Arts in North Platte
Sunday night the Creativity Unlimited Arts Council hosted the grand finale reception marking the culmination of the month-long Autumn Arts Festival. The Festival included a production of "Steel Magnolias" at the North Platte Community Playhouse, the Sheldon Statewide Art Exhibit, art workshops by area artists, free art demonstrations, and a silent auction of art donated by local artists.
In a wonderful example of the thriving art community in North Platte, there were nearly forty works of art included in the silent auction. Also on display were watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings, mono prints and pottery teapots, all created at the numerous workshops held during the Festival. In addition to the workshops geared for young people, the very young were invited to create painted pumpkins, which were also on display.
The Sheldon Statewide Art Exhibit continues until November 13 at the McKinley Education Center. It is open daily to the public.
The play "I Remember Mama" will be at the North Platte Community Playhouse on November 11, 12, 13, 18 and 19. For more information call 534-6162.
According to the program distributed at the reception, the Creativity Unlimited Arts Council supports the efforts of these community Arts organizations: Art Study League (532-9802), North Platte Community Playhouse (534-6162), Town Hall Lecture Series (239-2430), The Theater Guild (532-5613), North Platte Art Guild (532-5365), Platter Painters (534-9718), North Platte Area Children's Museum (532-3512), Friends of the Library (535-8036, North Platte Concert Association (534-3679), Sandhills Symphony Orchestra, Heartland Singers, Sweet Adelines, Monday Musicale and North Platte Municipal Band.
What an extraordinary number of arts organizations for a small community!
Whether you enjoy the visual arts or the performing arts, and whether you like to participate or just enjoy watching, you will find something to fit your interests in North Platte.
4 Comments:
What Archeological find was unearthed near North Platte in 1992?
Do you mean 1922?
The most common mammoths in Nebraska were the Imperial mammoth, Columbian mammoth, and woolly mammoth. The Imperial mammoth was the largest. A specimen discovered in Nebraska’s Lincoln County in 1922 may be the world’s largest elephant. Nicknamed Archie, its skeleton can be seen today in Elephant Hall in the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln. It stands fourteen feet high at the shoulder — and it was still growing when it died! Archie is estimated to have weighed nearly fifteen tons.
My 10 year old son was given a challenge to find this bit of Nebraska history as extra credit. I don't know why it was so hard to find!? Thank you for enlightening us!
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