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Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Chase Earles
November 18, 2021
Chase Earles spreads knowledge about Caddo identity through pottery using traditional and modern pop art elements.
Annotations from the Archive: Holiday Cookery
November 18, 2021
Favorite handwritten Cather receipts—and treasured family cookbooks—are preserved in our archives. Try some for your own family this holiday season!
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Katie Dorame
November 18, 2021
Katie Dorame mixes Indigenous stories with pop culture references, dispels Native myths through art.
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Johnnie Diacon
November 15, 2021
Johnnie Diacon creates traditional and contemporary Indigenous art, depicts Muscogee culture in his works
Tulsa-based artist Johnnie Diacon’s introduction to art began in an unusual setting: an optometrist’s office in Springdale, Arkansas.
Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud
October 20, 2021
Cather Country is a perfect destination to bring your writers' group or book club for inspiration and rejuvenation.
NEH Awards $50,000 Covid Relief Grant for Digitizing Collections
October 20, 2021
This Covid Relief Grant will allow us to further digitize our collections and develop other tour-related initiatives.
Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
October 20, 2021
Julie Harris had an abiding love of Willa Cather and a connection with the Foundation—in her estate was a very special painting.
Portrait of Evelyn Osborne Joins the Collection
October 20, 2021
A donated portrait of a woman named Evelyn Osborne allows consideration of a shared history between Cather and her friend, author Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
August 16, 2021
As students of all ages return to the classroom, we look back at some of Cather's best known essays.
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
August 16, 2021
We say farewell to a dear friend of the Willa Cather Foundation and devoted steward of her grandmother Anna Pavelka's memory.