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We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the Unmade Place

… the Nebraska Arts Council and Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About Our Artists Steve Tamayo Steve Tamayo is a traditional … by the desire to produce dynamic abstract-expressionistic images that touch hearts and lift spirits. She approaches …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 06/17/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … I attended school at Batin (the little tin schoolhouse) and Prairie Gem until I completed the eighth grade and then went … in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… and culture merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, as … sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening … visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The exhibit chronicles …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains

… Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the … essays, and photography have been published in Willa Cather Review, The New Territory, Old Northwest Quarterly, …
Posted: 03/16/2025
Last Updated: 03/18/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… Their utility as a vehicle for collecting or transferring goods was naturally of primary importance on the frontier. …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Chase Earles

… from November 5-December 14, 2021 • There is also an index to the other eleven 49 Minutes of Fame artist profiles …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Nathaniel Ruleaux

… his current pieces. “Those themes started playing in my head a lot about what it meant to be Lakota and my family’s …
Posted: 12/13/2021
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… the timber line there is beautiful blue grass and many wild flowers in bloom. At the floor of the mountains entering his … place and plan such wars, I can’t figure out… Image Wildflowers from Hitler's estate, pressed in a letter P.S. I am … I picked on Hitler's estate. Two violets and one yellow flower, I don't know what it is.”  For more about the …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

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