Nights at the Joslyn

Gratitude 

Free, drop-in program 

Monthly Nights at The Joslyn events are evenings for art immersion. Come out for art talks, art making, special programs, and tasty food and drinks (for purchase). Our activities offer opportunities for creativity and personal reflections on gratitude throughout the Museum. 

We are happy to welcome our VIP Visitors, Urban Sketchers Omaha, a group that connects people through the practice of on-location sketching. VIP Visitors is a special invitation program for community groups to join in the fun at our monthly events, Art-tastic Saturdays and Nights at The Joslyn.  

A look at the fun this month from 5–8 pm:    

• Begin at our Welcome Table in the Hawks Pavilion! Pick up a program and map for the evening. We can let you know about membership opportunities, upcoming programs, our Bloomberg Connects digital guide, and Art Card self-guide resources. We also can help with any accessibility needs.    
• Don’t miss a 6 pm conversation in Abbott Hall* with Taylor J. Acosta, PhD, Chief Curator & Director of Collections, and Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art. They will speak about artworks throughout the Museum’s collection, focusing on the generosity of various donors over the course of the Museum’s history. 
• Drop in from 5–8 pm for Feathers of Gratitude/Plumas de Gratitud, a collaborative art experience with Indigenous artist David Manzanares**. Inspired by a Quetzalcoatl story of a feathered serpent, the project explores how every experience forms part of our life’s path, and how gratitude for that whole path becomes gratitude for our own existence. Visitors of all ages will write, draw, and decorate paper feathers, adding them to a large serpent sculpture.
• Slow down and sketch in the galleries. 
• Check out our Art Cart station, with opportunities to touch hands-on materials and talk about art with our friendly Gallery Volunteers.   
• The Founder’s Room is designated as a quiet space for this event.  
• Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855–1914, is free to all from 4–8 pm today; always free to Joslyn members.  
• Don’t forget to check out more great spaces—The Cafe offers food and drink for sale. The Shop has beautiful art items for all ages and interests. If you are part of an intergenerational group, be sure to visit Art Works: A Place for Curiosity, an interactive space with nine different art activity stations (children must be accompanied by adults).   

*Assistive listening system is available in Abbott Hall. 

American Sign Language interpretation available by request, with three weeks notice; email abelme@joslyn.org. 

Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All Program, the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, a gift in memory of Matthew W. Gress, and a gift in loving memory of Peggy Severson 

Thanks to program partners Urban Sketchers Omaha. 

Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855–1914 is organized by Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.

** About the Artist

David Manzanares is a Chinantec (Jau jm) artist from Usila, Oaxaca, based in Nebraska since 2017. A sculptor, muralist, and educator, he works in clay, bronze, glass, and mixed media. His practice explores migration, belonging, and Indigenous worldviews, bringing people together through bilingual and intergenerational artmaking. His public work includes the community-informed mural at Omaha’s Center for Immigrant and Refugee Advancement.