Upcoming Events

The Great Plains Art Museum is open late on First Friday, April 4, 5-7 p.m., for the opening reception of “Watershed” from 2025 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Amanda Maciuba. The event will feature light refreshments and an all-ages …

With millions of acres of fenced cropland, the Great Plains doesn’t seem like a wild place, but there is much to learn from the pockets of wildness left and the efforts to restore and protect the region’s landscape. This conference will examine …

With millions of acres of fenced cropland, the Great Plains doesn’t seem like a wild place, but there is much to learn from the pockets of wildness left and the efforts to restore and protect the region’s landscape. This conference will examine …

Ferin Davis Anderson will give a keynote talk for Wild Great Plains, the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th annual conference. This talk is free and open to the public, no conference ticket needed. All other speakers require a conference ticket.

With millions of acres of fenced cropland, the Great Plains doesn’t seem like a wild place, but there is much to learn from the pockets of wildness left and the efforts to restore and protect the region’s landscape. This conference will examine …

Artist Amanda Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, including the impacts of human-driven climate change.

Thomas Sanchez, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology and Acting Director, Office of Latino and Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at UNO, will speak on immigration in the Great Plains. This presentation explores the presence, history, …