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Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies (1971-2021) Traveling Exhibit

Omaha Public Library W. Dale Clark Main Branch 215 S 15th St, Omaha

Charting Our Path: Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies is an 8-panel traveling exhibit sharing historical snapshots of one of the oldest Black Studies departments in the nation. The exhibit highlights the department’s civil rights origins, attempts to downgrade the department to a program, and the mutual engagement between campus and community. The banners share […]

On the Inside Exhibition

Criss Library - UNO 6401 University Dr N, Omaha

On the Inside is a group show of LGBTQ+ artists who are currently incarcerated. The art is made from basic materials the prisoners have access to behind bars: mostly letter sized paper, dull pencils, ball-point pen ink tubes (the hard shell is deemed too dangerous), and unlikely innovations such as using an asthma inhaler with Kool-Aid […]

New Play Conference

Swanson Conference Center, Metropolitan Community College 5300 N 30th St, Omaha

Each day of the Great Plains Theatre Conference New Play Conference includes PlayLab reading and response sessions, workshops led by national theatre scholars and experts, guest artist discussion panels, and […]

Ongoing

Contemporary Indigeneity 2022

Great Plains Art Museum 1155 Q St, Lincoln

For the fourth iteration of Contemporary Indigeneity, the Great Plains Art Museum sought Indigenous artists addressing issues and themes relevant to the contemporary Native American experience on the Great Plains. A […]