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PACE | New Masters
2024-09-19 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-18 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-17 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Pottawamie Arts, Culture and Entertainment (PACE), 1001 S 6th Street, Council Bluffs, IA, 51503, United States
We welcome you to the 2024 PACE New Masters.
Feel free to tour all the featured 40+ local professional photographers depicting realistic landscapes, figures, and portraits.
Join us on Opening Night, Friday, May 24 to see who is named this years’ “PACE New Master!”
Exhibit runs through May 24 – Sep 28, 2024
FREE to the public on Fridays from 6-9PM & Saturdays from 12-4PM.

UNO Printed Art Exhibition
2024-09-19 08:00 - 16:00, 2024-09-18 08:00 - 16:00 | UNO Art Gallery, Weber Fine Arts Building, 6505 University Dr S, Omaha, NE, 68182, United States
Sept 3-27, 2024

The UNO Art Gallery presents a collaborative array from the School of the Arts: Book Arts, Print Faculty and the Print Workshop. Admission to the UNO Gallery and all programming is free and open to the public.

Reading: Lee Ann Roripaugh
2024-09-18 19:30 - 20:30 | UNO Art Gallery, Weber Fine Arts Building, 6505 University Dr S, Omaha, NE, 68182, United States
This free reading features celebrated poet and writer, Lee Ann Roripaugh.
Lee Ann Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which was named a “Best Book of 2019” by the New York Public Library, selected as a poetry Finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, cited as a Society of Midland Authors 2020 Honoree in Poetry, and was named one of the “50 Must-Read Poetry Collections in 2019” by Book Riot. Her collection of fiction, Reveal Codes, was selected as winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and published by Moon City Press in late 2023, and their chapbook, #stringofbeads, a winner in the Diode Editions Chapbook Competition, was released from Diode Press in 2023. She was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004, and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The South Dakota State Poet Laureate from 2015-2019, Roripaugh is a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where they serve as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review. They also teach in UNO’s Low-Residency MFA program.

Jersey Boys
2024-09-18 19:30, 2024-09-15 14:00, 2024-09-14 19:30 | Omaha Community Playhouse, 6915 Cass Street, Omaha, NE, 68132
Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice | Music by Bob Gaudio | Lyrics by Bob Crewe
Sept. 13 – Oct. 13, 2024
Hawks Mainstage Theatre
Tony Award®-winner for Best Musical, Jersey Boys is the jukebox sensation that takes you behind-the-scenes of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons—their rise, tough times, personal clashes and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. With greatest hits such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” don’t miss the regional premiere of this international musical phenomenon.
Disclaimer: Contains adult language.

North Omaha Music and Arts Weekly Music Sessions
2024-09-18 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-09-16 19:00 - 22:00 | North Omaha Music Academy, 2510 N 24th St, Omaha, NE, 68110, United States
North Omaha Music and Arts hosts free weekly gatherings with live band performances, followed by open sessions where all musicians, MCs, and vocalists are invited to participate or sit in.
At our sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to connect with other local artists who share your passion for music. Our live shows kick off the evening, setting the tone for a night of creativity and collaboration. After the show, we open up the floor for jam sessions, where you can showcase your skills and improvise with other talented musicians.

Mondays are devoted to jazz, and whether you’re a seasoned jazz player or just starting to explore the genre, our sessions are the perfect place to hone your skills and connect with other jazz enthusiasts.

On Wednesdays, we shift our focus to contemporary, cutting-edge music, providing a space for musicians and vocalists to explore and experiment with new sounds and styles.

