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… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red … an early twentieth century farmstead of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. Our aim is to create a space that …
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The Passing Show: What Makes a House a Home
… Image Inhabiting Cather's Work Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | 1 - … Canada . Steve Tamayo Artist Steve Tamayo draws upon his family history as a member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe. His … Place which is on display in our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through August 1. Nathan Tye Professor of History …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… 6, 2025 Think about all the things you know about Willa Cather and Red Cloud. Can you call to mind her teenaged … read and study her today are indebted to the many friends, family members, and townspeople who shared photographs of … the Red Cloud Chief wrote, "Red Cloud wants a Photograph Gallery," and in 1875, amusement operator Weber answered the …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit Thrift Style , a … contributions of Great Plains communities. In the first place, diet and cookery, the foundation of life, were …
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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 show, … Mater specializes in shell carvings, gorgets, carved sculpture, portraits and other designs that illustrate …
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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 …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return to … once performed—has a changing variety of performances and gallery shows throughout the year. Watch our Event pages for …
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The Field, The Fire: an exhibition by Travis Hencey
… Image Snag | Travis Hencey | graphite on collaged paper Art Gallery Wednesday, May 15 - Thursday, Aug 15, 2024 | All day … featured collaged paper and graphite drawings that drew on Cather's featured novels in those years. Simultaneously … Travis's work deals with themes of transience, memory, and family history in the Western Nebraska landscape with an eye …
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Guided Three Building Downtown Tour
… Tour This guided tour option includes the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and … Home , visitors will walk through rooms containing Cather family artifacts while learning about the Cather family's … are invited to shop in our bookstore, walk through the art gallery, or spend time in our permanent exhibit, American …
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Historic Sites
… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … in 1891. The brick façade was added sometime after the Cathers joined the church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal …
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