Art After Dark: Omaha's Gilded Age and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898

Name: Art After Dark: Omaha's Gilded Age and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898
Start: 2025-09-11T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Museum of Nebraska Art

Schedule

Thu, 11 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Museum of Nebraska Art | Kearney, NE

Art After Dark: Omaha's Gilded Age and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898

Join Dr. Wendy Katz, professor at School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dr. Kyle Chattleton, Public Historian at The Durham Museum in Omaha, and MONA's Curator, Karissa Johnson, for a conversation about Omaha’s Gilded Age and the cultural ideals expressed in the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition 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.
Image: John Ross Key, "Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898, Grand Court," circa 1898, gouache on canvas, Museum Purchase made possible by Julie Morsman Schroeder Foundation