Author: Maggie Pierson

MONA’S Not Just A Book, Club

MONA’S Not Just A Book, Club

Avid readers whose interests lie in authors from Nebraska or about Nebraska or about art are welcome to these once-a-month sessions, and may join at any time. There is no cost. Please call MONA at (308) 865-8559 to register. Participants purchase or borrow their own books. 1st Tuesdays • 10:30 a.m. September 2 • The Read More

Nebraska Arts Council 2013 Visual Artist Fellowships

Nebraska Arts Council 2013 Visual Artist Fellowships

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

Treasures In: Wood

Treasures In: Wood

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

Spotlight On: Keith Martin

Spotlight On: Keith Martin

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

The Art of Living

The Art of Living

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

Spotlight On: Terence Duren

Spotlight On: Terence Duren

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

Bill Ray: A LIFEtime of Photographs

Bill Ray: A LIFEtime of Photographs

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