2009 MONA Exhibitions
(Exhibitions and dates are subject to change)
Last updated January, 2010

Sights & Sounds
August 25, 2009 - August 8, 2010

Senses collide in this year-long exhibition filled with sights and sounds that come to life in the art. The interplay of line, color, and shape provokes auditory nuances that offer viewers a new approach to experiencing the art. A lesson plan for use by classroom teachers is an added component.

Cover to Cover: Artists Books
September 22, 2009 – January 24, 2010

Academia Invitational
October 3, 2009 - March 7, 2010

This exhibition invites the faculties of the University of Nebraska Art Departments to exhibit their newest works at the Museum of Nebraska Art. Hand selected, the mix of sculptures, paintings, prints, ceramics, among other art forms, is a rare chance to view works together by these University educators.

Nebraska Now: Christina Narwicz
October 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010

For the first time, Omaha artist Christina Narwicz brings her large-scale oil paintings to MONA’s Yanney Skylight Gallery as part of the Nebraska Now series. While the artist’s works can be viewed simply as lovely, she successfully merges ideas and feelings of both the earthly and the ethereal in her textural and gestural paintings. Pulling from organic imagery; Narwicz draws forms with a calligraphic line atop a softly painted background where colors float, blend, and sway with each other. A New York native, Narwicz first came to Nebraska through the artist-in-residency program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 1985. She has made her home in Nebraska where she works as a full-time artist.

Nebraska Now: Elizabeth Ingraham, Fiber
August 25, 2009 - August 8, 2010

The work of Elizabeth Ingraham combines fiber arts and the human figure. By composing various fabrics into life-size hanging, primarily female “skins,” Ingraham investigates, as she states, “how expectation, desire and convention – our own and others – form casings which shape our deepest selves and which become so familiar they seem like our own skin.”

Birds and Burrowers
January 19 – May 23, 2010

Spirit: A Celebration of Art in the Heartland
April 9, 10, 11, 2010 Spirit: A Celebration of Art in the Heartland
Spirit is a biennial fund-raising benefit for MONA Spirit will feature for purchase artworks of Nebraska-connected artists. The art selections of the invited artists will be on view several weeks before the culminating festive weekend of activities that include a Patron Reception one evening and a Gala Dinner and Auction. read more.

Student Art Show
April 13 – May 16, 2010

Nebraska Now: Michael Strand: Ceramics
April 17 – July 3, 2010

Nebraska’s Heritage
April 27 – August 15, 2010

Artist Trading Cards
May 29 – September 14, 2010

Meadowlark Music Festival: Art in Tune
May 29 – September 14, 2010

Then and Now: The Provocative Wasteland
June 5 – September 26, 2010

Nebraska Now: Vera Mercer: Photographs
July 10 – October 3, 2010

It Figures
August 10 – November 28, 2010

Charles Bird King
August 31 – December 5, 201