November 2025
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. | 6:30 PM
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118 N 14TH ST. | 12 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us in support of local, Lincoln High School Theatre!
LHS Theatre offers students hands-on experience with costuming, set design, lighting, stage craft and acting. Each year, they produce several shows for the public in the historic Sorenson Theater at Lincoln High. These productions give students the opportunity to showcase their talents and what they’ve learned while offering the community an affordable, quality theater experience.
Theater education provides a platform for creative expression, encourages collaboration, develops critical thinking and empathy, and builds confidence.
Shop with us, 12pm – 7:30pm on November First Friday and 10% of what you spend will go toward helping students and enriching our community!
Celebrate with us that evening, 5:30pm – 7:30pm and enjoy treats & the antics of costumed actors!
Burkholder Art Studio & Galleries
719 P ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
November 7th-28th
Join us for our newest shows, including Chris Taylor and Harrell Adams in the Main Gallery, Mindy Burton in the Outback Gallery, and Courtney Kenny Porto in the Special Exhibit Space.
Main Gallery
New Work by Chris Taylor & ‘Beyond the Turn II’ by Harrell Adams
Exercises beyond the ordinary wood turned vessel. Shapes, carvings, coloring, painting, and burning on traditional turned items. Taking them outside, above and beyond the ordinary turned item. Included in this show are also sculptural items that were not turned.
Outback Gallery
‘UnScene’ by Mindy Burton
This show features landscapes and environments. The places and visions are based on reality but they are altered to a new scene with imagination and made up detail. The works are meant to be pleasant and inspiring.
Skylight Gallery
‘Autumn Glow’; Group Show, Mixed Media
Special Exhibit Space
‘The Bright Side’ by Courtney Kenny Porto
Bold, joyful, and unapologetically vibrant, The Bright Side celebrates color and optimism through the expressive lens of Courtney Kenny Porto. With candy-colored paint, playful forms, and nostalgic subjects from shiny candies to pink-glazed donuts, Porto turns the everyday into bursts of joy.
Using both realism and abstraction, her work captures simple pleasures and the comforting power of color. The Bright Side reminds us that happiness is hiding in plain sight if we choose to see it.
140 N 12TH ST. | 5 PM
Join us for another unforgettable First Friday Art Walk at Captain Jack’s! Local artist Dale Grooms will be on-site to chat about his work and creative process. Explore his vibrant acrylic landscapes — where realism meets impression — on display and available for purchase throughout November.
In addition to the art, we’re hosting our November Cook-Off: Soups & Stews Edition!
Anyone can bring a soup or stew to compete and come to taste, vote, and enjoy. Competitors receive a free drink when they enter a dish.
Every drink purchase earns a vote ticket (and raffle entry). Vote for your favorite dish and help crown our 1st and 2nd place winners! Each vote ticket also enters you into a raffle for extra prizes. Buy a piece of art during the event for bonus raffle entries.
Friday Drink Special: $3 Fireball shots — it’s Fireball Friday!
Bring your friends, grab a drink, and experience an evening of art, food, and community — all in one place.
Date: Friday, November 7th
Bar Open: 2:00 PM
Official Art Walk & Food Competition: 5:00 PM
Artist Meet & Greet: 6:30 PM
Soup Awards: 8:00 PM
Location: Captain Jack’s Sportsbar — 140 N 12th St.
Follow the artist at grooms-art.com
119 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
Co-curated by Clements Noyes Art Gallery artists Shannon Dumais and Charisse Williams, this show features seven artists. Four gallery artists will show their latest work, and they'll be joined by three guest artists.
Live music by Daniel Martinez and snacks by The Rabbit Hole Bakery.
Featuring Shannon Dumais, Jay Morgan, Linda Hunt, Russ McClintock, Charisse Williams, Sue Krepel, and Ann Williams.
