Black Artist Meetup
CALLING ALL BLACK CREATIVES!
Are you a Black creative working in fine art, performance, music, dance, literature, poetry, burlesque, or any combination of these?! Join us for an evening of connection, inspiration, and community!
Let's come together to network, share our practice with one another with potential for collaboration, and enjoy light snacks, drinks, and music.
📅 Thursday, September 19, 2024
🕠 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
📍 Hot Shops Art Center, First Floor Event Space
1301 Nicholas St., Omaha, NE 68102
This event is FREE and open to all creatives who identify as Black. Open-house style - feel free to come and go as you please.
Come as you are and bring your creative spirit! See you there!
RSVP is required. www.angrbennett.com/meetup
Benefit Art Auction
Bemis Center’s Benefit Art Auction is Omaha’s premier celebration of contemporary art. Attracting 1,500 established business leaders, emerging professionals, artists, and other movers and shakers in our region, this exhibition and event provide a unique platform for artists and raise critical funds to ensure Bemis's free, year-round exhibitions, educational public programs, LOW END performances, and international residency program.
Mountain Plains Contemporary Art Biennial
Please join us in celebrating the artists of the 2024 Mountain Plains Biennial. Juror, Jane Burke will give remarks and announce awards at 6 PM. This event is free and open to the public.
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The fourth iteration of the Salina Biennial continues to affirm the power of art-making in the Mountain Plains region. The Biennial was established in 2018 to highlight artists who are balancing the traditions and history of our region with a larger, global contemporary practice. The artists of the Mountain-Plains region are equally defined by their place while also defining it, and continuing to redefine it. The Biennial continues our tradition of exhibitions that pose important questions and encourage meaningful interactions.
Adobe Create Now Omaha Presenter
Dive into an evening of creativity with Adobe!
Join the design community at Adobe Create Now to connect with fellow local creators, explore new ways to collaborate, and enhance your creative process. Discover Adobe's latest features, and get pro tips for Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, and more. Enjoy appetizers, drinks, and a chance to win a Creative Cloud membership.
Please note that our event has limited capacity, so kindly RSVP only if you plan to attend. We can't wait to see you there!
Visiting Nurse Association's 27th annual Art & Soup fundraiser
Community members are invited to purchase an exciting mix of art genres, bid on our selection of auction items, and eat unique soups prepared by some of Omaha and Council Bluffs’ best chefs.
All proceeds ensure that VNA nurses continue to provide public health nursing services to individuals and families in local group maternity homes, domestic violence shelters, and homeless shelters.
Purchase a ticket to the event at https://givebutter.com/c/artandsoup2024
Body Defiance
Body Defiance, Amplify’s next Generator Grant exhibition, reveals gender in its knotty mix of cultural norms, historical formations, family influence, and psychic realities constantly made and remade.
Exhibition artists and organizers Ang Bennett and Sheree Le’Shawn, both assigned female at birth (AFAB), document their shared experiences as Black, AFAB people asserting bodily autonomy outside the binary. Their collaborative photo and video work traces the daily ritual of enacting gender, and its multiplicities, in the repressive and often hostile political landscape of the Midwest.
Lavender Country: An LGBTQIA+ Group Show
RECEPTION
05/05/2023 - 5:00pm
WEST GALLERY
May 5th, 2023 to July 1st, 2023
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION
FIRST FRIDAY, MAY 5:
Join us for a special performance by the Queer Choir Lincoln, from 6:30-7:30 PM; Queer Choir Lincoln is a community choir open to LGBTQIA+ folx of all walks, and currently has 50 members. This group was founded by artistic director Juju Tyner in March 2022 after an epiphany that there was a massive gap in opportunities for and representation by queer folx in the music performance scene in Lincoln.
LAVENDER COUNTRY
This exhibition highlights and celebrates queer artists who currently reside in Nebraska. The title Lavender Country refers to the name of the band and debut solo album produced in 1973 by Patrick Haggerty, and is referred to as the first gay country album. Haggerty, who passed away at the age of 78 last October of 2022, was a life-long human rights and social justice activist. The lyrics of Lavender Country suggest the possibility of a queer utopia – however, considering the nationwide trend of anti-LGBTQ+ and specific anti-trans legislation, along with multiple bills introduced so close to home, the idea of utopia remains unrealistic.
The multidisciplinary work within this exhibition reimagines and challenges traditional notions of identity, fantasy, and history, as well as the nuance and subjectivity of language that frames queerness. By bringing together Nebraskan queer artists, we hope to cultivate an uplifting artistic community in the midst of our current political climate within our state and beyond, as well as highlight the urgency of positive visibility and community.
MEDIUM
Mixed Media
Black Artist Expo
A celebration and appreciation of local Black artists.
Presented by Culxr House
We the People
We the People
Group art exhibition illustrating the issues that affect marginalized communities.
Exhibiting artists: Ang R. Bennett, Gerardo “Pollo” Diaz, Mary Ensz, Eduardo Gardea, Thomas Halbur, Kendra Limon, Sarah Rowe, Nathaniel Ruleaux, Oria Simonini, Bart Vargas, Lily Stennis-Vinson
This is Us
Celebrate African American artists featuring a wide variety of mediums and different perspectives. Artists include Ang Bennett, Rowena Bennett, Anthony Deon Brown, Celeste Brown, BlackMars, Anthony Peña, Patty Talbert, Brittney Thompson, Aaryon “Bird” Williams, Jevon Woods, and Zaleski.
This show runs through Friday March 3rd.