Learn more about art in one-hour presentations by regional experts. Free and open to the public.
Charles E. Trimble: The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Wednesday, September 24 • 2:00 p.m.
In 1969 an annual juried art show was organized to demonstrate the virtuosity of local Native American artists and to serve as a portal into the contemporary art world. Purchases from the highly renowned annual show established a collection that now comprises more than 10,000 pieces of award-winning and donated Native American art that evolved into The Heritage Center.
Charles E. Trimble, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, a graduate of the school, and one of artists chosen to show in the initial groundbreaking exhibition, presents an overview of the Center, its mission, and the work of the artists showing in the exhibition Pté Oyate: Organized by The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The importance of the buffalo in the Sioux culture is the theme of this exhibition.
Linda M. Garcia-Perez: The Prominence of Paper in Mexican Folk Art
Wednesday, October 22 • 2:00 p.m.
Artist, instructor, and storyteller of Latino arts and culture, Linda M. Garcia-Perez is included in MONA’s Cut, Formed, Folded, Pressed: Paper exhibition. Active throughout Nebraska for the past 35 years, her work explores the fine line between craft and art, combining indigenous with contemporary subject matter, living with a dual heritage, and the prevalent presence of paper in Mexican Folk art traditions.
Bill Ganzel: Dust Bowl Descent
Wednesday, November 19 • 2:00 p.m.
Have you ever studied the face of a person in a historical photo, for example Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, and wondered what became of the individual? Nebraska author and photographer Bill Ganzel did, and wrote the award-winning book Dust Bowl Descent. He revisited places and traced the people who were photographed by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s, including Florence Owen Thompson, otherwise known as Migrant Mother whom he photographed in 1979. The original FSA photos are combined with Ganzel’s contemporary images and, when accompanied by oral history interviews, present a vivid emotive depiction of life during the Great Depression and what has happened to these people since then.
Presented in conjunction with MONA’s A World of Change exhibition.
R. David Clark Presents: A Very British Christmas
Wednesday, December 17 • 2:00 p.m.
As a deviation from our customary Collection Connection presentation, MONA is conspiring with the spirit of Christmas and exploring cultural differences. Many of our members are not from these shores and have different traditions, interpretations, and experiences of Christmas. David Clark is a retired UNK professor of Physics and Chemistry and a native of England. You might wonder how different Christmas could be in England. It’s different … ever heard of Morecambe and Wise? Please join us for some Christmas festive fun and refreshments.
