Husker student invites community to think about home with ‘Dear Great Plains’

LINCOLN, Neb. (Cologne) – A student storyteller has spent the last year asking people to write postcards of the Great Plains. Her exhibit is currently on view at the Great Plains Museum of Art.

Husker student Carla Hernandez Torrijos said she hopes “Dear Great Plains” will tell a different story of the Great Plains.

“A collective letter, the project raises questions of heritage, history and home,” said Hernandez Torrijos.

The museum’s mezzanine displays dozens of postcards on which visitors can write and add to the project, be it drawings, poetry or memories.

The opening reception for the Dear Great Plains Project will be held on First Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

She is participating in the new Student Storyteller in Residence program, which is funded by the Michael Farrell Fund for Student Storytelling, administered through the University of Nebraska Foundation.

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