Past Exhibitions

Postmaster Interactive Gallery

January 16 – January 10, 2011 — The function of the Postmaster Interactive Gallery is to engage and educate visitors about artwork at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) by offering a variety of resources and activities that appeal to all ages. A new feature at MONA, the space used as the postmaster’s office during the seven decades Read More

It Figures

August 10– November 28, 2010 — Throughout the history of art, the human form has served as a source of inspiration, intrigue, and sometimes scandal. This exhibition, comprised of works from the MONA collection as well as works on loan, focuses on various ways that artists have chosen to depict the human figure, through both realism Read More

Music of the Meadowlark

July 3– September 14, 2010 — In 2001, the first Meadowlark Music Festival was held in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each year, a Nebraska artist is commissioned to create an artwork with the Festival as inspiration. This exhibition honors the 10-year anniversary of the Festival and brings together the commissioned works from such artists as Robert Hillestad, Cliff Read More

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