Great Plains Art Museum

Big Blue Reservation: Struggles and Hope of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe (Read More)

One hundred seventy years ago, the Treaty of 1854 was passed by Congress, authorizing the move of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe to the Big Blue Reservation in Gage County, Nebraska. The Tribe watched as acre by acre of their land was sold off by the government and treaties were broken. In 1881, the Tribe was moved from this reservation to Red Rock, Oklahoma. The Gage County Historical Society, along with the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, arranged a summer exhibit in 2024 to educate the public about this important part of American history. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe once called Southeast Nebraska home. Through the displacement of the people during the 1800s, they lost sacred traditions. Big Blue Reservation: Struggles and Hope of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe includes their voices of how that loss affected them into the present. The Tribe and the Society wanted this exhibit to travel to other institutions to provide a cultural history of Nebraska, utilizing the Tribe’s perspective. As a result of this hard work, the Gage County Historical Society’s traveling exhibit will open in the Great Plains Art Museum’s mezzanine gallery. This exhibit is on view in conjunction with Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land. The Great Plains Art Museum is open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major U.S. holidays, University breaks, and home football game Saturdays. Admission is free.

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Threads & Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories Exhibit (Read More)

Threads & Trails: Contemplations of Our Herstories is a collaborative exhibition created by five female-identifying artists who connect their personal histories to the conquest of the American West and Indigenous dispossession. Featuring the work of Erica Larsen-Dockray, Cybele Moon, Steph Coley, Eve-Lauryn LaFountain, and Marissa Magdalena Sykes, Threads & Trails is an installation that explores the experiences of women from the past and present in a space that is immersive, enlightening, inclusive, and transformative. The Great Plains Art Museum is open Tuesday–Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major U.S. holidays, University breaks, and home football game Saturdays.

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Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 Exhibit Opening and Talk (Read More)

For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A panel of Native American art curators blindly reviewed the submitted works and made selections based on the artwork’s aesthetic merit and contribution to the field of contemporary Native art. The exhibit and opening talk will occur April 1st at 4 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.

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Contemporary Indigeneity 2022 (Read More)

For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A panel of Native American art curators blindly reviewed the submitted works and made selections based on the artwork’s aesthetic merit and contribution to the field of contemporary Native art. The exhibit and opening talk will occur April 1st at 5:30 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum.

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