page on the City of Mitchell website to view sketches of this year's murals by following this link: Corn Palace Murals
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