Exhibitions

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. […]

Begins Dec. 30, 2023 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 in the […]

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 […]

Sept. 2 – Nov. 14, 2021 The exhibition is a combination of quilts from the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln and Butler County submissions. The 19th century applique quilts are drawn from the “Hearts & Flowers” collection of the International Museum (IQM) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The IQM’s mission is to build a global […]

EXTENDED to March 19, 2023 Walker backpacks throughout his hometown region of Teton Valley, Idaho documenting oil sketches on site and uses those in the studio to recapture the liveliness of the moment on a larger canvas. He also travels to Northern California, Utah, and other places throughout the West on painting expeditions. He says […]