The current exhibit of the 2010 Nebraska Arts Council fellowship winners isn’t just another art exhibit, says curator Hesse McGraw. As the show’s title explains, “it’s Another Nebraska .” Every three years the NAC honors visual artists living and working in Nebraska. This year nine were awarded a total of $23,000. Winners of the $5,000 […]
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Brave Women Go West to Nicodemus
Susie Baer Collins got ready to direct Flyin’ West, the story of brave black women who homesteaded in Kansas, by driving south last summer to Nicodemus “in the middle of nowhere.” She’s known for going to great lengths to prepare her Omaha Community Playhouse assignments and it’s not that Nicodemus is so terribly far away […]
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Jacobshagen’s Gold
After 40 years of painting prairie landscapes in which nuanced skies get top billing, one might wonder if Keith Jacobshagen has tired of his subject. One might as well ask whether the tall grass of the prairie has grown bored with the song of the meadowlark. “I’ll paint until I can’t paint anymore,” Jacobshagen said […]
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Marley Christmas
Three Scrooges and a couple of Jacob Marleys sat around the edge of the stage and the front row as the Blue Barn cast got ready to rehearse a fascinating play that could just as well be called Marley Meets the Bogle. But the title is Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol , a darker and delightfully […]
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(Re) Vision Quest
What does it say about a young college graduate who, rather than attemping to enter the corporate or professional world, pursues a career in the rather esoteric medium of ceramic art? It must say that money, security and “settling down” hold little interest to said artist. What does it then say about this person who […]
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Box Of Moonlight
“The Fantasticks” seems to be just the sort of musical that I’ve always intended to fall in love with … it’s just that no one has ever given me a reason to do so. All that has changed with the Omaha Community Playhouse production of the poetic parable about young love confronted by the hard […]
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Bemis auction tops fall’s playlist of key arts events
The Big Ten’s laying down the gauntlet as well as the welcome mat for Nebraska this autumn may get all the ink, but the 2011 fall season also hosts a number of fine arts events for the discriminating viewer after the game. Beginning this month several key area art venues will offer a play list […]
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Wheel of Fortune
“I like the spectacle of it,” said artist Tim Jag, “I love how the circus comes into your town and does this big weekend, and then they pack up and they’re gone…quite the freedom.” And that is what internationally recognized showmen Tim Jag and Gary Parkins have done for a week living in The New […]
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Well-crafted Collaboration
When approaching Peerless Gallery, it appears there is meat hanging from the ceiling. Opening the door, one finds instead a set of striking red, orange and pink oval forms, about twenty of them suspended near the large windows of the gallery, titled “Whisper and Murmur,” crafted of ripped fabric by artist Sarah Kolar. This Union […]
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Aug. 5-6
Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas St. Brighter Tomorrow: 5-8p.m. both nights, $3 adults per night, $5 both nights, children 12 and under FREE Parts of a Whole: Aug. 6, 6-9p.m., FREE Both exhibits through Aug. 26 hotshopsartcenter.com With the Parts of a Whole in Nicholas Street Gallery, artists Sarah Carney, Brad Miller and videographer […]
