Archives and Special Collections Receives Grant from Humanities Nebraska

Criss Library’s Archives and Special Collections has been awarded a $10,000 grant from Humanities Nebraska to help fund the traveling exhibit Pride and Joy: Nebraska LGBTQIA2S+ History. Through the display of primary sources, visitors will explore the history of individuals, groups, and historical events from Nebraska’s LGBTQIA2S+ communities.

Criss Library archivists will curate the traveling exhibit with research contributions by a UNO student employee, whose employment is made possible with support from the grant. The research and material featured in the traveling exhibit will draw from the Queer Omaha Archives and other Nebraska cultural heritage repositories.

Pride and Joy will debut in summer 2025 along with a public program. The exhibit will then be hosted at locations across the state. Contact Archives and Special Collections to inquire about hosting the traveling exhibit at your community or at your event in 2025-2026.

Pride and Joy is funded in part by a grant from Humanities Nebraska.

About Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment

Humanities Nebraska is a private nonprofit with a mission to help people explore what connects us and makes us human. HN is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, an appropriation from the Nebraska Legislature, private donations, and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, a public-private partnership with state dollars matching private dollars to benefit the arts and humanities in Nebraska.

About Criss Library

The Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library fulfills the UNO mission through dynamic services, highly qualified and adaptive personnel, unique and extensive collections, and accessible learning spaces and environments. With its location on UNO’s Dodge Campus, Criss Library provides UNO students, faculty and staff, and the Omaha community with the resources and materials needed to excel academically and professionally.