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
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
August 19 – December 7, 2014 — George Catlin (1796-1827) was among the earliest artists to venture to the West undertaking eight years of field research and visiting 48 tribes to produce a rich record of Native Americans. Comprised of 36 images, the Museum of Nebraska Art is proud to feature its Catlin Portfolio in Read More
August 12 – November 30, 2014 — Pté Oyate (Pté is Buffalo, Oyate is Nation) explores the “long and complex” relationship between the Lakota people and the buffalo. The four artists who have created the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptural works comprising this exhibition are Roger Broer, Keith BraveHeart, Lalyi Long Soldier, and Michael James Read More
August 26 – November 16, 2014 Myra Biggerstaff (1905-1999) was raised in Nebraska, and studied art at Kansas’ Bethany College, in Paris, and the Swedish Royal Academy. She exhibited widely and taught at various schools, the last was her 12-year tenure at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology. In her later life, she returned Read More
July 25 – October 19, 2014 — The first man-made glass can be dated back to ancient Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago. For the visual artist, the diverse qualities of glass have provided the practical surfaces for the production of early photographic negatives to contemporary vitreographic prints. The exploration of glass as a material for individual Read More
July 12 – October 5, 2014 — Omaha artist Mary Day’s most recent body of work, Flow, is comprised of prints and cut-paper artworks exploring themes of “change and transformation.” This intricate and delicate presentation of layered, copied, and cut-paper collages parallels the human experience and our “movement through the natural world.” Flow is a complement Read More
May 20 – October 5, 2014 — Omaha artist Mary Day has created nine three- to five-foot high woven reed cylindrical forms, reminiscent of baskets, which are placed amongst the foliage in MONA’s Hillegass Sculpture Garden. This body of work is inspired by primitive objects and personal reflections of joy and sorrow. The artist finds great Read More
June 6 – September 28, 2014 — The diverse nature of quilts and the quiltmakers of Nebraska is the focus of the exhibition Stitching Time. The 19 quilts span from the 1860s to 2010s, loaned from the Nebraska Prairie Museum, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Nebraska State Historical Society, Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Anna Read More
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
