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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 - 2:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … have shaped him as an artist, historian, storyteller and dancer. Steve provides activities during his residencies …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 05/28/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers

… with no silver remaining on the glass at all. Archivist Tracy Tucker has made some careful experiments on more intensive … consider donating them to a repository. Archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker would be happy to talk with you about your …
Posted: 03/03/2025
Last Updated: 05/26/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit … education and entertainment for both children and adults. Willa Cather created several of these using advertising … in many forms throughout her life. And if you're able to visit the Red Cloud Opera House gallery, we hope that you'll …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater

… from 2000 to 2004. After meeting his wife, Mater moved his family to Dallas, where he worked as a freelance illustrator … Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, he displayed his ledger drawings and a …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

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 … us a bit about your relationship to Webster County and your family history here. I was born in Red Cloud, delivered by … 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

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 …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Support

… 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 …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/01/2024

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 …
Posted: 03/22/2024
Last Updated: 08/28/2024

Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… Image Guided Three Building Downtown Tour Driving or Walking Tour This guided tour option … decorated with original wallpaper. Farmers & Merchants Bank 338 N Webster Street Making a Place: A Long History of Red …
Posted: 05/21/2024
Last Updated: 07/01/2024

Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and opened to visitors in 1967. Many of the furnishings came from the … in 1891. The brick façade was added sometime after the Cathers joined the church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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