Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Celebrate the new football season with a tailgate before the game against Colorado on September 7. Sheldon’s Great Hall will be a cool spot for tailgate fare, a cash bar, and a great view of the pride of all Nebraska—the Cornhusker Marching Band—running through its halftime show outside Sheldon one hour before the game.
RSVP to Natalie at sheldonmembership@unl.edu or 402-472-7523.
More Info
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 5:30pm
Sips at Sheldon (formerly called Sheldon Connections) is a series in which works of art are catalysts for conversations on contemporary life and issues. Explore art from new and diverse perspectives with University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty and Erin Hanas, curator for academic and campus engagement.
Join Erin and Theresa Catalano, professor of teaching, learning, and teacher education, for a novel exploration of one of Sheldon’s best-known works, Edward Hopper’s Room in New York.
Free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
RSVP by email to sheldonmembership@unl.edu or call Natalie at 402.472.7523.
More Info
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Dr. Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois–Chicago, presents “Climate Counteraesthetics: Mediations against the extreme.”
More Info
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
As part of Lincoln’s Welcoming Week 2024, Sheldon Museum of Art joins the Office of Student Leadership, Involvement, and Community Engagement in presenting Civil Conversations, a time to build a better understanding with fellow students and community members from all different backgrounds through respectful dialogue about civic engagement and voting.
Participants will tour the exhibition Voting is People Power and then engage in facilitated conversations with one another. Afterwards, make a “vote” button and stop by the Husker Vote Coalition table to register to vote and to learn more about the 2024 elections. Light refreshments provided.
More Info
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 6:00pm
In conjunction with the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Sheldon Museum of Art presents a gallery talk on artist Jacob Lawrence by Christian Wurst, associate curator for exhibitions. The talk immediately precedes Step Afrika’s Lied Center performance of “The Migration,” based on Lawrence’s iconic paintings "The Migration Series."
The gallery talk is free and open to the public. For more information and tickets to Step Afrika’s performance at the Lied Center, visit liedcenter.org.
More Info
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Start your weekend off with First Friday at Sheldon. Explore the exhibitions, participate in creative activities, and socialize with friends.
More Info
Saturday, October 12, 2024 - 11:00am
Sheldon Museum of Art joins Civic Nebraska in presenting Civic Saturday: Strive On, a nonpartisan event featuring live music, original poetry, inspiring readings, and time for socializing and discussion centered on rebuilding faith in one another and our democracy.
This event is free and open to the public. To learn more and to register, visit https://bitly.com/CivSatNeb. Registration is not required but humbly requested, to help us plan for refreshments and other resources for the gathering.
More Info
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Sheldon Museum of Art joins the Office of Student Leadership, Involvement, and Community Engagement in presenting Civil Conversations, a time to build a better understanding with fellow students from different backgrounds through respectful dialogue about civic engagement and voting.
Participants will tour the exhibition Voting is People Power and then engage in facilitated conversations with one another. Afterwards, make a “vote” button and stop by the Husker Vote Coalition table to register to vote and to learn more about the 2024 elections. Light refreshments provided.
More Info
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 5:30pm
Sips at Sheldon (formerly called Sheldon Connections) is a series in which works of art are catalysts for conversations on contemporary life and issues. Explore art from new and diverse perspectives with University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty and Erin Hanas, curator for academic and campus engagement.
Join Erin and Courtney Hillebrecht, chair and professor of political science, Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and director of the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, for a discussion of works on view in the fall semester exhibitions.
Free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
RSVP by email to sheldonmembership@unl.edu or call Natalie at 402.472.7523.
More Info
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sheldon Museum of Art will host an interdisciplinary discussion of the groundbreaking new volume Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West (University Press of Florida). A rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro (1892–1982) available in English for the first time.
Translator and co-editor Rhi Johnson and six University of Nebraska–Lincoln professors, including Joy Castro, the poet's granddaughter, will discuss the impact and significance of this contribution to U.S. and Caribbean history and literature.
More Info
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Wear your Halloween costume to explore the exhibition Uncanny Encounters. There will be flashlight tours and ghost stories for those who dare to participate.
More Info
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Start your weekend off with First Friday at Sheldon. Explore the exhibitions, participate in creative activities, and socialize with friends.
This event is free and open to the public.
More Info
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 5:30pm
Sips at Sheldon (formerly called Sheldon Connections) is a series in which works of art are catalysts for conversations on contemporary life and issues. Explore art from new and diverse perspectives with University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty and Erin Hanas, curator for academic and campus engagement.
Join Erin and Jeffrey R. Stevens, Susan J. Rosowski Professor of psychology and faculty member in the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior, for a discussion of works on view in the fall semester exhibitions.
Free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
RSVP by email to sheldonmembership@unl.edu or call Natalie at 402.472.7523.
More Info
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Start your weekend off with First Friday at Sheldon. Explore the exhibitions, participate in creative activities, and socialize with friends.
This event is free and open to the public.
More Info