Sheldon Museum of Art: Recent Episodes
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UNL students study hard for finals amongst the beauty of Sheldon Museum of Art. Hot cocoa and snacks were provided to make it feel like home.
Award-winning art director and UNL alum Alex Gordon Stotz, one of the creative driving forces behind blockbuster hits like “Barbie” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," returns to campus and meets with students.Stotz's visit was presented by the College of Architecture and the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art. Learn more at https://news.unl.edu/article/husker-alumnus-to-share-how-architecture-degree-launched-film-career
Kwame Dawes, George Homes Distinguished Professor of English, was recently honored at the 2024 Sheldon Art Association Gala for his collaboration with the museum. Professor Dawes has visited Sheldon Museum of Art for years, writing poetry in response to art. Here, he shares insights into his practice and how he instills habits of writing into his students. Learn more about the Sheldon Museum of Art at https://sheldonartmuseum.org/
Paul Barnes, Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, performed a special program of composer Philip Glass’ works inside “Greenpoint,” a sculpture by Richard Serra that is part of the Sheldon Museum of Art's collection. The performance pays tribute to the creative relationship between Glass and Serra, who died March 26. It kicked off the Lincoln Calling music and arts festival, presented by the Lincoln Arts Council. Glass once worked as an assistant for Serra after the two befriended each other in Paris in the early 1960s. Barnes has worked with Glass for 29 years, including two commissions and several transcriptions and recordings of his work. Learn more the performance here: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/barnes-to-perform-inside-greenpoint-for-lincoln-calling/
In conjunction with the exhibition “(In)credible: Exploring Trust and Misperceptions,” Sheldon screened the feature-length documentary “Trust Me,” which explores how media technology is influencing society and what we can do about it. A conversation followed with Rosemary Smith, filmmaker and managing director of the nonpartisan Getting Better Foundation, and Heidi Uhing, director of public policy for Civic Nebraska.
Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, spoke at Sheldon as part of the CollectionTalk series. Her presentation gave insight to the career and enduring legacy of artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose monumental painting “Red Frame” is featured in the exhibition “Sheldon in Focus: The New York School.”
Description: Kim Conaty, the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, spoke at Sheldon Museum of Art about Edward Hopper and her research for the 2022–2023 Whitney exhibition "Edward Hopper’s New York," which she organized. Sheldon loaned the Hopper painting "Room in New York" to the Whitney for the exhibition and celebrated the work’s return with the exhibition "Sheldon Treasures: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries.
Los Angeles–based artist Christina Fernandez, whose photograph “Lavanderia #1” [“Laundromat #1”] is featured in the exhibition “A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, 2012– 2022,” spoke with Laura Muñoz at Sheldon Museum of Art on October 5, 2023.The two discussed Fernandez’s art and exploration of issues related to migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the capacities of photography itself. Laura Muñoz is an assistant professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
On September 14, 2023, Sheldon Museum of Art hosted a discussion of climate change and climate anxiety with Nebraska State Climatologist Martha Durr, associate professor of agricultural economics Simanti Banerjee, and photographer Marion Belanger, who created two images in the exhibition “From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez.” Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, moderated the conversation.
Learn more about the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” These collected works explore the concept of the open road, how people travel upon it, and recreate it through art. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This photograph is titled "Grand View Motel, Highway 87, Raton, New Mexico" and was made by Steve Fitch in 1980. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This painting is titled "March Fields" and was made by Raymond Knaub in 1996. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This photograph is titled "Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland Washington" and was made by Joel Sternfeld in 1979. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This photograph is titled "Mt. Rushmore, Black Hills, South Dakota" and was made by James Alinder in 1971. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This print is titled "Coming to Jones Road: Under a Blood Red Sky #8" and was made by Faith Ringgold in 2006. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This print is titled "Road and Rainbow" and was made by Betty Hahn in 1971. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This photograph is titled "Airstream at Monument Valley, Arizona" and was made by Roger Minick in 1979. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
Learn more about a work from the 2022-2023 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “On The Road Again.” This painting is titled "Windmill on Western Nebraska Ranchland" and was painted by Audrey Towater in 1984. Sheldon Statewide is an annual program through which artworks from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “On The Road Again” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice, Fremont, and Falls City.
