The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is an artist-centered organization: our mission is to
support exceptional talent. We achieve this by providing artists with curatorial and financial support. We develop programs that catalyze their process and work to engage and challenge the public. Both the artist-in-residence and exhibition programs support artists working at the forefront of contemporary culture.
Our programs highlight multidisciplinary work that denies boundaries between media and genres and is socially engaged. The Bemis Center’s current exhibitions and projects are suffused with humor, rigor and risk-taking and look for generosity of communication and the possibility of unexpected collaborations. We are excited by art that changes its audience and interested in artists who allow their audience to change them. Contemporary art is an incredible chameleon whose greatest assets include the ability to challenge, exhilarate and unsettle diverse audiences. Contemporary art can be totally unhinged and free and create both ecstatic spectacles and spaces of intense introspection.
The Exhibition program is presented by: Omaha Steaks
Sponsored by: Justin V. Allen Design + Development, Clark Creative Group, Echo Tech, Larry Gawel Photography, Chris Headley | OmahaComputerHelp.com, Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Quail Distributing, Sherwin Williams, Upstream Brewing Company, Visions Custom Framing, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Warren Distribution
