Nostalgia: Moments in Time
By Nadine Saylor & Holly Tharnish
Mar 20 – May 13, 2026
Reception: Mar 19, 5-7pm
Centered on the power of nostalgia, Nostalgia: Moments in Time, explores how memories shape the stories we tell about ourselves. Artists Holly Tharnish and Nadine Saylor draw from childhood impressions, garden spaces, and cultural narratives to build visual worlds that hover between the real and the surreal. Not as a way to romanticize the past, but imagining life before high technology—different, not necessarily simpler or happier. This exhibit spans multiple disciplines, spanning painting, drawing, mixed media, and poetic text to weave together fragments of experience into layered, symbolic compositions. These works act as visual diaries, reflecting on the emotional textures of the past and the ways they continue to inform identity, imagination, and inner life.
Artist Bios:
Holly Tharnish– Holly Tharnish lives and works as a multi-disciplinary artist in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with a minor in art history in 2019. She attended UNO with a Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation Scholarship. During her time at UNO, she was featured in multiple student exhibitions, earned a Bertha Mengedoht Hatz Memorial Scholarship for Artistic Excellence as well as a Wanda Ewing Memorial Scholarship. She served as Vice President of the UNO Art Club and curated student exhibitions for the group. In 2018, Holly helped create Benson’s Oceanside Mural near the intersection of Maple and 63rd streets. Holly’s first solo exhibition at the Florence Mill Museum and Art-Loft Gallery commenced in September 2019 as the year’s recipient of the Conner Meigs Art Award. The show focused on her own self-realization within the scope of her vast family history. Holly has been a member artist at the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery in Omaha’s Downtown Old Market since 2021. There, she has organized several exhibitions showcasing artwork by Omaha-area college students and emerging artists. Holly’s work explores themes of nostalgia, introspection, womanhood, and the contrasts between the world we live in, the stories we tell, and the narratives we keep inside our minds. She views her most recent works as surreal visual diaries wherein she studies her past, present, and innerworkings, while often employing the medium of poetry to aid in the process of reconciling information, lists, and thought fragments.
Nadine Saylor-
Nadine Saylor, Assistant Professor of Glass and Sculpture at University of Nebraska, Kearney is originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and her MFA in Glass from Alfred University in upstate New York. Since then, she has taught at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania, and at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In addition to teaching at the collegiate level, she has taught many workshops internationally including “The Studio” at the Corning Museum of Glass and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has given demonstrations nationally and lectured internationally.
Nadine has exhibited in many exhibitions across the country including the Cafesjian Art Trust, in Shoreview, MN, Toyama’s International Glass Exhibition 2024 in Japan and has shown at SOFA Chicago. She was featured in Glass Art Magazine’s November/December issue in 2024. She recently completed a commission of two works Carrie Oilcan and Copper Kettle Nebraska for the Federal Reserve Board Gallery to compliment her work commemorating American industry that were purchased in 2024 to be on display in Washington, DC.