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March 29, 2013 - April 14, 2013 on
Friday 7:00PM-8:00PM
Saturday 2:00PM-3:00PM
Sunday 2:00PM-3:00PM
Lilly, queen of the world, loves everything from riding her bike, wearing band-aides to make her look tough, and her secret backwards language. But when no one pays attention to her fabulous new purple plastic purse, she has to learn how to share her frustrations without causing disaster!
International Quilt Study Center & Museum
1523 N. 33rd St. , Lincoln,
NE
Beginning around the United States Centennial in 1876, Americans embraced a vision of the nation's colonial period as a simple and noble time from which they could draw strength in an increasingly modern industrial world. Quilts became symbols of this real and sometimes mythical American past. By making new quilts inspired by those their foremothers supposedly had made, women felt that they were participating not only in tradition, but in history itself. "Perfecting the Past" presents the inspirations for Colonial Revival style quilts and...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Art: It’s ELEMENTARY! August 7, 2012 – April 28, 2013. Color, line, shape, form, space, value, and texture. Art: It’ s ELEMENTARY! walks viewers through the elements of art using works from the Museum of Nebraska Art collection to show how these basic visual tools are used to build and view a work of art.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday (11AM-5PM), Sunday (1-5pm), Monday (Closed)
Nebraska Now: Ying Zhu, Watch Your Steps, Installation
Jan 12 through Apr 7
12:00PM to 5:00PM
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Nebraska Now: Ying Zhu, Watch Your Steps, Installation
On view through April 7, 2013
Ying Zhu explores life’s precarious nature in her full-room installation at the Museum of Nebraska Art. By utilizing architectural elements, Zhu asks viewers to keep their “eyes open” in her aptly titled exhibition, Watch Your Steps. Now residing in Omaha, Zhu was born and raised in China. In 2010 she received her M.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Think Big
February 8 – April 7, 2013
Size can matter in art: the larger an artwork, sometimes the greater the impact. Yet the choice to use more canvas or more space to create any type of artwork can also pose problems for an artist. Think Big highlights the large-scale works from the MONA collection and explores the various ways that artists have conquered spatial issues and how far they have successfully pushed dimension.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Art Speaks: Conversations in the Gallery
On view through April 7, 2013
At the end of the day, when the lights are turned off and everyone has gone home, imagine voices coming from MONA’s Postmaster Gallery. The “conversations” among the portraits are interesting and even amusing, and visitors are encouraged to join in the dialogues.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Cranes: Taking Flight
February 19 – May 12, 2013
Central Nebraska plays host to the Sandhill cranes each spring as the birds migrate from their winter habitat to their summer one. In tribute to this extraordinary natural phenomenon, the Museum of Nebraska Art presents 19th to 21st century art that shows how various artists depict and are inspired by these magnificent birds.
Rural Schools of Nebraska: Photographs by Charles Guildner
Mar 19 through Jun 16
11:00AM to 5:00PM
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Rural Schools of Nebraska: Photographs by Charles Guildner
March 19 – June 16, 2013
Photographer Charles Guildner visited over 40 one room schoolhouses during a 10-year span to memorialize an education system that is rapidly dwindling. Entitled Rural Schools of Nebraska, the series is exhibited in conjunction with the “School Consolidation in the Great Plains Symposium” taking place April 5 and 6, 2013, at the University of Nebraska Kearney.
Nebraska Wesleyan Arts Exhibit: "Beyond Portraiture: Childhood"
Feb 1 through Apr 19
6:00PM to 4:00PM
Elder Gallery, Rogers Center for Fine Arts
50th St. and Huntington Ave. Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln,
NE
Elder Gallery exhibit "Beyond Portraiture: Childhood" features the work of five photographers from across the country who share their thoughts, experiences, and ideas of childhood through images.
The exhibit runs February 1-April 19. An opening reception will be held Friday, February 1 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m., closed on Monday.
Elder Gallery is located in the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Ave.
That's right! You heard it here! Our **BIG** spring musical is Grease!
Rydell High's spirited class of '59-gum-chewing, hub-cap-stealing, hotrod-loving boys with D.A.s and leather jackets and their wise-cracking girls in teased curls, bobby sox, and pedal pushers-capture the look and sound of the 1950s in a rollicking musical that salutes the rock 'n' roll era.
While hip Danny Zuke and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski resolve the problems of their mutual attraction for each other, the gang sings and dances its way through such nostalgic scenes as...
University of Nebraska at Kearney
905 West 25th Street Fine Arts Building gallery, Kearney,
NE
Walker Art Gallery Exhibtion: Senior Show, Visual Communication and Design, Art Education and Studio Art majors, Fine Arts gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
See 27 sculptures made from LEGO® bricks in fourteen individual displays as you tour the garden. Learn how nature is interconnected just like the 500,000 LEGO® bricks that were used to build these amazing larger than life sculptures. Incorporated into the spring flower show, these garden-inspired sculptures will be on exhibit from February 2 through May 19, 2013.
Ranging in size from six inches to nearly eight feet, a variety of creatures are represented in the exhibit, including a tiger swallowtail butterfly, a green darner dragonfly, a...
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
801 3rd Corso , Nebraska City,
NE
The 6th annual Laurine Kimmel High School Art Exhibition showcasing artwork by juniors and seniors from 13 southeast Nebraska schools opens on Monday, March 11, at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City. The exhibition features works created from a variety of media by more than forty budding artists.
The works on exhibit are selected by art educators in the participating high schools: Auburn Public, District OR-1 Public (Palmyra/Bennet), Falls City Public, Falls City Sacred Heart, Humboldt-Table Rock-Steinauer...
University of Nebraska at Kearney
905 West 25th Street Fine Arts Building Recital Hall, Kearney,
NE
Concerts-on-the-Platte Series: Faculty Recital featuring Marilyn Musick, organ, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. This event is free and open to the public.
Kimball Recital Hall
UNL City Campus , Lincoln,
NE
Acclaimed saxophonist Paul Haar has contributed his notable talent to numerous projects in both the jazz and classical genres and is recognized as being one of the most versatile young saxophonists on the scene today. As an active classical musician he has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Tonight’s concert will feature works of Dr. Randall Snyder, Emeritus Professor of Composition in the UNL School of Music. Three works of Dr. Snyder will be premiered here this evening. The Westbrook Saxophone Quartet and the UNL...
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