August 25 – November 15, 2015 — Bill Hammon was a Nebraska-based artist probably best known for the facade mural on the Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln. Co-created with Leonard Theissen, the monumental mosaic at the time was the largest in the United States, measuring 83 by 140 feet and comprised of over 750,000 1” tiles. Read More
August 18 – November 1, 2015 — On loan from the collection of Eva and George Neubert and courtesy of Flatwater Folk Art Museum, the exhibition’s 38 works illustrate the presence of Native Americans along the Missouri River in the mid to late 19th century. Etchings, steel engravings, lithographs, and woodblocks by Karl Bodmer, George Read More
July 24 – October 18, 2015 — The 2015 exhibition series in MONA’s Postmaster Gallery explores poetry by Nebraska’s laureates, creating a synthesis of the literary with the visual. Aesthetic delights and sensory speech that connect us with our soulful self and the experiences of others are stirringly evoked through the visual language of metaphor. Read More
July 11 – October 4, 2015 — Carol Thompson is a painter of serene, contemplative, and lovely still life works often focusing on flowers, bird’s nests, branches, or other treasures found on her farmstead. The objects are meticulously arranged to compose a purposeful scene rather than simply creating a beautiful artwork. Artist Talk and Reception: Read More
July 14 – October 4, 2015 — Artist and educator Elmer Holzrichter spent the majority of his 90+ years reimagining, reclaiming, rearranging, and ultimately breathing life back into discarded objects to create inventive and wondrous artworks or “things,” as he calls them. While Holzrichter began his career using traditional media, he soon experimented with mask-making, Read More
May 23 – September 6, 2015 — Paul Swan was a noted artist, poet, and dancer in the early part of the 20th century. He painted and sculpted many famous people including Isadora Duncan, Willa Cather, and John F. Kennedy, among others. He was heralded as the “Most Beautiful Man in the World” and “America’s Read More
May 26 – August 16, 2015 — John Falter (1910-1982) was a native Nebraskan who studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Art Students League of New York City. He became a successful illustrator, creating for The Saturday Evening Post 128 covers over 25 years. Also an excellent portrait painter, book illustrator, and Read More
April 24 – July 19, 2015 The 2015 exhibition series in MONA’s Postmaster Gallery explores poetry by Nebraska’s laureates, creating a synthesis of the literary with the visual. Aesthetic delights and sensory speech that connect us with our soulful self and the experiences of others are stirringly evoked through the visual language of metaphor. The Read More
April 7 – July 19, 2015 — On his family farm outside of Stapleton, Nebraska, Emery Blagdon created a remarkable work known as the “Healing Machine.” Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing until his death in 1986, Blagdon artfully composed the wondrous “Machine” using bits of wire, beads, foil, paper, and other everyday materials
1972, Sumter, South Carolina – Shawnequa Linder is an African American abstract painter and photographer whose work explores the interplay of urban decay, texture, color, and unlikely elements that can be meshed together to create a unified composition. As Kim Carpenter wrote for Omaha Magazine, Linder describes her paintings as fitting within the abstract decay Read More
