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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit
… Image "The Early Hours" Image Carved in Linden Image "Taking Flight" … in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … the 100th publication anniversary of one of her greatest novels: A Lost Lady . In conjunction, we will host an …
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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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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small … museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s twelve novels and many of her short stories. For the first …
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Plain Views: Pastel and Photography
… women and children seek to portray the stark existence of early Nebraska settlers as well as reveal the deep-rooted … of these Nebraska settlers are echoed in the enduring novels of Willa Cather. Cather observed in O Pioneers! , “We come and go, …
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Catherland by Shane Booth
… fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather Using his 1867 studio camera and Voightlander lens to … Willa Cather grew up, and where she based several of her novels describing life on the prairie in the early 19th century. My photographs evoke a sense of place, …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well … as her use of prototypes and historical settings in her novels; many of the photos and memorabilia on display were …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!
… help educators teach students about Willa Cather. The new educational resources our interns create will cover topics related to … medieval and early modern history, and he looks forward to learning and immersing in Willa Cather’s literature and ties …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in … by his mother, Ardis, who gifted him a full set of Cather’s novels for Christmas when he was sixteen. He has read all of … My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its early 1900s condition as part of the campaign. In addition …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … and mused about painting some of them when I reread her novels. Ross's article was the impetus for this project. … a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago. Early on, I found James E. Miller, Jr., professor of …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various … settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where they … site, so we could picture the place where much of the early part of My Àntonia takes place. That was really fun, …
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