March 2026
We have compiled a list of First Friday participants to allow you to experience the art of downtown! Please remember to follow each individual gallery's in-person policies & be sure to use #LNKFF when you post pictures to share your night!
101 N 14TH ST. |
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118 N 14TH ST. | 12 PM - 7:30 PM
Pot o’ Gold Event ~ Benefit for The Hub & CIRA
One of our favorite Spring Events!
We’ll have two pots near our counter: one for The HUB & one for CIRA.
When you come into the bookstore on Friday, March 6th, we’ll give you a (toy) gold coin. For every $10 you spend on Books & Merchandise, we’ll give you another one.
You place your coins in one pot or another – or both!
We’re donating 5% of Total Sales, divided proportionally, based on the percentage of total coins each organization gets.
If you like, contribute cash/real coins to the pot of your choice. Cash donations will be given directly.
12-7:30: Get Toy Gold Coins to Put in the Pots – and Chocolate Coins to Eat!
5:30-7:30 Community Celebration with Treats!
More information about The Hub & CIRA here.
Burkholder Art Studio & Galleries
719 P ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
Show runs March 6th-28th
We have Tom Sheppard and Megan Shoemaker in the Main Gallery. The Skylight Gallery will host a Landscape group show, with Bruce Thiel in the Outback Gallery. Guest artist Jillian Rodgers will be on display in the Special Exhibition Space!
Main Gallery
Senbazuru / Small Acts by Megan Shoemaker is inspired by the Japanese tradition of folding 1,000 paper cranes, which symbolizes longevity and good fortune. Folded over six years using prints by Hokusai, the cranes became a ritual during periods of creative silence, offering a quiet resistance to a culture of urgency and constant production. Each crane represents time, patience, and connection. These small acts accumulate into a larger whole.
Around Town by Tom Sheppard
“The work in this show represents different sites in and around the city that strike me as particularly interesting. Some are realistic, others are abstracted to various degrees. Watercolor is used in all work, enhanced with other media at times. Most paintings are done on Arches paper although many are painted on local handmade paper.”
Outback Gallery
'New Work in Photography' by Bruce Thiel
Skylight Gallery
LANDSCAPE, group exhibit featuring work by Richard Terrell
Special Exhibit Space
Seeing Stars, Featuring Madam Moon by Jillian Rodgers
“Seeing Stars, Featuring Madam Moon is a playful collection of celestial-themed sculptures exploring the inherent connectivity humanity holds with each other by sharing the same view of the night sky.”
140 N 12TH ST. | 5 PM
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119 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
We'll be dreaming of spring in our show "March Dreams" curated by Curtis Adams. Join him, five Clements Noyes Art Gallery artists and three guest artists at the opening reception on March 6. Music by Jack Zeleny and treats by The Rabbit Hole Bakery.
200 S ANTELOPE VALLEY PARKWAY | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
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2055 O ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
Signal-to-Noise exhibition features the wall installations of Nancy Steele-Makasci, and the mixed-media prints of Erin Wohletz. Both artists will present their current works that use iconic references and visual interpretations for broad perceptions. Nancy has explored relief printing from woodblocks and mixed media as artist books that are presented open on the wall to make a unit. Her recent kaleidoscopic prints play with geometric block patterns in color. The community is invited to join her on Saturday March 14 to help print a large collaborative work with quilt-like permutations. Erin is a guest artist of the UNL Print Club in April, and a public presentation is TBA. Erin will exhibit dense prints created in silkscreen, collage, mezzotint, and mixed media, that compress space and a “landscape of symbols” for a disorienting and immersive viewpoint. They examine material and machine culture that bombards us with overload while today’s issues and anxieties are referenced with absurdities, humor, and feeling.
Nancy Steele-Makasci is an interdisciplinary visual artist and art educator. She makes art in a wide range of media including reproducible print media, painting, drawing, and book arts. Nancy continually encourages others to make art and to pursue their dreams of becoming artists in her position as Professor of Art in the Department of Art & Design at Utah Valley University where she has taught courses in painting, drawing, printmaking, and art education.
A native Hoosier from eastern Indiana, Nancy received an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MA in Art from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She also completed a BA in Visual Arts Education (magna cum laude) at Ball State University. During 2024, Nancy completed an artist residency at the MI-LAB in Echizen, Japan where she focused on honing her skills and knowledge of the advanced techniques of mokuhanga also known as traditional Japanese woodblock printing.
https://steelemakasci.wixsite.com/prints
Erin Wohletz is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of South Dakota. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada they received their BFA in Printmaking and Painting from the University of Nevada, Reno and their MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Erin Wohletz has participated in exhibitions across the United States including; Unfinished/ New Prints at the Print Center New York and Mid America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition at Kansas State University where they received Best in Show. Wohletz has participated in a variety of artist residencies including; Seacort Print Workshop in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Kala Art Institute in Berkley, California and the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
https://ewohletz.com/home.html
140 N. 8TH ST. | 6 PM - 9 PM
First Friday: Daniel Christian
Nashville recording artist Daniel Christian has entertained audiences in theaters, churches, festivals, stadiums, and living rooms across the nation, including Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Country Stampede, and SXSW. He has opened shows for a diverse range of popular artists, including The Fixx, Selah, Montgomery Gentry, and many more.
Daniel has won two National Country Music Festival awards, and has earned nine Omaha Entertainment Award nominations in his native Nebraska, including Best Singer-Songwriter, Best Alternative/Indie Artist, Best Christian/Gospel, Album of the Year, and Artist of the Year.
His debut album, I Am Merely Sand, was released in 2007. The album includes the song “New Sun Rising,” which charted on the International Association of Independent Recording Artists’ (IAIRA) Top 100.
