Visual Artists

Each year the Meadowlark Music Festival collaborates with a Nebraska visual artist to create a unique piece inspired by the Festival and its offerings. The work is displayed at the majority of the concert venues, and then joins The Meadowlark Collection at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska.

Meadowlark is proud to announce KAREN KUNC as it's 2010 Visual Artist of the Year! Karen's piece is the newest addition to "The Meadowlark Collection".

See the entire Meadowlark Music Festival Collection on display at

The Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, NE

July 3 - September 12, 2010!

2010 Artist ~ Karen Kunc, Printmaker

"Song of the Lark"

Kunc

Four copies of this striking piece are available for purchase.

Please call the Meadowlark Office for more information!

2009 Artists ~ Michael Forsberg, Photographer & Ted Kooser, Poet

The poem reads:

In the Corners of Fields

Something is calling to me

from the corners of fields,

where the leftover fence wire

suns its loose coils, and stones

thrown out of the furrow

sleep in warm litters;

where gray faces

of old No Hunting signs

mutter into the wind,

and dry horse tanks

spout fountains of sunflowers;

where a moth

flutters in from the pasture,

harried by sparrows,

and alights on posts,

so sure of its life

that it peacefully opens its wings.

TED KOOSER is a poet and essayist, a Presidential Professor of English at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as the U. S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, and his book Delights & Shadows won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. His writing is known for its clarity, precision and accessibility. http://www.tedkooser.net/

MICHAEL FORSBERG grew up in Nebraska and is dedicated to working extensively in the
prairies of the Great Plains. Michael's work has appeared in publications including National Geographic, Audubon, Natural History, & National Wildlife and in books published by National Geographic and Smithsonian, among others. His books are: On Ancient Wings - The Sandhill Cranes of North America, which was published in 2004, and Great Plains - America's Lingering Wild - publication date of September 2009. His image of Nine-Mile Prairie titled October in the Tallgrass was selected for an USPS Postage Stamp, released spring 2001. http://www.michaelforsberg.com

The Meadowlark Collection at the Museum of Nebraska Art.

Photography: John Nollendorfs

2008 Artist ~ Michael James, Quiltmaker