ARTS and THEATER
Mixed Media for 12.21.11
The Union for Contemporary Art founds its home—two adjacent buildings at 24th and Burdette Street will house the nonprofit, who is holding a “Community Clean-up Day” January 14 to clean and paint the interior of the building. The Union is also calling for applicants for their Studio Fellowship Program to start in February 2012. Six fellows will receive a studio space, stipend, and professional development...
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Bemis Art Talk…DrinknDraw 1st Anniversary…
December 1 is the First Thursday, and that means Bemis’ monthly art talk. This month hear residents Melissa Cooke (drawing), Aaron Storck (multi-media), Sam Duket (painting/architecutre), and Erik Benson (painting) discuss their work and experience starting at 7p.m.
Also that evening for those artists that want to get their own draw on, Drink n Draw 1st Anniversary celebrates one year of social creativity at...
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Joslyn’s free admission T-giving weekend…
Joslyn Art Museum will offer free admission for everyone Thanksgiving weekend: November 25-26, 10a.m.-4p.m. and November 27, noon-4p.m. Guests can enjoy the permanent collection galleries and these special exhibitions: American Landscape: Contemporary Photographs of the West; From Sea to Shining Sea: Currier & Ives Prints from the ConAgra Foods Collection; and Wendell Minor: In the American Tradition.
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David Roszelle paintings at Ted & Wally’s…Arts for All fundraiser…
David Roszelle opens This Art Show is Brought To You By The Letter P: New Art at Ted & Wally’s Ice Cream in the Old Market November 17. Roszelle, known for his psychedelic paintings, will be at the party, 7-10p.m., featuring ice cream flavors and prizes that start with the letter “P.”
An art show and soup lunch to benefit Arts for All, Inc. is November 20, 11a.m.-2p.m. at St. Martin of Tours Episcopal Church,...
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Obermeyer exhibits on Keystone pipeline issue…
Omaha-based editorial cartoonist Neal Obermeyer is showing at The Sydney in Benson opening November 10. The original work comments on TransCanada’s plans to route the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska’s sandhills, with prints available for sale to benefit anti-pipeline efforts. “I'm hoping I can use some of my work to support the efforts of all of the people who are volunteering their time and energy to...
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Pecha Kucha and Bemis talk…Omaha First Friday…
Volume 13 of Pecha Kucha Night November 3 includes presenters Kjell Erik Peterson, Kurt Johnson, Nancy Novak, Peter Olshavsky, Jeff Koterba, Joel Damon, Matt Bross, Eric Downs and Bret Betnar. The dare starts at 8pm at Slowdown.
Bemis’ art talk the same night starts at 7pm with current artists-in-residence Alejandro Almanza Pereda (sculpture/drawing), Aaron Storck (multi-media), Iede Reckman (sculpture), and...
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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...
