Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee
Who We Are
The Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee was created by the Nebraska Legislature through LB 803 in 2018, and consists of eight members, including the Director and CEO of the Nebraska State Historical Society who serves as the committee’s secretary. The purpose of this committee is to select a sculptor to create a statue of Willa Cather and to gather and distribute necessary funding to ensure its placement in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Per legislation, the committee was decommissioned on June 30, 2023.
Willa Cather was one of America’s most significant writers. She is known from her novels set in Nebraska and on the Great Plains. Some of her most notable works are My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, and One of Ours, which earned Cather a Pulitzer Prize. Cather lived in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1962.
More information regarding Willa Cather can be found on the Willa Cather Foundation website.
Resources
Past Minutes
2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: February 9th, 2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: April 6th, 2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: May 4th, 2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: May 17th, 2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: May 24th, 2023
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: June 22nd, 2023
2022
2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: November 19, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: September 21, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: July 30, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: May 21, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: March 26, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: February 23, 2021
- Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee Meeting Minutes: January 12, 2021
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