January 10 – April 5, 2015 — Kearney artist Jeni Homan creates soft and insightful vistas of the Nebraska landscape using the pastel medium. The artist’s small- to large-scale paintings are documents of a quickly fleeting “non-interrupted” landscape that, over time, is continually altered by societal growth.
Author: Maggie Pierson
Solomon Butcher: Pioneer Photographer
December 16, 2014 – March 29, 2015 — When one hears the name Solomon Butcher, the images of early Nebraska settlers by sod houses comes to mind, however, that was only part of his career. Butcher later had a studio just three blocks south of what is now the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Read More
Cut, Formed, Folded, Pressed: Paper
October 11, 2014 – East Gallery closing March 29, 2015 Southwest & Southeast Galleries closing March 15, 2015 — At its simplest, paper is an ordinary, everyday item that is a part of most of our lives. Yet when it is found in the hands of an artist and is purposefully manipulated
The Art of MONA’s Founders: Zaruba, Peterson, Karraker
December 9, 2014 – March 1, 2015 — Gary Zaruba, Larry Peterson, and Jack Karraker are not only founders of the Museum of Nebraska Art, they are also artists in their own right. All are retired art faculty members from the Art and Art History Department, University of Nebraska Kearney. Recognized for their deep and Read More
Around Town: Grant Reynard’s Winter Scenes
November 22, 2014 – February 15, 2015 — During the 1940s, Grant Reynard did a series of drawings titled Inside Manhattan for PM Daily, a New York newspaper. These winter scene selections capture another time and setting unlike those of familiar rural Nebraska.
Grant Reynard’s Winter Scenes
November 24, 2015 – February 14, 2016 — In 1941 the American Artists Group in New York published Grant Reynard’s book, Rattling Home for Christmas. This limited edition publication, written and illustrated by Reynard, chronicled the journey of a young man on his way home for Christmas. The Museum of Nebraska Art is fortunate to Read More
Student Art Show
April 12 – May 8, 2016 Budding artists from Kearney and surrounding school districts in central Nebraska are featured during four weeks in the spring when the Museum of Nebraska Art is sparkling with the creativity of young student artists ranging from kindergarten to high school seniors. Each week a different selection of art is Read More
Postmaster Gallery – Treasures In: Metal
October 24, 2014 – January 18, 2015 — This final exhibition in the year-long Treasures In series examines visual artists’ relationship with metals. Mankind’s association with metal can be traced back to 6000 BCE. Prized for its tensile strength, durability, luster, and malleability, this selection explores in both two and three dimensions humankind’s fascination with Read More
Nebraska Now: Todd Brown, Photographs
October 11, 2014 – January 4, 2015 — Hastings artist Todd Brown creates large-scale photographs that explore the use of the figure. After constructing an environment on a “stage” with objects and male and female subjects in motion, Brown then patiently waits to photograph a defining movement or moment that speaks to a larger, more Read More
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