Lincoln PhotoFest, a biennial, citywide celebration of photography, begins March 3 in museums and galleries at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and across the community.
Participating campus venues include Sheldon Museum of Art and Great Plains Art Museum. The work of graduate students from the School of Art, Art History and Design will also be on display at Tugboat Gallery, 116 N. 14th St.
Details about exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art, Great Plains Art Museum and Tugboat Gallery are below. For more information on Lincoln PhotoFest 2017, click here.
Sheldon Museum of Art
In addition to installations of its permanent collection, Sheldon Museum of Art features three photography exhibitions.
The centerpiece of Sheldon’s spring schedule is “Conflict and Consequence: Photographing War and Its Aftermath,” an exhibition that illuminates the social and political complexities of the human condition during and after armed conflict.
The museum also is showing “An-My Lê: 29 Palms,” a series of black-and-white photographs made by artist An-My Lê in the California desert where United States Marines train for battle prior to deployment; and “15 Photographs, 15 Curators,” images selected by 15 university faculty, staff and students from Sheldon’s permanent holdings of nearly 3,000 photographs.
The museum kicks off its month-long emphasis on photography with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. March 3. Through March, Sheldon will present free, public presentations by artists in its exhibitions. Those presentations include:
Free screening of “Kandahar Journals,” an award-winning documentary by Louie Palu, one of 12 photographers featured in “Conflict and Consequence.” The film follows a photojournalist embedded with American troops in Afghanistan. The screening is 5:30 p.m. March 3.
Artist Jim Lommasson will discuss his ongoing work in “What We Carried,” a photo-based storytelling project with Iraqi refugees now living in the United States. The talk is 6 p.m. march 7.
Photographers Susan Meiselas and Sara Terry will share their perspectives working in conflict zones. The 6 p.m. March 16 panel discussion will be moderated by Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator emerita of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
An-My Lê and Karen Irvine, curator and associate director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, will discuss Lê’s photographs of military training at 29 Palms, California. The event is 6 p.m. March 28.
For more information on programs at Sheldon, click here.
Great Plains Art Museum
In collaboration with the Hildegard Center for the Arts, the Great Plains Art Museum will host the statewide traveling photography exhibition, “Bridges: Sharing Our Past to Enrich the Future,” as part of Nebraska’s Sesquicentennial and Lincoln PhotoFest. This juried exhibition will serve as a bridge to connect Nebraskans with their culture and heritage highlighting historic places and often over-looked historical treasures in all 93 counties.
From 5 to 7 p.m. March 3, the museum will host an opening reception for “Rising: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence Lari R. Gibbons.” Gibbons, an alumna of the university, explores ideas derived from ecology, environmental philosophy and natural history in her artwork.
For more information on Great Plains Art Museum events and exhibitions, click here.
Nebraska Graduate Student Exhibition
Students Rana Young, Zora J. Murff, John David Richardson, Emily Wiethorn, Scott Cochran, and Mallory Trecaso are featured in the exhibition “In Proximity” at Tugboat Gallery. The exhibition will open with a 7 to 10 p.m. March 3 reception. The event will include music by DJ Ol’ Moanin’.
The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday; and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
For more information on Tugboat Gallery, click here.
