Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Optical Chronicle III
August 14, 2018 – April 21, 2019
Author Henry M. Sayre in his book A World of Art discusses the various roles of the artist in society. He identifies four roles; the third is how artists make a visual record of the people, places, and events of their time and place. These identified roles provide the viewer with a touchstone through which they can then begin to interpret the work. This exhibition is the third in a series of four exhibitions, each dedicated to one of Sayre’s four guiding principles.
Nebraska History Museum
131 Centennial Mall North , Lincoln,
NE
Plainview photographer and race car driver Harold Mauck lived life in the fast lane. His amazing collection of photos documenting northeastern Nebraska's post-World war II culture of stock car racing is featured in our new exhibit on the first floor of the Nebraska History Museum. The exhibit features a selection of Mauck's best photographs showing all aspects of Nebraska stock car racing history.
In addition to the photographs, the exhibit features cars and objects on loan from the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed, as well as items...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
MONA: There’s an App for That 2.0
April 9 – July 14, 2019
Launching its mobile app in 2017, the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) continues to add content. Viewers browse through highlights from MONA’s permanent collection, listen to audio commentary, peruse a guide on how to look at art, and take a MONA quiz. This exhibition features the second selection of works for the MONA app – significant collection pieces including those by artists Kent Bellows, Aaron Douglas, Gertrude Kasebier, and Ed Ruscha. The MONA app is available to download...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
A River Runs Through It
February 26 – July 21, 2019
In Paul A. Johnsgard’s book, Crane Music: A Natural History of American Cranes, the author writes, “There is a river in the heart of North America that annually gathers together the watery largess of melting Rocky Mountain snowfields and glaciers and spills wildly down the eastern slopes of Colorado and Wyoming. Reaching the plains, it quickly loses its momentum and begins to spread out and flow slowly across Nebraska from west to east. As it does so, it cuts a sinuous tracery through...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Compelled To Tell: Form
January 29 – May 19, 2019
During the making process, multiple visual possibilities are resonating in the mind of an artist. Simultaneously, instinct and conscious thought compel the artist. Ideally, the artwork soon has an independent energy. Visually, the term form can be applied to an entire artwork, identifying the work as either a painting or a sculpture for example. Within an artwork, form refers to actual shapes and spaces in a sculpture or the illusion of three-dimensional shapes in a painting. How an artist...
Blue Cat Gallery & Studio
114 W. 3rd Street , Wayne,
NE
Literally & Figuratively is a solo exhibit featuring paintings, drawings and mixed-media works by Courtney Kenny Porto of Omaha, NE. Porto earned her bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS. Porto states, “My inspiration comes in many forms and is most often stored in my subconscious. I live life; I notice. I am angered, excited, intrigued, awed - and then late at night I lie awake and ideas flood my mind. Because of this, my work ranges from comical surrealist animals to more serious issues such as...
St. Mark's on the Campus Episcopal Church
1309 R Street , Lincoln,
NE
“IMAGES OF GLORY” ICON SHOW AT ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL IN APRIL
Starting April 5, St. Mark’s on the Campus Episcopal Church, 1309 R Street in Lincoln, will host “Images of Glory,” an exhibition that showcases religious icons created by Omaha artist Jane Tan Creti. Work of her students, Kyoko Fuller and Joan McDonough, also will be included in the more than twenty icons on display. The public is invited to the exhibition, beginning with a First Friday opening reception from 4-6 p.m. on April 5. The artist will hold a mini-workshop on...
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street , Omaha,
NE
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts invites the public to two new solo exhibitions illustrating the allusive and enigmatic nature of sound and form, "Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air" and "Lui Shtini: Tempos," on view April 4–June 15, 2019.
"Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air"
Through collaborations with composers and musicians as well as the experiences of deaf and hard of hearing friends regarding sound, O’Daniel’s work aims at building a visual, aural, and haptic vocabulary as a means of storytelling. In "Heavy Air," O’Daniel continues her...
SAVAGES & PRINCESSES-THE PERSISTENCE of NATIVE AMERICAN STEREOTYPES
Apr 6 through May 25
The National Willa Cather Center
413 N. Webster St. , Red Cloud,
NE
Savages and Princesses: The Persistence of Native American Stereotypes will be on display at the Red Cloud Opera House from April 6 to May 25, 2019. The exhibit brings together thirteen Native American contemporary visual artists, with the goal of countering ubiquitous stereotypes. The exhibition explores common Native American stereotypes and utilizes humor, emotion, subtlety, shock, and irony to encourage viewers to question and challenge these falsehoods. The telling is honest and incisive. Images and styles are created from traditional,...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Nebraska Now: Anne Burton, Printmaking
April 13 – July 7, 2019
Lincoln artist Anne Burton explores historical modes of coded communication (war-coding; braille; and floriography, the Victorian-era enthusiasm for sending flowers to convey coded messages) through various printmaking processes. The resulting colorful, intricate prints contain imagery of circles, flowers, and clothing that reflect humanity's search for identity while revealing a universal desire to be heard and understood. Burton is the Art Program Coordinator at Metropolitan...
Explore sound as you swing, slide and play on Playground, an interactive sound sculpture installation, curated by Ellen Reid. On selected dates and times, take part in open recess on Playground, and then watch as the resonant art sculpture comes to life for Run, a 15-minute original composition for voice and devised playground instruments, featuring ONE Festival soloist Naomi Louisa O’Connell and International Contemporary Ensemble artists. Join us in the contemporary wing of the Joslyn Art Museum for the world-premiere debut of Ellen...
The Old Avoca Schoolhouse
504 Garfield St. , Avoca,
NE
The Old Avoca Schoolhouse in Avoca, Nebraska will be hosting a special Scandinavian Fiddle Workshop for fiddlers, violists, mandolinists, guitarists, recorder players, and ukulele players. Music from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden will be featured. The sessions will be led by championship fiddler and author, Deborah Greenblatt. The workshop will be on Saturday, April 13, from 1 PM - 3 PM.
