“Feels Like Home,” color landscape images by noted Nebraska photographer Jan Christensen, was on exhibit December 1-30 at WallSpace-LNK, 1624 S. 17^th Street, Lincoln.

As a child Jan and her family explored Nebraska’s fields and streams every weekend, rain or shine. Learning how to “see” at a young age set Jan on a creative path that resulted in her being one of the first women to earn Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the photographic program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Graduate Diploma in Art Administration from Harvard University School of Business.

Her panoramic photos of Nebraska, the Adirondacks, Maine, & the East Coast were continuously displayed at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography in Rochester, N.Y. for more than seven years. Her writing and marketing efforts for corporate clients helped support her artistic work. Still, she has returned again and again to the Nebraska sandhills, because, as she says, “they feel like home.”

new and recent work from Michael James

“At the height of the pandemic, our personal worlds closed in on themselves in a host of ways. I’d retired from my “day job” only a handful of months earlier, and that retreat, combined with the larger social one forced on us by Covid-19, led me to focus on what was closest at hand. In my basement studio I felt doubly isolated. From its high windows I can catch narrow glimpses of a neighbor’s house, of a bit of sky backlighting the pergola that sits on our outdoor terrace a level up from where one of my worktables is positioned. I hear almost nothing from the outside, though, and feel cocooned and remote and protected…”

Michael James

Past Forward is a collection of twenty-five new and recent works and will be on view in November until the 26th, Thursdays through Saturdays, noon to five pm.

Opening receptions Thursday and Friday, the 3rd and 4th, beginning at 5 pm.