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Gallery Talk
2024-05-25 13:30 (America/Chicago) | El Museo Latino, 4701 S 25th St, Omaha, NE, 68107, United States
As part of May 2024 programming during the “Frida Kahlo and the Blue House” exhibition, Sarah Banderas Martinez presents the talk “Letters of Love and Pain,” which explores a selection of artist Frida Kahlo’s letters, including those written to Diego Rivera and close friends. The gallery talk is included with museum admission.

PACE | Youth Ceramics
2024-05-25 13:00 - 2024-05-26 15:30 | Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center, 1001 South 6th Street, Council Bluffs, IA, United States
Does your child dream of turning a lump of clay into a magical mug or a funky figurine? In this our youth ceramics classes, your imagination will take center stage as you explore the wonderful world of clay!
What They Will Learn:

The clay basics: Kneading, pinching, coiling, and sculpting – master these techniques to transform clay into anything you can dream up.
Hand-building magic: Create bowls, animals, monsters, or whatever your heart desires using hand-building techniques.
Spin it to win it: Get a taste of the potter’s wheel and learn how to center, throw, and shape clay on this exciting spinning machine.
Glazing galore: Choose from a rainbow of glazes to add color, shine, and personality to your creations.

More Than Just Clay:

Develop your creativity and problem-solving skills as you bring your ideas to life.
Learn about different ceramics styles and techniques from around the world.
Discover the joy of working with your hands and creating something special from scratch.
Make new friends and share your artistic journey with other clay enthusiasts.

Take home:

Your very own ceramic creations, proudly made by you!
A newfound appreciation for the art of ceramics and the magic of clay.
Memories of a fun and rewarding learning experience.

Arts for ME! Spring Exhibition
2024-05-25 13:00 - 19:00, 2024-05-24 13:00 - 19:00, 2024-05-23 13:00 - 19:00 | KANEKO, 1111 Jones St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
The Arts For ME! mission statement is:
WE EXIST TO EMPOWER MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES WITHIN OUR SCHOOL, AND TO INCREASE THE VISIBILITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THEIR WORK
This organization fosters, cultivates, and advocates for adaptive art programs for alternative students and are driven by their passion to share their philosophy and approach to teaching adaptive art. A truly collaborative effort, AFM employs the ideas, guidance, and expertise of educators and artists from around the world.
AFM’s successful methodology is based on (4) tenets: Collaborating, Lesson Planning, Set Up and Cycles, and Support.
Collaborating:
All programming is only made possible through their collaboration with Special Education teachers, occupational therapists, peer educators, guest artists, and public partners.
Lesson Planning:
Founded on Discipline-Based Art Education, each lesson plan starts by focusing on an artist or art movement and is built out from there. Lesson objectives are to develop individually tailored processes so each learner is able to express themselves with the goal to expose students to new artists and provide unique experiences that allow them to make choices within their work.
Set Up and Cycles:
Structure is integral to successful learning. AFM conducts class once a week led by two certified teachers with no more than 8 students per class. The classroom set up is based on the project and mobility needs of each student. Lessons may last 1-4 weeks with a project cycle of 4 years which ensures that a student can take the class for all 4 high school years and always have a new learning experience.
Support:
Participation from peers, nurses, occupational therapists, educational assistants, and special education teachers supports the organization’s operations and helps build friendships and confidence in each learner as well. AFM is dedicated to cultivating that confidence so students learn how to support themselves and feel it is equally important to provide students with independent space to freely express themselves on their own.
For more information on the Arts for Me! program, please visit www.artsforme.org

Icons in Transformation
2024-05-25 12:00 - 16:00, 2024-05-24 17:00 - 19:00 | All Saints Episcopal Church, 9302 Blondo St, Omaha, NE, 68134, United States
All Saint Episcopal Church will host “Icons in Transformation,” a dramatic 100-piece art exhibition featuring the contemporary work of internationally acclaimed Swedish-Ukrainian abstract expressionist Ludmila Pawlowska. This must-see exhibit will introduce her work to a broader audience and shed new light on this highly prolific and influential artist. It presents traditional icons as a source of inspiration for contemporary art. As such, the exhibit includes 15 traditional icons painted at the workshop of the Vassilevsky Monastery.
The exhibition will run from April 14 to June 9
Fridays 5pm to 7pm
Saturdays 12pm to 4pm
Sundays 11:30pm to 2:30pm

Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night
2024-05-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-24 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
2024-05-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-24 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.

PACE | New Masters
2024-05-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-24 08:00 - 17:00 | 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.

Pete Davidson: Prehab Tour (Late Show)
2024-05-24 21:30 | Steelhouse Omaha, 1100 Dodge St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Pete Davidson is a celebrated stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.
This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of phones, smart watches, and accessories will not be permitted in the performance space. Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches, and accessories will be secured in individual Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Anyone seen using a device during the performance will be escorted out of the venue by security. We appreciate your cooperation in creating a phone-free viewing experience.

