The Great Plains Art Museum is open late on First Friday, Aug. 1, 5-7 p.m. with three exhibitions and light refreshments. This will be the last First Friday to see “The Journey: Documented Items/Undocumented Souls.”
On View:
“Shaping the Southwest: Pottery from the Collection”
This exhibition features pottery from a recent donation to the Great Plains Art Museum’s permanent holdings by local collectors of Southwest art, Lehn and Mary Straub. This intimate exhibition in the museum’s Mezzanine Gallery highlights the impressive technical skill of these Indigenous artists and the continuation of the long tradition of Southwest pottery.
“Watershed: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Amanda Maciuba”
Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human-driven climate change. She exposes and reconsiders the layered histories of specific locations: from the geologic forces that shaped the land, to impacts of Western colonialism, to the current practices of development, destruction, and restoration by the local communities she interacts with every day. Bodies of water often act as anchors for Maciuba’s creative investigation. “Watershed” is an exhibition of prints, artist’s books, and installations that consider how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return.
“The Journey: Documented Items/Undocumented Souls”
In collaboration with the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Tactile Images, a subsidiary of 3DPhotoWorks LLC, “The Journey” presents a photographic essay chronicling the immigrant journey from Latin America to the United States through a deeply moving and impactful series of images by Getty Images Senior Special Correspondent John Moore. Moore captures the story through items that have been lost or discarded—and later documented—along the way. He also talks about his experiences and these photographs as part of the audio included in the tactile displays.
The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free.
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