A cross-disciplinary conversation between artist Amanda Ross-Ho and University of Nebraska professors Mary Alice Casto and Anna Henson about "Gone Tomorrow,” a sculpture in which Ross-Ho recreated a single gold earring at monumental scale. The work was recently purchased by Sheldon Museum of Art, where it is featured in the exhibition “The Scene Changes.”
Students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln selected two works by Mel Chin for the collection of Sheldon Museum of Art. On March 24, Chin joined students and faculty a cross-disciplinary conversation about the works and the green remediation project from which they were made.
Sheldon Museum of Art’s CollectionTalk on February 24, 2022, featured a discussion with Toby Jurovics and Mark Ruwedel about “Los Angeles Spring,” a series of photographs by Robert Adams. Toby Jurovics is founding director of the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mark Ruwedel is an artist who has photographed American deserts and other remote locations for more than twenty-five years.
Join Erin Hanas and Byron Anway as they discuss artist Alma Thomas and create a watercolor painting inspired by her painting "Winter Pool." You can follow along and create your own painting with an art-making kit, available at Sheldon Museum of Art on February's First Friday (2/4/2022, 4-7pm). Transcript here: https://go.unl.edu/qhuj
On October 21, 2021, Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies and English and director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University, delivered the lecture “An Aesthetics of Collapse” at Sheldon Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition “The Nature of Waste: Material Pathways, Discarded Worlds.”
Learn more about a work from the Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “The Artist as Muse:” Hexagonal Andy Warhol by Weegee, c. 1960 and Self-Portrait by Dwight Kirsch, c. 1936.
The exhibition is part of Sheldon Statewide, an annual program through which works from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “The Artist as Muse” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Seward, York, Omaha, Beatrice, and Fremont.
Learn more about a work from the Sheldon Statewide exhibition “The Artist as Muse:” Jackson by Robert Arneson, 1987. © 2021 Estate of Robert Arneson / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Also referenced: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner by Hans Namuth, 1950, from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
The exhibition is part of Sheldon Statewide, an annual program through which works from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “The Artist as Muse” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Seward, York, Omaha, Beatrice, and Fremont.
Learn more about a work from the Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “The Artist as Muse:” A Handful of Stars by Betye Saar, 2016.
Also referenced: Rodin's Hand Holding a Torso (La main de Rodin tenant un torse) by August Rodin, 1917, from the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.
The exhibition is part of Sheldon Statewide, an annual program through which works from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “The Artist as Muse” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Seward, York, Omaha, Beatrice, and Fremont.
Learn more about the 2021-2022 Sheldon Statewide exhibition, “The Artist as Muse.”
The exhibition is part of Sheldon Statewide, an annual program through which works from the museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “The Artist as Muse” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Seward, York, Omaha, Beatrice, and Fremont.
Jackson by Robert Arneson, 1987, © 2021 Estate of Robert Arneson / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Art critic and curator Karen Wilkin presented a public talk at Sheldon Museum of Art on the energetic zeitgeist of 1920s Paris and its influence on artist Stuart Davis. "Arch Hotel,” one of Davis’s Paris paintings is part of the museum’s collection, having been acquired by the University of Nebraska in 1947 during the Nebraska Art Association’s 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
Wilkin is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, and Anthony Caro, among others. She contributed to "Stuart Davis: American Painter" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Stuart Davis: a Retrospective" at the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, and the Stedlijk, Amsterdam. A contributing editor of the "Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonné," she curated the touring exhibitions "The Amazing Continuity: The Drawings of Stuart Davis," "Stuart Davis in Gloucester," and, with William C. Agee and Irving Sandler, "American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning 1927-1942." She contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, Hudson Review, and The New Criterion, and teaches at the New York Studio School.
