Plants That Make Me Happy by Megan Loudon Sanders
Lauritzen Gardens 100 Bancroft Street, OmahaA collection of portraits of the artist’s houseplants and paintings inspired by flowers from their garden. Explored in a mix of grey-scale and full color.
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Welcome to the KVNO Arts Calendar!
— dedicated to promoting the growth and appreciation of the arts in the Omaha community.
Visual Arts
Ongoing
Omaha Summer Arts Festival
Aksarben Village OmahaThe 50th annual Omaha Summer Arts Festival (OSAF) will take place in Aksarben Village on June 7-8-9, 2024! All of your favorites return with 135 artists from throughout the U.S. AND from right here in Omaha; a stage featuring dozens of talented local musicians; a huge, hands-on Children’s Fair and Young Artist Exhibition; and some of the best food in Omaha. Plus, don’t miss the return of the mural cubes!
Free
Plant Folk by Anne Newman
Lauritzen Gardens 100 Bancroft Street, OmahaA series of plant portraits sparked by the folkloric history of Mandrakes and continued on as an exploration of other plant species gaining consciousness and freedom of movement.
$15
Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S. 12th Street, OmahaWith inspirations that orbit centuries from ancient Indigenous pottery to Moai statues to Land Art, Halfmoon interrogates the intersection of tradition, history, gender, and personal experience.
Free
Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 724 S. 12th Street, OmahaFrom wordplay with the actual letters that comprise “BLACK,” to utilizing the expanse of shades of black house paint—including as Nightfall, Soot, Ebony Field, and Black Beauty—to posing the question, “If the color black had a sound, what would it be?,” Benjamin calls attention to the color’s deep historical and social resonance.
Free