Wonderful Life Auditions
2024-09-18 19:00, 2024-09-15 19:00 | Bellevue Little Theatre, 203 W Mission Ave, Bellevue, 68005, United States
Auditions will be at Bellevue Little Theatre
203 W Mission Ave, Bellevue, NE 68005
September 15- 7:00 PM
September 18- 7:00 PM
Production runs December 6-22, 2024; Fridays-Sundays
Rehearsals will begin Late September/October
​Director: D Laureen Pickle
Production is in need of of child and adult actors of any gender or ethnicity. BIPOC are especially encouraged to audition. Please be prepared to read from the script.
About the Play:
It’s A Wonderful Life is an adaptation of Frank Capra’s masterpiece film. This is the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been squashed by family obligations and civic duty, and whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair, and to remind him – by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born – that he has had, after all, a wonderful life.
Character Descriptions:
-Adult George – Young man, late 20’s to mid 30’s – strong acting, some singing
-Clarence – Male, late 40’s and up – a gentle soul, strong acting, light comedy
-Dr. Campbell/Reineman/Toll keeper – Male, late 30’s and up, multiple roles
-Gower/Principal/Martini – Male, 40’s and up, multiple roles
-Young George/Pete – Boy (or Girl playing a boy), 7-12
-Adult Violet — Young woman, late 20’s to mid 30’s – strong acting, comedy, several songs
-Adult Mary – Young woman, late 20’s to mid 30’s – strong acting, some singing
-Uncle Billy – Older man, late 40’s and up – strong comic acting, possibly some singing
-Cousin Tilly/Annie/Maria – Older woman, 50’s and up – versatile acting, some singing
-Joseph/Mr. Bailey/Cop – Older man, 50’s and up
-Mother/Cousin Eustace – Older woman, 50’s and up
–Multiple ensemble parts for all ages. Ensemble will play multiple parts in many scenes, and may sing in 1-2 numbers. Children will also have opportunities for singing.

Posthumous Commentary by Gabriella Quiroz
2024-09-18 09:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-17 09:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-16 09:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-15 09:00 - 20:00 | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
August 21 through September 199 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through SundayOn the gallery walls in the visitor and education centerIncluded with paid admission or garden membership. $15 + tax, $9 + tax for ages 3-12, free for ages 2 and under.Gabriella Quiroz is a Nebraska-based artist. Her work has been featured in numerous group showings throughout Omaha and its surrounding areas. Gabi works primarily in oil paints and colored pencils, developing works of symbolic imagery through flora and fauna.www.gabriellaquiroz.com

A Balm In Quiet Beat by Jordan Acker Anderson
2024-09-18 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-17 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-16 09:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-15 09:00 - 17:00 | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
August 21 through September 199 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through SundayOn the gallery walls in the visitor and education centerIncluded with paid admission or garden membership. $15 + tax, $9 + tax for ages 3-12, free for ages 2 and under.Jordan Acker Anderson will exhibit new paintings inspired by the Lauritzen Gardens grounds and botanical collection. The work will be representative of the artist’s style in abstract symbolism, repetitive mark making, and vibrant color. Her paintings are visual meditations on our impermanence, awareness of cyclical time, and connection with nature.Artist StatementIn my practice, I respond to our interconnectedness through the act of painting. My compositions are a call and response between states of disruption and integration. I layer and detach from previous studio sessions to create a mindful aesthetic that reflects our impermanence. My imagery develops through intuitive actions and interpretations of observations drawn from daily life. I use compositions as a way to mark time and create symbolic calendars. I structure compositions on bilateral order and relieved symmetry as these connect to embodiment and nature. My works become visual prayers that hold my concern. The process is a meditation in its act, and the result is an accumulation of mark, memory, and symbolism.About the ArtistJordan Acker Anderson received her BFA in 2002 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and her MFA in 2007 from the University of Iowa. She is the director and a professor of studio art for Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work has been published in numerous Studio Visit magazines and the Mid America Print Journal. Her works are included in the University of Iowa public collections for the Art & Art History Department and the Hospitals & Clinics. Group exhibition highlights include Being: A Recognition of Self and Other at Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisc., 2023 Faculty Biennial at Marian Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisc., 30x30x30 at Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisc., and A Tiny Rivulet in the Distant Forest at ArtStart, Rhinelander, Wisc. She was selected for the 2016 and 2020 Wisconsin Artists Biennial at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Her work was in Watercolor Wisconsin 2021 at Racine Art Museum’s Wustum Museum. She was selected as an artist-in-residence for the 2024-2025 ARTservancy program with Gallery 224 in Port Washington, Wisc, which pairs art activists and land trust properties to increase access and awareness for conservation efforts.

Cypress Hill with The Omaha Symphony
2024-09-17 19:30 | Steelhouse Omaha, 1100 Dodge St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Ernest Richardson, conductor
Cypress Hill, guest artist
This exciting, one-night-only collaboration features Cypress Hill’s B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs themselves performing tracks you love like “Insane in the Brain” and “Tequila Sunrise,” enhanced by the power and harmonic beauty of the full Omaha Symphony. Cypress Hill became hip-hop royalty in the early 90s with its groove-heavy beats, psychedelic sampling, and a prominent pro-marijuana stance. Cypress Hill’s 1993 album Black Sunday debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200, garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations, and went triple platinum in the U.S. Join us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Black Sunday at this brand-new concert experience for Omaha.

