For 60 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.
February 7, 2025 through July 13, 2025
Exploding Native Inevitable is a traveling exhibition, organized by Brad Kahlhamer and Dan Mills for Bates College Museum of Art, that features the work of twelve contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives from lands we now call America.
January 21, 2025 through July 13, 2025
Drawn from Sheldon's collection, the works in this exhibition illustrate the spirit of visual sovereignty, a term used to describe contemporary Native American art that prioritizes the perspective of the artist and reclaims physical and cultural space.
January 21, 2025 through July 13, 2025
This exhibition uses cutting-edge generative technology and works from Sheldon's collection to produce an endless flow of Edward Hopper–inspired imagery that never repeats or loops.
Discover Sheldon’s collection—outside.
Explore outdoor sculptures from Sheldon’s collection displayed year round across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City and East Campuses. Use this map to create your own self-guided tour.
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