ARTS and THEATERSeptember shows update…Riverfront design tour…Floodwaters photos at ArtLoft…
The Hardware Gallery opened Abstractions by Michael Pysh and Spasm by Dale Heise last weekend, featuring abstract paintings and digital manipulations by Pysh and fashion-based photography by Heise. Jane Reed’s impressionist and abstract landscapes line the walls of Silver of Oz Gallery this month in Benson. In Lincoln at sp ce, Nebraska native and Chicago-based artist Jake Gillespie shows his paintings and video...
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Joslyn’s College night features mobile games…Blake’s 9/11 art in New York Magazine…
Joslyn Art Museum’s annual College Night is September 9, 7 p.m-9 p.m. College students and faculty are invited to a night celebrating art and music, taking in the museum’s permanent collection, including the newly installed American and American Western Art. Music will be provided by Americana-Orchestral-Folk-Rock-Waltz band Midwest Dilemma. Godfather’s pizza will be free, and visitors can play “Scvngr Trek”— a...
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UNO students show at The Hive…First Friday in Omaha…
A dozen University of Nebraska-Omaha art students at The Hive opens August 31, including live painting demonstrations and music by Optimal Eleven.
September 2 openings in Omaha: Bill Hoover’s new work at Coriander in the lower level of the Old Market Passageway. The artist is known for his fresh and meditative images of abstract worlds in oil and sand. Turning and Returning at the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery...
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UNO Art Gallery opening…Imagewerks Devils Gulch…
The University of Nebraska-Omaha Art Gallery introduces the school year with Hardcore Painting: Confessions and Premonitions with Julie Farstad and Jessie Fisher, and Channel: A Paintamation by Michael Burton, opening August 26. Farstad and Fisher explore the technical and philosophical evolution of their work through several bodies of work and preparatory drawings. Burton’s painting and animation explores the...
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Bluffs Arts Council Savor the Flavor…Birdhouse Call for Art…
August 20 the Bluffs Arts Council invites you to “Savor the Flavor” on the historic 100 block of West Broadway, offering craft beer, fine wines, food pairings, as well as live music and work by local artists including photographer Michael Sherer and stained glass artist Kristi Pederson. Music includes clarinet by JoAnne Arbaugh, Raqs Awn Belly Dance Collective and more. Bluffsarts.org.
The deadline to submit to...
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Kent Bellows Studio Mentor Exhibit, Library Hosts Book Art Show, Lincoln’s lichen exhibits three
People You Should Know in Lincoln … Benson August shows … Jeffrey Koterba exhibits in Fremont … Hive Lounge seeking art.
The House of Representatives recently voted down The Walberg Amendment to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by another $10 million. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Lincoln voted twice in support of the NEA.
The Kent Bellows Studio exhibits the culmination of work by their young...
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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...
