Sheldon Museum of Art

Did you catch the latest chat about what’s happening at the Sheldon Museum of Art?

Our Associate Curator for Exhibitions Christian Wurst joined Nebraska Public Media for the latest Friday LIVE to talk about our newest exhibitions and programs.

You’ll find the conversation through the link below. Thank you to Nebraska Public Media for letting us be a part of Friday LIVE.

https://bit.ly/4dJjYZ8

New year. New banner. New shows. We are now open!

Check out our new exhibitions including our new Collection Galleries and our special exhibition "Uncanny Encounters: The Disturbing, the Surreal, the Supernatural in American Art." You can find out more at the link below.

https://sheldonartmuseum.org/exhibitions

Sheldon's spring semester exhibitions are being replaced with new ones that open August 15. Although the galleries are closed during the installation, museum offices are open Monday through Friday. For assistance, call us at 402.472.2461.

Experience Sheldon's collection year round. More than thirty outdoor sculptures are installed across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses.

It's First Friday, and Sheldon is open until 7pm. Explore the current exhibitions during their last weekend—"Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis," "(In)credible: Exploring Trust and Misperceptions," and "Sheldon in Focus: The New York School."

Gone Tomorrow. Well, gone July 8 to be exact! This is the final weekend for the current exhibitions—visit Sheldon today until 7pm, tomorrow from 10am to 5pm, or Sunday from noon to five.

You'll find Amanda Ross-Ho's sculpture "Gone Tomorrow" (2013) in the exhibition "Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis."

Sheldon will be closed July 8 through August 14 for the installation of new exhibitions.

Gone Tomorrow. Well, gone July 8 to be exact! This is the final weekend for the current exhibitions—visit Sheldon today until 7pm, tomorrow from 10am to 5pm, or Sunday from noon to five.

You'll find Amanda Ross-Ho's sculpture "Gone Tomorrow" (2013) in the exhibition "Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis."

Sheldon will be closed July 8 through August 14 for the installation of new exhibitions.

We agree with Kristina Jackson. An outdoor sculpture tour is a great way to stroll the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus!

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/sheldons-outdoor-works-enhance-campus-strolls/

Sheldon's outdoor works enhance campus strolls Sheldon Museum of Art’s sculpture collection adorns the university's landscape. Click through to learn about the iconic works and the people who created them.

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Tomorrow's Jazz in June performance with Big Wade & Black Swan Theory has been moved to the Rococo Theatre due to forecasted inclement weather.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m. VIP ticket holders will have their tickets honored at the Rococo Theatre.

Visit jazzinjune.com for more information. ❤️

At the Sheldon Art Association Gala on May 11, Professor Kwame Dawes was honored for his creative engagement with the museum. A lauded author, Professor Dawes has written poetry in dialogue with works of art in Sheldon’s collection and regularly introduces his students to visual art as a potential catalyst for their writing.

The Intersection of Poetry and Art: Collaboration Between Kwame Dawes and Sheldon Museum of Art Kwame Dawes, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, was honored May 11 at the 2024 Sheldon Art Association Gala for his collaboration with the museum. Dr. Dawes has visited Sheldon Museum of Art for years, writing poetry in response to its art...

Best part of this time of year? School trips! This morning the Chanticleer Marching Band from Ord, Nebraska, stopped by on their way to Kansas City for visits to the American Jazz Museum and Worlds of Fun. Have a great trip, Chants!

Ord Public Schools

Viola Frey's towering sculpture "Handout Man" (1985) was installed in Sheldon’s Great Hall yesterday. Here's how it was done—

Sheldon will be closed this Saturday, May 11, in preparation for the Sheldon Art Association Gala, an event that provides financial support to the museum. The 2024 gala supports the museum’s new hours, which make Sheldon accessible free of charge an additional twelve hours each week and include Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons.

On Sunday, the museum will be open its regular hours — from noon to 5 PM.

Patrick Hughes, "My Sun's Holiday," 1960.

Bring your friends to an end-of-the-semester celebration organized by the Sheldon Student Advisory Board. Enjoy churros from Papi Churros LNK, make a friendship bracelet, and explore the galleries. Open until 7PM. Admission is free.

What a grand event! This video from the University of Nebraska takes you behind the scenes of yesterday's performance by Paul Barnes inside "Greenpoint," a sculpture by Richard Serra that is a highlight of our collection.

Pianist Paul Barnes performs Philip Glass inside Richard Serra Sculpture Paul Barnes, Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, performed a special program o...

An unprecedented re-imagining of museum's collection, organized by Associate Curator for Exhibitions Christian Wurst.

Sheldon opens 'Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis' exhibition Recontextualizing some of the museum’s most notable works and adding little-seen objects from its collection and recent acquisitions, Sheldon Museum of Art Associate Curator for Exhibitions Christian Wurst has created

The exhibition "(In)credible: Exploring Trust and Misperceptions," organized by Erin Hanas, curator of academic engagement, is among these ten and is on view through July 7 in the Cline Engagement Lab.

