Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Sculpture Garden Series:
Ferguson, Friedman, Kaneko
On view through September, 2018
Artwork by three of Nebraska’s most prominent sculptors, Catherine Ferguson, Charley Friedman, and Jun Kaneko, are featured in the MONA Hillegass Sculpture Garden. At the entrance, viewers are greeted by a ceramic, larger-than-life, black and white ‘head’ sculpture by world-renowned ceramicist and Omaha-based artist, Jun Kaneko. This work is on loan from Clay and Beth Smith of Lincoln, Nebraska. Flanking the entrance into the Museum is Catherine...
An exhibition of art depicting flowers, landscapes and botanical themes in a variety of media by local artists.
Mediums include: oil, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, linocut prints, photography, jewelry, encaustic, pastel and graphite.
About the artists
Omaha Artists, Inc. was organized in 1946 to promote the appreciation and development of art in and around the Omaha metro area. The group is made of artists with a variety of talent and skills, who are able to display their art at three local art shows that are held each year. For...
Translation Exhibition by Amy Sandeen and Jack Sandeen
Jun 1 through Aug 3
Hastings College-JDAC
700 E 12th Street , Hastings,
NE
Hastings College JDAC Exhibitions are always open and free to the public. Summer gallery hours are as follows:
Monday-Thursday 9:00-5:00 pm
Friday 9:00-12:00 pm
Artist reception, gallery talk, and show opening: June 1st
5:00 pm-8:00 pm in the JDAC
Eugene T. Mahoney State Park
28500 W. Park Hwy The Denman and Mary Mallory Kountze Memorial Theatre, Ashland,
NE
Ticket Prices: $7 Adults/$5 Children
Eugene T. Mahoney State Park in conjunction with Popcorn Productions will be serving it’s 26th year entertaining family crowds at The Denman and Mary Mallory Kountze Memorial Theatre. Patrons are encouraged to “boo” and throw popcorn at the Villain, “cheer” on the Hero, and “sigh” at the plight of the Heroine. The 2018 Summer Season will kick off on May 25th at 7:30pm with a rotating schedule, five days a week, of three world premiere scripts: :"The Easterner", "Finefellow’s Fireworks...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Nebraska Regionalists
April 21 – August 12, 2018
The 1930s and ‘40s Regionalist Movement, led by Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri), Grant Wood (Iowa), and John Steuart Curry (Kansas), included a handful of Nebraska artists. Primarily chosen from the MONA collection, this exhibition highlights the work of Benton as well as that of Dale Nichols, Kady Faulkner, Aaron Gunn Pyle, among others who took their turn at the colorful, lyrical, everyday scenes found in Regionalism.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Junior Curator Show: Spatial Awareness
May 11 – July 29, 2018
A select group of Kearney High School students works with the Museum of Nebraska Art staff to conceptualize, select, and install an exhibition of artworks primarily drawn from MONA’s collection. The experiential learning expands their knowledge of art, museums, and careers. Spatial Awareness explores how artists use space to create the illusion of a “sense of place” on a flat surface, depend on space to give shape and form to their work, or bend space to distort reality to...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Compelled To Tell: Markmaking
May 22 – September 23, 2018
This new series of overarching-themed exhibitions explores how artists are compelled to articulate humankind’s living presence. The instinct to create is truly a significant narrative. Advancements, memories, and beauty are conveyed in the form of interpretations that are passed on from generation to generation, and artworks signify who we are. The first exhibition in the series surveys the limitless variety of individual marks made by the vitality of the human eye, mind, and hand.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Reinhold Marxhausen
May 26 – September 2, 2018
Reinhold Marxhausen was a nationally regarded multi-faceted artist and highly lauded Professor of Art at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska for 40 years. While he worked in photography, mosaic, painting, sculpture, and found-object art, it was his sound art that brought him national acclaim. In collaboration with Concordia University, this exhibition explores his extensive body of work, his long career, his influence as an educator, and his continuous fascination with the idea of creative...
First Friday Gallery Walk is July 6th, 5:30 – 8:00 pm
Gallery hours are Tues - Fri, 10 am - 4 pm; Saturday, 9:30 - 3 pm
Shows run July 3rd through July 27th and include the following:
‘In Conversation’ – Mixed Media Paintings by Susan Hart
Paintings by Christy Kosmicki
‘Outlines’ – Pastel & Oil Paintings by Patricia Scarborough and Hand-Built Ceramics by Sharon Ohmberger
Mixed Media Paintings by Valerie Knobel
‘Creatures’ – Works in Ceramic and Needle Felt by Michelle Liebgott Osinga
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