Ponder Magazine

05/14/2026

Black Hills State University media students recently earned more than 20 awards across several competitions including the Northern Plains Collegiate Media Association’s Golden Leaf Awards, the American Advertising Federation (AAF) District 8 ADDY Awards, and the Region 6 Mark of Excellence Awards ...

05/09/2026

Celebrating the next chapter for Ponder’s graduating creatives. 🎓

• Alec Butterfield — joining Jackalope in Rapid City as a field producer
• Tory Brown — working full-time in social media marketing at Midwest Marketing
• Rae Hanzlik — apprenticing with renowned sculptor Dale Lamphere
• Brooke Lammle — moving to Japan to teach ESL while continuing photography + design
• Maralee Rischling — relocating to Nebraska and continuing Crane Collective
• Carly Smith — attending Colorado State University for her doctorate in occupational therapy
• Noah Westergaard — joining Lawrence & Schiller full-time as a designer in Sioux Falls
• Julia Wilson — interning in Kearney, Nebraska as a creative director focused on youth mental health initiatives

05/02/2026

05/01/2026

We’re showcasing ISSUE FIVE tonight!!!

4 - 6 PM at the BHSU Joy Center. We hope to see you there!

04/28/2026

Vol. 5 out Friday 👀

04/24/2026

Join us for a night celebrating all things BHSU Media.

Friday, May 1 · BHSU Joy Center
Free + open to the public

Live concert hosted by The Buzz FM, plus complimentary food and drinks, a silent auction, and a full evening to connect with the creatives behind PONDER & The Buzz FM

Come meet the writers, designers, photographers, and audio team behind a year of nationally recognized, student-made work.

03/30/2026

Jared “Cappie” Capp never planned on being the co-host of an Emmy-nominated television show. Cappie started building from a young age and returned to Spearfish after his time in the US Air Force. Eventually, Cappie and his stepdaughter Alex, aka “Sprout”, found themselves on a new path: sharing their unconventional builds on their TV show Building Outside the Lines.

https://www.bhsumedia.com/ponder-magazine/a-legacy-to-last/

03/28/2026

Ernie November has known its brand identity for a long time, and they don't care what other people think of them. They care about bringing good music to the people who want to listen to it. Having quality skate stuff for the kid who is just trying to land his first kick flip. Providing any and all left-of-center products for the few people of these towns who do subscribe to these subcultures.

Nestled between strip mall churches and remote hiking trails lives a small, but mighty group of alternative thinkers. People who like music they can hold in their hand and stickers that stick it to the man. A place that facilitates such activities in several rural Midwestern cities is Ernie November...

03/17/2026

Cameron Stalheim is a q***r artist from South Dakota. Lover of fanciful escape in his youth and a perpetual creator of things that take up space. Today, after years of working to achieve his art degrees, thousands of miles and dollars expensed on traveling for his art, endless cups of coffee aiding him in creating art, and countless hours in pursuit of truth aka radical self love, he creates fantical escapes for those around him, taking up space with his art.

Predisposed to physical creativity as the son of an art teacher and carpenter, Cameron Stalheim was destined for a career in art from an early age. Sculpture has always been at the forefront of his artistic interest. In many ways, Stalheim has been working towards his latest show, “LORE”, curren...

03/14/2026

From long days on the ranch to the Silver Screen, Catlin “Cat” Clifford is anything but the typical small-town cowboy.

A proud member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a native of the Badlands of South Dakota, Clifford’s journey as a bull rider, actor, leather-worker, and musician stands as a tribute to his family’s history and culture.

Read the full story in the latest issue of Ponder Magazine to learn how a “Badlands Indian Cowboy” evolved into an artist with seemingly limitless potential.

“Whenever you watch the right guy [on a bull], you can see it’s an art,” said Catlin “Cat” Clifford, a native to the Badlands of South Dakota and proud member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. “It’s inevitably beautiful to see two forces come together in that spectacle – it’s just like ...