ARTreach

Current ARTreach Exhibitions:

Kearney, Nebraska

John Falter Jazz from Life – John Mince, lithograph, 1971

Merryman Performing Arts Center
On the Beat – John Philip Falter’s Jazz From Life

John Philip Falter (1910-1982) had a lifelong love for jazz music. In the early 1970s, Falter began attending live jazz sessions taking a portable studio with him to create “lightning sketches while the musicians were performing or during rest periods.” The original sketches were reproduced in a limited number of print portfolios titled Jazz from Life.

 

Grant Reynard, The Benign Bulls, oil on panel

Kearney Public Library
Rural Life

Grant Reynard (1887-1968) was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Reynard led a successful life as an art editor, illustrator for popular magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, educator, author, museum leader, art critic, and artist. This exhibit showcases works from the collection that reflect the artist’s special life-long connection with and Nebraska and his roots.

 

Alice Cumbow, Untitled (Fish Hatchery), oil, n.d.

Riverside Country Club – Selections from the MONA Collection

Just as the landscape of Nebraska varies from north to south, and east to west, this selection of work from the Museum of Nebraska Art collection is an example that same diversity. From Allan Tubach’s Reflection in York to Tom Talbot’s Hong Kong Side Street we experience a variety of scenes from near and far.

 

 

Omaha, Nebraska

Myra Biggerstaff, Butterflies (In My Garden), collage, watercolor, n.d.Methodist Hospital
Color at Play

Ongoing

Color is used in artwork to grab viewers’ attention, guide them through the work, highlight specific details, and spark emotions. These selections from the Museum of Nebraska Art Permanent Collection reveal a more colorful and playful side to art.


Ann Covalciuc, April Bouquet, oil on canvas, c. 1989Methodist Women’s Hospital
Still Lifes from the MONA Collection
Ongoing

This exhibition features a selection of still life paintings from the Museum of Nebraska Art collection. As a subject matter, still lifes transcend time and cultures to express wealth and identity. For artists, the genre also provides an opportunity to experiment and refine skills and style. Explore how artists usebasic art principles such as composition, line, light, color, and perspective to craft narratives and different styles of painting.

Charles W. Guildner, Rural Schools of Nebraska 2: Round Hill School, digital photograph, c. 2013, 13 × 19"Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center
Homesteading in our Modern Lives
Ongoing

Some art seems so inviting to touch, almost daring viewers to experience it with their fingertips as well as with their eyes. Textures invite the viewer to participate, or imagine participating, with the artwork beyond simply seeing. An artist may create texture through their choice of, or manipulation of, materials; or the illusion of it may be simulated by design. This exhibition showcases mixed media artworks and collages by seven Nebraska artists interested in exploring texture as a key element of these finished works.


Past ARTreach Exhibitions:

Chamber of Commerce, Beatrice, NE
Homesteading in our Modern Lives
June 8-August 29, 2023

Haigler Community Foundation
Photo Ark Amphibians: Photographs by Joel Sartore
May 1-July 10, 2023

Methodist Women’s Hospital
Color at Play
On View Through June 15, 2023

Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center
Tactile Selections by the Museum of Nebraska Art
On View through May 6, 2023

Methodist Hospital
Concealed, Revealed: Portraits from the MONA Collection
On View through May 6, 2023

Morton James-Public Library
Still Lifes from the MONA Collection
On view through May 2, 2023

Jackson Dinsdale Art Center, Hastings College, Hastings, NE
Blast From the Future’s Past: Art from the 1990s
January 5- February 1, 2023

Haigler Community Foundation, Haigler, NE
Color at Play
May 7-July 7, 2022

Morton-James Public Library in Nebraska City, NE
Bold Visions: Women Artists from the MONA Collection
September 7- October 5, 2022

Morton-James Public Library in Nebraska City, NE
Color at Play
August 2- September 6, 2022

Chamber of Commerce, Beatrice, NE
An Atmosphere for Learning Undistracted: Rural Schools of Nebraska
June 13-August 31, 2022

Haigler Community Foundation, Haigler, NE
Selections from MONA’s Permanent Collection
May 7- July 7, 2022

Methodist Women’s Hospital, Elkhorn, NE
A Survey of Women Artists from the MONA Collection
January 5-June 30, 2022

Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center, Omaha, NE
Be Still and Breathe
January 5-June 30, 2022

Methodist Hospital, Omaha, NE
Still Lifes from the MONA Collection
January 5-June 30, 2022