10 Campus Museums Shine a Spotlight on Democracy A coalition of universities is tying exhibitions into the 2024 elections and the broader issue of extreme political polarization in the United States.

In tribute to the longstanding friendship and creative relationship between composer Philip Glass and sculptor Richard Serra, who died on March 26, pianist Paul Barnes will perform a special program of Glass’s works inside Serra’s massive sculpture "Greenpoint." The performance, which begins at noon on May 1, kicks off the Lincoln Calling music and arts festival, presented by the Lincoln Arts Council. The performance is free and open to the public.

"Greenpoint" is one of 33 outdoor sculptures from Sheldon's collection on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City and East campuses. Use the map athttps://sheldonartmuseum.org/pdf/23_Sculpture_D.pdf to visit them all.

Richard Serra, "Greenpoint," 1988.

Richard Serra, whose sculpture “Greenpoint” is a key landmark on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, died yesterday at age 85. Serra and George Neubert, then director of Sheldon, chose the site for the sculpture — a hub in the network of walkways between Mueller Tower and Love Library — to encourage interplay with existing structures and interaction with pedestrians.

In 2020, student Kale Gardner shared this image with Sheldon for use in museum publications. Gardner was a junior majoring in secondary social science education at the time.

Oh, to be in Paris with Anthony Majanlahti and "Yellow Band" ...

The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.

On March 21 at 5:30 PM, Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, will present a lecture in Sheldon’s CollectionTalk series on the career and enduring legacy of the artist. The talk is free and open to the public.

Frankenthaler's painting "Red Frame" is featured in "Sheldon in Focus: The New York School" through July 6. The work’s amorphous areas of blue, green, and yellow are surrounded by a thin border, which functions as both part of the work and its edge, reinforcing both the shape of the canvas and its status as an object on the wall.

This , we look to the work and influence of artist Hedda Sterne.

In the years leading up to World War II, Sterne was one of many artists who fled Europe and found a new home—and inspiration—in America. In response to both the skyscrapers and elevated railways of New York City and the farming equipment she saw in rural Vermont, she made work that fused elements of surrealism and abstract expressionism. In 1954, Sterne began experimenting with spray paint, which enabled her to become more gestural in her mark making and express the speed and energetic movement of New York’s urban environment.

In 1950, a group of eighteen artists submitted a letter to the New York Times protesting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition "American Painting Today" and its “bias” against contemporary painting. The following year, Life magazine published a now-iconic photo by Nina Leen of fifteen of these artists and dubbed them “The Irascibles.” Sterne was the only woman in the group.

Hedda Sterne, "New York, #5," 1955.

You’ll find Sterne's painting "New York, #5" in the exhibition "Sheldon in Focus: The New York School" through July 6, 2024.

Carrie Mae Weems’s "Commemorating" was part of "16 Artists for Freedom of Expression," a group of works created to support the campaigns of female senatorial candidates in 1992—the Year of the Woman.

That November a record fifty-five women were elected to the House of Representatives and four—Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Carol Moseley Braun, and Patty Murray—joined incumbents Nancy Kassebaum and Barbara Mikulski in the Senate.

With her eye on the long term, Senator Mikulski didn’t get caught up in the hoopla and hype. “Calling 1992 the Year of the Woman makes it sound like the Year of the Caribou or the Year of the Asparagus,” she is known for having said. “We’re not a fad, a fancy, or a year.”

Artwork: Carrie Mae Weems, "Commemorating," 1992.

It’s always fun to take a virtual walk through exhibitions with Nebraska Public Media's Genevieve Randall.

Hear Genevieve’s conversation with Christian Wurst, assistant curator of exhibitions, and Erin Hanas, curator of academic engagement, recorded for today’s Friday Live — https://bit.ly/48kGzba (starting at 57:13). Christian gives insight to these works by Rico Lebrun and Robyn O’Neil on view in the exhibition “Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis.”

Rico Lebrun, “Woman of the Crucifixion,” circa 1948–1950.
Robyn O’Neil, “The Last Man on Earth,” 2007.

Share your love for Sheldon during Glow Big Red—24 hours of giving to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from now until noon tomorrow.

Your gift supports exhibitions of inspiring and though-provoking art, programs for students, and art outreach across Nebraska. ❤️ https://glowbigred.unl.edu/organizations/sheldon-museum-of-art

We're adding final touches to the galleries and are ready to welcome you all tomorrow (01/24) for the opening of our new exhibitions!

Starting Wednesday, January 24 we're open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is free.

We are saddened by the passing of Radcliffe Bailey (1968–2023), whose mixed media work “Untitled” is on view in “X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022.”

Caption: Radcliffe Bailey, “Untitled,” 2000