Mormon Highlights a New Broadway Season

by William Grennan

Jonathan Fineberg at Kaneko

by Mary Day

Jonathan Fineberg, Visiting Presidential Professor, University of Nebraska will present the third of four lectures in the series The origin of the Image: What Modern Art Tells Us About the Mind, on March 13, 6:30 p.m. at Kaneko, 1111 Jones Street. Kaneko’s press release announces “Fineberg’s third lecture, ‘The Nature Theater: Art and Politics’ will build on the first two, arguing – principally in the work of...

Demo Graphics

by Michael J. Krainak

An artistic license can take one to strange places. There are no boundaries to one’s imagination, passion and freedom if a bonafide card carrying member of the profession.

Just ask Omaha artist Watie White what drew him to an abandoned inner city home on the North side, and his answer falls easily under the umbrella of all his inspiration no matter the project past or present.

“I remain insatiably curious,”...

3D Keyboard Magic

by Mary Day

The art of creating sculpture made from preformed objects or materials is a practice running through the history of 20th century art. Omaha based artist Robert Miller has done a turn with this form in his exhibition, Arranged Music, on view through March 29 in the Sunderland Gallery at Saint Cecilia’s Cathedral.

Pipe organs and pianos, Miller’s primary material source, reference the early musical instrument...

Tim Guthrie - The Alternative Natural History Museum

by Mary Day

Metro area artist, experimental filmmaker, and curator Tim Guthrie is passionate about process. Guthrie is known for delivering exhibitions which place social issues in a political framework, such as Extraordinary Rendition, 2010 and Nuclear Dichotomies, 2006. He is now working on a new project, The Alternative Natural History Museum. “I’m curating the concept,” said Guthrie. “It will include a lot of people’s...

Union for Contemporary Art Quilt Project

by Mary Day

The Union for Contemporary Art, located at 24th and Burdette in north Omaha, is committed to uniting artists with community in the Metro area. Shea Wilkinson, a current fellow at the Union for Contemporary Art, is organizing and creating a community quilt as part of her 6-month residency. Wilkinson grew up sewing, receiving her UCA residency with free hand quilts done on a non-computerized domestic sewing machine....