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.
What makes a family? The objects in this exhibition are drawn from Sheldon's collection to offer unique perspectives on marriage, parenthood, family life, and genealogy. More info
Sheldon’s permanent collection galleries are laboratories in which unique ideas and installations give visitors opportunities to see and experience the collection in new ways. More info
This exhibition presents a selection of photographs from Sheldon’s collection that exemplifies writer and photographer Wright Morris’s sensitivity in capturing details of rural Nebraska in the 1940s. More info
Several important works given to Sheldon in 1971 by New York gallerist and interior designer Bertha Schaefer are shown together to underscore the ongoing legacy of such a significant contribution to the museum. More info
Conflict and Consequence brings together more than seventy original photographs that illuminate the social and political complexities of the human condition during war and its aftermath. More info
Fifteen University of Nebraska faculty, staff, and students were invited to become curators for an exhibition drawn from Sheldon’s permanent holdings of nearly 3,000 photographs. More info
Photographer An-My Lê’s 29 Palms is a series of black-and-white photographs made in the California desert where US Marines train for battle prior to deployment. More info
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
Oregon-based artist Ron Jude returned to the California-desert landscape of his childhood as if a detective in search of clues to his own identity. More info