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...
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.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Art Speaks: Just Imagine
April 12 – July 7, 2013
Have you ever looked at a beautiful landscape and pictured yourself there or wondered what life was like at that moment in time? Just Imagine pairs a portrait with a landscape painting so you can create your own story.
Museum of Nebraska Art
2401 Central Avenue , Kearney,
NE
Nebraska Now: John Spence, Photographs
April 13 – July 7, 2013
Working in the tradition of Plains landscape photography, Lincoln artist John Spence brings to MONA panoramic visions of the prairie. Within his sweeping yet sublime photographs, Spence offers glimpses of the breathless beauty of nature as well as the evidence of human impact on the visual landscape.
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
801 3rd Corso , Nebraska City,
NE
Opening Monday, May 6, Every Church in Nebraska City presents an exhibition of large format black and white photographs by Arlington, VA based photographer Andrew Zimmermann at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (KHN).
While previously in residence at the KHN Center, Zimmermann used his large-format camera to document the interior and exterior of each of the 23 churches with a Nebraska City address. He returns to Nebraska City this spring to share the finished and framed prints in this special exhibition at the KHN Center....
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