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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit Thrift … in many forms throughout her life. And if you're able to visit the Red Cloud Opera House gallery, we hope that you'll …
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Red Cloud Opera House

… Nebraska 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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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… Movie." Warner Bros., in answer to this concern over the content of films, sent several executives on a nationwide … to Red Cloud characters rather than artistic merit or moral content. The Grand Island Independent noted, " From a … the rights, Warner Bros. repackaged "A Lost Lady" to star up-and-coming Barbara Stanwyck, removing Cather's name from …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles

… in the field until she reached adulthood and started learning more about Dakota history in Minnesota, something … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a … to the Dakota/Lakota Language” at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House exhibit from November …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater

… of Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, … Mater specializes in shell carvings, gorgets, carved sculpture, portraits and other designs that illustrate …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … I attended school at Batin (the little tin schoolhouse) and Prairie Gem until I completed the eighth grade and then went … priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our mission to …
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Edem Soul Music

… Coast, a large part of her music focuses on the creative content that comes from a place that can only be described … Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural … Living Tour video crew. Watch her perform the soothing, uplifting song “When I Fall” inside the historic building.   …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. Just as gripping are her portrayal of obstacles such … the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud, one of her first efforts was to bring Life magazine to Webster County …
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The Field, The Fire: an exhibition by Travis Hencey

… books and reading habits, as well as her attention to the content and appearance of the books she created. The ideas … teaching Art & Design at Chadron High School, bringing up the next generation of Chadron artists. Generally, … learned, a time of family traditions, and then ramping back up to start a new semester full of energy and ideas. This …
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"Books Old and New"

… Image The NWCC Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other … Cather edited twelve issues of the fledgling magazine while living in Pittsburgh. When she was hired as the magazine's …
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