Located on level one of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, the Art Gallery features two exhibitions each year, showcasing exhibitions of national and local artists. The gallery enriches, inspires and enlivens UNMC/Nebraska Medicine patients, visitors, employees and community. The intention is to exhibit work that is of the highest artistic quality and reflects a rich diversity of media, creators, cultures and perspectives. Exhibitions support the healing environment of the hospital by providing guests with inspiring images, enhancing the compassionate care that UNMC/Nebraska Medicine provides. Each exhibition has a “Meet the Artist” event and reception for patients, staff and the community. Artist talks provide the opportunity to gain insight about the art and foster personal introspection on the artistic process and its impact on health and wellness.
Current Exhibition
Staff Art Exhibition
October 23, 2026 to March 31, 2027
The Staff Art Exhibition displays the talent, originality and creativity of Nebraska Medicine and UNMC employees. The exhibition brings together artists with all levels of experience from various styles, mediums and backgrounds and showcases their original artwork. Open to all Nebraska Medicine and UNMC employees, artworks selected were juried blindly by Nebraska artist Aaron Holz.
Juror’s Statment:
“It is exciting to see all the creative energy emanating from Nebraska Medicine and UNMC. Congratulations to the selected artists! I ultimately selected 45 artworks for this exhibition from 73 entries with an idea to be more inclusive than less with so many talented artists who entered their pieces. For those artists that submitted work that was not included, I can say that in some cases a similar themed work caught my attention more than another. In other cases, the submitted artwork was poorly documented and hard to judge as a result. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the diversity of materials and ideas presented. There was a strong theme of nature, particularly in photography with an emphasis on botanical and animal form. There were many inspired and vivid paintings with expressive color and pattern, while other works examined medicine, psychology and portraiture. Many works stood out, including a remarkable portrait of Jane Goodall. A stained glass cube titled “Do the Impossible” offers light to the viewer in a wonderfully minimal form. A sunrise over the meadows of the Nebraska National Forest is charged with atmosphere. A lovely charcoal drawing of an x-ray shows the resilient bone structure that supports us all. A woman holds a string of butterflies in a dreamlike scene. A round painting “Sunset Splash” is an ebullient scene of Nebraska wildlife, full of color and humor. I encourage everyone to keep creating work and let your creative soul grow! It was a pleasure to juror this exhibition.” -Aaron Holz
Aaron Holz is a painter and Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Holz has exhibited work in New York and throughout the United States. His work has been exhibited internationally in London, UK, Basel, Switzerland, and Mexico. Holz received his BFA from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and earned his MFA from University at Albany, SUNY. He was included in “100 Painters of Tomorrow” published by Thames and Hudson in 2014. In addition to prominent private collections in both Europe and the United States, his work is included in the permanent collections of the Sheldon Museum of Art, The Blanden Memorial Art Museum, The University Art Museum at Albany, The Rourke Art Museum, The Museum of Nebraska Art, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Learn more at www.aaronholz.com
All 73 artworks submitted can be viewed online in the Virtual Staff Art Exhibition at www.virtualstaffartexhibition2026.com
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine’s Healing Arts Program would like to thank Aaron Holz for jurying the exhibition.