Great Plains Fellows: Art and Art History

NameTitleInstitutionSpecialty
W. Kenton BalesProfessor Emeritus, MusicUNOMusic theory and composition
Derrick BurbulDepartment Chair & Professor, Art and DesignUNKEnvironment and human relations
Valerie CislerDean, College of Fine Arts and Communication; Professor, MusicUniversity of Wisconsin Stevens PointGreat Plains music, piano
Patricia C. CrewsProfessor Emeritus, Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion DesignUNLHistory, conservation, and performance of textiles
Nancy Engen-WedinLecturer, TLTE; Program Manager, Lied Center for Performing Arts; Coordinator, Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program, College of Education and Human SciencesUNLEducation, Indigenous issues and education, arts and curriculum
Anne ForadoriProfessor, Music (Voice)UNKWomen in music, prairie song
Dana FritzHixson-Lied Professor, Art (Photography)UNLIntersections of photography, landscape, and environment
Kirsten FurlongLecturer and Director of the Blue Galleries, Department of Art, Design, and Visual StudiesBoise State UniversityVisual art, intersections of art and ecology
Robert HowerProfessor and Chair Emeritus, Art & Art History; President, United Designs AllianceUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonArt, interactive projects, computer graphics
Elizabeth IngrahamProfessor Emeritus, Art & Art HistoryUNLTextiles and material culture, computational creativity
N. Keith Jacobshagen IIProfessor Emeritus, ArtUNLLandscape art, painting
Annika JohnsonAssociate Curator of Native American ArtJoslyn Art MuseumNative American arts and culture, institutional futures
Toby JurovicsDirectorBarry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment19th, 20th Century photography and art of the American West
Wendy KatzProfessory, Art HistoryUNL19th-century American genre painting, landscapes, Great Plains
Joni KinseyProfessor, Art & Art HistoryUniversity of IowaPlains art, surveying of the American West, 18th through 20th Century American art
Karen KuncProfessor Emeritus, ArtUNLPrintmaking, papermaking, book arts
Margaret MacKichanDirector Emeritus, Great Plains Art InstituteSinte Gleska UniversityNative American art history, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture
George MelnykProfessor Emeritus, Communication-Media & FilmUniversity of CalgaryCanadian studies, Canadian Plains, protest in Western Canada, peace studies, Canadian cinema
Tice MillerProfessor Emeritus, Theatre ArtsUNLAmerican theatre history, dramatic literature, criticism
Paula PetrikProfessor Emeritus, History & Art HistoryGeorge Mason UniversityHistory of the Trans-Mississippi West, U.S. women's history, U.S. business history
Byron PriceDirector, University of Oklahoma Press; Director, Charles M. Russell Center; Charles Marion Russell Chair, Art HistoryUniversity of OklahomaArt of the American West
Teliza RodriguezCreative Districts CoordinatorNebraska Arts CouncilArts administration and curation, artwork of the early-era Nebraska women artists and early Nebraska Indigenous peoples
C. Patrick RowanProfessor Emeritus, ArtUNLStudio art, painting, sculpture
Sarah RoweVisual and performance artistEnrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Lakota NationMixed media visual arts, community programming, and healing arts collaboration
Kate SchneiderArtistCanadaPhotographed the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline for the exhibition "We, the Heartland"
Richard SchuesslerProfessor, Art and DesignUNKVisual communications, typography
Melynda SeatonCurator of PhotographyHistory ColoradoArt of the American West, photography
Janet SmithArt ConsultantOmaha, Neb.Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists
Randall SnyderProfessor Emeritus, MusicUNLMusical arts, composition, comprehensive musicianship
Robert SpenceProfessor Emeritus, ArtUNLArt
Gwen WestermanArtist and Professor, EnglishMinnesota State University in MankatoNative American literature and art
Ashley WilkinsonDirector/Curator, Great Plains Art MuseumUNLTwentieth-century American art, New Deal-era printmaking
Sandra WilliamsAssociate Professor, ArtUNLMixed media, the animal in art and aesthetics, art and well-being
Gary ZarubaProfessor Emeritus, Art & Art HistoryUNKStudio art, art education, Nebraska art