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Color portrait of artist Elizabeth Burden, wearing a black shirt and sweater, with her arms crossed.

From Nebraska Today

Great Plains Art Museum to host Elizabeth Burden for two-week residency

August 19, 2026

Artists (left to right) Jessica Moore Harjo, Marci Black, Regina Waters and Paul Lucero, work on a mural on the east-facing wall of the Lincoln Indian Center. The mural is one part of a joint project between the Center for Great Plains Studies and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma funded by a Mellon Foundation grant. It features indigenous plants and is emblazoned with the words "Nyi Bráthge," or flat water.

From Nebraska Today

Great Plains Studies collaboration highlights Otoe-Missouria history through mural

August 6, 2026

A large insect with two sets of wings is seen in the center of a colorful floral display.

From Nebraska Today

First Friday features art, exhibitions and campus tours

August 4, 2026

A large insect with two sets of wings is seen in the center of a colorful floral display.

From Nebraska Today

Great Plains Art Museum to open immersive exhibition focused on insect world

July 27, 2026

Volunteers preparing soil in a community garden with trees and greenhouse in the background.

Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors plants second year of Indigenous garden

May 20, 2026

Layered rock formations in arid badlands with hills and cloudy sky in the background.

Guidelines for Ecotourism Operations

May 20, 2026

Rolling prairie hills with scattered evergreen shrubs, patches of snow, and a blue sky above.

Gracie Creek Implementation Project: Restoring Habitat for Priority Species

May 20, 2026

Sandhills landscape with fence

Can Ecotourism Save the Great Plains?

May 20, 2026

Man and woman outdoors in a desert landscape, man gesturing with his hands.

African Lessons for Saving America’s Prairie

May 20, 2026

Sandhill crane

Saving the Prairie: Map of Top 10 Ecotourism sites promotes conservation effort to save America’s remaining virgin prairies - public and private

May 20, 2026

Red desert dunes with sparse grass, distant mountains under soft pink twilight sky.

Returning to African Ecotourism

May 20, 2026

Woman photographing the desert near a parked beige SUV at sunset.

Namibian Models of Ecotourism and Conservation

May 20, 2026