Arts & Entertainment
Sheldon director hopes gallery’s expansion takes off
By John Heuertz
Staff Reporter
There’s a model on display in
the Grand Hall of the Sheldon Art
Gallery.
It looks just like Sheldon at first,
except there’s an underground
wing off to the west. In it are sc aled
down paintings and paper cutouts
of human observers.
This model is a plan for expand
ing the Gallery.
Although a time table for the
new wing’s construction hasn’t
been set, Sheldon Director George
Ncubert said he hopes the project
will become a “priority” for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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expansion has been around for at
least a decade, Neubcrt said. Ac
tual planning and designing goes
back about six years.
When Ncubert came to UNL in
1983, museum expansion was a
priority, he said. But the Leid
Center for Performing Arts put the
Sheldon project on the back
burner.
In 1983, Neubert oversaw a new
set of drawings, some alterations
and the building of the model now
on display.
“There is a new awareness in
education, in universities, in soci
cty at large that art is more than just
an activity,” Neubcrt said. “Art is
more than just a product. In fact it
is a tool for enlightenment and
education.
“In specialized fields, most of
what you learn in the classroom is
outdated by the time you get on the
job... educators and higher learn
ing is beginning to realize that it’s
not so much what we teach stu
dents but that we prepare them for
life — not for a career. We in the
community have experienced that
the Sheldon’s collection provides
that opportunity.
“The role of the gallery ... I
think, now is understood as some
thing that is an important experi
ence for students as they prepare
for life.”
The new space will provide
more flexibility for the kinds of
shows that the Sheldon attracts.
Sheldon officials will use the origi
nal building to display the gallery’s
growing permanent collection.
Behind the scenes of the new
addition will be a research library
and a new storage facility. Students
will be able to check out paintings
for studying within designated
areas.
The Sheldon Art Gallery oper
ates on a budget set by UNL offi
cials. But most of the money for the
building and for the collection
comes from private donations.
Fund raising has been delayed
since the Lied Center project be
gan. Neubert said he hopes that the
Sheldon expansion drive can get
underway now that the Lied Center
is almost complete
Neubert said that there are al
ways going to be people criticizing
the way money is spent. But he
added that opposition comes from
a naivete about how the gallery
acquires money.
“I was not against the recent
fund drive for the football club,”
Neubert said. “A lot of my friends
complained. There was just some
opposition to the football team.
“First of all, it’s their money.
They raised it. Second of all, the
money that people gave to football
wasn’t going to come to me any
. i .
way. I know better than that. Any
body who thinks that they would
have gotten (the money) for some
thing else is naive. They don’t
know enough about donators and
the way things are done in the real
world of private dollars.
“Someone who wants to give to
football is going to give to football.
If they want to give to football and
science, and Sheldon, they will.”
Courtesy of Sheldon Art Gallery
Architects rendition of an underground wing to Sheldon Art Gallery.
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