Great Plains Fellows: Arts and Art History

NameTitleInstitutionSpecialty
W. Kenton Bales Professor Emeritus, Music UNO Music theory and composition
Derrick Burbul Department Chair & Professor, Art and Design UNK Environment and human relations
Valerie Cisler Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication; Professor, Music University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Great Plains music, piano
Patricia C. Crews Professor Emeritus, Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design UNL History, conservation, and performance of textiles
Nancy Engen-Wedin Lecturer, TLTE; Program Manager, Lied Center for Performing Arts; Coordinator, Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program, College of Education and Human Sciences UNL Education, Indigenous issues and education, arts and curriculum
Anne Foradori Professor, Music (Voice) UNK Women in music, prairie song
Dana Fritz Hixson-Lied Professor, Art (Photography) UNL Intersections of photography, landscape, and environment
Kirsten Furlong Lecturer and Director of the Blue Galleries, Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies Boise State University Visual art, intersections of art and ecology
Robert Hower Professor and Chair Emeritus, Art & Art History; President, United Designs Alliance University of Texas at Arlington Art, interactive projects, computer graphics
Elizabeth Ingraham Professor Emeritus, Art & Art History UNL Textiles and material culture, computational creativity
N. Keith Jacobshagen II Professor Emeritus, Art UNL Landscape art, painting
Annika Johnson Associate Curator of Native American Art Joslyn Art Museum Native American arts and culture, institutional futures
Toby Jurovics Director Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment 19th, 20th Century photography and art of the American West
Wendy Katz Professory, Art History UNL 19th-century American genre painting, landscapes, Great Plains
Joni Kinsey Professor, Art & Art History University of Iowa Plains art, surveying of the American West, 18th through 20th Century American art
Karen Kunc Professor Emeritus, Art UNL Printmaking, papermaking, book arts
Margaret MacKichan Director Emeritus, Great Plains Art Institute Sinte Gleska University Native American art history, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture
George Melnyk Professor Emeritus, Communication-Media & Film University of Calgary Canadian studies, Canadian Plains, protest in Western Canada, peace studies, Canadian cinema
Tice Miller Professor Emeritus, Theatre Arts UNL American theatre history, dramatic literature, criticism
Paula Petrik Professor Emeritus, History & Art History George Mason University History of the Trans-Mississippi West, U.S. women's history, U.S. business history
Byron Price Director, University of Oklahoma Press; Director, Charles M. Russell Center; Charles Marion Russell Chair, Art History University of Oklahoma Art of the American West
Teliza Rodriguez Creative Districts Coordinator Nebraska Arts Council Arts administration and curation, artwork of the early-era Nebraska women artists and early Nebraska Indigenous peoples
C. Patrick Rowan Professor Emeritus, Art UNL Studio art, painting, sculpture
Sarah Rowe Visual and performance artist Enrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Lakota Nation Mixed media visual arts, community programming, and healing arts collaboration
Kate Schneider Artist Canada Photographed the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline for the exhibition "We, the Heartland"
Richard Schuessler Professor, Art and Design UNK Visual communications, typography
Melynda Seaton Curator of Photography History Colorado Art of the American West, photography
Janet Smith Art Consultant Omaha, Neb. Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists
Randall Snyder Professor Emeritus, Music UNL Musical arts, composition, comprehensive musicianship
Robert Spence Professor Emeritus, Art UNL Art
Gwen Westerman Artist and Professor, English Minnesota State University in Mankato Native American literature and art
Ashley Wilkinson Director/Curator, Great Plains Art Museum UNL Twentieth-century American art, New Deal-era printmaking
Sandra Williams Associate Professor, Art UNL Mixed media, the animal in art and aesthetics, art and well-being
Gary Zaruba Professor Emeritus, Art & Art History UNK Studio art, art education, Nebraska art