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Exhibitions

For 60 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.

Women with spears in a vibrant jungle setting, some seated and others leaping among lush foliage.

Bad Witches: The Spiritual as Empowerment

January 30, 2027 through July 11, 2027 This exhibition examines the historical casting of women as “witches”—as dangerous, deviant, unruly—and reclaims those figures as sites of power. It includes work made since the 1970s by women-identifying artists from three generations, who hail from across the globe and work in diverse practices and cosmologies.

Abstract graphic with blue, white, and black shapes and text elements on a light gray background.

BIG FEELINGS little feelings

January 30, 2027 through July 11, 2027 Inspired by the concepts of social and emotional learning, this exhibition was designed to invite family audiences to engage with artworks from the museum collection on an emotional level. In a dedicated mindfulness space, visitors are encouraged to reflect, recharge, and cultivate well-being while considering how emotions are experienced both individually and collectively.

Landscape painting with dark mountains, red hills, green trees, and a blue lake under a cloudy sky.

Marsden Hartley: A Sense of Place

January 30, 2027 through July 11, 2027 For the first time at Sheldon, this exhibition focuses on Hartley’s paintings of New England and other American subjects in the museum’s collection and includes a contemporary response with works from the Wabanaki artist Maya Tihtiyas Attean.

A photo of a large people smiling in front of a banner that reads "La Escuela Panamericana Del Desasosiego"

Pablo Helguera: Socialscapes

August 14, 2027 through January 2, 2028 This first mid-career retrospective of Pablo Helguera, Socialscapes is a critical appreciation of artistic heterogeneity and living in-between cultures as well as social relationship-building that creates connection across languages and boundaries.

Red metal abstract sculpture on green lawn, with tall buildings and trees in the background.

Outdoor Sculpture

Discover Sheldon’s collection—outside.
Explore outdoor sculptures from Sheldon’s collection displayed year round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses.