Rebecca Norris Joins BECAH Board of Directors

BROWNVILLE – Rebecca Norris has joined the board of directors at the Brownville Education Center for Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Norris is the gallery director at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) School of the Arts. She also serves as adjunct instructor of art history and arts management courses. Her experience working with encyclopedic collections and knowledge of art history enables her to participate in the research and documentation of diverse art collections.

Prior to her arrival at UNO in 2024, Dr. Norris held positions with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and abroad in the United Kingdom with the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

“I am honored to join BECAH and thrilled to contribute to Nebraska’s vibrant arts community where there are so many opportunities for meaningful engagement,” she said.

Dr. Norris obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University specializing in Northern Italian Renaissance Art.

Among her publications are the co-edited Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini (Brill, 2023) and Lomazzo’s Aesthetic Principles Reflected in the Art of his Time (Brill, 2020), as well as essays in Masterpieces from the Clowes Collection (Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, online).

The Brownville Education Center for Arts and Humanities (BECAH) was founded in 2021 when a group of concerned citizens united to purchase the building housing the former Antiquarium Bookstore and its contents, which included more than 25,000 books, manuscripts and images as well as a sizeable collection of artworks from the late Bill Farmer. Tom Rudloff and his sister, Judy, founded the iconic used bookstore in downtown Omaha, Neb., in 1969. Rudloff moved the Antiquarium to an empty schoolhouse in Brownville in 2006. He passed away in 2016 at age 76. BECAH’s mission is to provide arts and humanities experiences to the people and communities of southeast Nebraska, southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri. For more information, visit https://becah.org.

Rebecca Norris