2055 O ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
November 7 - December 27
Clouds:
Nona Hershey
Jennifer Leach
Michelle Martin
This exhibition presents 3 artists who contemplate the meaning and transformative nature of clouds. The earth’s unique character as the water planet has made life possible, and yet clouds are intangible but essential. As our weather changes we are keenly affected by cloud formations and forces….we daily read the clouds, and imagine various configurations, and we use euphemisms of clouds for our moods and dreams. These artists use drawing, woodblock printing, and photo-polymer intaglio plates to craft their efforts to capture nature’s ephemeral clouds, and the vast power within.
Nona Hershey was Professor and Chair of Printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Her work is included in over 100 public and corporate collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Harvard Museum; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Minnesota Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institute; Krakow National Museum; and the Calcografia Nazionale, Rome. She has had residency grants at the Asillah Forum Foundation, Morocco; Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland; Ucross Foundation, WY; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Vermont Studio Center, and twice at the MacDowell Colony, NH. Numerous solo exhibitions include Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia; Galleria Il Ponte, Rome; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ. https://www.nonahershey.com/
Jennifer Leach has an BFA in graphic design and illustration and studied printmaking at Kent State University. She has a post baccalaureate in art education from Cleveland State University. Her work has been shown nationally and locally in galleries including” The Providence Art Club, The Gallery at the Met Store in NYC, the Salmagundi Club in NYC, Boston University, The Fawick Gallery at Baldwin Wallace University, Manhattan Graphics Center, the Erie Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. Jennifer’s work is included in the Summa Hospital Healing Arts Collection, Dalad Art Collection, and Newark Public Library Special Collections. Jennifer is a member of The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and serves on its board. She is a past president and board member of The Print Club of Cleveland.
jenniferleachgallery.com
Michelle Martin is a Professor of Art at The University of Tulsa and Director of the School of Art, Design and Art History. She received her BFA from Texas Tech University and earned her M.F.A. at The Ohio State University. Her work has been shown in over 230 national and international exhibitions including venues in New Zealand, Venezuela, Iceland, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, England, and Canada. Her work is in private, public and university collections, including the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), Kohler Library (Madison, Wisconsin), Muscarelle Museum of Art (The College of William and Mary), the Akron Museum Art Library Program, Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper, the Southwest Collection (Texas Tech University), University Art Museum (University of Louisiana) and Wichita Art Museum. http://www.michellemartinprintmaker.com/
140 N. 8TH ST. | 7 PM - 9 PM
First Friday: Nicole Renaud
My name is Nicole Renaud & I have been photographing the forgotten for over 15 years now. This created what is now known as Rural Wandering Photography my business & passion. I love exploring the unknown & abandoned while also preserving the history of places through photographs. I am also a huge animal lover with 4 dogs, 6 cats, 2 rabbits & a crested gecko of my own & I pet sit for many families as well! I live with my husband & together we spend most of our time restoring our 140 year old Victorian home & taking care of animals. We also enjoy doing photography together & make our road trips out of the places we want to photograph & see.
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 | 3 PM - 6 PM
The Eloise Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts comprises about 20,000 pieces of 1:12 scale furniture and accessories of historically accurate American, English, French, and Asian designs make up this collection, and about 2,500 pieces are on display. The handmade miniatures were collected and commissioned by Eloise Kruger and made by renowned model artists.
211 N 14TH ST | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Foundry is facilitating a First Friday market hosted by artist Amelia Schriner! Art, jewelry, tea and psychic readings are in store for those who come. Vendors include Tika Savitri Illustrations, Nykky Little Crystal, Moon and Hare Shop, and Austin Khyn. Amelia has a thirty original pieces displayed there for the rest of the month into the end of December as well.
130 S 13TH ST | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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124 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 9 PM
Join us in November for WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, with mixed media by Robert Esquivel and Nancy Hagler-Vujovic, and jewelry by Lynn Soloway. On display November 5-30, 2025.
1300 P Street | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
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1155 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
The Great Plains Art Museum is open late on First Friday, November 7, 5-7 p.m. with three exhibitions and light refreshments. Visit the lower-level education studio for a coloring activity.
