April 14 – May 10, 2009 — During four weeks in spring, the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is especially festive with artwork created by the next generation of artists. Budding artists in the Kearney Public Schools, Kearney Catholic High School, and the school districts in Buffalo County and Kearney County show their work, selected by their Read More

January 10 – April 12, 2009 — Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Bonnie O’Connell specializes in book arts. For her Nebraska Now exhibition, O’Connell brings her non-traditional books that incorporate printmaking and letterpress and includes books that range from three-dimensional sculptural hangings to those that incorporate feathers and fiber. O’Connell Read More

January 20 – April 5, 2009 — Art has always had the power to move us, bring issues to light, create change, and provide insight. No Conservative Measures: Art and Nature Collide focuses on artwork that forces us to pause and consider our relationship with nature and our impact on it. Some of the works that seem Read More

December 9, 2008 – March 22, 2009 — The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) celebrates the photographic career of William Henry Jackson by mounting the exhibition Vistas de México. Jackson, adventurer and photographer extraordinaire, is known to have visited Mexico at least twice in his lifetime. In 1883 he was commissioned by the Mexican Central Railway to document Read More

December 16, 2008 – March 15, 2009 — Focusing on the photographs and photographers connected to Nebraska that were created throughout the last 125 years, this exhibition was selected primarily from the permanent collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA). Favorite artists Solomon Butcher, William Henry Jackson, and Wright Morris along with contemporary photographers such as Roger Read More

October 7, 2008 – January 11, 2009 — In 1941, Grant Reynard’s booklet Rattling Home for Christmas was published by the American Artists Group for their gift book line. This tiny volume of poetry for the unpretentious tells the tale of a homesick young art student’s return home to Grand Island, Nebraska, for Christmas. The story begins as Read More

October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009 In her first major exhibition at the Museum of Nebraska Art, Wayne State College Professor of Art, Marlene Mueller, departs from her colorful pointillist paintings to investigate the nature of fire and its intricacies with charcoal drawings. Into the Ashes marks the first time that this most recent body Read More

September 13, 2008 – January 4, 2009 — The color photographs by New York artist Andrew Moore consist of striking and subtle images of both the familiar and unfamiliar and the real and seemingly unreal. In Across the Lands and to Nebraska, his first exhibition in the state, Moore’s photographs feature images from around the world juxtaposed Read More

August 26 – December 7, 2008 — For the first time at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), an entire exhibition is devoted to the state’s Native American heritage in Traces of Our Past: Artifacts by the First Nebraskans. Generously on loan from a private collection and never before shown publicly, this exhibition offers a vitally Read More

October 21 – November 30, 2008 — In the past, our views of farming and its influence on American life and culture have focused on the roles that men have played as farmers, while women’s contributions to agricultural production were largely ignored, perpetuating the stereotype of the “farmer’s wife.” The photographic exhibition Voices of American Farm Women presents a Read More