Home School Program
The Home School Program consists of one class once a month. Classes, taking place in MONA’s galleries and Program Room, are designed to be interactive lessons that encourage students to examine objects and ideas. Over these monthly sessions, students develop a theme for a project through a variety of sequential activities including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and discussion.

Thursdays: August 16, September 20, October 18, November 15, December 20
Age: 8-18 (with possible exceptions for younger siblings)
Time: Choose one of the class times:
(A) 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
(B) 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Cost: $40 per child (members), $50 per child (non-members) for all five classes
Register by: Monday, August 13; payment due when registering

Class size is limited to 15 students in each class. Because of space limitations, one chaperone is welcome and must be registered (at no cost). Fees are non-refundable after classes begin.

Scholarships are available through the generous support of The Arram Family Foundation. The application form is available on MONA’s website: mona.unk.edu > Education & Events > Classes.

Adornment
September 29, 2018 – February 3, 2019

Adornment looks at how individuals and communities clothe, embellish, or alter their appearances through creative thought and artistic practices. The exhibition explores the ongoing need to create works as varied as filigreed jewelry, beaded traditional or contemporary Native American clothing, African American headdresses, tattoos, nail art, distinctive felt hats, fashion designs, and inspired opera and ballet costumes, among others. The work of over 35 individuals is presented including Cey Adams, Ruth Buol, Celeste Butler, Marcia Laging Cummings, Catherine Ferguson, Robert Hillestad, Jun Kaneko, 19th and 20th century Lakota art, Imagine Uhlenbrock, and Jette Vogt. Adornment raises questions such as: At what point does a creative endeavor become an artwork?

Reception:
Saturday, October 20, 2018 • 6-8:00 p.m.

Learn more about art in one-hour presentations by regional experts.
FREE and open to the public.

Dr. Bruce Garver: Czech Art and Architecture
Wednesday, October 24 • 2:00 p.m.
Olga Folda Štěpánek was the granddaughter of Czech immigrants, a creator of works of art, author of short stories, founder in 1960 and director until 1975 of the University of Nebraska English as a Second Language Program in Lincoln, and facilitator of her husband’s teaching of the Czech language at the University from 1924 until his death in 1955.

Bruce Garver earned a Ph.D. in History in 1971 from Yale University where he taught before coming to the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1976 to teach such courses as the Renaissance in Italy, Age of Enlightenment, the Risorgimento, transport history, and the two World Wars. In eight semesters from 1982 to 1990, he also taught Czech immigrant history at the Lincoln campus. He was an exchange student in Prague for 10 months in 1967 and returned to do research in 1971, 1973, and eight times since 1989.

Presented In conjunction with Spotlight On: Olga Štěpánek, July 31 – November 4, 2018.

Humanities Nebraska provides major funding for this program. HN receives support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Nebraska State Legislature, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, and private donations.