ARTS and THEATER
Timeline Marches On
Anne Meysenberg folds four sheets of paper at a time, and methodically stuffs them into envelopes. People at the midtown Omaha bar where she works periodically give her a curious look. One man asks her if she’s operating a satellite post office. But Meysenberg, director of the Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts, is, as she puts it, “multitasking.” She stuffs hundreds end-of-year donor appeal...
entered on 11/24/10 at 11:03 AM | read more »
Artsy Holidays
* Happy Thanksgiving! Because it’s officially the holiday season, this week’s column is devoted to all things holiday, beginning with the Durham Museum’s annual tree lighting ceremony. The ceremony runs 4-7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26. Vocalist and local KIOS radio personality Michael Lyon will perform, and visitors can decorate cookies, create holiday gifts and share their list with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Durham’s...
entered on 11/24/10 at 11:01 AM | read more »
Hello, Dollies
The SNAP! parody of Valley of the Dolls made me want to laugh all the way to a video store and rent the 1967 movie. Performances by Michal Simpson and Adam Nathan were so outrageously entertaining you knew the original must have set new lows for overwrought soapiness. Credit a crazy gender-switching cast and at least two off-stage geniuses, director M. Michele Phillips and video designer Mark Cramer, for a show...
entered on 11/17/10 at 03:12 PM | read more »
Snows Hits Openings
*The burst of new theater openings was confronted last Friday with the first bad weather after an October and early November stretch that gave no excuse for missing even a minute of good stage artistry. Which is a prelude to confession: Chanticleer was holding two tickets for To Kill a Mockingbird, with talented Ron Hines as Atticus Finch, and I was ready to drive to the far side of Council Bluffs when I decided to...
entered on 11/17/10 at 03:08 PM | read more »
‘Ceramix’
There’s always been some ambiguity in the work of Iggy Sumnik, ceramicist and mixed media artist. A former assistant in the Jun Kaneko Studio in Omaha, Sumnik broke out of the mold in 2008 in a two-man show at RNG Gallery, then soloed in January of 2009 at Jackson Artworks. In both shows the artist explored the tenuous relationship of the industrial and natural world, or what he described as “the human...
entered on 11/17/10 at 01:42 PM | read more »
Openings at Bemis Underground, Artists Coop and Bancroft St. Market
* Opening this Friday at the Bemis Underground is the brainchild of Omaha artist Tim Guthrie and performance artist Doug Hayko. Extraordinary Rendition includes the work of a dozen other artists (including me; I did some writing for the show) Look for work from Guthrie, Hayko, Jamie Burmeister, Peter Cales, Justin Kemerling, Landi Olsen, Nolan Tredway, Carol Zuegner and the omahaliveartdivision. The exhibition will...
entered on 11/17/10 at 01:39 PM | read more »
Accidents Happen….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...
