The University of Nebraska is a land-grant institution with campuses and programs on the past, present, and future homelands of the Pawnee, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria, Omaha, Dakota, Lakota, Kaw, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Peoples, as well as those of the relocated Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox, and Iowa Peoples.
FIRST FLOOR, MAIN GALLERY
Contemporary Indigeneity 2024
September 6–December 21, 2024
Contemporary Indigeneity 2024 features over 25 Native American artists from across the Great Plains. Join us for an opening reception on First Friday, Sept. 6 from 5-6 p.m., followed by a talk at 6 p.m. where the jurors who chose the artwork will speak about the exhibition and Indigenous artwork with GPAM Director/Curator Ashley Wilkinson.
Visit the exhibition page to learn more.
Mezzanine Gallery
Ix’ą broge waxonyitą ke/ki (Every Life is Sacred)
May 17–October 26, 2024
Visit our Mezzanine Gallery to see recent textile work by Mihą Xege, Faded Woman (Tamara Faw Faw), a Jiwere-Nut'achi (Otoe-Missouria) artist. These pieces bring attention to issues affecting Indigenous people in both the US and Canada.
Above detail: Mihą Xege (Faded Woman) (Tamara Faw Faw), Otoe-Missouria Tribe/Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. Missing, Murdered Indigenous Peoples Coat, 2021–2022. 3-band black wool broadcloth, satin appliqué, silver brooches, abalone river shell buttons, tin tobacco lid jingles, and seed bead medallions created by Chris Aguayo (Yurok Tribe). Gift of Benjamin West, The Arkeketa Project.
Lower-level gallery
Confronting the Legendary West
August 2–December 21, 2024
This exhibition continues the themes of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 49th annual conference, Confronting the Legendary Great Plains, by focusing on the complex mythology of the American West. Confronting the Legendary West includes works from the Great Plains Art Museum’s extensive collection of western art and considers the perspectives that have—and have not—been included in the art that tells the stories of this region.
Above detail: Douglas Duer, Untitled ("Bess, I'll Not Go Again" Illustration for Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage), circa 1912, oil on canvas, gift of Jean and Robert Mills
