On view now through Sept. 7, 2025 Gallery 2 Prior to making beautiful black and white photographs on traditional large format 8×10 plates, Charles was Dr. Charles Guildner, M.D., anesthesiologist and UNMC alumnus. He retired from the medical profession in 1987 and took up a new career creating portraits which document Americans steeped in very […]
On view now through Sept. 7, 2025 Gallery 1 Butler County, Nebraska has a robust artist heritage. Some of the most prominent area artists are featured in this exhibition. “Upholding Traditions” honors the creative characters who have gone before. “Blazing New Trails” explores the talent that is alive and well in the community. Upholding Traditions […]
Aug. 23- Dec. 15, 2024 Impact Nebraska Artists, a professional exhibiting artist group since 1985, has a brand new exhibition about the little helpers that make our gardens grow. Pollinators are the secret heroes of our gardens, orchards, fields, and farms. Birds, bats, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are the […]
March 22- Aug. 18, 2024 Lorraine Ortner-Blake provides a provocative exhibition about the changes in farming in recent decades. Her mural and collage-like images give the feeling of change and uncertainty for many as well as beauty and encouragement for us all to continue the values of embracing work and the land. Farming in the […]
Nov. 3, 2023- Mar. 17, 2024 Lent by the Homestead National Monument of Beatrice, Nebr., Bone Creek Museum presents Judy Thompson‘s Homestead Series. Judy says, “I completed the Homestead Series just before the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Homestead Act by President Abraham Lincoln. As artist-in-residence at Homestead National Monument, my “job” was to […]
July 15 – Nov 5, 2023 Acclaimed California impressionist painter Erin Hanson is presenting a solo exhibition of coastal vineyard landscapes. Save the date for a Meet and Greet with Erin on July 29th! To gather inspiration for this show, Hanson explored wine country landscapes across America, from Virginia and Texas to California and Oregon. […]
Dec. 30, 2023- Dec. 15, 2024 Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art received a major gift of art late in 2023. The Overland Gallery of Minneapolis gifted 24 paintings by American artist Gary Ernest Smith (1942- ). Smith grew up in rural Oregon and worked with his father and grandfather in the fields. After serving […]
March 18- July 10, 2022 Ashland, Nebraska artist Wendy Hall has created a series of small paintings to pair with excerpts from a diary written by Cecelia Hall, her husband’s great grandmother. In 1869, Cecelia and her husband homesteaded the land where the Halls still live. Wendy has selected excerpts and created paintings to match, […]
Nov. 19, 2021- March 13, 2022 Debra Joy Groesser will present one of her newest collections, “Yes, This is Nebraska” as a solo exhibition at Bone Creek.
July 15 – Nov 6, 2022 The theme for this exhibition is a continuation of an exhibition from 2020. Back then, the museum mounted the “2020 Vision: Nebraska’s Top 20” exhibition highlighting the best agrarian artists in the state. Now we continue with a theme to find the best of the best. Bone Creek Museum […]
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