June 10 – August 10, 2014 The Museum of Nebraska Art has an extensive body of work by illustrator and artist Grant Reynard. A native of Grand Island, Nebraska, Reynard had a successful career as one of America’s outstanding magazine and book illustrators. In middle age, he met fellow Nebraskan Willa Cather at New Hampshire’s Read More

April 29 – July 27, 2014 In 2013, the Nebraska Arts Council awarded its Individual Artist Fellowships to eight Nebraska visual artists: Ying Zhu, Elizabeth Ingraham, Jess Benjamin, Ben Darling, Wanda Ewing, Christina Renfer Vogel, Sheila Talbitzer, and Watie White. Photography, painting, textile, installation, ceramic, printmaking, and mixed media are these artists’ specialties. Given on Read More

April 25 – July 20, 2014 Our association with wood as a source of artistic inspiration and a medium of expression is immeasurable. Through myth we think of trees as our “guardians of memory” and of wood as a renewable organic living material. Wood embodies the relationship between human design and natural form. This exhibition Read More

May 9 – July 13, 2014 A select group of high school students works with the Museum of Nebraska Art staff to conceptualize, choose, and install an exhibition of artworks drawn from MONA’s collection. The experiential learning expands their knowledge of art, museums, and careers. Silent Ways of Speaking is based on the emotional content Read More

May 13 – August 10, 2014 Keith Morrow Martin (1911–1983) was a native Nebraskan who studied at the University in Lincoln and The Art Institute of Chicago. After living in Europe during the 1930s where he was influenced by Surrealism, he returned to America eventually settling in Baltimore, Maryland. Martin exhibited throughout the country and Read More

June 25 – September 8, 2013 — Wright Morris, one of America’s most admired novelists, was renowned for capturing – in both text and photograph – the iconic imagery of America’s heartland and the tone and tenor of the mid-20th century. In this exhibition, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Highway through the photographs Read More

October 5, 2012 – January 27, 2013 — From hand-crafted artworks to those designed and then mass produced, The Art of Living exhibition examines the objects that inhabit our homes and adorn our bodies. A rug, book, vase, table, lamp, necklace, or garment – each work has an underpinning in the practical, yet are objects created with Read More

July 6 – October 21, 2012 — Terence R. Duren (1904 – 1968) was a leading Nebraska artist during the mid 20th century. He lived most of his life in Shelby, Nebraska, and is most widely known for his regionalist works which drew on his rural Nebraska upbringing. This Spotlight exhibition features art from all periods of Read More

June 1 – September 9, 2012 — LIFE photographer and Nebraska native Bill Ray traveled across the country documenting important events in American cultural history. From small town to big city, Ray photographed Presidents, movie stars, and sports legends, capturing a generation’s hopes and dreams, trials and tribulations by visually recording the life and times of Read More