NAC seeks submissions, support…KC architects talk at Bemis…Textile art at JCC Gallery…

by Sally Deskins

Omaha artist David McLeod presents a variety of his works at the Fred Simon Gallery through August 12, including his mixed media "Similar Stamps" series.

The NAC is taking applications for Nebraska visual artists to display in the Fred Simon Gallery for the 2012/13 season. Applications are due August 31.  NAC, which receives ample funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and funds several Nebraska...

Mixed media—July 14, 2011

by Sally Deskins

“Possessions:  literary characters and the things they carried” is the theme for (downtown) Omaha lit fest’s 2011 literary-themed art exhibit October 14 at the Downtown Omaha Public Library.  The lit fest is seeking ideas from artists to interpret literary artifacts — like props, objects, fashions, foods, or jewelry of famous literary characters.  Examples might be Sherlock Holmes’ pipe, Willy Wonka’s golden...

Bemis turns 30…UNL cuts arts education…

by Sally Deskins

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts turns thirty and celebrates with open studios June 25, noon to 5 p.m. There will be a dedication of a Building Bemis capital expansion project, intended to address a need for space, and to increase direct support of artists-in-residence by 50 percent.  The goal includes five studios, 8,000 square-feet of multi-use space, a dock with urban garden, and renovation of the Okada...

Mixed Media: Flooding and the NAC

by Sally Deskins

* The flooding has the Nebraska Arts Council administration “taking precautions and implementing an emergency plan in the event that we are displaced by floodwaters,” from their lower-level offices in downtown Omaha's Burlington Building, according to its website. As of last weekend, operations were normal, but essential items have been moved to higher ground.    * Nebraskans for the Arts, also in the same...

Art on Tap at Joslyn, Topcoat and Tails at the New BLK

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* The Joslyn Art Museum’s annual Art on Tap, sponsored by the Joslyn Art Museum Young Art Patrons, will feature beer, live music and local food May 13 from 8-11 p.m. Goose Island, LandShark, Leffe and Shock Top will be available for tastings, and Blanc Burgers, Cantina Laredo, Crave and Loft 610 will provide food. Orion Walsh and All Young Girls are Machine Guns will provide live music. Joslyn’s permanent...

Local talent Bart Vargas raising funds for artist residency in China

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* Lincoln artist and University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Aaron Holz will give a talk this Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Museum of Art. (Full disclosure: I work at Sheldon.) Holz has an intimate exhibition in Sheldon's Focus Gallery. Of Heads and Hands is inspired by the drawings of 16th century artists Agnolo Bronzino and Jan Gossaert. Holz's portraits of heads and hands question what it means to paint...