November 23 - December 16 on
Friday 7:00PM-8:15PM
Saturday 2:00PM-3:15PM
Sunday 2:00PM-3:15PM
Everyone’s favorite schoolgirl in the bright yellow hat is back for some festive fun in France! It’s “the season of miracles” and Madeline just might need one! Don’t miss this Christmas charmer musical based on the beloved books.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney ,
NE
Milton Wolsky: A 20th Century Modernist
August 28 – December 2, 2012
Milton Laban Wolsky was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1916. He studied in Chicago and New York with two important American artists, Julian Levi and Hans Hofmann. A multitalented artist, he produced realist, contemporary, and abstract art with the same skill and expertise. This selection of works, never exhibited and with many considered to be some of his best, remained in the artist’s collection at the time of his death in 1981.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
Nebraska Now: Mary Katherine Murphy, Paintings
October 13, 2012 – January 6, 2013
A painter’s painter, Mary Murphy is well known for her controlled yet gestural strokes and purposefully expressive use of color. Always beautiful, Murphy’s paintings are rooted in the love of applying paint to canvas. This exhibition also introduces Murphy’s experimental three-dimensional works.
November 23, 2012-January 6, 2013
Be amazed by this spectacular floral display featuring a 20-foot-tall poinsettia tree, model trains and other nostalgic decorations.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney,
NE
October 12, 2012 - January 13, 2013 on
Tuesday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Wednesday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Thursday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Friday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Saturday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Sunday 1:00PM-5:00PM
Paul Goble’s life-long fascination with Native Americans of the Plains has been his inspiration for 30 published children’s books. This award-winning author and illustrator is featured in the Museum of Nebraska Art’s Postmaster Gallery with the original illustrations from Adopted by the Eagles, on loan from the South Dakota Art Museum.
The Durham Museum
801 South 10th Street , Omaha,
NE
Christmas at Union Station | Nov. 23-Dec. 31, 2012
This popular holiday celebration began in the 1930s when Union Pacific would decorate and display large evergreens from the Pacific Northwest for Union Station travelers to enjoy. Today, this cherished tradition continues with the region’s largest indoor Christmas tree and an exceptional line-up of family friendly events. The annual celebration begins with the Tree Lighting Ceremony, held the day after Thanksgiving. Christmas at Union Station continues throughout December and into the first...
The Durham Museum
801 South 10th Street , Omaha ,
NE
The American Soldier | Sept. 22, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013
Curated and produced by Cyma Rubin, The American Soldier: From the Civil War to the War in Iraq is a dramatic exhibition of photographs that captures the essence of American soldiering over the past 150 years. The 116 photographs in this exhibition cover America at war through the Civil War, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and to the streets of Baghdad. The exhibition’s purpose is both commemorative and educational,...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Ave. , Kearney ,
NE
October 5, 2012 - January 27, 2013 on
Tuesday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Wednesday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Thursday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Friday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Saturday 11:00AM-5:00PM
Sunday 1:00PM-5:00PM
From hand-crafted artworks to those designed and then mass produced, The Art of Living examines the objects that inhabit our homes and adorn our bodies. A rug, book, vase, table, lamp, necklace, or garment – each work has a foundation in the practical, yet are objects created with an aesthetic intent. Featuring works created over the last 100 years, the...
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
MONA’s 19th Century Artworks August 14, 2012 – March 31, 2013. The foundational artworks of MONA’s permanent collection are the paintings, drawings, prints, and artifacts created in the 19th century that tell the story of westward expansion and the quickly changing territorial and cultural tides. Works included in this era were created by Artist-Explorers – the individuals who traveled and documented the new frontier, and the Plains Indians – the original inhabitants of the land.
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)
Hastings Community Theatre
515 South 4th Ave East end of Good Samaritan Village, Hastings,
NE
Friday, November 30 - 7:30 pm;
Saturday, December 1 - 7:30 pm;
Sunday, December 2 - 2:30 pm;
Friday, December 7 - 7:30 pm;
Saturday, December 8 - 7:30 pm;
Sunday, December 9 - 2:30 pm.
In this hilarious Christmas tale, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids-- probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem-- and the fun-- when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!
This delightful comedy is adapted from the best selling book...
Promise in a New Land: Migrating and Settling in Nebraska by Cherrie Beam-Clarke
Dec 1 through Dec 1
12:00PM to 12:00PM
St. Matthews Lutheran Church
1726 S. 60th St. , Omaha,
NE
With Irish brogue and period costume, she depicts a Nebraska settler between 1845 and 1870. Laugh and cry with stories of successful crops, dancing, hard work, grasshoppers, losing loved ones and becoming an American.
Richardson County Museum
1401 Chase St. , Falls City,
NE
This presentation is designed to introduce audiences to the lives and times of these extraordinary women. Audiences learn about the different classes of women on post, their day-to-day routines, their social interactions and, on a more personal note, how they functioned under Victorian and military constraints. At the conclusion of the program, Matkin demonstrates a Victorian tea, which was a source of comfort, relaxation and reflection for officers’ wives.
Saunders County Museum,
240 N. Walnut St. , Wahoo,
NE
Whether the ballad of the immigrant of the 1800's or the ballad of today, these songs tell the story of life and living, good and bad. Explores the differences and similarities between the ballads of yesteryear and the ballads of today.
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