UNMC presents Finding A Voice exhibit…The New BLK hosts poetry reading…

by Sally Deskins

March 31, join University of Nebraska Medical Center Inter-Professional Service Learning Academy and The Siena/Francis House as they exhibit and discuss Finding a Voice presented by “The Artists in Recovery” group. The poetry reading, live music, art show and panel discussion, “Homelessness and Transformation,” starts 6:30pm at 906 Gallery, 16th and Cuming St. unmc.edu.

Saturday night as well, The New BLK...

Gallery 92 exhibit…Birdhouse ecological show…Jim Leedy at Anderson O’Brien…

by Sally Deskins

March 21 in Fremont, Gallery 92 West presents A Retrospective, an exhibition of James Cattlett, Art Professor at Midland University and the Creative Center. The exhibit will include oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, photography, pen and ink and computer generated images in various styles.

Friday March 23, Birdhouse Interior Design opens If You Build It They Will Come: A Contemporary Ecological Survey in...

Joslyn Uncorks the past…Soup and Art for All…crane origami at MONA…

by Sally Deskins

Thursday March 15, Joslyn Art Museum hosts Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales and Other Extreme Beverages., with Penn Museum’s Dr. Patrick McGovern, the “world’s authority on ancient fermented beverages.” McGovern will take guests through a tasting program including the beers of ancient Egypt with complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Guests may also visit the To Live Forever exhibition of Egyptian Treasures from the...

Hot Shops benefit shows…Guerilla Girls in Lincoln…JCC photo show…

by Sally Deskins

Hot Shops hosts two exhibits for the benefit of nonprofit organizations Friday March 9. Art for the Heart curated by Tearee Caswell to benefit American Heart Association, and Artists for Hope Gallery Show to benefit the nonprofit dedicated “to making a difference in the lives of Haitians” featuring work from crafters of Haiti and local artists. Also on view in Hot Shops is “The History of Black Firefighters in...

Union for Contemporary Arts Inaugural Fellows…

by Sally Deskins

The Union for Contemporary Art held its first community clean-up event at their new building on Burdette Street boasting nearly 100 volunteers and obtaining upwards of $3,000 in donations and gifted materials for the clean-up effort. They are surely ready for their inaugural group of eight Fellows who started their 6-month programs in February where they will not only work on their own art, but create projects...

Vargas at Barley’s…Fred Simon opens Susan Hart…NET airs show on KANEKO…

by Sally Deskins

On a four-year Omaha hiatus, recent University of Minnesota MFA graduate Bart Vargas is back residing and creating in Council Bluffs. After a whirlwind international tour of exhibitions, he just got a gig instructing art at Metropolitan Community College, will be an official mentor for The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts and is now exhibiting nine of his recent works that have never been shown...