Join Dr. Wendy Katz, professor of art history in the School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Dr. Kyle Chattleton, Public Historian at The Durham Museum in Omaha; and alumna Karissa Johnson, curator at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), for a conversation about Omaha’s Gilded Age and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898, also known as Omaha’s World Fair. Documented in paintings by artist John Ross Key now on view in the exhibition In Search of Ourselves, this program will explore the goals and realities of organizing Nebraska’s most significant cultural event.
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place on Sept. 11 from 7-8pm at the MONA Founders Gallery.
More details at: https://visitkearney.org/event/art-after-dark/