Sheldon Museum of Art: Re-Seeing the Permanent Collection
Sheldon's six permanent collection galleries open as curatorial laboratories August 7, 2015 - April 24, 2016. Watch one of those spaces transformed in the spirit of a nineteenth-century Salon.
Sheldon Museum of Art's Picturing Nebraska Sets Up at GI Library
The Sheldon Museum of Art's traveling display was set up at the Grand Island Library yesterday. The exhibit features around 16 unique pieces from the Sheldon's extensive collection. This year's theme is Picturing Nebraska
LiveBIG Virtual Field Trip to University of Nebraska State Museum
Using state of the art video technology, the University of Nebraska State Museum takes students from across Nebraska and beyond on a virtual field trip of Morrill Hall. This story is being broadcast on the Big Ten Network as part of the LiveBig series.
Sheldon Art Gallery Naked Museum Sleeping Miles view
Hank Willis Thomas at Sheldon Museum of Art
Visual artist Hank Willis Thomas presented “After Identity, What?” on October 30, 2015, in conjunction with Sheldon Museum of Art's exhibition “Black Fire: A Constant State of Revolution” and Art + Social Justice Week. Damien Smith Pfister, assistant professor of communication studies, served as interlocutor.
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Sheldon Museum of Art, African American Masters Series - October Gallery
The Sheldon Museum of Art houses both the Sheldon Art Association collection founded in 1888, and the University of Nebraska collection, initiated in 1929. Together they comprise more than 12,000 works of art in all media. This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism and contemporary art.
In the Sculpture Garden, more than 30 monumental sculptures are exhibited year-round and include major works by Gaston Lachaise, Jacques Lipchitz, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Smith, William Tucker, Bryan Hunt, Mark di Suvero, Michael Heizer and Richard Serra. The Stuart P. Embury American Art Research Library will complement the existing research library with more than 10,000 volumes documenting the history of American art.
The Sheldon's exhibition program comprises approximately 20 exhibitions per year and focuses on American art in all media. The curatorial staff organizes exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection, many of which circulate nationally. The program also includes exhibitions organized by peer institutions throughout the United States. Educational programs such as symposia, lectures, childrens workshops and tours are organized in conjunction with each exhibition.
The Sheldon Museum of Art is located at 12 & R Streets in Lincoln, NE 68588-0300.
Visiting the Kindler Hotel in Lincoln Nebraska
The newly opened Kindler Hotel has brought game-changing, bespoke hospitality to the heart of Lincoln, Nebraska. The area’s first and only boutique lodging, the hotel blends the independent spirit of Lincoln’s heritage, neo-classical architecture, and sophisticated accommodations to create a boutique hotel experience Lincoln hasn’t seen before. A location that’s prime for both Husker football fans and culture enthusiasts, Kindler Hotel fuses gracious hospitality with a modern art deco design for a memorable stay in Husker Nation.
Two years in the making, Kindler Hotel effortlessly blends Lincoln’s local character with a modern West Coast aesthetic to create a refined Midwestern experience. The Kindler Hotels interior design was brought to life by Ross Vincent from Ross Vincent Design based in Los Angeles. Vincent brought together elements from the Art Deco era of the 1920s-1930s and married them with cutting-edge contemporary design, creating a new design concept he calls Modern Deco. Easily mistaken for a posh upscale New York or Los Angeles luxury hotel, upon entering, guests are greeted by a show-stopping lobby with high ceilings and a beautiful chandelier with custom-designed bespoke furniture accents reminiscent of The Great Gatsby. The creative spirit of the late Lincoln native and hotel namesake, Ken Kindler, lives on through artful details.
For the modern traveler in mind, the 49 guestrooms take inspiration from Lincoln, Nebraska’s rich cultural history. Boasting comforts such as pillowtop beds and Egyptian cotton sheets, the guestrooms offer thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers. The double queen rooms are perfect for guests traveling with a family or a group, while the Lincoln Suites are ideal for a business trip or a romantic getaway. The rooms are outfitted with designer furnishings, modern artwork and design details offering guests the inviting warmth and comfort of an elegant private residence.
The hotel’s story is more than sophisticated accommodations. The perfect place for dinner or nightcap, guests can visit Boitano’s Lounge to enjoy uniquely crafted cocktails, wine-food pairings and a seasonal dining menu developed by Brian Boitano, world-renowned Olympic skater and Food Network star. Guests can savor satisfying dishes with locally sourced ingredients in a posh Modern Deco atmosphere with live music on select evenings.
