ARTS and THEATER
Bemis news…Omaha artists exhibiting in New Hampshire, and Chicago…
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, with artists Therman Statom and Debbie Masuoka, are spearheading Building Bridges, a community-driven public art project with grant support from the Iowa West Foundation. The Kanesville-Tinley neighborhood is the future site of the large-scale work. In January, the artists led brainstorming sessions with students from the Kanesville Alternative Learning Center. These six...
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Governor’s Arts Awards announced…
The 2012 Governor’s Arts Awards were announced last week, including Emerging Leader Anne Trumble of Emerging Terrain, Excellence in Arts Education awardees Connie Dillow and Donald D. Ruleaux, Heritage Arts awardee African Culture Connection, Leonard Thiessen awardees Catherine and Terry Ferguson, Organizational Achievement awardees Blue Barn Theatre and Friends of the Midwest Theatre, Outstanding Artist Jun...
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Bemis art talk, First Friday in Omaha and Lincoln, Lincoln feminist show calls for art
Bemis Thursday art talk Feb. 2 includes artists Matthew Radune, Eric Zimmerman and collaborators Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom of Ghost of a Dream. Also Thursday night, Love’s Jazz and Arts Center opens Soul Sanctuary with images of the African American worship experience by photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson from across the country. Thursday night at Modern Arts Midtown, Stroke by Stroke, paintings by Omaha...
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Mixed Media 1/25
January 28- 29, the Cathedral Arts Project at Saint Cecilia Cathedral presents the 2012 Cathedral Flower Festival, “Garlands and Garments,” with 40 Omaha flora designers exhibiting floral creations inspired by ritual clothing worn throughout the ages. Displays will include: an authentic “Swiss Guard” uniform from the Vatican, a British “Beefeater“ uniform and replicas of the clothing worn in the recent royal...
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Bemis Underground Regional Exhibit deadline looming
This March, Bemis Center Regional Exhibition will return to Bemis Underground. The exhibition has expanded eligibility to include artists living or working within 200 miles of Omaha. Expanding the Bemis Center’s mission to support exceptional talent, this exhibition provides the opportunity for emerging artists to present their work alongside mid-career and established artists in the cultural hub of eastern...
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Bold Nebraska auction fundraiser… Architect to speak at Film Streams…Bemis dual openings…
January 12, Film Streams, Design Alliance Omaha and Omaha Creative Institute partner up to present a special one-night-only screening of PLAY TIME (1967) followed by a post-show talk with New York based architect David Leven, whose Chelsea Penthouse Project was inspired by the film. Legendary French director Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology...
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The recognition of literal and conceptual material, discovered in the happenstance of process...
Double VisionSome artists confront nature and the everyday world and illustrate it with all its beauty and...
Animal Magnetism“How are you able to form these vessels so that they possess such convincing beauty?’
“Oh,”...
Addams Family and Gearing Up for Great Plains
In 1933 Charles Addams published his first cartoon in the New Yorker when was just 21. Over the course of...
Stage Managers Make the Theatrical World Go ‘Round
When you witness a well put together production, everything you see go right on the stage (and more importantly everything...
Rose’s New Season and Struve’s New Play Bring Excitement
Children’s theatre, regrettably, often doesn’t receive the press that other productions around town get. Sometimes its the...
“You know, your work is bright, colorful and simple,” said a children’s book editor to illustrator and author Dan...
“Rather than having a single exhibition that fills all of our special exhibition spaces, we have this rather unique...
He’s known as Mr. Mummy, but Bob Brier’s love of Egypt happened rather late in life and unexpectedly.
Brier is a Senior...
