January 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 PM to 9 PM
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Burkholder Art Studio & Galleries
719 P ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
Shows run January 3rd - 31st
Join us for the full gallery ‘Artists Choosing Artists’, featuring work Studio and Associate Artists alongside their guest artist. This annual show highlights the local art community here in Nebraska. We are excited to extend guest artist Emily Mulvaney’s show in our Special Exhibit Space through January.
Main Gallery
The ‘Artists Choosing Artists’ show extends throughout the gallery, highlighting work from both our Associate and Studio artists and their guests to create this celebratory show.
Outback Gallery
The ‘Artists Choosing Artists’ will cover a variety of mediums, styles, and subject matter. This show is meant to celebrate all of our talented artists in the Nebraska artistic community.
Skylight Gallery
A small display of the ‘Holiday Show’, the season continues!
Special Exhibit Space
Emily Mulvaney with her work, ‘Not the Americana Average’
“Not the Americana Average is my take on a vintage American home. However, the more time one spends in the scene, the more distortions and imperfections become apparent. This exhibition is meant to showcase a blend of past and present women’s issues through the lens of the not-so-typical home.”
119 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
The event, curated by Clements Noyes artist Dawn Worthington, includes an impressive variety of media. For example, Worthington uses acrylic paint in vibrant color and texture to evoke moody atmosphere.
Other artists featured in the January show are: Dennis Anderson (woodworking), Kevin Bang (metalworking), Deb Brown (mixed media collage), Sandy Griggs (slow stitching), Dale Grooms (acrylic painting), Jennifer Leatherby (Multimedia), Buffy Nelson (gouache), and Tiffany Sinott (mixed media).
Enjoy the art at the January First Friday event at 119 S. 9th St. While there, check out the gallery’s upcoming Valentine Cardmaking workshop on Jan. 25, 10 a.m.-12 noon. Make a pop-up card, a traditional Valentine and a unique heart spinner. The $40 class fee includes all supplies. Please call Clements Noyes Art Gallery at 402-475-1061 to pre-pay and reserve your spot for this workshop.
2055 O ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
November 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Stellar Small Prints 3
Brian D. Cohen, Kennebunk, Maine
Brian Curling, Dresden, Germany
Anne Desmet, London, England
Ron Fundingsland, Bayfield, Colorado
Anita Hunt, Colrain, Massachusetts
Carrie Phillips-Kieser, Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, Canada
Robin Sherin, New York, New York
In this 3rd iteration of Stellar Small Prints, we feature artists who have impacted the print world through their small format works. This traditional and historical aspect of the intimate scale of the printed image enables the sharing of knowledge, personal insights, and iconic messages from afar. Look closely again for deeply felt care in the artists’ crafting of impressions that condense visual mastery and visionary possibilities. Selections from the Constellation Studios collection will also be shown.
140 N. 8TH ST. | 7 PM - 9 PM
Painter Sarah O'Brien and live music with Pseudo Saints.
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
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124 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
December 4, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Join us in December and January for our annual all-member holiday show. Get one of a kind gifts and support Lincoln artists by shopping locally this holiday season. Paintings, jewelry, ceramics, photography, glass, sculpture, mixed media, cards, prints, and more!
1300 P Street | 5 PM - 9 PM
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1155 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
The museum will be closed from Dec 21, 2024 - March 7, 2025 for winter break and building maintenance.
UNL’s Great Plains Art Museum is open late, from 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 1. Join Great Plains Student Storyteller Karla Hernandez Torrijos for the opening of her exhibition, “Dear Great Plains.” The event will feature light refreshments and admission is always free.
“Dear Great Plains” is a postcard-writing campaign that hopes to tell a different story of the Great Plains: more complex, more diverse, and more nuanced. A collective letter, “Dear Great Plains” raises questions of heritage, history, and home. Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “Knowing that you love the earth changes you […] but when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.” Karla asked letter writers to consider their bond with the Great Plains and spent time collecting postcards from various communities and online.
Karla Hernandez Torrijos (she/her) is a poet and workshop facilitator who has been invited to read in venues across Nebraska, including The Bay, El Museo Latino, and The UNL Wick Alumni Center. The recipient of the 2022-2023 Irby F. Wood Prize for Poetry and the 2020-2021 Vreeland Award for Poetry, her writing interrogates our understanding of home, displacement, and the liminal space in between. Torrijos was the 2021-2022 Creative in Community Resident for The LUX Center for the Arts and is the inaugural Student Storyteller in Residence for The Center for Great Plains Studies. Her work can be found in “Preposition: An Undercurrent Anthology.”
The Student Storyteller in Residence Program is funded by the Michael Farrell Fund for Student Storytelling, administered through the University of Nebraska Foundation.
https://plains.unl.edu/student-storyteller-residence/
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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800 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 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. | 5 PM - 8 PM
First Friday with Nicole Renaud (@rural.wandering.animal.lover) to see her art show!
1410 O St. |
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Saint Paul United Methodist Church
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140 N 8TH ST | 6 PM - 8 PM
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"The Wilderness Park Question," Michael Farrell's large format photographs of Lincoln's biggest, most complex park. Come see Friday-Sunday 12-5 through January 26th.
Have an art show in downtown Lincoln you'd like added to our monthly list? Email Maia at maia@downtownlincoln.org.