Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

Tet Festival Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Jan. 27, 2012

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Asian Community and Cultural Center and Sheldon Museum of Art invite the public to a Tet Festival celebration with traditional crafts, dance, food, games, and music.

Performances will begin at 5:15 p.m. by groups including the Linh Quang Temple Lion Dance Troupe and Karen Children’s Dance Group. Dau Nguyen, President of the Vietnamese Community of Lincoln, will speak on the significance of the celebration and its traditions. The documentary film “The Journey of Vaan Nguyen” will be screened at 6:30 p.m. in Sheldon’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium.

Free shuttle transportation is available between the Asian Community and Cultural Center, 2635 O Street, and Sheldon from 4:30 to 8:00 p.m.

The museum and festival are free and open to all.

Histories: The Sheldon Permanent Collection

Aug. 5, 2011 - Jul. 15, 2012

The term “history” suggests a single, unified explanation and understanding of events and actors on the world stage. And yet in both academic settings and popular culture, history reveals itself to be a complex, multifaceted topic, explored and interpreted in a variety of different ways.

Railroads and the Making of Modern America

Jan. 20, 2012 - May 27, 2012

Railroads and the Making of Modern America features fifty works from the Sheldon Museum of Art’s permanent collection—as well as a handful of local loans—and examines the ways artists captured and shaped the modern ideas and practices made possible by the railroad, emphasizing the broader cross-border movements and their global consequences.