Sheldon Statewide Exhibit on Display at Grand Island Public Library
Grand Island, Neb. – “A Day’s Work,” an exhibition of artworks related to labor from the
collection the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, opens January 5
at the Grand Island Public Library. The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be on
display through January 31.
Presenting depictions of work by eighteen artists, the exhibition encourages viewers to consider
labor’s mental, physical, social, political, and economic effects.
Although the artworks in this exhibition vary in medium, year of completion, and message,
together they illuminate an expanded understanding of what it means—and what it looks
like—to labor. “A Day’s Work” includes photographs from well-known 20th-century advocates
Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange, who raised awareness about child and agricultural labor.
Contemporary artists Christina Fernandez and Jay Lynn Gomez are represented by prints based
on present issues of workers’ rights and visibility.
The exhibition is part of Sheldon Statewide, an annual program through which works from the
museum’s collection travel to venues throughout Nebraska. Since its inception in 1987, the
program has taken exhibitions to 25 communities, reaching more than 365,000 people. “A Day’s
Work” will be presented in Chadron, North Platte, McCook, Grand Island, York, Beatrice,
Fremont, and Falls City during the 2023–24 academic year.
The Sheldon Statewide series receives funding support from Farmers Mutual Insurance
Company of Nebraska, Rhonda Seacrest, and Sheldon Art Association.
The Grand Island Public Library receives sponsorship support from The Grand Island Public
Library Foundation and Kim West Dinsdale in bringing the Sheldon Statewide Exhibit to the
Grand Island Community
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