Great Plains Art Museum

From Paintbrushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains, Part II

July 25–December 16, 2023

In fall 2018, the Great Plains Art Museum mounted From Paintbrushes to Camera Lenses: Creative Women of the Great Plains, an exhibition that highlighted exceptional work created by female artists from the museum’s permanent collection. To complement other female-focused exhibitions on view during fall 2023, the museum is organizing part two of this exhibition to showcase many recent acquisitions and other works from the collection by women that were not shown in the first installation.

First Friday event

Above detail: Diane O’Leary (Comanche), Watching the Weather, 1973, gouache on artist’s board, gift of the Mark & Carol Moseman Collection of Agrarian Art

Banner: Sarah Rowe (Ponca/Lakota descent), For My Fleabitten Diamond, 2022, mixed media on canvas, commissioned for the Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Collection. © Sarah Rowe. Used by permission.

Supporting Indigenous Sisters: An International Print Exchange

July 25–December 16, 2023

Supporting Indigenous Sisters is a print portfolio exchange involving sixteen artists from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds. The portfolio was created to help begin conversations on many levels about missing and murdered Indigenous women. Each artist was asked to reach into their own experiences as a female walking this earth. The images from all of the artists advocate for change and for voicing this dark present history. Artists were invited by Melanie Yazzie, head of printmaking at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Catherine Prose, professor of printmaking at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Participating artists:

• Maile Andrade, Kilauea, Hawaii, USA
• Amy Córdova Boone, Oaxaca, Mexico
• Krysten Farrier, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
• Anna Hoover, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• Vicki Meek, Dallas, Texas, USA
• Sylvia Montero, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Dilara Miller, Boulder, Colorado, USA & Mersin, Turkey
• Andi Newberry, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
• Morgan Page, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
• Sue Pearson, Whakatane, New Zealand
• Catherine Prose, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA (project co-organizer)
• Rebecca Ramos, Aptos, California, USA
• Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Corrales, New Mexico, USA
• Jordan Vigil, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Lorena Williams, El Paso, Texas, USA
• Melanie Yazzie, Boulder, Colorado, USA (project co-organizer)

First Friday event

Above detail: Catherine Prose (Wichita Falls, Texas, USA), Daisy Protecting Our Indigenous Sisters, 2021, screen print and vinyl, 15 x 19 inches, image courtesy of the artist

Banner: Vicki Meek (Dallas, Texas, USA), America Cares More about Parks than MMIW,

2021, screen print, 15 x 19 inches, image courtesy of the artist

Chicanisma: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence Linda Rivera García

Lower-level gallery

March 24–September 22, 2023

The Great Plains Art Museum’s 2023 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence is Linda Rivera García, a Mexican-American Chicana artist, teacher, and storyteller who has been sharing her culture throughout Nebraska for decades. A graduate of Omaha’s College of Saint Mary and a retired children’s librarian, Rivera García is a multifaceted artist who works in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and with traditional Mexican art forms such as papel picado (cut paper) and repujado (metal embossing), among many others. This exhibition will feature work that represents the artist’s career to date.

Visit the artist during her residency at the museum from April 4 to 15. Learn more about the residency and scheduled events.

Above: My Name is Maya Isabel (Mi Nombre es Maya Isabel)

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