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Visions Seen in the Air

Visions Seen in the Air Artist Invitational The exhibit’s title,  Visions Seen in the Air , asks invited contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that sense of place and feeling of home …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… , which celebrates its publication centenary in 2023, and other texts that Cather published in 1923, such as her revised book of poetry,  April Twilights and Other Poems .  The conference will begin the …
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Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the … , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
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Organization History

…  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett … Register of Historic Places. A $1.2 million endowment campaign followed to successfully match a challenge grant … fundraising campaign, known as the  Campaign for the Future , to address capital improvements, program, staffing, …
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Event Archives

Event Archives Keywords Type - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image Willa Cather: An American Voice Willa Cather: An American Voice Special Events: Sunday, Jun 28, 2026 | …
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Usage Guidelines

… Willa Cather Trust (a partnership between the University of Nebraska Foundation, the Willa Cather Foundation, and a … Archives at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. …
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Honors and Achievements

… of Arts and Letters (1944) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters  Received a William Dean Howells … Michigan, and Nebraska The Library of Congress included My Ántonia on its list of 100 novels that shaped America …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… was nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska. Early years in Webster County and in Red Cloud did … words. We begin with a curious young girl on the plains of Nebraska, embark on her quest to establish herself … narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a …
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Virtual Author Series: Steven Trout

… possible by generous donor support as well as Humanities Nebraska (HN) and the National Endowment for the Humanities …
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My Ántonia at 100: The Changing Ecology of the Great Plains

… Island Rd Gibbon , NE 68840 United States Join the Willa Cather Archive in partnership with the Willa Cather … Participants will then travel to Red Cloud, Nebraska, for tours of Cather-related sites in town, including Cather’s childhood home and the Willa Cather …
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