November 22, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Grant Reynard, Nebraska painter and illustrator, was also a prolific printmaker. MONA has the largest collection of Reynard’s work and archives in the world. This exhibition features the process of printmaking from preliminary sketches, drawings, and plate engraving to the finished artwork.
October 18, 2016 – February 12, 2017 Mujeres, translated to “women” in English, is the first exhibition in Nebraska to focus on the shared existence of five contemporary artists: all women, all Latino, and all connected to the state. The artists selected are Claudia Alvarez, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Linda Garcia-Perez, Reneé A. Ledesma, and Sandra Williams. Read More
August 26, 2016 – January 29, 2017 Narrative art through images evokes the power of the imagination, providing limitless opportunities for sensory, emotional, and personal interpretation, so viewers can discover their own unique story. For the annual series of exhibitions in the Postmaster Gallery, 2016 features Every Picture Tells a Story with three subjects in Read More
September 27, 2016 – January 22, 2017 Bil Baird was born in Grand Island Nebraska and grew up in Mason City, Iowa. In his early teens, Baird began creating puppets and giving performances in his parent’s home. After graduating from the University of Iowa and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, he formed the Baird Read More
October 8, 2016 – January 8, 2017 Throughout her long career, Lincoln painter Anne Burkholder is well known for depicting the Nebraska landscape, drawing on her experience of growing up in the Sandhills. In this series, she again focuses on roads, fields, and the sky, yet with a twist as she brings to the viewer Read More
August 23 – December 11, 2016 John Falter (1910-1982) was a native Nebraskan who studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and The Art Students League of New York City. He was a successful illustrator before he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943. Commissioned a lieutenant on special art assignments, Falter created more than 300 Read More
August 16 – November 13, 2016 Dave Stewart started his artistic career after a chance happening while working in the building housing the Art Department of Hastings College, Nebraska when a classroom assignment piqued his curiosity to create. Mostly self-taught, Stewart’s three-dimensional assemblages are reminiscent of the work of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell while Read More
July 9 – October 2, 2016 Painter, printmaker, and public artist Watie White focuses within his artwork on narratives of the “absurd and obvious” or those that are “socially engaged.” White, an Omaha based artist, brings to MONA his large-scale public art linocut portraits as well as studio-based single-block woodcuts of detailed landscapes. Artist Talk Read More
May 24 – September 30, 2016 An artist’s selection and manipulation of size, media, and style are vital to the success of an artwork. This exhibition juxtaposes paintings, photographs, sculptures, prints, and fiber works with consistent subject matter to serve as examples of the multi-faceted ways that artists convey meaning and ideas. Works included in Read More
May 17 – September 4, 2016 Fiber artist Jean Thiessen and woodcarver Eric Berggren were 20th century Nebraska folk artists who created small but important bodies of work during their lifetimes. Thiessen, active in the 1900s to 1930s, crafted stunning on-edge felt rugs with compositions ranging from a self-portrait to still-life work and abstract designs. Read More
