Wings Over the Platte

Stuhr Museum is proud to present our premier art exhibition, Wings Over the Platte. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the exhibit, which will will be open to the public for viewing from February 11 – April 2, 2023. This juried exhibition features works by area artists that illustrate the wildlife, waterfowl, and/or landscapes of the Platte River and its tributaries. This powerful exhibit is a must-see every year for art and nature lovers!

Regular daily admission includes access to this one-of-a-kind show. Stuhr Museum members receive free daily admission. To see admission rates for the public, click here. For more information about becoming a member, check out our membership page.

View Virtual Wings Over the Platte Gallery

2023 Featured Artist: Mary Linnea Vaughan

Mary Vaughan is a narrative, yet abstract painter whose work exudes a strong painterly quality and a fascination with nature, land forms and earth entity. Vaughan evokes meaning beyond the obvious with visual metaphor.

From her Eco-Abstracts based on the intuitive impulse of nature to her Bio-tiques whereby Vaughan combines the biotic world with antique or vintage panels, this artist finds unique ways to bring the past or the traditional into the contemporary.

Vaughan holds an MA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland. She has worked as a full time painter in Santa Rosa, Califonia since 2001. Raised in Nebraska by a father whose love for old fonts and color as a commercial printer and a mother whose literary interests ignited intellectual thinking, Vaughan continues to nurture her ties to the Midwest and lives part of each year in Santa Rosa and Hastings, Nebraska where she was born and raised.