Great Plains Art Museum - Lincoln 

This museum actually turned out to be a refresher course for us.  Last year we learned a lot about Nebraska's Indian heritage from a Passport stop in Whiteclay, NE at a location called the Whiteclay Makerspace.  Whiteclay is a town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation which is mostly in South Dakota.

Here at the museum, they just opened a new exhibit in September, featuring various art forms done by Indians from various tribes.  Many of these are typical of modern artistic photographs and painting from native life but some are somewhat unique, at least to me.

One of the new ones for me was called Ledger Art which we saw in Whiteclay last year.  They used actual ledger pages from old county ledger books.  There were several examples here.  The photo below isn't using old ledger paper.  It's using the same kind of background but from various sources.

 Of particular interest to us is a name I didn't expect to see here.  

Fred Hoppe is a very well known bronze sculptor and he has donated a studio here.  Fred used to be from Schuyler and now lives in Columbus.  He has galleries in at least a couple other places around the country that I know of.  Some you may have known his brother Frank.  A famous trap shooter who once broke over 1,000 without a miss!