Past Exhibitions
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Art by Women
March 6, 2009 thru April 26, 2009
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Sheldon Museum of Art will host Art by Women from the Wachovia A G Edwards Corporate collection.
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Book and Journal Design Winners
February 24, 2009 thru March 1, 2009
Books and journals recognized by the American Association of University Presses for their superior designs in 2008 will be on view in the print studies room.
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Exposures of Landscape and Life: Photographs from the Sheldon's Permanent Collection
February 6, 2009 thru May 17, 2009
This exhibition presents pioneers of photography whose work, approach and teachings have influenced contemporary artists.
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Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives
February 6, 2009 thru May 31, 2009
The Sheldon Museum of Art is proud to present Evolving Eden: Three Photographic Perspectives during Lincoln PhotoFest, a community celebration of photography. Artists Arno Minkkinen, Hans Eijkelboom and Edward Burtynsky express diverse viewpoints and a collective consciousness of the human experience.
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Calder Sculpture In Context
January 28, 2009 thru May 1, 2009
Sheldon's Great Hall has been turned into an Alexander Calder corridor with mobiles and stabiles.
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New Acquisitions: African-American Masters Collection
December 16, 2008 thru March 1, 2009
Newly acquired artworks by eight 20th century African-American artists will be on view. The artists are: Charles White, Alvin Loving, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles Alston, Lois Mailou Jones and Aaron Douglas.
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Portraits and Personalities: Prints from the F. M. Hall Collection
December 5, 2008 thru March 1, 2009
Alison Stewart, a professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has chosen approximately 20 prints from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection to augment her course, the History of Prints.
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TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art
November 1, 2008 thru January 18, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego presents this exhibition of contemporary Latin American and Latino art. TRANSactions features artists from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Chile.
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Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta
October 7, 2008 thru November 30, 2008
Keith Jacobshagen, a professor of painting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explores the Midwest landscape in the exhibit, Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska's Arboreta.
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The Purpose of Labor
August 26, 2008 thru December 7, 2008
Gail Kendall, a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presents ceramic artworks responding to Robert Bly's translations of The Kabir Book.
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Subject(s) to Change: American Art from the Permanent Collection
August 25, 2008 thru June 30, 2009
This fall the reinstallation of artworks from the permanent collection will organized into six galleries: Recent acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Still Life, Portraiture, Landscape, Genre and Figurative Art.
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Agency of Time, a Leighton Pierce Video Installation
August 12, 2008 thru October 19, 2008
Video artist Leighton Pierce has created a site-specific, video installation for Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. To view a short clip of the installation, please click: Agency of Time.
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Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye
July 19, 2008 thru October 12, 2008
This exhibition presents a mid-career survey of the work of sculptor and animator Elizabeth King. She combines meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space.
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Peace, Love and the Psychedelic Sixties
June 6, 2008 thru August 3, 2008
From its permanent collection, Sheldon offers a glimpse of art from the 1960s - a time of great change in America.
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Blakelock Paintings on View with Works from Sheldon's Collections
May 6, 2008 thru August 24, 2008
This summer paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) will be on view with paintings from Sheldon's outstanding collections.
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Poets on Painters
April 25, 2008 thru June 29, 2008
A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, Poets on Painters opens at the Sheldon on April 25. The poem that responds to the painting will be displayed alongside the artwork. To view a slide show of the artworks, please click: Poets on Painters Slide Show.
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Luis Gonzalez Palma: Metaphors of the Heart
March 28, 2008 thru June 1, 2008
Sheldon presents an exhibition of approximately 20 photographs by Guatemalan artist Luis Gonzalez Palma. Viewers find his work spell-binding and spiritual.A slide show of the exhibition and works by Palma is available by clicking Luis Gonzalez Palma: Metaphors of the Heart.
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The Unknown Blakelock
January 25, 2008 thru April 5, 2008
A retrospective of Ralph Albert Blakelock's (1847-1919) paintings reveals a proto-modern vision and many works beyond the themes he has been historically associated with. On view for the first time these works explore Blakelock's surprising breadth of themes.
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Art Farm @ Sheldon
January 4, 2008 thru April 27, 2008
This exhibition focuses on design proposals for Art Farm, a non-profit art residency site in Marquette, Nebraska. Work on display includes architectural models, renderings, diagrams, drawings and rotating installations.
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Winter Wonderland: Prints from the Collection of Norman and Judith Zlotsky
December 17, 2007 thru March 23, 2008
More than 30 prints, dating from 1860 to 1960, from the Norman and Judy Zlotsky collection, offer insights into how artists have responded to the subject of winter and how the craft of printmaking developed in the United States after the Civil War.