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Finding Aids
… ____________ Bulk dates: 1878-1921 Finding Aid created by Lucy Koenig and Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2023 Copyright: … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … (Copy pp. 47-72 199-200) Manuscript Tx-50-4000-F05 Lucy Gayheart Typescript (Copy pp. 22-118) Magazine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
… from the Archive: April Twilights April 3, 2023 Though Willa Cather is well-known around the world as a novelist, her … sent copies to many friends and acquaintances. It was reviewed by the New York Times and other nationally-known …
Posted: 04/03/2023
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … for meeting visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job … or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that our organization is …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… of Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the … with his creative endeavors, Mater has also ventured into teaching graphic design and Southeastern Native art workshops. Although the classes are currently on hold due to …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 12/22/2022
Music on the Prairie
… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of … to explore the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the … Sequel, Heritage of the Great Plains, and Eureka Studies Teaching Short Fiction. Her memoir, All Skate, Now Reverse, …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Join Us On August 23rd In Red Cloud
… d'oeuvres will be served at 5:00 pm in the Foundation's art gallery, followed by a formal dinner and performance at 6:30 … original compositions as well as the ragtime music of John William Boone and Scott Joplin. A native of Ohio, Scott …
Posted: 09/09/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
A.P. Andrews to Lead Writing Workshop
… Image A.P. Andrews to Lead Writing Workshop June 29, 2015 When famed novelist Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of … in Nebraska, New York, Idaho, and Great Britain. He is teaching assistant in the playwriting program of New York …
Posted: 06/29/2015
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Big Plans for the Publication Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018
… Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018 December 20, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation is gearing up for a year-long … is not only to promote the study of Cather’s life and works within the larger community, but also to highlight the … discussion questions, activities, assessments, and teaching strategies. Teachers who lack classroom sets of My …
Posted: 12/20/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Newly Appointed Board Members Announced
… Newly Appointed Board Members Announced January 9, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation, along with a global community of … three new members to its board of governors. Marian Fey works in the Millard Public Schools in Omaha as the Clarke … Willa Cather’s life and work.” James Jaap is an associate teaching professor of English at Penn State Greater …
Posted: 01/09/2018
Last Updated: 01/09/2018
Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia
… Novel”: Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia 63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Red Cloud, NE | May 31–June … for consideration include: Examining My Ántonia or Cather’s works in light of immigration and diversity in the United … from the late 19th century through today; Approaches to teaching, understanding, and interpreting challenging …
Posted: 10/13/2017
Last Updated: 10/25/2017