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Marina Kushner, “reaching within,” ceramic, wax and found foliage, 2025.

39th Annual Undergraduate Exhibition opens Feb. 6

January 23, 2026

Kate Bingaham-Burt’s “10 Favorite Tools for Staying Human, Making Stuff and Not Losing My Mind Completely,” Google slide, 2025, ink on Post-It notes.

Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series opens Feb. 5 with UNL design alumna Bingaman-Burt

January 21, 2026

“Exposition Exhibition: Art and the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair” will be in the MEDICI Gallery Dec. 15-19. The exhibit revises, revisits and reimagines the Trans-Mississippi Exhibition, which drew more than 2.5 million people to Omaha in 1898.

Finals Week exhibit revisits, reimagines 1898 Trans-Mississippi Expo

December 2, 2025

Melissa Hewitt, “Under My Skin.”

Studio art capstone exhibition opens Dec. 15

December 1, 2025

The Clay Club’s fall sale is Dec. 12-13 in Richards Hall Rm. 118. A photo and printmaking sale will also be held on those dates in Rm. 112.

Student art sales are Dec. 12-13

November 21, 2025

Kristina Paabus, “When in Doubt,” screen monoprint, 2020, 30” x 22”.

Multidisciplinary artist Paabus to present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist lecture Dec. 4

November 20, 2025

Alec Schutt, “AS1 Astra.”

Graphic design capstone exhibition opens Dec. 1

November 17, 2025

Pablo Helguera

Helguera to deliver next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture Nov. 20

November 12, 2025

Julia Blaut

Blaut lecture Nov. 6 will focus on legacy of artist Robert Rauschenberg

October 22, 2025

Visual Arts in Practice will host their annual Open Studios event on Friday, Nov. 7 from 5-7:30 p.m. in Richards Hall and Woods Art Building. Included among the artists is Daniel Garcia, whose work is shown above.

Step inside the creative process at UNL’s Open Studios Nov. 7

October 20, 2025

Left: Adrian Arleo, “Rabbit-Hearted (detail),” 2025, clay, glaze, wax encaustic, 10” x 13” x 19”. Right: Jane Shellenbarger, “Square Box,” soda-fired stoneware, 2024. Arleo and Shellenbarger will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lectures on Oct. 30.

Ceramic artists Arleo, Shellenbarger to present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist lecture Oct. 30

October 16, 2025

Darius Spieth speaks at the Sept. 9 ceremony at the Résidence de France in New Orleans after being decorated with the rank of Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Palmes académiques. Photo by Audoin de Vergnette, Consulate General of France in New Orleans.

Art history alum wins French academic honor

October 9, 2025