ARTS and THEATER
Drop Dead Gorgeous
If a viewer enters photographer Vera Mercer’s first U.S. solo show and stays long enough, he or she is likely to experience it in three stages and on a roller coaster of emotions. Still Lifes, on display at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts through April 9, features 11 large format, painterly images from this Omaha-based international artist that, with colorful compositions of food, flora and fauna, may...
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Prince takes hold of the b-word at UNO
Photographer Teresa Prince will show her series of “bitch” photos this week at the UNO Milo Bail Student Center. The project, called “Bitch: It’s Our Word Now,” features a series of images of women holding signs that claim the word as their own and define it in ways personal to them. Prince began the project because she wanted to take the word – oft used negatively to describe people who don’t stick to...
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Double Feature
August Wilson never ends with a whimper, but goes out with a bang. And, again in King Hedley II at the John Beasley Theater, he goes to God through a Bible-quoting character named Stool Pigeon who preaches of glory over another fallen black man. As always, the great playwright adds to our understanding, not just of an African-American ex-convict in 1980s Pittsburgh, but of the timeless human struggle to find honor...
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Rgb is the new BLK
Commercial photographer and designer Bill Sitzmann has made a good living and a significant impact on pop culture, especially music. As a freelancer and core member of Minorwhite Studio, a collective of graphic artists and writers devoted to music, fashion and architecture, Sitzmann has helped put Omaha on a national map with cover shots in Time and Rolling Stone on behalf of Saddle Creek bands. Those cover photos...
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Sounds Plus Style Equals Art
Four women artists are showing work focused on two trends — fashion and music — as part of two separate shows opening Friday in Lincoln. For Lincoln artist Meghan Stratman, art and music are intertwined. So much so that each piece in her Gallery 9 show of new work “Louder than Sirens” is based on a song title. Stratman’s sweet, intricate work features delicate cutout female figures experiencing any...
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Local photographer hits the road
* Omaha photographer Dana Damewood hit the road last weekend as part of her latest project: two weeks on the road with a long-haul truck driver. Damewood has been planning the project for months; she is on the road with a female truck driver, sending updates via social networks and taking photographs along the way. “Driving a truck is a job that offers freedom, independence and adventure,” she wrote on her blog,...
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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...
Les Femmes Folles…Ciao!Les Femmes Folles and Caesium Gallery are proud to present LFF…Ciao! This farewell group exhibition features 30 artists...
Play Me, I’m YoursThe Omaha Creative Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities for the community to...
Bemis Director Adam PriceNewly appointed Executive Director of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Adam Price comes to the Bemis from the Utah...
“Murals are a way of attracting traffic into a neighborhood,” Metro area artist, and teacher Mike Giron said. “They lift...
Metro area artist, Evelyn Katz has been selected to participate in An Enchanted Arboretum, a community driven public art...
“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...
