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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… the 100 Novels Project ? I've been a devoted reader my entire life. Sometimes I've read for inspiration, … sometimes for escape. When I was able to connect my visual art-making to my ongoing habit of reading, not only my art but my life in …
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Student Scholarships Awarded

Student Scholarships Awarded June 20, 2022 The National Willa Cather Center is delighted to announce our 2022 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and Helen R. Wilson scholarships. Scholars not in …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded

… teacher Melissa Barry reports, “I am excited to bring my sophomores [to the NWCC]...I am really excited to get …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will be the 72nd, 73rd and 74th … of Nebraska-Lincoln and, from May 1-10, Youd will retype  My Ántonia , in Omaha in partnership with Joslyn Art Museum. …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… Image Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.” May 19, 2021 We recently spoke with … Then I had to figure out how to place the figure in my painting of the boarding house room that Eden Bower …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… year for Willa Cather and the world. She would publish My Ántonia , delayed until the fall of that year due to … now in the National Cather Center Archives & Collections. My dear Carrie; It has been a long while since I received … living more. The fuel shortage was inconvenient for me. My study is heated by a coal grate, and during the terribly …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting

… for several of her classic novels about prairie life. My favorites are My Ántonia and The Song of the Lark .” A few years ago, Ruth …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… favorite Willa Cather novels? The Song of the Lark and  My Antonia .   If you were to tell someone who had never …
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Newly Conserved Artwork Returns

… original W.T. Benda illustration for Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia , lovingly presented to a friend. The … long-term conservation. Our continued thanks to John and Amy Dempsey, Bridgett Susie Sisson, Melissa J. Homestead, and …
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J.L. Miner House

… wrote to Carrie regularly throughout her life, and her book My Ántonia is dedicated "To Carrie and Irene Miner, In … The J.L. Miner House was featured as the Harling House in  My Ántonia.   7-Building Tour Individual Build Tour Self …
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