It won’t take a crystal ball, Alexa or a Ouija Board to predict that 2020 will be an eventful year with post impeachment and a pending presidential election looming heavy on the horizon. Yet somewhere amidst all the Sturm und Drang that awaits, each New Year promises personal resolutions and the hope of better things […]
It’s been a breakout year for interdisciplinary artist Barber ever since his intro to Omaha as a Fellow at the Union for Contemporary Art in 2018. Since then the Detroit-based artist who graduated cum laude from the University of Iowa has made his home and his mark here in at least five art exhibits and […]
Women Who Weld will showcase their heavy metal magic this weekend, October 4-6, in its 7th sales and benefit exhibit at the Bancroft Street Market Gallery. The Artists Reception will take place Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. The gallery will also be open Saturday from 10 to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon- 5 p.m. W3 […]
Twenty-two nationally recognized clay artists will display their ceramic art at potters’ homes, an historic grain mill and a wine tasting venue this weekend in the annual Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour. Set for October 5-6, the pottery tour adds a new stop At Crescent Moon, where owner and fellow ceramicist Will Galusha will add […]
The Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), in conjunction with many sites and resources, will host its month-long, multi-disciplinary biennial Arte LatinX, which opens with an art exhibition today, September 12, from 6-8 p.m. at El Museo Latino in South Omaha. Composed of UNO faculty, staff and students, as well as the metro community in […]
Every autumn the visual arts in the Metro offer a new harvest or peak of its own. This year is no exception. Venues of all sorts and sizes citywide are ramping up with an aesthetic as varied and colorful as the great outdoors…indoors. But first meet the writers who look forward to previewing and reviewing […]
Anderson O’Brien Gallery will exhibit Christina Narwicz: Drawings from the Mind of the ArtistSept. 6-30 with an opening reception Friday, Sept. 6, 5-8 p.m.. Narwicz, a gestural, organic abstractionist will feature drawings from the 1990s to the present that interpret visually her connection to the natural world according to AOB’s show statement. “These drawings either […]
Artist and free lance writer Sally Deskins, formerly of Omaha, is organizing a three-person exhibit at Star Deli with Trilety Wade and Kristin Ndoda which opens Benson First Friday September 6 from 7-9 p.m. Though the exhibit, What We Do in the Evening, is multi-media, Deskins, founder of Les Femmes Folles, her successful organization and blog, […]
Metro Arts patrons will find no end to the number of openings each month from a vast array of venues, both familiar…and unfamiliar. If your idea of an art center is Omaha’s Big Three, Joslyn Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts or the Kaneko, you are missing out on dozens of gallery openings nearly […]
For the past two and a half decades, the Reader has covered the Metro visual arts from a unique perspective revealed in this publication’s very title. We wrote about the various arts venues and the artists whose work they exhibited, but we wrote for our readers. Our job, not so […]
4734 S 27 St
PO Box 7360
Omaha, NE 68107
P: (402) 341-7323