Nebraska Women Artists exhibit opens at Sandoz Center
The Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska, has created a special exhibition titled “Nebraska Women Artists: 1900-1960” for the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College. The exhibition, which features works from the MONA permanent collection, is open to the public until May 18.
Sandoz Center Director Sarah Polak said the exhibition was designed to highlight Women’s History Month and the time period of Mari Sandoz’s life. Sandoz may have known of many of these women as Sandoz lived from 1896-1966. In her later years, she lived in Greenwich Village in New York and was quite involved in both the literary and visual arts scenes.
This exhibit will be the first in a series scheduled to travel from MONA to the Sandoz Center over the next several years. Polak said “This is a great opportunity for Chadron to receive special exhibitions unique to our area and our state. These exhibitions will also benefit the students of Chadron State College in a variety of disciplines due to the diversity of topics we will be partnering with MONA to create for our spaces.”
The exhibitions will also help MONA expand outreach to Western Nebraska. In 2010, MONA brought a special exhibition of Robert Henri works to the Center in conjunction with the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Annual Conference.
The exhibition is locally sponsored in part by the Vernon P. Chicoine and Madge Fortune Chicoine Fund and the Thomas L. and Carol K. Krepel Fund.
The Sandoz Center is open to the public from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-4 p.m. on Saturdays. The center is closed on Sundays and college holidays. For more information, contact Polak at 308-432-6401.
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