Full Moon Hikes
2024-05-24 21:00 - 23:00 | Fontenelle Forest, 1111 Bellevue Blvd, North Bellevue, NE, 68005, United States
Have you ever hiked under a full moon? Or wondered what comes out after dark in the Forest? Find out on our guided Full Moon Hikes!
Hikes will begin no later than 30 minutes after the event start time, so be sure to arrive on time. All hikes will include an educational discussion of the nocturnal animals around the Forest and a brief talk into the lore of full moons. The event will include a bonfire and s’mores.
DATE AND TIME: Dates listed below. Event Time varies per event based on sunset.
LOCATION: Fontenelle Forest Nature Center
MINIMUM CAPACITY: 5
MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 35
PROGRAM FEE: $15 for members; $25 for non-members.
MEMBERS MUST SIGN IN TO RECEIVE DISCOUNT.

Jitterbugs' Night Out
2024-05-24 20:00 - 23:59 | Eagles Ballroom, 201 S 24th St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Jitterbugs’ Night Out, or as we like to call it, JNO, has been home to Omaha Jitterbugs’ since 2001.
On average 130 people come to JNO each week, and it’s one of Omaha’s longest-running weekly events.
Masks are optional at JNO.
You don’t need to bring a partner. The weekly beginning dance lesson is from 8:15 – 9:00 and you can choose to rotate partners throughout the lesson or stick with the partner you came with. Then the DJ plays swingin’ tunes for social dancing from 9 p.m. until midnight, so ask people to dance! Check our calendar for nights with live music. Our instructors and DJs are volunteers with JIVE who have completed training.
Dressing sharp is encouraged! But you’ll see people in t-shirts, jeans, dresses, and suits. For special events and live music nights, people tend to dress nicer.
We’ve created a diverse and welcoming community: smoke-free, drug-free, and all ages are welcome. Children younger than 15 must be accompanied by an adult. Most nights more than 100 people attend. While the highest percentage of people attending are aged 19–39, dancers range from middle and high school students to retirees in their 70s and above. Check out our Code of Conduct.
You can bring in your own food and bottle for water. We provide free water because you WILL get thirsty. A full bar is available downstairs.
Join us for the Birthday Jam! After the announcements, around 10:15 pm, we gather in a circle on the dance floor and those who have a birthday (or graduation, or are newly engaged, or any special occasion!) stand in the middle. A song is played and different partners jump in to dance with you for a bit.
If you’d like to have a party during JNO, you are welcome! We suggest showing up at 8:00 pm if you need to set up a table for your party.
No party fees are charged.
For discounted entrance, learn about volunteering with JIVE!

Comedy Night for Reproductive Rights!
2024-05-24 19:30 | Benson Theatre, 6054 Maple St, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
Join us for a night of laughs from seven local comedians hosted by NEAR (Nebraska Abortion Resources)! Ticket sale proceeds will go directly to protect abortion access in Nebraska!

Space Oddity: The Music of David Bowie
2024-05-24 19:30 | Holland Performing Arts Center, 1200 Douglas St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Relive Bowie’s miraculous transformation from space-aged rock idol, to polished mainstream media star… and the timeless classics that forever changed the face of pop culture, with David Brighton’s salute to the most electrifying performer of our time.

Space Oddity – The Ultimate David Bowie Experience is a live, multi-media spectacle that takes you on a musical journey through the constantly metamorphosing career of rock and roll’s most celebrated innovator. David Brighton and his band deliver a stunning note-for-note theatrical concert event backed by the Omaha Symphony…transporting you back in time through some of the most exciting moments in the history of rock music.

Pete Davidson: Prehab Tour
2024-05-24 19:00 | Steelhouse Omaha, 1100 Dodge St, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States

Sweet
2024-05-24 19:00, 2024-05-23 19:00 | The Union for Contemporary Art, 2423 North 24th Street, Omaha, NE, 68110, United States
By: Harrison David Rivers
The Union for Contemporary Art in partnership with Great Plains Theater Commons
Directed by Denise Chapman
Synopsis
The Baker sisters have always been the best of friends, but when the neighbor boy returns home from college, desire threatens to tear them apart.

