National Willa Cather Center News

The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to announce it has raised $5.79 million in gifts and pledges to establish the National Willa Cather Center at Red Cloud, fulfilling a challenge grant deadline of June 30, 2014 from the Peter Kiewit Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska, as well as meeting a grant requirement of the Robert B. Daugherty Foundation. "We are so grateful to the Peter Kiewit Foundation and Robert B.

The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announces the availability of two Research Grants for visiting scholars. These grants provide financial support for scholars to travel to and reside in Lincoln, NE, for four consecutive weeks, in order to conduct research on Willa Cather using Cather resources in Nebraska and at UNL.

The madcap comedy will be performed on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the show can be purchased by calling the Red Cloud Opera House at (402) 746-2641 or by visiting www.WillaCather.org. Advanced tickets are $15 and tickets purchased the day of the show are $18.

Currently housed in the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery are the original watercolors and drawings of artist, Scott Kirby. These pieces depict the beauty and desolateness of the prairie in Kirby's unique impressionist style. What Willa Cather was able to do with her romantic literary descriptions of the prairie Kirby has captured on canvas with his vivid use of color, line, and perspective.

One can't overstate the importance of the Red Cloud Opera House to a young Willa Cather. In a 1929 letter to friend and journalist Harvey Newbranch, she wrote about the Opera House and the Andrews Opera Company:

The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors invites you to join us for a stimulating evening at the historic Red Cloud Opera House. We are pleased to bring you "Something that Endured," an evening of art and music inspired by the work of Willa Cather.

Featuring select readings from Willa Cather's letters and music by pianist and artist, Scott Kirby, the event will take place on Saturday, August 23. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served at 5:00 pm in the Foundation's art gallery, followed by a formal dinner and performance at 6:30 pm.

This year’s conference-goers were treated to three days of gorgeous Nebraska summer, exciting performances, thought-provoking art, and entertaining speakers.

The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to announce it has raised $5.79 million in gifts and pledges to establish the National Willa Cather Center at Red Cloud, fulfilling a challenge grant deadline of June 30, 2014 from the Peter Kiewit Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska, as well as meeting a grant requirement of the Robert B. Daugherty Foundation.