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

… by Steve Tamayo, Anne Steinhoff, and Paul High Horse Art Gallery Thursday, May 15 - Saturday, Aug 2, 2025 | All day This summer, the Red Cloud Opera House is excited to welcome artists Steven …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 06/17/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships.  We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Red Cloud, Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where literature and culture merge with the pleasures … spot to pause and refresh or entirely regroup away from it all. Red Cloud is an oasis on the prairie — yet only a short … National Willa Cather Center where you can relax in our art gallery or bookstore or begin your tour experience. Our arts …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

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

… its opening week Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED … that helped rehabilitate an empty historic commercial building into a boutique hotel and event center. Leaders … models for Captain and Mrs. Forrester in Willa Cather’s 1923 novel A Lost Lady . Silas was a founder of Red Cloud and a …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains

… Prairie A special science exhibition in the West Atrium Art Gallery Monday, Mar 17 - Saturday, May 17, 2025 | All day The … The focus on nematodes of the prairie expands the sense of place in landscapes. The diversity in the prairie nematode …
Posted: 03/16/2025
Last Updated: 03/18/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… was not dominated by crackpots or reactionaries who simply could not abide a modernizing America . . . . Rather, … and entertainment for both children and adults. Willa Cather created several of these using advertising cards and … flour sacks. Our collections boast several quilts that were handmade by Anna Pavelka, as well as a number of other small …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Chase Earles

… Image 49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Chase Earles November 18, 2021   Chase Earles … also an index to the other eleven 49 Minutes of Fame artist profiles at that link. We are grateful to freelance writer …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Nathaniel Ruleaux

… grandson everything he knew about art. “We had his pieces all over our house,” Ruleaux says. “He was my strongest … Red Cloud Indian Art Show on the Pine Ridge Reservation, a place where his grandfather and cousins had displayed art in … Pop Art  which was installed at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery from November 5-December 14, 2021 • There is also an …
Posted: 12/13/2021
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… of Clarence O. Williams The story behind the play, Not Too Far Distant October 15, 2024 Playwright Becky Boesen gleaned … Division. According to his son Thomas, “for reasons he never shared, he took a camera with him, and produced the … carefully catalogued and documented album after returning home, ultimately settling in Lincoln, Nebraska.” He …
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 … and Twelfth Woman in the Collection June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

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