1909, Lincoln, Nebraska – 2003, San Francisco, California View artwork Ruth Waddy was an artist, advocate, activist, and author primarily known for her work with the Black Arts Movement in California in the 1960s and ‘70s. She was born January 7, 1909 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Willie Anna Choran and John Moses Gilliam. The family moved Read More
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Allan Tubach
1939, Falls City, Nebraska – View artwork Originally from Falls City, Nebraska, the hometown of other important Nebraska artists such as John Falter (1910-1982) and Alice Cleaver (1870-1944), Allan Tubach studied commercial art at the Omaha Art School from 1957 to 1958 and continued his art training at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. For Read More
George E. Trager
1861, Gefell, Germany – 1948, New York, New York View artwork George Trager (also known as Gus Trager) was born in Gefell, Germany in 1861 and arrived in America in 1876. He studied photography in Whitewater, Wisconsin and opened his first photography studio in 1888 with Frederick Kuhn in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. Trager and Kuhn moved Read More
Michael Todd
1935, Omaha, Nebraska – View artwork Studied at the University of Notre Dame, south Bend, Indiana, BFA, 1957; UCLA 1959, received a Fulbright Fellowship, Paris, 1961-1963. Lives in Los Angeles, CA. View artwork
Jean Louise Berg Thiessen
1876, Sacramento, California – 1960, Omaha, Nebraska View artwork Thiessen moved with her family to Omaha, Nebraska when she was ten years old. By fourteen, she was already helping to support her family by working as a dressmaker, which she continued until ready-made dresses gained popularity. Other than her marriage to Charles Leonard Thiessen of Grand Read More
Robert Therien
1944, Omaha, Nebraska – View artwork Robert Therien was born on October 1, 1944 in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1966, his MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1968, and his MFA in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin as well. Therien served in Read More
Jules Tavernier
1844, Paris, France – 1889, Honolulu, Hawaii View artwork There were a number of excellent artists who made significant contributions to the history of art related to Nebraska, but for various reasons, many have been overlooked, neglected, or given little notice by historians and art museums until recently. Better known than many artists in this category, Read More
Tom Talbot
1936, Broken Bow, Nebraska – 2009, Chicago, Illinois View Artwork Tom Talbot, a fourth generation Nebraskan, was born in 1936 in Broken Bow, Nebraska, on the eastern edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. Formative years were spent in the area which his forebears had helped to settle in the late 1870s and 1880s. The family background Read More
Barbara Takenaga
1949, North Platte, NE – View artwork Born in 1949, Barbara Takenaga was raised in North Platte, Nebraska, where her father was a doctor. In 1972, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree followed by a Master of Fine Arts in 1978, both from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Takenaga resides in New York Read More
Erika Tada
1975, Tokyo, Japan – View artwork Erika Tada, a glass artist from Tokyo, Japan, earned her B.F.A. degree in Glass with Best Honors in 1998 from Joshibi University of Art and Design in Kanagawa, Japan. From 2002 to 2003, she attended the University of Nebraska Kearney and, by 2005, had earned her M.F.A. degree in Read More
