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Great Plains Art Museum

Byrn Chancellor

Prairie Schooner to host award-winning writers

February 26, 2016

Society & Culture

Visitors examine Mark Rothko's "Yellow Band," which is part of Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection.

UNL museums participate in First Friday activities

February 5, 2016

"Bison Herd" by Harrison Weir, 1881

Great Plains exhibit features 19th-century engravings

February 2, 2016

The Great Plains Art Museum will offer a quilt-pattern art activity, dress-up-your-hot-chocolate bar and holiday treats during First Friday.

UNL museums participate in First Friday

December 2, 2015

Artist Gwen Westerman cuts fabric during her first visit to the Great Plains Art Museum in early September. Westerman, the 2015 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence, will complete the artwork she started then during her next visit, Nov. 11-14.

Museum to celebrate reopening with artist's return

October 27, 2015

"Star Knowledge" by Gwen Westerman (2013), 100 percent cotton quilt, glass bead embellishments and Swarovski crystals in constellations, hand quilted with metallic thread.

Great Plains museum to host Native American textiles artist

August 27, 2015

"Holocaust Quilt" was donated to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum by Peter Fischl. The museum will feature a special program on the quilt on Aug. 7 at 5:30 p.m.

Museums offer free activities for First Friday

August 6, 2015

Richard Reading, vice president for conservation biology at the Denver Zoo, holds a vulture during a research trip to Africa. Reading will talk at UNL on May 6.

Conservationist to speak at Center for Great Plains Studies

May 1, 2015

"Night" (1991), mixed media on paper, by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Native art exhibit to open April 28

April 27, 2015

Kenneth Winkle

Civil War historian to deliver Great Plains lecture

April 9, 2015

Award-winning authors to read selections

March 31, 2015

Archie the Mammoth stands outside the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall. The museum has been named an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

Campus galleries host First Friday events

March 4, 2015