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Flora & Form by Shawnequa Linder
2025-11-03 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-05 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-06 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-09 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-10 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) and 4 more dates | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
October 4 through November 16, open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On the gallery walls in the visitor and education center
Included with paid admission. Free for garden members.
Shawnequa Linder’s work explores the balance between chaos and harmony through vibrant textures, color, and light. Blending traditional and experimental techniques, she creates landscapes and portraits that evoke depth, emotion, and curiosity. Her art invites viewers to reconsider beauty and discover new perspectives within the interplay of light, shadow, and form.

The Weird, Wild, and Wonderful World of Plants by Camille Werther and Rose Werther
2025-11-03 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-05 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-06 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-09 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-10 09:00 - 17:00 and 3 more dates | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
October 4 through November 16, open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On the gallery walls in the visitor and education center
Included with paid admission. Free for garden members.
Mother-daughter artist team Camille and Rose Werther bring their love for the unusual, the overlooked, and the fascinating in the botanical world through their art, each in their own style. Camille’s work reflects her ongoing love affair with wildflowers. The flowers chosen reflect those that are flowering within driving distance of Omaha over the growing season. Rose’s work explores the structures of unusual plant life. Each plant featured was chosen for its unique features, from the skeleton flower that turns transparent when hit with rain to carnivorous plants such as the Venus flytrap.

La Calavera Catrina
2025-11-04 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-05 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-06 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-08 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-09 09:00 - 17:00 | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
On display from August 17 through November 8
Discover the rich history and iconography of La Catrina, one of the most recognizable figures of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), through eight larger-than-life skeleton sculptures by Los Angeles artist Ricardo Soltero. An elegant female skeleton and an icon of Mexican heritage, La Catrina approaches death not through sadness, but as a colorful celebration of life. See these colorful and joyful works, with accompanying signage in both English and Spanish.
About the Artist: Born in Nayarit, Mexico, Ricardo Soltero is the set designer for the largest Día de los Muertos celebration in the United States, which takes place annually at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Both a sculptor and a costume designer, Soltero’s projects include works and design for Semblanza Latinoamericana dance and music festival, Metropolitan Fashion Week, UNICEF’s annual gala and the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, CA.
Exhibition organized by Denver Botanic Gardens
Included with paid garden admission. Free for garden members.

Opening Reception: FLOW by Bart Vargas
2025-11-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Radial Arts Center, 5915 Maple St, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
Join us in November during Benson First Friday for the opening reception of “FLOW” — a solo exhibition by Bart Vargas!
ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Circles, squares, rays. Ancient symbols and shapes that humans have been drawing since we were drawing on cave walls. No one invented them and no one owns them. They belong to humanity.
I work in a variety of mediums, but when I paint, I primarily paint geometric abstraction. I combine the challenge of trying to paint those shapes and forms with my love of color and color theory. All with the goal of making them the way I make them, to make them mine. I strive to use the visual vocabulary of humanity, but with my voice.
For this exhibition I have explored the most simple and complex Element of Art, Line. Looking back through Art History, drawing inspiration from those who have used flowing lines before me, I have spent the last year exploring how I would make static lines mine, move, and in their own way, FLOW.”
ARTIST BIO:
Bart Vargas is a Visual Artist, Educator, and Advocate from Bellevue, Nebraska. He received his BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and his MFA at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in many collections throughout the world. Vargas lives in Omaha, Nebraska, where he publishes a weekly list of local Arts, Culture, and Entertainment events on social media, and operates an international studio with his wife Bekah Jerde. Vargas serves as a Professor and Chair of Visual Arts/Graphic Arts Program at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as well as on several local boards of non-profit organizations.
