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Red Cloud Opera House

… towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House."  —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … real people speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their …
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Press Room

… Their Downtown , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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Gregory Summers, "Frivolities of Summers"

… Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 | 8am - Tuesday, Mar 29, 2016 … also includes a small selection of paintings depicting the Cather historic sites in Webster County and some of his … currently lives in Overland Park, KS, and visits his family in Blue Hill, NE, frequently. …
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From the Permanent Collection: John Blake Bergers

… Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jan 22, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Feb 12, … in our permanent collection were donated to the Willa Cather Foundation by the artist himself and his family, this piece comes to us from the estate of acclaimed …
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The Song of the Lark Gala Dinner and Performance

… Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The Willa Cather Foundation’s Gala Dinner and Performance will take … August 15, beginning with cocktails at 5:00 p.m. in the Art Gallery followed by a dinner and performance at 6:30 pm in … through support from the Giger Foundation and the Porter Family. The Porters commissioned the piece in memory of …
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Crossroads: Change in Rural America

… exhibit some rarely seen objects and photographs from our collections as we look at "Our Changing Main Street,"   and … councils across the nation, and local host institutions. To learn more about “Crossroads” and other Museum on Main …
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Catherland Through My Lens

… Friday, Jan 11, 2019 | 12am - Monday, Apr 1, 2019 | 12am Catherland Through My Lens is currently on display at the … Linda Brinda and Liz Rasser, both avid photographers with "Catherland" as their subject matter. Brinda, a ranch wife, …
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The Art Connection

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Friday, Feb 5, 2021 | 12am - Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 … raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect … and light in her art.  Sally Jurgensmier was raised on the family farm in central Nebraska, and her roots have never …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow

… Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our … days, the strength of our collections has drawn from Cather family materials. The first portrait we received, an early … much-loved youngest brother, was taken at the J.H. Wegmann gallery, in the Moon Block. The cabinet card, circa 1896, …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… I wasn’t a harsh critic, either, she just wasn’t on my radar. In graduate school, my areas of interest were late 20th century fiction, film … adaptation, and women’s studies. So I think while much of my academic interests didn’t intersect with Cather’s work, …
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