February 16, 2017
Posted by the Kearney Hub KEARNEY — The artwork of Dale Nichols looks deceptively simple. “They’re simple in their form but they’re not simple in the way they were composed,” Amanda Mobley Guenther, curator at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, said of the painting by the Nebraska-born artist. “I have […]
February 04, 2017
Posted by the Omaha World Herald The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art is accepting artist submissions until Feb. 25 for the exhibition “150 Artists, 150 Artworks, 150 Years of Nebraska in Miniature.” The original deadline was Feb. 1, but the museum did not reach its goal of 150 artists. Artists are invited to submit […]
December 23, 2016
Posted in the Kearney Hub KEARNEY — Dale Nichols found his fame in the art world because of Nebraska. Someone once suggested to the David City artist that “Dale Nichols put Nebraska on the map.” The long-time illustrator of Encyclopedia Britannica replied, “Dale Nichols did not put Nebraska on the map; Nebraska put Dale Nichols […]
November 06, 2016
Posted by the Omaha World Herald DAVID CITY, Neb. — Corn is cool, and Lincoln artist Margaret Berry has a hard time figuring out why more of her Cornhusker State brethren don’t quite get that. As a subject of art, corn has beautiful color, shape and texture, said Berry, who was surrounded by cornfields as […]
September 22, 2016
Posted by The Independent Central City native and internationally known painter Todd Williams has put all 93 Nebraska counties on canvas for a statewide exhibition during Nebraska’s sesquicentennial celebration next year. Nebraska joined the union on March 1, 1867. Its sesquicentennial has been in the planning and development stage for several years. One of the […]