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Nebraska Now: Camille Hawbaker, Fiber Art

Posted on May 14, 2018July 12, 2018 by Gina Garden

July 7 – October 7, 2018 Omaha artist Camille Hawbaker investigates and dissects language in her fiber-based artworks. Hawbaker burns, weaves, prints, and sews text into her organically composed works that cause us to reevaluate our everyday use of words. 2018 Nebraska Now exhibitions are sponsored by Deanna & Fred Bosselman.

Reinhold Marxhausen

Posted on May 14, 2018May 17, 2018 by Gina Garden

May 26 – September 2, 2018 Reinhold Marxhausen was a nationally regarded multi-faceted artist and highly lauded Professor of Art at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska for 40 years. While he worked in photography, mosaic, painting, sculpture, and found-object art, it was his sound art that brought him national acclaim. In collaboration with Concordia University, Read More

Nebraska Regionalists

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Gina Garden

April 21 – August 12, 2018 The 1930s and ‘40s Regionalist Movement, led by Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri), Grant Wood (Iowa), and John Steuart Curry (Kansas), included a handful of Nebraska artists. Primarily culled from the MONA collection, this exhibition highlights the work of Benton as well as that of Dale Nichols, Kady Faulkner, Aaron Read More

POST MIDWAY: Stamps and Mail Artifacts by Chuck Welch

Posted on April 17, 2018May 17, 2018 by Gina Garden

April 14 – July 22, 2018 Kearney, Nebraska native Chuck Welch, aka CrackerJack Kid, remembers the daily anticipation of going to the mail box for the surprises it would contain. In the 1970s, Welch became interested in Mail Art (an art movement based on sending small-scale works through the postal service) after seeing an exhibition Read More

	July 2018
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1 Nebraska Now: Angie Seykora, Sculpture and Installation Nebraska Now: Angie Seykora, Sculpture and Installation Starts: 12:00 pm Ends: July 1, 2018 - 5:00 pm Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA Description: Nebraska Now: Angie Seykora, Sculpture and Installation Closing Today While retaining the inherent nature of prefabricated, synthetic, industrial, and everyday materials, Angie Seykora creates objects, installations, and “paintings” that revel in the idea of possibility, and focus on form and texture. Her work speaks of our quickly advancing industrialized world and how that intersects with humanity and a search for beauty. Seykora teaches in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Omaha’s Creighton University. 2018 Nebraska Now exhibitions are sponsored by Deanna & Fred Bosselman. More details... •	2 Closed Mondays Closed Mondays Starts: 12:00 am Ends: July 2, 2018 - 11:59 pm More details... •	3	4	5	6	7
8	9 Closed Mondays Closed Mondays Starts: 12:00 am Ends: July 9, 2018 - 11:59 pm More details... •	10 MONA’S NOT JUST A BOOK CLUB MONA’S NOT JUST A BOOK CLUB Starts: 10:30 am Ends: July 10, 2018 - 11:30 am Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA Description: MONA’S NOT JUST A BOOK CLUB Avid readers whose interests lie in authors from Nebraska or reading about Nebraska or art are welcome to join these free sessions at any time. Tuesdays: May 1-September 4, 2018 Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m. MONA: Gary E. Zaruba Library & Research Center July 10: This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains by David Stark and Nancy Warner More details... •	11	12	13	14
15 MINDFUL MONOPRINTING MINDFUL MONOPRINTING Starts: 1:00 pm Ends: July 15, 2018 - 3:00 pm Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA Description: MINDFUL MONOPRINTING Explore gestural and expressive mark making through various monoprinting techniques – a great way to loosen up and have fun by experimenting with line and texture. It’s the perfect approach for working through new ideas and building up a body of prints in a short space of time, to be used later in collages or as individual unique works. No experience required. Sunday: July 15 Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m. Instructor: Jackie Abell Age: 16+ Cost: $25 (MONA members), $30 (non-members) Register by: Friday July 13 More details... •	16 Closed Mondays Closed Mondays Starts: 12:00 am Ends: July 16, 2018 - 11:59 pm More details... •	17	18	19	20	21 SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS Starts: 10:00 am Ends: July 21, 2018 - 12:00 pm Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA Description: SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS These untutored life drawing sessions offer access to experienced models in a relaxed atmosphere, and are aimed at those wishing to develop their life drawing skills. No instruction is offered; poses are timed and moderated. Easels and drawing boards are provided, and participants bring their own paper and drawing supplies. Saturdays: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 Time: 10:00 a.m.-noon Age: 18+ Cost: $48 for four sessions, $58 (non-members) Register by: Friday, July 20 More details... •
22	23 Closed Mondays Closed Mondays Starts: 12:00 am Ends: July 23, 2018 - 11:59 pm More details... •	24	25 Collection Connection Collection Connection Starts: 2:00 pm Ends: July 25, 2018 - 3:00 pm Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA Description: James Bockelman: Reinhold Marxhausen Wednesday, July 25 • 2:00 p.m. James Bockelman talks about the artwork and creative attitude of Nebraska artist and educator Reinhold Marxhausen. Marked by a spirit of restless curiosity and a zeal for the common person, Marxhausen reminds us that we live in a readymade world that is just waiting to be rediscovered anew each day. Bockelman earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1997. He is a Professor of Art at Concordia University, Nebraska where he teaches painting and is curator of the Marxhausen Gallery of Art. Free and open to the public. More details... •	26 Sounds of Summer Sounds of Summer Starts: 7:00 pm Ends: July 26, 2018 - 9:00 pm Location: MONA, 2401 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847, USA More details... •	27	28 SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS Starts: 10:00 am Ends: July 28, 2018 - 12:00 pm Description: SATURDAY UNTUTORED LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS These untutored life drawing sessions offer access to experienced models in a relaxed atmosphere, and are aimed at those wishing to develop their life drawing skills. No instruction is offered; poses are timed and moderated. Easels and drawing boards are provided, and participants bring their own paper and drawing supplies. Saturdays: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 Time: 10:00 a.m.-noon Age: 18+ Cost: $48 for four sessions, $58 (non-members) Register by: Friday, July 20 More details... •
29	30 Closed Mondays Closed Mondays Starts: 12:00 am Ends: July 30, 2018 - 11:59 pm More details... •	31

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Nebraska Now: Camille Hawbaker, Fiber Art

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Nebraska Regionalists

POST MIDWAY: Stamps and Mail Artifacts by Chuck Welch