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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Roy Boney
… Tom Farris contacted him about participating in the Red Cloud Opera House exhibit, Boney says he was excited for the … and author Arigon Starr. To learn more about Boney’s work, visit his website. Learn more about Roy Boney and his work …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Nathaniel Ruleaux
… conversations about art, family and heritage have inspired his current pieces. “Those themes started playing in my … grandfather encouraged him to submit his work to the Red Cloud Indian Art Show on the Pine Ridge Reservation, a place … of Theatre and Dance. To learn more about Ruleaux’s work, visit his Instagram page. For more information Learn more …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… Native traditions into designs as 49 Minutes of Fame featured artist. From a young age, Dustin Mater has had a passion … of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, he displayed his … Division. To learn more about Dustin Mater and his art, visit his website , Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter pages. …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships. We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
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Willa Cather and One of Ours: A Dramatic Reading
… reading of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours , part of a weekend of programs celebrating Cather's … stay for a talk-back conversation with the cast and crew of One of Ours . Be sure to visit Joslyn Castle & Garden's …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… very fabric of democracy, since the French Revolution ushered in the idea of centralized, publicly accessible … author as a girl. Other snippets of information about Red Cloud and its citizens are also contained in those cards. … enhance or disrupt our reading of My Ántonia . To make your visit, you can schedule an appointment or email our …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories. How readers navigate challenging …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
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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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