Open House / Open Studios
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
The ultimate behind-the-scenes Bemis experience! Participate in an artist-led, hands-on art activity for visitors of all ages, engage in a tour of the current exhibition, and go beyond the galleries to discover Bemis’s upper floors, where you can visit with artists-in-residence to see their studios and view their works in progress.
Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged.
Schedule
Subject to change.
1–5 PM: Artist Studio Exploration
Meet our Summer 2025 artists-in-residence + view their works in progress.
> 2nd floor
Lela Shahrzad Welch, Studio 1
Elspeth Schulze, Studio 2
Ree Bradley, Studio 4
Laura Sofía Pérez, Studio 5
Sangwoo Yoo, Studio 6
Bemis Interns, Hallway
> 3rd floor
Linda Sok, Studio 8 + Installation Space
Sydney Mieko King, Studio 9
Stephanie J. Woods, Studio 11
Owen Leong, Studio 12 + Installation Space
Sangwoo Yoo, Installation Space
Jamie Ho, Installation Space
> 5th floor
Elspeth Schulze, West Side
Sydney Mieko King, West Side
HxH, Skylight Room
Lela Shahrzad Welch, Skylight Room
1–5 PM: Sweet Treat > Ice Cream
Located in the Okada Sculpture & Ceramics Facility: Your choice of vanilla, chocolate, or watermelon, available while supplies last, courtesy of Ted & Wally's!
1–3 PM: All-Ages Art Activity
Omaha artist Kristin Pluhacek leads a drop-in workshop with chalk drawing outside on the dock.
2 PM: Exhibition Highlights Tour
Join Bemis Center's Community Experience + Engagement Manager Abby Fogle-Erickson for a tour of the exhibition on view, From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change.
3 PM: Experimental Music Showcase @ LOW END: Thom Clarity
Bemis Center Community Tracks program alum
Thom Clarity brings a set spanning the serene minimalism of neoclassical, the slow-burning tones of drone, the immersive washes of ambient, and the driving rhythms of house, techno, and jungle.
4 PM: Experimental Music Showcase @ LOW END: giselle
Bemis Center Community Tracks program alum
Inspired by Nebraska’s empty spaces, giselle’s ambient music guides luminescent layers of heavenly vocal harmonies into expansive ambient soundscapes designed to channel the present moment.
Above photo: Spring 2025 artist-in-residence Derrick Woods-Morrow engages with visitors at the March 26 Open House / Open Studios. Photo by Ben Semisch.
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Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
402.341.7130
info@bemiscenter.org