“We, The Heartland” is a love letter to the cultural landscape of the prairies. Photographs by Kate Schneider portraying the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska and South Dakota are paired with handwritten letters to President Obama from landowners and Lakota natives.

The landscapes address the unseen threat the proposed pipeline poses to the land, and the accompanying letters address the indexical relationship between the land and those who seek to preserve it.

Schneider is a Toronto-based photographer and educator. Her work is based in the traditions of documentary storytelling and ethnography, and her most recent works focus on the impact that land and the socialized landscape have on individual and cultural identity in North America. She received her MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University (2009) and is an Instructor of Photography at OCAD University and the Unviersity of Guelph-Humber.

Also up now:
- “From This Grass Earth,” photography and poetry from the Northern Great Plains
- “Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier, an exhibition of vintage engravings, 1770-1902” (lower level)
- 75 Iconic Covers from the University of Nebraska Press (lower level lobby)