Opening Reception for Selections 2024 May 31

By Eva Neubert

BROWNVILLE - The Brownville Fine Arts Association (BFAA) is pleased to host the opening reception of “Selections 2024: The Permanent Collection of the BFAA” Friday, May 31. The event will begin at 6:00pm at the Schoolhouse Art Gallery, 427 Main Street.

An important component of the BFAA’s mission is to promote the visual art documentation of historic Brownville. This special exhibition of selections drawn from the BFAA’s Permanent Art Collection illustrates visual images of Brownville and this region. The BFAA invites the public to see these captured images of a time and place by artist residents and visiting artists.

Among the selections are the Terrence R. Duran watercolor of the historic Carson House and Marvin Thomas’ watercolor of harvesting ice on the Missouri River. A wonderful landscape that illustrates an historic Brownville church by Omaha artist Augustus William Dunbier is also on display.

Included are Robert Hanna’s watercolor of Brownville’s Walnut Grove Cemetery and Tom Palmerton, a longtime artist resident of Brownville, is represented by an early landscape painting.  A recent landscape by Brownville artist resident John Lokke titled “Towards Beadow Creek, Nemaha County” is also in the exhibition.  

Photography by the late historian/photographer Dorothy Broady and Bill Jamison’s “Arboretum Tree” that has been adopted as the logo for the Furnas Arboretum are also included. An intimate pastel landscape by Rich Hayek of Brownville and a painting of a small red historic structure by Stephen Dinsmore of Lincoln are in the exhibition. A fine example of folk art tradition is a sampler created by Anna Mae Whittington of Stella, Nebraska.

“Selections 2024” is on display through June 30. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00pm. For private viewing at other times, please call 402.414.2082.