Upcoming Exhibitions
Sheldon Museum of Art will present An Altered Land, Photography in the 1970s beginning August 25 through November 15, 2009. This exhibition showcases the work of many important artists who emerged in the 1960s and matured in the 1970s. The image above is Pink Stuff (Interstate Span), about 1971-1976, by Thomas Francis Barrow.
| Upcoming Exhibitions |
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An Altered Land, Photography in the 1970s
August 25, 2009 thru November 15, 2009
Selected photographs created in the 1970s from Sheldon's permanent collections explore changes in landscape photography.
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Agents of Change: The Mexican Muralists and the New Deal in America
September 29, 2009 thru January 17, 2010
Agents of Change presents works from the 1920's and 1930's in the Museum's permanent collection by Mexican Muralists and artists in the United States' Works Progress Administration.
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Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting
October 23, 2009 thru January 31, 2010
This survey of paintings by Dan Christensen (1942-2007), a Nebraska native, documents his quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint and pictorial space.
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MIGRATIONS: New Directions in Native American Art
January 8, 2010 thru April 25, 2010
Organized by the University of New Mexico Art Museum and Tamarind Institute, includes works from six Native American artists who have completed residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon.
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Esphyr Slobodkina: Rediscovering a Pioneer of American Abstraction
January 16, 2010 thru April 18, 2010
This exhibition is a retrospective of illustrator Esphyr Slobodkina's work, including notable abstractions from the 1930s to the 1950s.