Great Plains Art Museum announces a Call for Artists

Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council

The Great Plains Art Museum announces a Call for Artists for a juried exhibition focusing on Native American culture in the Great Plains region. Founded in 1980, the Great Plains Art Museum is home to a large collection of historical and contemporary works by Native North American artists. The Museum regularly hosts exhibitions that focus on contemporary Native identity as well as historical Native issues. This is the first juried exhibition hosted by the Great Plains Art Museum, by which we seek to enhance knowledge and appreciation about Native American contemporary arts in the Great Plains today.

This exhibition is expected to include the works of well- and lesser- known individuals whose work expresses the texture of Native American life in the Great Plains today. Selected by jury, this exhibition strives for a broad-ranging exploration which conveys the spectrum of contemporary visual art and fine craft in the Great Plains region, with a special emphasis on Native American culture. Over $5,000 in awards are available, including potential to be purchased for the permanent collection of the Great Plains Art Museum.

The awarding juror for the exhibition is artist and scholar Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie. Tsinhnahjinnie has been a recipient of the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, a Chancellor’s Fellowship at the University of California Irvine, the First Peoples Community Artist Award, and a Rockefeller artist in residence. She is currently Director of the C.N. Gorman Museum at University of California Davis and Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at University of California Davis.

A map of the Great Plains region as well as a prospectus of the exhibition can be accessed at http://www.unl.edu/plains/about/map.shtml and http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/juriedexhibition.shtml. Eligible works should express some element of North American Indigenous Culture and have a contemporary or historical significance and placement within the Great Plains of North America.
    
For further information and submission details, visit the prospectus at http://www.unl.edu/plains/gallery/juriedexhibition.shtml or send a self addressed stamped envelope to the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Hewitt Place, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0250. For questions contact Alicia Harris at greatplainsartmuseum@gmail.com or call (402)472.0599.

If you would like more information about the juried exhibition, contact Amber Mohr at 402-472-0599 or e-mail Amber at amohr2@unl.edu.