Larry Roots “Abstractions and Other Narratives”
2024-05-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, 1042 Howard Street, Omaha, NE, 68102, United States
Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, Old Omaha Association
Omaha, Nebraska presents: Larry Roots, “Abstractions and Other Narratives”
Roots’ recent paintings provide a unique catalogue of his approach to working with acrylics. The artworks coalesce a multiplicity of crosscurrents into each composition: they are at once painterly and restrained, opaque and translucent, freeform and gridded, raw and delicate. Roots’ abstractions here are improvisational and lyrical, pushing and pulling the eye across their atmospheric surfaces and into depths of color, shape and line. Context is also provided for the evolution of Roots’ style with a selection of older personal favorites, paintings that encapsulate his forays into merging calligraphy with gestural abstraction.
Also new in this exhibition are Roots’ sculptural reliefs. These provide insight to the artist’s approach to pictorial space as inherently dimensional, creating illusions of deep perspective within the confined space of a diorama. As if designing art installations in miniature, Roots populates these architectural spaces with a variety of objects in miniature, many of them repurposed from his maquettes and “boneyard of ideas” for sculptures over the years.

Frida y Diego Community Art Show Opening
2024-05-24 16:00 - 21:00, 2024-05-23 16:00 - 21:00 | Joslyn Castle, 3902 Davenport St, Omaha, NE, 68131, United States
This captivating exhibition seeks to bring another layer of excitement, awareness and engagement to Opera Omaha’s production of the beautiful opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego), a new opera by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz.For this show artists were encouraged to seek inspiration from the opera’s story as well as commemorate the passionate and tumultuous relationship between these two iconic artists, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.Artists from all backgrounds to submited their visual art of any medium influenced by the fascinating love story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, in a unique opportunity to express their interpretation of the icons’ passionate bond, their artistic endeavors, and their profound influence on each other’s work, the fascinating and beautiful story depicted in The Last Dream of Frida and Diego, and Día de los MuertosThis art show is being produced in collaboration with Opera Omaha, Joslyn Castle, and The Castle and Cathedral Creative District.Frida and DiegoDates: April 12-May 23rdLocation: Carriage House Gallery, Joslyn Castle, Omaha NebraskaOpening Reception: Friday April 12th, 4-9pmClosing Reception: Thursday May 23rd, details TBAA small selection of art from this exhibition will be chosen to be featured at the Orpheum Theater during Opera Omaha’s performances of El último sueño de Frida y Diego.

Whatever Happens
2024-05-23 20:00 - 21:00 | Blackstone Theater, 3624 Farnam St, Omaha, NE, 68131, United States
Bill Frenzer (comedy legend & Ogden Edsl’s “Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun” co-creator) is back from LA with his first one-man show. “Whatever Happens” combines a mad bit of free-form improv, music, random half-truths and….well… WHATEVER HAPPENS! Each show is different, so don’t miss this zany good time at the Blackstone Theater!

Compassion in Action Inc. Fundraiser
2024-05-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Benson Theatre, 6054 Maple St, Omaha, NE, 68104, United States
A fundraiser to reinstate the RAW DAWGS Youth Corps Gang Prevent Program with Compassion in Action.
Compassion in Action Inc works in gails and prisons to help people who are incarcerated, including youth. After seeing some staggering statistics in recent years, they’ve decided to bring back a program focused on prevention.
The RAW DAWGS Youyth Corps Gang Prevention was operations for three years in Omaha, but after running out of money and their facility being vandalized, they stopped. This fundraiser is a launching effort to help Compassion in Action bring the program back to Omaha youth. Read more here about their efforts!

Botanical Gelli-Print Painting
2024-05-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Lauritzen Gardens, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE, 68108, United States
Join us to capture the delicate details of leaves and flowers through Gelli printing. In this art form, creators layers acrylic paint on a flexible plate using organic materials to make interesting shapes and textures. Led by Ariel Shearer, each student will learn Gelli printing techniques and make 3-5 prints of their own design to take home. $35, $25 for garden members.

Curator Talks
2024-05-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Samuel Bak Museum, 2289 S 67th St, Omaha, NE, 68106, United States
Curator Talks begin with a performance by a UNO flute student at 5:30 P.M. and are followed by a lecture by SBMLC Chief Curator Alexandra Cardon at 6:00 P.M. This lecture will focus on the Fall 2024 Exhibition: After the Storm: Identity and Repair. RSVP required.
Heartland Flute Choir will perform flute music featuring works by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, and American LGBTQA+ composer Erin Spencer. Theodorakis’ music, a symbol of resistance against the Greek military regime, was banned and the composer was deported and interned in the concentration camp of Oropos. Spencer’s “Where Bluebirds Fly” is dedicated to the 2022 Club Q shooting victims in Colorado.

UNO Maverick String Quartet-in-Residence at Nebraska Medicine's Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
2024-05-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, 505 S 45th St, Omaha, NE, 68105, United States
In partnership with the University of Nebraska Medicine’s Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Healing Arts program, the Maverick Quartet is pleased to serve as Quartet-in-Residence. All performances take place at 12:15pm, at Nebraska Medicine’s Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center lobby, 505 S. 45th Street.