Located in downtown, just blocks away from the Historic Haymarket District and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the hotel is surrounded by revered attractions and top-rated restaurants. For Huskers’ fans, it’s a short stroll to the Memorial Stadium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While you’re there, see the Nebraska Cornhuskers in action, take the kids to the Lincoln Children’s Museum, visit the Nebraska State Capital or checkout the Sheldon Museum of Art.
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Discover University of Nebraska State Museum
A look at outreach, education and research at the University of Nebraska State Museum. As Nebraska's largest natural history museum, it includes the world's premier collection of fossil elephants, interactive paleontology exhibits, American Indian exhibits, walk-in wildlife dioramas, a hands-on discovery room, planetarium, laser shows and more. The museum is located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. It also includes Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park and the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal, Nebraska. Online: museum.unl.edu
Artist's Talk: T. L. Solien
Artist's Talk: T. L. Solien
T. L. Solien, one of the artists in The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Collection presents an artist's talk.
Born in 1949 in Fargo, N.D., and currently professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, T. L. Solien earned a B.A. at Minnesota State University Moorhead (1973) and a M.F.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1977). Solien has taught studio courses at The Ohio State University, The University of Iowa, and Montana State University. He has been on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin since 1997, where is currently a Professor and a tenured member of the faculty. He gained attention for painting, sculpture, and works on paper that combine cartoon-like and surreal imagery with references to art and cultural history, while also exploring his life, mind, and emotional states as a man, artist, husband, and father. Solien has appeared in numerous national group and solo exhibitions at venues that include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Walker Art Center, Des Moines Art Center, Madison Contemporary Art Museum, and the American Center in Paris. His work is held in the collections of the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum, Walker Art Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of American Art, the High Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, The Sheldon Museum, The Plains Art Museum, and other public collections. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Deborah.
2016 Nebraska Governor's Arts Awardee - Jamie Burmeister
2016 Governor's Arts Awardee - Jamie Burmeister
Outstanding Artist Award
presented by the Nebraska Arts Council
Jamie Burmeister
Jamie’s artworks have been exhibited in galleries, museums and public places throughout the world. His “vermin.me” project has resulted in more than 1,000 installations of small ceramic figures, called vermin, on six continents, 46 countries and all 50 US states. Burmeister’s gallery and museum pieces have been exhibited in the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha), Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, Iowa), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock, Arkansas), Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska), Create Fixate (Los Angeles, California), Annmarie Garden (Dowell, Maryland) and the Nicolaysen Art Museum (Casper, Wyoming). Burmesiter has completed commissions for the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Crisp Recording Studios in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Omaha Children’s Museum and the South Omaha Library. He has received numerous honors and awards including the Nebraska Art Council’s 2010 and 2007 Individual Artist Fellowships, Omaha Entertainment and Arts 2007 Best Public Art and 2006 Three-Dimensional Sculpture awards, and the Serenbe Artist in Residence. He received a BA in Exercise Science from Creighton University in Omaha in 1992, an MS in Health Education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1995, and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2005. He is presently an art instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha.
Top 15 Things To Do In Lincoln, Nebraska
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Here are top 15 things to do in Lincoln, Nebraska
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5. Sunken Garden -
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7. National Museum of Roller Skating -
8. Sample the iconic Smoke Stack at Bison Witches -
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10. Lincoln Children’s Museum -
11. See the apparitions at Antelope Park -
12. Have a refined dinner at The Green Gateau -
13. Sample the Orient at Pho Factory -
14. Indulge yourself at Ivanna Cone -
15. Zipline Brewing Co -
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Nebraska Stories | Art of The Unexpected
A Visit to the Flatwater Folk Art Museum
ake a guided tour of the Flatwater Folk Art Museum in Brownville from former Sheldon Art Museum Director George Neubert. The Brownville museum is a marked departure from the fine art for which the Sheldon is known. Instead, the Flatwater represents Neubert’s lifelong obsession with folk art, featuring high-brow as well as some rather interesting low-brow works.
Wonner Paul 保羅華納 (1920-2008) Neo-Expressionism Contemporary Realism American
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Paul John Wonner 保羅華納 (April 24, 1920 – April 23, 2008) was an American artist who was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received a B.A. in 1952, an M.A. in 1953, and an M.L.S. in 1955―all from the University of California, Berkeley. He rose to prominence in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, along with his partner, Theophilus Brown (1919-2012), whom he met in 1952 while attending graduate school. In 1956, Wonner started painting a series of dreamlike male bathers and boys with bouquets. In 1962, he began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. By the end of the 1960s, he had abandoned his loose figurative style and focused exclusively on still lifes in a hyperrealist style. Wonner died April 23, 2008 in San Francisco, California.