RISE Re-Entry Simulation
2024-09-16 16:00 - 18:30 | Benson Theatre, 6054 Maple St, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
About
95% of people incarcerated will get out. 1,800-2,400 people are released from Nebraska prisons each year. Returning to the community after incarceration is crisis.
Housing, employment, and financial barriers at every turn, RISE aims to use this simulation as a tool for community members to better understand the invisible handcuffs and road blocks of returning citizens. While the experience of reentry can never truly be accurate without first hand experience, it is our hope that this simulation is thought-provoking and educational.
During this reentry simulation, participants will be given a “life card” and mock identity reflecting that of an individual returning to the community after incarceration. Participants will navigate “four weeks” of reentry in roughly one hour.
Following the reentry simulation, participants will debrief their experience together with RISE staff.
Who Can Participate
All community members who are curious about reentry and the criminal justice system.
This event runs from 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM.

Young Frankenstein
2024-09-15 19:30, 2024-09-14 19:30 | Bellevue Little Theatre, 203 W Mission Ave, Bellevue, 68005, United States
From L-R

Debbie Cline (Frau Blucher), Donovan Carr (Igor), Hannah Post (Inga), Adam Fulbright (Dr. Frankenstein)

Bellevue Little Theatre, 203 W. Mission in Olde Towne Bellevue will open its 56th season with the musical ‘Young Frankenstein’ on Friday, Sept. 13, closing on Sunday, Sept. 29. Performances will begin at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings and 2 pm on Sunday.

On opening night ‘Friday the 13th’ the BLT will offer free wine and cheese to all adults attending. The theatre also invites all those attending to come in costume for this opening night celebration. All those in costume will receive a free raffle ticket for the basket raffle which will be held at the close of intermission.

On Sept 27, a Friday evening, we will have ASL interpreters for the hearing impaired.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students with id. Reservations are requested and may be made by visiting blt.simpletix.com

Season ticket reservations may be obtained by calling 402-413-8945.

This adult musical follows the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein as he visits Transylvania following the death of his grandfather, the creator of the monster Frankenstein. The young man soon casts aside his determination to never become involved in his grandfather’s research and revisits his research. The results are funny and alarming.

NOTE—THIS IS AN ADULT MUSICAL WITH ADULT SITUATIONS–NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

The musical, based on the Mel Brooks film which was released in 1974 follows the story closely. Mary Shelly ‘created’ the original book on which the film was based. The clever combining of Shelley’s book and Mel Brooks’ film produce an evening of delightful adult musical entertainment.

Cast and staff are below.

Donovan Carr
Chloe Rosman
Hannah Post
Debbie Cline
John Arnsdorff
John Morrissey
Benjiman Pettiford
Evan Wohlers
Kara Penniston
Sara Scheidies
Jacob Goetz
Kevin Bray
Emily Stover
Julie Stanfill
Eric Henery-Cavanaugh
Audrey Saucier
Steve Knox
Riley Pope
Jonny Peplow
Phyllis Cremonini
Carli Tomac
Chris Latta
Dennis Stessman
Suzanne Birnley
Brooke Jones
Brandy Prettyman

Director- Todd Uhrmacher
Music Director- D. Laureen Pickle
Choreographer- Debbie Massey-Schneweis
Stage Manager/Props- Jenny Cupak- Carroll
Assistant Stage Manager- Trey Kelly
Scenic and Lighting Design- Joey Lorincz
Costume Designer- Leah Skorupa-Metzger

Sound Designer – Joe Mokrycki

Icon Writing Workshop
2024-09-15 16:00 - 2024-09-21 17:00 | St Benedict Center, 1126 Road I, Schulyer, NE, 68661, United States
Christian icons have served as “Windows into Heaven” for nearly 2,000 years. Iconography begins with prayer and is executed with the sense that the seven days of creation are being represented in the artistic endeavor. This workshop is an instruction in icon writing in the Byzantine-Russian tradition. Its objective is the completion of one icon, provided attendance for full six (6) days and the completion of daily assignments as allocated by the instructor. For beginning, as well as for intermediate and advanced icon writers.Dmitri Andreyev is the son of the well-known contemporary Russian Master Iconographer Vladislav Andreyev and trained under him. He is part of the Prosopon School of Iconology founded by his father, which maintains studios throughout the United States, Russia and Europe. Their commitment to iconography has led to thousands of new students practicing iconography through Prosopon’s workshops. He lives in Brookfield, VT.Sunday, 4:00 p.m. to Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Tuition (includes 36 hours of studio instruction and all art supplies):

Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night
2024-09-15 11:00 - 17:00 | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Paul Stephen Benjamin’s practice is an ongoing investigation of blackness through concept, thought, and perception. From 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. In addition, across his practice, the artist’s work references integral moments in Black history as well as art history.
In Black of Night, Benjamin presents new and recent video installations, paintings, text-based work, and sculpture as conceptual entry points for dialogue around identity, race, and patriotism. By continually “documenting” the color black through his multifaceted practice, he is also deconstructing its meaning—breaking it down to its simplest form and allowing for it to operate as a medium for interpretation and introspection. Focusing on the connotations of the color black in society, culture and language, Benjamin incorporates history, text, imagery and sound from popular culture, in turn discussing the absence and presence of color.

About the Artist
Paul Stephen Benjamin was born in Chicago, IL, and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. He earned his BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA from Georgia State University in 2013. Recently Benjamin has exhibited at Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA (2023), Blackness at the Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco, (2023), The Thoma Foundation Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM (2022–2023), and a solo exhibition at the Van Every-Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC (2022).
He has been included in solo and group exhibitions at a variety of institutions and art spaces, including Prospect.5 New Orleans, LA (2021–2022). Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA (2021), The Dirty South at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA (2021), David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN (2021), Crystal Bridges Museum and the Momentary, Bentonville, AR (2020), The MAC, Belfast, UK (2019), VC Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA (2019), The Havana Biennial in Matanzas, Cuba (2019), Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, NY (2019), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (2018), Telfair Museum Jepson Center, Savannah, GA (2018), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA (2017), High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2016), among others.
He has received a range of awards and fellowships, including The Hudgens Prize (2019), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2019), Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship (2019), The Southern Art Prize (2018), The State Fellow of Georgia (2018), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (WAP) Fellow (2017), Artadia Award (2014), Winnie B. Chandler Fellowship, and the Forward Arts Emerging Artists Award.

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers
2024-09-15 11:00 - 17:00 | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Raven Halfmoon’s practice spans torso-scaled and colossal-sized stoneware sculptures, with some soaring up to nine feet and weighing over eight hundred pounds. With 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.
Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, she learned about ceramics as a teenager from a Caddo elder. Working mainly in portraiture, Halfmoon hand builds each work using a coil method. Her surfaces are expressive and show deep finger impressions and dramatic dripping glazes—a physicality that presences her as both maker and matter. She fuses Caddo pottery traditions (a history of making mostly done by women) with populist gestures—often tagging her work (a reference to Caddo tattooing).
Her palette is specific and matches both the clay bodies she selects and the glazes she fires with—reds (after the Oklahoma soil and the blood of murdered Indigenous women), blacks (referencing the natural clay native to the Red River), and creams. Sometimes she stacks and repeats imagery, creating totemic forms that represent herself and her maternal ancestry while also reinforcing the multiplicities that exist inside all of us. Her works reference stories of the Caddo Nation, specifically her feminist lineage and the power of its complexities.
This exhibition will include a combination of new and borrowed works that vary in size and content from over the last five years. Halfmoon will also be creating some of her largest works to date commissioned by The Aldrich and Bemis Center. The artist’s first museum catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
Raven Halfmoon is curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
Raven Halfmoon. E-a’-titi (sister), 2021. Stoneware, glaze. 30 x 26 x 58 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Alan Koppel.
Learn more about Raven Halfmoon’s work here.
About Flags of Our Mothers
The Caddo Origin Story

About the Artist
Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation) is from Norman, Oklahoma. She attended the University of Arkansas where she earned double bachelor’s degrees in ceramics and cultural anthropology. She has garnered an impressive series of awards and accolades, including being named the 2018 Fund the Change recipient from the Activist and Social Justice Arts Organization in Oklahoma, a Burke Prize finalist at the Museum of Arts and Design, in New York, NY, the American Craft Council Emerging Voices Award, and Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist—all in 2019. She just concluded a two-year residency at Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Montana.
