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Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture: Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 5:30PMCeramic artists Adrian Arleo and Jane Shellenbarger will present successive Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures on Thursday, October 30. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Adrian Arleo's work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. She has received awards from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation in 1991 and 1992, and in 1995, was awarded a Montana Arts Council Individual Fellowship. Her work has been widely published in books, magazines, and on the internet.
Jane Shellenbarger is a professor and graduate program director at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School for American Crafts. She has taught at Northern Michigan University, Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Northern Iowa, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has exhibited her work in several galleries around the country.
Halloween at Sheldon
Friday, October 31, 2025 - 6:00PM to 08:00PMDark arts.
Flashlight tours.
Halloween at Sheldon.
Enjoy flashlight tours, oracle card readings, conversations with artists in the spirit realm, a costume contest, and cash bar with Halloween spirits.
This Halloween party is for those over 21. Although free, registration is strongly encouraged: https://go.unl.edu/sheldon-halloween.
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture: Julia Blaut
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 5:30PMJulia Blaut, senior director of curatorial affairs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, will deliver a lecture about Rauschenberg’s enduring legacy with special attention to his prints and Leo Steinberg’s concept of the flatbed picture plane.
This talk is free and open to everyone. Registration is encouraged. Click here to sign up.
This talk and the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane are made possible by support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Humanities on the Edge: Allucquere Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, Marjorie Vecchio, and Megan Malone
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 5:30PMNOTE: This is an online event; Zoom link TBA
Allucquere Rosanne “Sandy” Stone, professor emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and founding director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory presents the second of four Humanities on the Edge lectures. Stone will be joined by Marjorie Vecchio, filmmaker, and Megan Malone, comedian.
The talk is free and open to the public. Now in its 16th year, the lecture series was founded in 2010 and continues to promote cross-disciplinary conversation and theoretical research in the humanities. The lectures are organized by Katie Anania (art history), Luis Othoniel Rosa (modern languages and literatures and the Institute for Ethnic Studies), Marco Abel (English), and Erin Hanas (Sheldon Museum of Art).
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture: Pablo Helguera
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 5:30PMPablo Helguera, a visual artist living in New York City who is often considered a pioneering figure in the field of socially engaged art, will present the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Thursday, November 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Helguera’s practice involves performance, drawing, pedagogy, installation, theater, and other literary strategies. Coming from a family of classical musicians, his work also frequently includes musical elements.
This talk is free and open to everyone. Registration is encouraged. Click here to sign up.Printmaking Workshop for Adults
Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 4:00PM to 05:30PMJoin Francisco Souto, director of the School of Art, Art History & Design and professor of art with a focus in printmaking at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in an exploration of the artworks and printmaking processes in the exhibition “Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane.” Following the conversation, Souto will lead the group in a solvent printing workshop in the university’s printmaking studio.
Tickets are $12 per person for members of the Sheldon Art Association, $15 for nonmembers, and may be purchased at https://sheldonartmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/printmaking-workshop-for-adults/3109193.
Family Day at Sheldon Museum of Art
Sunday, December 14, 2025 - 2:00PM to 04:00PMRenowned artist Karen Kunc will lead an interactive printmaking activity inspired by the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane. Families will have a chance to learn more about the printmaking process while creating a print to take home. An in-gallery sketching activity and hot cocoa bar will also be provided.
Family Day is free and open to everyone. Please register at https://sheldonartmuseum.doubleknot.com/event/family-day-printmaking-with-karen-kunc/3116122.