
Sponsorship
Bemis Center sponsorship provides a valuable marketing platform, special benefits, and the opportunity to align your brand with Bemis’s vision of inspiring an open and diverse dialogue through contemporary art.
Join leading local, national, and international businesses, grantmaking organizations, and individuals in supporting all aspects of our mission and operations.

Provide a foundation of operating support to make a broad range of educational and inspiring cultural experiences possible and always free and accessible.

Exhibition Sponsors help Bemis engage visitors of all ages through exhibitions focusing on the most innovative ideas, voices, and forms of art on a global scale. Exhibitions are always free and accessible, through the generous support of our sponsors.
Public Programs Sponsors provide Bemis’s diverse audiences free and accessible opportunities to learn about and be inspired by contemporary art. Artist-led classes and workshops, ARTalks, open studio events, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances provide the community direct access to artists and to their diverse approaches to art making and interpreting the world around us.

Residency Sponsors uphold Bemis’s formidable, 40-year reputation as one of the top international residency programs. Attracting artists from around the world to Omaha, Nebraska, Bemis provides artists dedicated time, space, and resources to conduct research and to create new work through the generous support of our sponsors.

Since Bemis Center’s founding in 1981, more than 1,500 artists have participated in our Residency or have exhibited at Bemis. The Bemis Alumni Program ensures our ongoing relevance, impact, and connection to former artists by providing financial resources, unique opportunities, and expanding professional networks.

Bemis Center’s special events—such as its Benefit Art + Concert and Summer Arts Encounter featuring today’s leading contemporary artists—provide premier marketing platforms while supporting all Bemis programs and operations. The events draw visitors to Omaha from across the midwest, ranging from emerging to established artists and young professionals to longstanding business leaders.
Explore sponsorship levels below or contact us to discuss the opportunities that best align with your philanthropic goals.
Complimentary tickets to the Benefit Art Auction featuring libations, bites, and entertainment.
Invitations to the Summer Members' Bash on June 15, celebrating current exhibitions and LOW END.
Digital logo placement on the Benefit Art Auction website or the webpage and digital marketing materials for an exhibition or program of your choice.
Subscription to our mailing list and invitations to exhibition openings, gallery talks, Open House / Open Studios, panel discussions, and performances at LOW END.
The latest Bemis swag: an editioned wearable artwork item created in collaboration with 2022 Artist-in-Residence Ron Norsworthy, CE NE SONT PAS DES CHAUSSETTES (These are not socks), 2023.
$1,321 tax-deductible
Logo in print and digital marketing materials for the Benefit Art Auction, including the invitation and website.
Logo on Benefit Art Auction Exhibition + Event Banner prominently displayed near Bemis’s front entrance in the Old Market.
Logo displayed on the Bemis Sponsor plaque on-site and in printed materials for one year.
$4,612 tax-deductible
One customized tour or event hosted at Bemis for Sponsor’s employees, clients, and associates during non-public hours.
Logo placement on all print and digital marketing materials associated with a Bemis exhibition or program series (such as Open House / Open Studio events), in addition to Benefit Art Auction materials.
$9,418 (less the fair market value of facility rental, if applicable) tax-deductible
Two customized tours or events hosted at Bemis for Sponsor’s employees, clients, and associates during non-public hours.
Naming rights to one of four galleries during the two-week run of the Benefit Art Auction Exhibition (e.g. "Omaha Steaks – Gallery 1").
Opportunity to customize recognition benefits to suit your business
$24,224 (less the fair market value of facility rental, if applicable) tax-deductible
To learn more or to customize a sponsorship opportunity
Ellie Novak
Development Director
402.341.7130 x 16
ellie@bemiscenter.org
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Bemis Center’s mission is made possible, in part, by our generous sponsors.
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402.341.7130
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