BEASTBOX
The Empty Room | 13th and Webster Street (under 22 Floors) | June 5th through June 28th
Empty Room is a six month long experiment. Six special artists will be given use of retail space one month at a time -- entrepreneurs, thinkers, environmentalists, teachers, etcetera who are interested in sharing creative ideas with the Omaha community.

The first event in the space is BEASTBOX an interactive installation by local artists Amy Morin and Rob Quinn, involving a wonderland of homemade creatures, community mix tapes and workshops through the Omaha Creative institute.

The schedule of events for BEASTBOX:
Friday, June 5th at 8pm: Opening Event. Food by B&G Tasty Foods, music by you!
Sunday, June 7th, 4:30-6:30pm: Making Sock Monsters, Omaha Creative Institute workshop.
Friday, June 19th, 6:30-8:30pm: Making Upcycled Bags, Omaha Creative Institute workshop.
Sunday, June 28th: Last day of BEASTBOX.
For more information, please visit http://plaiderpillar.com or http://emptyroomomaha.org

Paula Wallace and John Dennison
Dundee Gallery | 4916 Underwood Avenue | June 5th through June 14th
Artist's reception on Friday, June 5th from 6pm to 9pm. For more information, please visit http://www.dundeegallery.com

"Yours and Mine" | Work by Erika Navarette and Brett Anderson
TugBoat Gallery | 116 North 14th Street in Lincoln | Opening on June 5th from 7pm to 10pm
Tugboat Gallery Proudly Presents "Yours and Mine" paintings and prints by Erika Navarette and Brett Anderson.
For more information, please visit http://www.tugboatgallery.com

Sculpture Garden Ribbon Cutting Event and Public Opening
The Joslyn Museum | 2200 Dodge Street | Saturday, June 6th
The public is invited to the ribbon cutting event celebrating the opening of Joslyn Art Museum's Peter Kiewit Foundation Sculpture Garden. Beginning at 9:15 am, coffee and donuts, rolls, and pastries, provided by Pettit's Pastry, will be served. Brief remarks will be offered by Joslyn Director J. Brooks Joyner and special guests beginning at 9:30 am and the ribbon cutting will happen at approximately 9:50 am, officially opening the garden. For more information, please visit http://www.joslyn.org.

"Myth & Mundane" | Drawings and paintings by Stephanie Olesh
The Florence Mill ArtLoft | 9102 North 30th Street | June 7th through July 12th
Stephanie, the 2009 Recipient of the Connor Meigs Art Award, is a 2004 graduate of Omaha's Central High School. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. Her paintings explore the contrast between fantasy, illusion and ordinary reality.

Artist's reception on Sunday, June 7th from 1:30-4:30pm. For more information, please contact Linda Meigs at (402) 551-1233.

Old Market Gallery Crawl
Various locations | The Old Market | Wednesday, June 10th from 5pm to 8pm
For a map of this month's participating galleries, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/pkvb2j

"Paradox of Value" | New work by Jess Benjamin
RNG Gallery | 1915 Leavenworth | June 13th through July 12th
From Jess Benjamin's artist statement: "The objects that I create are inspired by my research on Kingsley Dam at Lake McConaughy in Ogallala, Nebraska, a short drive from where I was born. A jackstone is a reinforced concrete tetrahedron that, coupled with other jackstones, provides an interlocking strength of protection to the face of Kingsley Dam. After the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930's, Kingsley Dam was built and became a symbol of strength for Nebraska's future. But for the last ten years, the Great Plains Region has received below average annual precipitation. As the water level of Lake McConaughy diminishes, battered jackstones risefrom beneath the surface. In my work, I use these symbols of strength while exposing the fragile balance between man and nature."
Artist's reception on Saturday, June 13th from 7pm to 10pm. For more information, please contact Rob Gilmer at robertngilmer@yahoo.com

"Field Guide" | A group show about people, the landscape and nature
Jackson Artworks | 1108 Jackson Street | Opening on June 13th
Featuring works by Nicholas Bohac, Matt Carlson, Sunny Gibbons and Caolan O'Loughlin.

Artist's reception on Saturday, June 13th from 6pm to 9pm. For more information, please call (402) 341-1832.

Fashion Show and Art Opening at Bellwether Boutique
Bellwether Boutique | 430 South 12th Street | Saturday, June 20th
A showcase of local designers and artists. For more information, please visit http://www.bellwetherboutique.com.

Henry Fonda Repertory Series at Film Streams
Ruth Sokolof Theater | 1340 Webster Street | Through June 25th
Born in Grand Island in 1905, Henry Jaynes Fonda made his acting debut right here in Omaha at the Community Playhouse, a performance that would lead to more than 100 screen and television credits, many more appearances on Broadway, and a career as legendary as any in Hollywood history. For more information, please visit http://www.filmstreams.org.

knives out
The Bemis | 724 South 12th Street | June 25th, 26th and 27th | $10
An original performance created by ætherplough as part of the ongoing Bemis Center event series Endless Summer.

Performance times: June 25th at 8pm :: June 26th at 8pm and 11pm :: June 27th at 8pm. For more information, please contact Thom Sibbitt or Susann Suprenant at aetherplough@gmail.com

spurse: MATR Mobile Apparatus for Temporality Research
The Bemis | 724 South 12th Street | June 26th through September 5th
The Bemis Center is pleased to welcome MATR: Mobile Apparatus for Temporality Research, a project by the interdisciplinary collective spurse, to Omaha this summer. MATR arrives as a shipping container whose contents expand tactically across the Bemis Center’s grounds. MATR operates as an assemblage of work areas, libraries, long-term experiments, visualization and sensory tools that invite the public to explore and make circuits across time.

Opening reception on Friday, June 26th from 6pm to 9pm. there will be a Gallery Talk on Saturday, June 27th at noon.

Also -- please join artists-in-residence Sean Ward and Georgia Goldberg for the First Thursday ArtTalk on June 4th at 7pm. For more information, please visit http://www.bemiscenter.org.


tugBoat gallery (lincoln)
bemis center for contemporary arts
phillip schrager collection of contemporary art
joslyn art museum
sheldon museum of art (lincoln)
paparazzi by appointment
dundee gallery
hot shops art center
the empty room
glass harmony gallery

film streams
the blue barn theatre
omaha performing arts

the waiting room lounge
the slowdown