For 60 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.
In response to the museum and its collection, multimedia artist Saya Woolfalk creates a new, site-specific chapter in her decade-long fictional utopian narrative. More info
Paintings, sculpture, photographs, and prints from the collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art spark exploration of the many ways in which geometry influences and defines our world. More info
Since 1888, stewards of Sheldon Museum of Art’s growing collection have organized exhibitions that feature recent masterworks of contemporary art. This survey will include approximately twenty works acquired from these exhibitions. More info
Artists Bruce Conner and Jean Sandstedt met in a painting class at the University of Nebraska and were married in 1957. This exhibition examines the sustained influence of politics, culture, and the environment on their respective artwork. More info
This collaboration of visual artist Susan York and poet Arthur Sze explores how their disciplines may work synergistically. Sze first composed the poems. Then, with input from Sze, York created minimalist images to accompany the verse. More info
Demonstrating one of the museum’s collecting strengths, A Century of Sculpture at Sheldon surveys three-dimensional artworks, acquired through gift, bequest, and purchase, that serve as the prologue for what is yet to come. More info
As revolutionary artist and minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, Emory Douglas illustrated and designed the group’s newspaper with poignant visuals created to inspire self-determination and impel social change. More info
Gordon Parks, remembered for the commitment to social justice with which he documented American culture, created these images as part of the photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden,” commissioned by Life magazine in 1956. More info
Titled after jazz pianist Andrew Hill’s 1964 recording Black Fire, this group of large-scale works presents narrative threads of African American experience from passage of the Civil Rights Act to the present. More info