September 28, 2010– January 10, 2011 —
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
The History of the Indian Tribes of North America
August 31– December 5, 2010 — The Museum of Nebraska Art hosts a collection of handcolored lithographic prints generously on loan from Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum. The History of the Indian Tribes of North America features 67 images of 19th century Native Americans selected from the nearly 130 comprising the entire publication, one of the most 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
Nebraska Now: Bradley Peters, Photographs
July 10– October 3, 2010 —
Then and Now: The Provocative Wasteland
June 5– September 26, 2010 — From the 19th century to the present, artists have approached similar subject matter, concepts, and issues relevant to their time and place. This exhibition contrasts and compares the artworks from the past with works from the present, and examines what has changed in our approach to the world around us 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
Sights & Sounds
August 25, 2009– August 8, 2010 —
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
“They Spoke to Me, or Did Not Speak:” Wright Morris’s Images of America
April 20– July 25, 2010 — In the preface to the second edition of his book The Inhabitants, Wright Morris wrote, “Doors and windows, gates, stoops, samples of litter, assorted junk, anything that appeared to have served its purpose… In the matter of selection of such objects, I relied entirely on my feelings about them: They Read More