This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public.

The Field, The Fire is a solo exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 69th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. The conference, Cather and the Readerly Imagination, will focus on Cather’s own books and reading habits, as well as her attention to the content and appearance of the books she created. The ideas of Cather as both reader and writer and her books as both story and substance seem a natural fit with Hencey’s work.

Travis Hencey was born and raised in Chadron, Nebraska, a small town in the northwestern panhandle of the state. Generally, Travis’s work deals with themes of transience, memory, and family history in the Western Nebraska landscape with an eye toward materiality and mark-making.