Daniel was a high school English teacher for 5 years before making music his full-time occupation in 2008. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), the Nebraska Arts Council, and is a founding member of Nebraska’s chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).
In 2007, Daniel helped compose the school song for Johnson County Central High School in his hometown of Tecumseh, Nebraska. The Lincoln Journal-Star says that the song creates "a unity between the school and its community of patrons. The lyrics pay homage to what had been but also focuses on what is now — and what will be. It focuses on unity, loyalty and pride in the new school."
Daniel’s second album, Hold Your Breath, was released in the spring of 2010, and featured on Mike Flynn’s “The Folk Sampler” program on NPR.
Daniel’s third studio album, Speak, was produced by Andrew Osenga (The Normals, Caedmon’s Call), and released early in 2013. The album features the song, “Dandelion,” selected from thousands of entries as one of ten “Inspirational” finalists in the 14th Annual Great American Song Contest.
For more than a decade, Daniel has been sharing his music across the country, completing a coast-to-coast tour of the United States in 2014, and releasing two new albums in 2017 (Coffee & Toast) with South Carolina label, Tremulant Records.
1100 E O ST. | 5 PM - 9 PM
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STADIUM DR. & T ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
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The Eloise Kruger Gallery of Miniatures
RM 831 of Oldfather Hall on UNL City Campus | 2 PM - 6 PM
We are open First Fridays through May 1st from 2 - 6 pm. Admission is always free (not just on First Fridays). This semester we are featuring an incredible miniature Nebraska Sod House created by local artist Marjorie Bailey.
211 N 14TH ST | 6 PM - 9 PM
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130 S 13TH ST | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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124 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us in March for TINTS AND TIMBER, with mixed media by Karis Loos, watercolors by Mike Holmquist, turned wood by Sherri Payne, and oil paintings by Michael Ulrich. Opening reception Friday, March 6 (5-8:30pm).
1300 P Street | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
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1155 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
Join us for the opening of “With a Little Help from Our Friends: New Perspectives on the Collection,” a special exhibition that celebrates our dynamic community of Great Plains Fellows. For this exhibition, 20 Fellows were invited to select an artwork from the Great Plains Art Museum’s permanent collection and respond to it in any way they chose. Organized in conjunction with the Center’s 50th anniversary, this co-curated exhibition provides fresh and diverse perspectives on the collection and highlights the important interdisciplinary focus of the Center.The Great Plains Art Museum is open late on First Friday, March 6, 5-7 p.m. with four exhibitions and light refreshments. Remarks at 5:30 p.m.
On View:
“Collection Connections: Art in Conversation”
January 20-July 25, 2026
In 2026, the Center for Great Plains Studies and its Great Plains Art Museum celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Center and the 45th anniversary of the museum’s opening. To commemorate these milestones, this exhibition highlights artworks from the collection that span the museum’s history, from the founding donation to recent acquisitions. Rather than presenting these selections in a chronological arrangement, artworks are paired or grouped to focus on formal and thematic connections and emphasize the diverse perspectives that tell the multifaceted stories of the Great Plains.
“‘All the Beauty You Can See’: Dwight Kirsch in Nature”
January 20-July 25, 2026
A native Nebraskan and prolific artist, Dwight Kirsch (1899-1981) was an important figure in the Lincoln arts community in the early-to-mid twentieth century, serving as chair of the University of Nebraska Art Department and playing an integral role in the Nebraska Art Association. The Great Plains Art Museum’s extensive collection of Kirsch’s work spans his time teaching in Nebraska through his last years at the Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home. This exhibition presents a small sampling of those holdings, each selected to demonstrate Kirsch’s deep and lifelong fascination with conveying the nuances and beauty of the natural world through art.
"Indigenous Ceramics from the Collection"
January 20–July 25, 2026
This permanent collection spotlight exhibition in the museum’s Mezzanine Gallery features diverse ceramic works by Indigenous artists of the Great Plains and nearby Southwest region.
Handspoken Fair Trade (originally Ten Thousand Villages)
140 N. 8th ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
Handspoken (Formerly Ten Thousand Villages) hosts a craft night in collaboration with Downtown Lincoln Artwalk First Friday. These events are free to anyone and everyone. The crafts vary each month. The craft for each month will be announced here and on our social media!
1208 O ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
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Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
333 S. 13th St. | 6 PM - 9 PM
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701 P St SUITE 102 | 5 PM - 8 PM
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131 CENTENNIAL MALL N | 5 PM - 7 PM
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325 S 11th St. | 6 PM - 9 PM
First Friday with @madison.chase.art
1410 O St. | 7 PM - 10 PM
Check out their website and view all of their different studios for more details.
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Saint Paul United Methodist Church
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Genoa Remembrance Day Panel Discussion | 5:30 PM
Behind the quiet Nebraska landscape rests the memory of Native children taken from their families and silenced at the Genoa Indian Industrial School. This panel invites us to confront that history with honesty, honor those who never returned home, and understand how each of us can help carry truth and healing forward.
First Friday Drop-In Art Tour | 6 PM
Looking to meet new people and unwind with some creative exploration? Join us this First Friday for a relaxed life-drawing session at Sheldon. This drop-in, drop-out program invites you to sketch from a clothed live model at your own pace for as long as you’d like. Sheldon is committed to fostering a welcoming, creative atmosphere for all skill levels, and everyone is invited to participate.
Drop-in tours will also be available at 6pm
This event is free and open to the public, no registration is required.
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'Memories Deveined'
First Friday, March 6th from 7-10 with DJ ol' moanin'
Jewelya Coffey @jewelyayaya | Jaime LaMaster @james.lama.art
210 Architecture Hall (HDR Pavilion Lobby) | 5 PM - 7 PM
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Have an art show in downtown Lincoln you'd like added to our monthly list?
Email Maia at maia@downtownlincoln.org.