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Family Day at Sheldon Museum of Art

Join Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and Sheldon from 2 to 4 PM for art, music, and refreshments. Everyone is invited to create and trade silly necktie creations inspired by the exhibition “Ken Friedman: 92 Events.” Lincoln Symphony Orchestra will lead an interactive instrument petting zoo and special performances. In the galleries, enjoy a museum-wide game of “I Spy.”

Family Day is free and open to everyone. Registration is recommended. Click here to sign up.

Drop-in Tour at Sheldon Museum of Art

Drop in for a tour of Sheldon’s exhibitions led by a Sheldon Student Ambassador before each Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture.

Hixson Lied Lecture: Margaretta Lovell

Cultural historian Margaretta Lovell works at the intersection of history, art/architectural history, and anthropology. She holds the Jay D. McEvoy, Jr., Chair in the History of American Art at the University of California Berkeley and studies material culture, painting, architecture and design in England, France and North America from the 17th century to the present.

Curator Tour: Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane

Gain insight into Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane from Christian Wurst, Sheldon’s associate curator of exhibitions, who organized the exhibition.

With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Sheldon joins an international roster of institutions commemorating the centennial of the artist’s birth. The exhibition presents nine editioned works from the museum’s collection, examined through art historian Leo Steinberg’s concept of the flatbed picture plane.

This curator tour is free and open to everyone. Space is limited; please register at go.unl.edu/curator-tour-oct-18.

Sips at Sheldon

Sips at Sheldon looks at works of art from new and thought-provoking perspectives. The October program will feature Richard Moberly, dean and Richard C. & Catherine S. Schmoker Professor of Law, and Liz Ring Carlson, vice president of corporate communications, community relations, and meetings and travel at Ameritas.

Dean Moberly and Ms. Ring Carlson, both co-curators of the exhibition "Go Big Red," will be in conversation with Erin Hanas, Sheldon’s curator for academic and campus engagement.

Conversations begin in the galleries and continue in the boardroom with sips and charcuterie. Free for members, $10 for nonmembers. To register, click here.

Great Plains Lecture: Rebecca Nagle

Rebecca Nagle, the winner of the 2025 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, will give a talk at Sheldon as part of the Center for Great Plains Studies’ Paul A. Olson lecture series.

The book, “By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land” (Harper Collins Publishers), recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma by chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance.

Drop-in Tour at Sheldon Museum of Art

Drop in for a tour of Sheldon’s exhibitions led by a Sheldon Student Ambassador before each Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture.

Halloween at Sheldon

Dark arts. Flashlight tours. Halloween at Sheldon.
Enjoy flashlight tours, oracle card readings, conversations with artists in the spirit realm, a costume contest, and cash bar with Halloween spirits.

This Halloween party is for those over 21. Although free, registration is strongly encouraged: go.unl.edu/sheldon-halloween