National Willa Cather Center News
Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.
Newly Conserved Artwork Returns
Through the generosity of several of our longtime supporters, we were excited to complete several conservation treatments of artwork from our holdings. One of these was an original W.T. Benda illustration for Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia, lovingly presented to a friend. The inscription, which reads “A Benda original, with best wishes for a Merry Christmas! Willa” had been cut off and pasted to the back of the frame which held the drawing itself.
Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa
Planning Underway for Hotel Garber
Early Letter from Willa "William" Cather to Family Friend Helen Stowell
Autumn Offerings for Educators
Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
Our Real Stars—Get to Know Our Volunteers!
We are so grateful to our volunteers for the support and the joy that they bring!
Our volunteers are a large and growing number of dedicated people who want to give back to the National Willa Cather Center—and the Red Cloud community—by assisting at Red Cloud Opera House events, in the bookstore, gardening, tea towel embroidering, and in so many other ways.
This year we have begun to profile our diverse group of volunteers through our Red Cloud Opera House e-newsletter and our social media pages [those profiles are also listed—and linked—below].
National Willa Cather Center Selected to Appear in Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program
Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
Despite the staffing difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Willa Cather Center was able to reconfigure two summer internships to be entirely remote while still giving each intern valuable museum work experience. Our two interns this summer are Alise Perault and Braxton Benes, and they are working on assessing our educational resources, as well as revising our walking tour brochure, and prairie signage. Both Alise and Braxton have a passion for learning and museum work, and we thought it would be fun to share a little bit about them.
