Artist Keith Jacobshagen Brings Arboretum Exhibit to Midland Lutheran College
Nationally recognized landscape artist Keith Jacobshagen’s year-long tour of state arbortea brings him to the Midland Lutheran College Arboretum
Fremont, Nebraska (PRunderground) June 07, 2008 – Midland Lutheran College in Fremont is hosting an exhibit by Keith Jacobshagen this June and July. “Journals of the Days: Jacobshagen Notebooks Tour Nebraska’s Arboreta,” is drawn from the field-study sketch books of nationally recognized Heartland landscape painter Keith Jacobshagen. The exhibit is on view now through July 31 in the Kimmel Art Gallery, located in the Musbach Art Center on the Midland Campus (8th and Irving Streets).
This special exhibit, presented by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum (NSA), includes 20 reproduced images from Jacobshagen’s journals including drawings, paintings and journal entries, plus an original notebook and painting. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m.- 4:30 pm., or by appointment. A public reception with the artist is scheduled for Thursday, June 19th, at 7 p.m.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Jacobshagen holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas. He has been a painting professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, since 1968. His work has been included in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country, and is represented in numerous public and private collections, locally including the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln.
Ted Kooser, United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006) and 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner, said of Jabobshagen’s work, “Some of the strongest art comes from close observation of the world. Keith Jacobshagen’s notebooks, which are, of course, also journals, are a fine example of an artist who is devoted to paying attention, and what Keith has seen over many years of looking closely at landscapes has informed his studio paintings. Not everyone can be a noted landscape painter like Keith Jacobshagen, but everyone can be encouraged to pay attention to the natural world. There’s immense pleasure in, well, just stopping to look, in setting aside our daydreams and fantasies and noticing what is under our feet. And it seems to me that part of the work of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is to arrange before us real, growing, breathing landscapes in which we can all take immense pleasure.”
The Midland Lutheran College Arboretum, hosting the exhibit through July of 2008, is “one of Nebraska’s finest college arboretums,” according to NSA Director Jim Locklear. “Our goal with this exhibit is to draw a correlation between the beautiful landscapes of the arboretums hosting this exhibit and the works of art included in the exhibit.”
For more about the statewide tour, go to http://arboretum.unl.edu/jacobshagen/.
Midland Lutheran College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in Fremont, Nebraska. Founded in 1883, the college marks its 125th anniversary this year.
For more information, please contact Allen Forkner, Director of Marketing, at 402-941-6500 or forkner@mlc.edu.
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