LOWER-LEVEL GALLERY
Watershed: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Amanda Maciuba
April 4–September 20, 2025
Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human-driven climate change. She exposes and reconsiders the layered histories of specific locations: from the geologic forces that shaped the land, to impacts of Western colonialism, to the current practices of development, destruction, and restoration by the local communities she interacts with every day. Bodies of water often act as anchors for Maciuba’s creative investigation. Watershed is an exhibition of prints, artist’s books, and installations that consider how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return.
Maciuba is the Great Plains Art Museum’s 2025 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence. Visit the artist during her residency at the museum from April 8 to 19. Learn more about the residency and scheduled events here.
Artwork: Amanda Maciuba, Trace II (Nemaha, Nebraska), 2023, monotype and relief, 17 x 23 inches, photo by Aaron Paden.
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FIRST FLOOR, MAIN GALLERY
The Journey: Documented Items/Undocumented Souls
March 7–August 23, 2025
The Great Plains Art Museum is collaborating with the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Tactile Images, a subsidiary of 3DPhotoWorks LLC, to bring this transformative tactile exhibition to our community. This partnership marks a significant milestone in enhancing accessibility, empowerment, and inclusivity for individuals with diverse abilities in Nebraska.
The Journey presents a photographic essay chronicling the immigrant journey from Latin America to the United States through a deeply moving and impactful series of images by Getty Images Senior Special Correspondent John Moore. Moore captures the story through items that have been lost or discarded—and later documented—along the way. He also talks about his experiences and these photographs as part of the audio included in the tactile displays.
Tactile Images is dedicated to breaking down barriers for blind and disabled individuals in a predominantly sighted world. Through innovative tactile printing techniques, the company provides transformative experiences for the visually impaired, offering tactile exploration of visual and graphic materials accompanied by braille text, audio narratives, and scents. With a focus on accessibility, empowerment, and inclusivity, Tactile Images is committed to making knowledge and experiences accessible to all.
This exhibition was developed by TactileImages.com in association with the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Getty Images, the National Federation of the Blind, and the Alliance for Inclusive Design and Experiences (AIDE). Above photo and banner photos by John Moore.
First Friday opening
Mezzanine Gallery
Shaping the Southwest: Pottery from the Collection
May 27–August 23, 2025
Shaping the Southwest features pottery from a recent donation to the Great Plains Art Museum’s permanent holdings by local collectors of Southwest art, Lehn and Mary Straub. This intimate exhibition in the museum’s Mezzanine Gallery highlights the impressive technical skill of these Indigenous artists and the continuation of the long tradition of Southwest pottery.
Above: Wilma Baca-Tosa (Jemez Pueblo, b. 1967), Jar, 2009, ceramic with sgraffito, gift of Lehn and Mary Straub through the University of Nebraska Foundation