Tyre “T.J.” McDowell Jr., assistant vice chancellor of student affairs at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, discussed his responses to the photograph “Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama 1956” by Gordon Parks in a Zoom edition of Sheldon Museum of Art’s Look at Lunchtime series.
At Nebraska, McDowell is responsible for Student Life and Leadership including ASUN, Civic Engagement, Parent and Family Programs, Student Involvement, Residence Life, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, and TRIO Programs.
Artist Radcliffe Bailey discussed his creative process and career with Tyler Green, host of the Modern Art Notes Podcast, on November 5, 2020. Sheldon Museum of Art presented their conversation, via Zoom, in conjunction with its exhibition “Person of Interest.”
Bailey is an Atlanta-based painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist who layers photographs, text, found objects, and other culturally resonant materials to explore themes of ancestry, race, history, migration, and collective memory. His mixed media work “Distant Stars II”was loaned to Sheldon for the exhibition from the private collection of Kathryn and Marc LeBaron.
Bailey’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution; Art Institute of Chicago; Denver Art Museum; High Museum of Art; and Sheldon Museum of Art among many others. Jack Shainman Gallery has represented Bailey since 2002.
Green is an historian, critic, and the host of the Modern Art Notes Podcast, a weekly interview program that has aired over 460 episodes. His first book, “Carleton Watkins: Making the West American” (University of California Press, 2018), won a California Book Award gold medal in 2019.
Karen Kunc, artist/printmaker and emeritus Willa Cather Professor of art, and Ikuho Amano, associate professor of Japanese at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, give insight to Helen Frankenthaler’s “Tales of Genji I,” a thirty-four-color woodblock print inspired by the world’s first novel. The event is moderated by Melissa Yuen, associate curator of exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art.
“The Tale of Genji,” written in the early years of the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting in Japan’s imperial court during the Heian period, follows the life of fictional Prince Genji, the disowned son of an ancient emperor.
Frankenthaler’s “Tales of Genji I” was acquired by Sheldon Museum of Art in 2020. For more information visit sheldonartmuseum.org/exhibitions/tales-of-genji-i.
A painting at Sheldon Museum of Art is the focus as landscape architecture students learn compositional strategies and spacial design.
Students use art to explore how nontraditional texts can enhance social science teaching.
As part of Sheldon’s First Friday series, students in the Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management program created morsels inspired by the exhibition “Table Manners: Art and Food.”
Sheldon Museum of Art presents an Art of Perception workshop where students and faculty from diverse academic disciplines use art as a vehicle for critical analysis.
Excerpt from "My Friend, Norman: The Man from Aberdeen," written and produced by Laurie Richards.
Students in Textiles Merchandising and Fashion Design gain color inspiration by observing paintings at Sheldon Museum of Art.
Graduate students in Child, Youth and Family Studies observe depictions of family in Sheldon artworks to inform the student's own therapy work with diverse families.
In order to get a 12' by 9' painting through the door, Sheldon Museum of Art staff had to come up with a novel plan.
Students in a University of Nebraska sociology class visit Sheldon Museum of Art and use the arts to study social factors linked to health care.
The iconic Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen sculpture at 12th and Q is cleaned and repainted.
Artist Enrique Chagoya discusses "Reverse Modernism/Reverse Anthropology," his riff on Modernist appropriation of imagery from so-called primitive cultures, as embodied in his 1999 painting "Le Cannibale Moderniste." The canvas, which is part of the permanent collection of Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska, is featured in the exhibition "Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux" through December 31, 2016.
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.
A New Line of Thinking: Recent Sculpture by Robert Schatz January 16, 2015 through April 26, 2015 This project foregrounds a shift in aesthetic direction by New York-based artist Robert Schatz. Themes of ecology exist alongside considerations of engineering and mindfulness. Complemented by a selection of related works on paper, this grouping of, at turns, elegant and whimsical sculptures make their debut at Sheldon Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.