Each participant will receive a free copy of Greenblatt & Seay’s “Scandinavian Sampler for Two”. Musicians are encouraged to bring their...
The third installment of composer Philip Glass’s trilogy based on the work of Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles is the story of a brother and sister – Paul and Lise – cut off from the world and dangerously dependent on each other. The psychological game that intertwines their lives twists inevitably to tragedy. ONE Festival Artistic Director James Darrah creates a site specific production to shed new light on the work’s unique conception as a dance-opera.
Lincoln Music Teachers Association Spring Student Recital
Apr 13
Calvary Lutheran Church
2788 Franklin St. , Lincoln,
NE
Join the Lincoln Music Teachers Association for performances by students of their spring performance pieces. The recital will include students of all ages and abilities.
Film Streams: The Red Ballon & other short film scored by International Contemporary Ensemble
Apr 13
Film Streams: Ruth Sokolof Theater
1340 Mike Fahey Street , Omaha,
NE
Presented with an artfully curated medley of experimental short films paired with live performances by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble.
Additional selections include a trio of stop-motion shorts by the internationally renowned Jodie Mack and a summery film collage by Turkish filmmakers Merve Kayan and Zeynep Dadak.
Albert Lamorisse’s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children’s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which...
Francie & Finch Bookshop
130 S. 13th Street , Lincoln,
NE
Meet Carson Vaughan and pick up a copy of his highly anticipated book Zoo Nebraska.
A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man’s outsize vision.
When Dick Haskin’s plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey...
The Red Cloud Opera House
413 N. Webster St. , Red Cloud,
NE
Author Walter Echo-Hawk will present a lecture on his book, The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland on Saturday, April 13 at 5:00 p.m. The lightly fictionalized family history tells the story of ten generations of the Echo-Hawk family, recounting the experiences of a people whose lives were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains. Their trials and tribulations are a stirring tale of resilience and survival, capturing the human spirit in Native North America. Walter Echo-Hawk is a Native American...
Lofte Community Theatre
15841 Manley Rd , Manley,
NE
When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, she and her best friend resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four other friends to pose nude with them for an alternative calendar. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on their small village. The calendar is a success, but friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame. This hilarious and touching play is based on a true story!
Performances April 5, 6,...
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street , Omaha,
NE
Join us for the Omaha premiere of Out There, a concept video album and live performance by art-pop psychedelic duo Princess (Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill) that explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny, followed by a Q&A with Rachel Adams, Bemis Chief Curator and Director of Programs. Out There’s science fiction narrative references the original power of MTV and builds on the long legacy of albums like Deltron 3030. The video explores the power of the Divine Feminine through...
The Red Cloud Opera House
413 N. Webster St. , Red Cloud,
NE
Mahenwahdose is a Native American performance company comprised of talented artists, dedicated to bringing to life accurate, educational, and traditional stories of Native America. Troupe leader Will Hill will present "Legends" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 13. A member of the Muscogee tribe, Hill provides storytelling, music, and comedy through his programs in schools and communities across the country. Hill has the distinction of being the first Native American to perform at the new National Museum of the American Indian, a component...
Omaha Conservatory of Music
7023 Cass Street , Omaha,
NE
Pianist, Tammy Miller will give the world premiere performance of a new piano concerto titled "Elvendream" by Pennsylvania based composer, Daniel Perttu. This world premiere is in partnership with Kenneth Meints, conductor, and Orchestra Omaha.
The performance will take place on April 13, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Omaha Conservatory of Music in the Simon Concert Hall.
This event is free and open to the public.
A second chance at love does not come easy for a grumpy old widower, glued to the ballgame on his TV, and the hot-to-trot Southern widow that suddenly struts into his life. This funny and touching play about finding love later in life is sure to warm even the grumpiest of hearts!
Performances:
April 5 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 6 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 7 @ 2 p.m.
April 12 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 13 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 14 @ 2 p.m.
Directed by: Trevor Kern
For tickets stop by 412 Ella St., call (402) 228-1801, or visit www.beatricecommunityplayers.com
Production...
Lied Center for Performing Arts
301 N 12th St , Lincoln,
NE
Join Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra in their five-year journey to perform all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, leading up to his 250th birthday in 2020. In our third year, discover his nimble yet powerful Fourth Symphony, then experience his bold and cinematic Symphony No. 7.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Opus 60
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92
This program is expected to last 120 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission.
Tickets are $15/$35, and only $5 for youth 17 and under.
Chamber Singers & All-Collegiate Choir Performance: The Reimagined Song
Apr 13
Kimball Recital Hall
1113 R Street , Lincoln,
NE
“The Reimagined Song” features art songs arranged for choir and a contemporary setting of Te Deum. Chamber Singers will expand the idea of chamber music by performing music originally written for solo voice and piano. Harry T. Burleigh, a noted baritone known for his settings of spirituals as art songs, was a prolific African-American composer of solo music. His cycle “Five Songs of Laurence Hope” sets exotic texts of love and passion by Adela Florence Nicolson who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Of his own accord, Samuel...
NWU Theatre presents The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Apr 4
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Miller Theatre
51st Street & Huntington Ave. , Lincoln,
NE
Based on the best-selling novel, this hit play uses stunning visuals to take the audience inside the world of an autistic child.
For young Christopher, math is an open book and people a murky mystery. When the neighbor’s dog is killed with a garden fork, Christopher investigates and embarks on an odyssey of the mind and the heart. This hit play uses stunning visuals to take us inside the world of an autistic child.
Tickets: $10 adults, $7.50 seniors and students
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