Author: Gina Garden

Magic and Loss: Charley Friedman and Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Magic and Loss: Charley Friedman and Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

May 3-July 20, 2025 Magic and Loss is a collaborative exhibition by married artists Charley Friedman and Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez exploring themes of creation, destruction, and transformation through distinct but interconnected bodies of work. Together, their work creates a mystically transformed space in the Museum’s new John and Elizabeth Lauritzen Foundation Gallery for an immersive and Read More

Wesaam Al-Badry: The Labor of Belonging

Wesaam Al-Badry: The Labor of Belonging

May 3-September 21, 2025 For his first solo museum exhibition, Wesaam Al-Badry presents a new photography project of Nebraskans. The project aims to consider place as a component of human identity while celebrating survival, beauty, and belonging. This exhibition includes a selection of twenty photographs from a project Al-Badry began in 2024 to reflect the Read More

In Search of Ourselves: A Reinstallation of the Museum of Nebraska Art’s Permanent Collection

In Search of Ourselves: A Reinstallation of the Museum of Nebraska Art’s Permanent Collection

May 3, 2025- July 2027 This reinstallation of MONA’s permanent collection surveys the entirety of the collection through a thematic lens—a significant shift from the Museum’s previous approach of presenting the collection chronologically by four eras: artist-explorers, early Nebraskans, modern artists, and art of today. In Search of Ourselves dives deeply into various areas of Read More

Join us May 3, 2025 for our Grand Reopening!

MONA Reopens Saturday, May 3, 2025. Join us for a day of free festivities for guests of all ages to enjoy hands-on art-making activities, interactive experiences, and live performances by local artists and musicians to commemorate this milestone. 9:30-10:00 | Remarks & Ribbon Cutting 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.| Glass Blowing demo | Amy Springer & Taylor Read More

Ruth G. Waddy: A Printmaking Prophet

Ruth G. Waddy: A Printmaking Prophet

Ruth G. Waddy (1909-2003) came to artmaking later in life, during her early fifties, as an effort to build stronger relationships with artists and improve her advocacy skills. As a result, Waddy created artwork in response to the world around her, incorporating political and social commentary related to the Black community to which she belonged Read More

The auction has closed but thanks for looking! SPIRIT 2022 will feature an online art auction bringing together some of the best work by a select group of Nebraska artists working locally and regionally. SPIRIT is a great opportunity to view work by artists you may already know, while discovering great artists with whom you Read More

In “SPIRIT” Artists

These In “SPIRIT” artworks have been donated to the Museum for fundraising purposes. Erin Blayney Octopus #3 pastel and graphite on archival paper, n.d. 33 3/4 x 47 1/4″ Kim David Cooper Carnegie Library Ashland Neb print (24/100), 2006 15 3/4 x 28″ Alisha Davis Kiara color photograph, n.d. 26 x 35 3/4″ Ben Darling Read More