Author: Maggie Pierson

Greater Spectrum

August 25, 2009 – August 8, 2010 — Senses collide in this year-long exhibition filled with sights and sounds that come to life in the art. The interplay of line, color, and shape provokes auditory nuances that offer viewers a new approach to experiencing the art. Vassily Kandinsky, the famous Russian Abstract Expressionist painter, once said that the Read More

Nebraska Now: Michael Strand, Ceramics

April 17– July 3, 2010 — Michael Strand’s recent body of work titled Mantra is a contemplative and methodical “marking of time” as expressed through the creation of slick, subtle, variously shaped and sized ceramic wall pieces. Twenty works comprise this exhibition and range from singular, primarily monochromatic clay slabs to a large work entitled Code Read More

A Pow-Wow of Art: 19th Century Chiefs

May 29– June 27, 2010 — The 19th century was a period of geographic expansion for the “new” United States, greatly impacting the native peoples. Starting in 1821, various tribal Chiefs were invited to Washington, D.C. with a two-fold purpose: to impress them with the power of the Federal government and to negotiate land treaties. Thomas Read More

Student Art Show

April 13– May 16, 2010 — During five weeks in spring, the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is particularly festive with artwork created by the next generation of artists. Budding artists in the Kearney Public Schools, Kearney Catholic High School, and the school districts in Buffalo County, Kearney County, and Phelps County show their work, selected Read More

Nebraska Now: Elizabeth Ingraham, Fiber

January 9 – April 11, 2010 — Fabric “skins” fill the Museum of Nebraska Art’s Yanney Skylight Gallery and comprise Elizabeth Ingraham’s first solo exhibition at MONA. The “skins” are life-size female forms meticulously and laboriously crafted from various tactile and sometimes patterned fabrics. These forms contain traditional sewing items such as buttons, zippers, and linings Read More

Selections from Celebrating Darwin’s Legacy: Evolution in the Galápagos Islands and the Great Plain

January 29– March 21, 2010 — In 2009, the Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, Nebraska, premiered an exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his pinnacle publication, The Origin of Species. Photographic images and handcolored drawings were created on a 2005 observational voyage to the islands by Dr. Paul Read More

Academia Invitational

October 3, 2009 – March 7, 2010 — A hand-selected mix of sculptures, paintings, prints, ceramics, and other art forms provides a rare chance to view works together by University of Nebraska artist/educators from the Kearney, Lincoln, and Omaha campuses.