Paul Wonner 保羅華納 is best known for his still-life paintings done in an abstract expressionist style.
The Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University, California); the Crocker Art Museum, (Sacramento, California); the Davis Art Center, (Davis, California); the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Hunter Museum of American Art, (Chattanooga, Tennessee); the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, (Kansas City, Missouri); the Kresge Art Museum, (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan); the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, (San Antonio, Texas); the Oakland Museum of California, (Oakland, California); the Philbrook Museum of Art, (Tulsa, Oklahoma); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, (Santa Barbara, California); the Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska); the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Paul Wonner.
Paul Wonner 保羅華納is best known for his Abstract Expressionist still life paintings. Much of his work focuses on small objects, jars, pitchers, fruit, etc. or on specific figures that dominate the space. He was interested in art as a youth and his parents hired a tutor to help him with his drawing during high school.
Wonner was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1920, and after his early art education set out for California in 1937. He settled in Oakland where he attended the California College of Arts and Crafts. His art school experience provided Wonner with basic drawing and painting techniques. He graduated from CCAC in 1941 and was soon drafted into the United States Army. During his service, stationed in San Antonio, Texas, he continued his pursuit of art and even set up a small local studio.
He was discharged in 1946 and immediately headed for New York City to continue his artistic career. During the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s Wonner worked as a commercial artist in New York City. To satisfy his interest in art he studied at the Art Students League and attended lectures at Robert Motherwells studio where he was exposed to other artists, critics and writers. He returned to California in 1950 to attend the University of California, Berkeley. At UC Berkeley he was influenced by the elements of Cubism.
In 1957 he joined a group of eleven other artists for an exhibition called Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, at the Oakland Museum. He established a studio in San Francisco in 1960 where he continued to focus on his developing figurative style. During the 1960s his paintings dealt with individual objects arranged in a setting. He accepted a teaching position at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1968 and went on to teach in various locations in the Los Angeles area. He settled in San Francisco in 1976 where he continued to work as an Abstract Realist, creating his still lives.
Paul Wonner died on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 on the eve of his 88th birthday in San Francisco.
Marxhausen Capitol Mosaics
In this ETV segment from 1982, the late Norman Geske discusses the integration of symbolism and art into the design of the Nebraska State Capitol, in particular the six mosaics in the great hall. Reinhold talks about his design for The Spirit of Nebraska.
This recording does not appear to contain the entire film or show. Taken from a VHS tape with the date 4/22/82. Production apparently by ETV, associated with Bill Gauzel.
Norman Geske was one time director of the Sheldon museum on the UNL campus and has been called The Father of Nebraska Art. Here's Lincoln Journal-Star arts reporter Kent Wolgamott's comments on him following his passing in September 2014.
ThyssenKrupp Traction Elevator (Montgomery) @ Nebraska State Capitol (NE) Lincoln NE
ride to the tops of the capitaol and the observation deck
Sheldon Art Museum show
The String Beans performed at the Sheldon Museum of Art on Saturday, December 3rd. Unfortunately, that day began with freezing rain and ended with a few inches of snow. But Jack Frost couldn't keep our audience away (all 12 of 'em), and we had a rocking good time.
Put Yourself on the Map: The Shooting of the Campaign
This video takes you behind the scenes of the making of the Put Yourself on the Map UNL communications campaign - with a focus on how the main television commercial was shot. Launched in August 2009, the campaign was created to help share the unique stories of people around the world who share a connection to UNL.
Nebraska History Museum
Check it out: nebraskahistory.org
Visit the Nebraska History Museum located in downtown Lincoln:
Address: 15th and P Streets, Lincoln, NE 68508
Phone:(402) 471-4754
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Hours:
Monday 9:00 am -- 4:30 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am -- 4:30 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am -- 4:30 pm
Thursday 9:00 am -- 4:30 pm
Friday 9:00 am -- 4:30 pm
Saturday 1:00--4:30 pm
Sunday 1:00--4:30 pm
ThyssenKrupp Traction Elevator (Montgomery) @ Nebraska State Capitol (SW) Lincoln NE
Elevator at the state capitol, elevator at the 17th and R street garage
Dancing with Robots - a Nebraska Story
Dancing with Robots - UNL computer science students deploy flying robots to mix it up on the dance floor with dance students as both groups learn to navigate an environment of improvised movement ... and fun. For more Nebraska Stories visit