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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 … We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the Unmade Place . These Native American artists have brought together …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 06/17/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… Image Artist Karen Thurlow Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory Local Artist Creates "Webster County … you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town where I spent so much … priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our mission to …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Travel Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, … of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, …
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

… actively used in aging studies for humans. Nematodes that feed on plants can cause severe crop losses, and scientists …
Posted: 03/16/2025
Last Updated: 03/18/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… to the Depression-era practice of reusing flour, sugar, and feed sacks to create clothing, quilts, and other … challenging time of economic hardship and war. The reuse of feed, flour, and sugar sacks was a cost-saving and …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Chase Earles

… pottery during childhood visits to the Southwest. “I was really inspired by Southwestern Pueblo pottery,” Earles says. … has won numerous awards for his work. He earned First Place at the 2013 Santa Fe Indian Market, Best of Division … Pop Art  which was installed at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery from November 5-December 14, 2021 • There is also an …
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

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

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