On View:
“Wild Great Plains”
Lower-Level Gallery
October 3, 2025-February 21, 2026
Inspired by the Center for Great Plains Studies’ 50th annual conference, “Wild Great Plains,” this exhibition considers the concept of “wild” in art. Drawing from the Great Plains Art Museum’s permanent collection, “Wild Great Plains” explores how artists have connected with and portrayed the wild species and places of the region.
“Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land”
First-Floor Galleries
September 5–December 20, 2025
Twenty-five Otoe-Missouria artists, ranging from traditional to contemporary and working in any medium, were selected to co-create an art exhibition reflecting on healing, reconciliation, and reconnecting to the land. "Reflections of Our People" is a key part of the new Mellon-funded initiative “Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Re-Indigenizing Southeast Nebraska.” The initiative, a partnership between the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma and the Center for Great Plains Studies, aims to promote healing and reconciliation in our region by reconnecting the Otoe-Missouria Tribe to one of their homelands in southeast Nebraska and educating non-Native people about the history and ongoing presence of the Otoe-Missouria and other Indigenous peoples in our region.
This will be the first exhibition to center Otoe-Missouria artists and their creative work. Jessica Moore Harjo, Ph.D. (Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Pawnee), is the curatorial director for this exhibition.
“Big Blue Reservation: Struggles and Hope of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe”
September 5–December 20, 2025
Mezzanine Gallery
One hundred seventy years ago, the Treaty of 1854 was passed by Congress, authorizing the move of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe to the Big Blue Reservation in Gage County, Nebraska. The Tribe watched as acre by acre of their land was sold off by the government and treaties were broken. In 1881, the Tribe was moved from this reservation to Red Rock, Oklahoma.
The Gage County Historical Society, along with the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, arranged a summer exhibit in 2024 to educate the public about this important part of American history. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe once called Southeast Nebraska home. Through the displacement of the people during the 1800s, they lost sacred traditions. This exhibit includes their voices of how that loss affected them into the present.
The Tribe and the Society wanted this exhibit to travel to other institutions to provide a cultural history of Nebraska, utilizing the Tribe’s perspective. As a result of this hard work, the Gage County Historical Society’s traveling exhibit will open in the Great Plains Art Museum’s mezzanine gallery on Sept. 5, 2025. This exhibit is on view in conjunction with “Reflections of Our People, Our Ways, Our Land.”
1208 O ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
Join us for November First Friday, happening next Friday, November 7th, from 5–8 PM! It is the last day to view "Field Studies to Paintings: 50 Years of Keith Jacobshagen." Enjoy three gallery floors and a cash bar.
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. | 7 PM - 9 PM
First Friday with @elicasadosart !
1410 O St. | 7 PM - 10:30 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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Sheldon Museum of Art stays open until 7 PM on the first Friday of the month. Explore the exhibitions through a drop-in tour at 5:30 PM and sketching in the galleries throughout the evening. First Friday at Sheldon is the perfect opportunity to connect with art and each other. This event is free and open to everyone.
140 N 8TH ST | 6 PM - 8 PM
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Ouroboros' Fruit Loops & Other Whims
Opening First Friday with DJ ol' moanin' - closing on November 29!
210 Architecture Hall (HDR Pavilion Lobby) | 5 PM - 7 PM
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First Friday public reception for “Walk with Me: People and Places I Love,” with artist Chuck Schroeder. Works reflect travels and relationships formed in Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota, Scotland, Italy and the Netherlands. Holiday cards and prints available for sale. In addition to the First Friday opening, paintings are available for viewing and purchase 12-5 November 1 & 2, then Friday-Sunday, 12-5 from November 7 - 30 or by appointment (contact chuck@schroederfineart.com).
Have an art show in downtown Lincoln you'd like added to our monthly list?
Email Maia at maia@downtownlincoln.org.