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

Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and the Red Cloud Opera House. Visitors will also have an opportunity to explore two … guests the opportunity to deepen their core knowledge about Willa Cather's early life in the Nebraska town that … efforts led by the National Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster Street …
Posted: 05/21/2024
Last Updated: 07/01/2024

Historic Sites

… Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of … restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska … speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their existence." It was … of participating in their existence. The poorest of the old road companies were at least made up of people who wanted to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … D.C. Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an author of complex American stories, Cather wrote from a perspective and in a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Catherland Through My Lens

… Image Art Gallery Friday, Jan 11, 2019 | 12am - Monday, Apr 1, 2019 | 12am Catherland Through My Lens is currently on display at the … She runs a corn/soy and cow/calf operation alongside family. Rasser is owner of the noted Starke Round Barn. She …
Posted: 12/21/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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 …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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. …
Posted: 12/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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 …
Posted: 01/14/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/14/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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