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North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8
North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8
Who: North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA)
What: Annual Arts Crawl
When: Friday, August 9 from 6 to 9 pm.
Where: North 30th Street Corridor in North Omaha
Why: For the love of art and community
How: Walk it or drive it
North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents An Arts Crawl 8
North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) concludes its 2019 season with the Arts Crawl from 6 to 9.p.m. on Friday, August 9 with exhibitions and demonstrations on and off the North 30th Street Corridor.
This progressive art exhibition right in the heart of North Omaha is a family-friendly community event. It is free of charge. The Arts Crawl is in its eighth year after taking a hiatus last year.
Whether you walk it or drive it, the NOSA Arts Crawl has something for everyone between six venues encompassing ethnic folk art, icons, quilts, paintings, drawings, photographs and sculpture. The makers include immigrant and refugee artists and Native American artists as well as emerging and established African-American artists from the North O community. Works by adult and youth artists will be featured.
At some venues, artists will make work and describe their process. Live music and dance add to the mix at other venues. It’s a chance to meet artists. purchase work and learn about under the radar talents.
If you work up an appetite and need to quench your thirst, there’s finger food and refreshments, on the house, at each stop.
The venues are:
Charles B. Washington Branch Library
2868 Ames Avenue (Just east of 30th and Ames)
Kicking things off is a 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. opening reception that showcases an exhibition of handmade quilts by the Omaha group, Quilters We Are.
Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha Campus
30th and Fort Streets
Building 21 (The Mule Barn) – Expanding the Circle” exhibition features art by Native American students and their mentors.
Building 23 (Career and Academic Skills Center) – An exhibition displaying MCC’s collection of art.from various African nations.
Church of the Resurrection
3004 Belvedere Blvd. (30th and Kansas)
Noted Icon artist Jane Tan Creti of Omaha will be on hand to display her work and to educate about the meaning and making of icons.
Nelson Mandela School
6316 North 30th Street (30th and Curtis)
View works by adult artists and by Nelson Mandela students.
Trinity Lutheran Church/Heartland Family Service
6340 North 30th Street (30th and Redick)
An exhibition of contemporary and traditional art by established and emerging artists, including work from members of refugee communities in Omaha.
Check out the Arts Crawl Facebook event page.
Follow NOSA at https://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts.
Join Friends Who Like North Omaha Summer Arts at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1012756932152193,
For more information, call NOSA director Pamela Jo Berry at 402-502-4669.
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North Omaha Summer Arts is a completely free, community-based arts festival now in its ninth year. It includes a gospel concert in the park, writing workshops and retreats, pop-up art events, and the Arts Crawl. The festival runs from June through mid-August. NOSA founder and director Pamela Jo Berry is a North Omaha resident, mixed-media artist and art educator.
Free North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl features variety of art forms – Friday, August 10 at select North 30th Street Corridor venues
Free North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl features variety of art forms
Friday, August 10 at select North 30th Street Corridor venues
When Pamela Jo Berry decided her Miller Park neighborhood needed more art options, she created the presenting organization North Omaha Summer Arts in 2011. Nonprofit NOSA is still going strong in 2018 and its annual culminating event, An Arts Crawl, takes place Friday, August 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. at several venues in and around the North 30th Street Corridor.
Berry, a writer, photographer and mixed media artist herself, calls the free Arts Crawl “a community celebration of visual, performing and culinary arts.”
In addition to the Arts Crawl, NOSA annually features women’s writing workshops and retreats, a gospel concert in the park and pop-up events.
Free eats and refreshments prepared by Omaha foodies and chefs are part of every event.
For the Arts Crawl, NOSA invites patrons to take a stroll or drive from Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus to venues down North 30th Street to experience beautiful art and great food by visual, performing and culinary artists.
Al reception kicks things off at the Charles B. Washington Branch Library, 2888 Ames Avenue, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Area quilters will display their handiwork at the library.
All other locations are open from 6 to 9 p.m.
The Arts Crawl route:
Begins at MCC Fort Omaha’s Mule Barn (Building #21)
Proceeds north to Church of the Resurrection, at 3004 Belvedere Blvd.
Continues onto Nelson Mandela School at 6316 North 30th St.
Ends at Trinity Lutheran Church at 6340 North 30th St.
The venues will present a wide range of work.
A one-man show entitled Shapes and Shadows by the late printmaker Galen Brown is at the Mule Barn Arts Center, The U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient served two tours of duty as a sniper in Vietnam. After returning home from war, he began making art as a way of emotionally healing himself. His images reflect the shapes and shadows of what he observed: war and peace, justice and injustice, landscapes, other artists’ work and his own cancer.
At Church of the Resurrection Fort Calhoun-based artist Cheri Oelke will demonstrate her acrylic painting and talk about her creative process and artist’s life. The church’s sanctuary is also home to a signature triptych, “Crucifixion,” by the late artist Leonard Thiessen, which visitors can view.
Children and adults will display their art at Nelson Mandela School.
Art created by Omaha refugee communities and other area artists will be showcased at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Live music performances will occur at select sites.
“All of us at North Omaha Summer Arts want the public to come sample and savor the many forms and faces of art,” Berry said. “This celebration of the human spirit through art expression also supports local artists.”
NOSA is in its eighth year of presenting family-friendly, community-based art opportunities and events.
For more information, call NOSA at 402-502-4669.
Follow at http://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts.
North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents: An Arts Crawl 7
North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) presents:
An Arts Crawl 7
Friday, August 10
6 to 9 p.m.
Join us for the 7th Arts Crawl
Take a stroll or drive from Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha campus down North 30th Street, ending at Trinity Lutheran Church, to experience beautiful art and great food by North O visual, performing and culinary artists.
A free event.
An Arts Crawl reception kicks things off at the
Washington Branch Library, 2888 Ames Avenue, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
All other locations open 6 to 9 p.m.
Arts Crawl route Begins at–
MCC at Fort Omaha
Mule Barn (Building #21)
Church of the Resurrection
3004 Belvedere Blvd. (just northwest of 30th and Kansas)
Nelson Mandela School
6316 North 30th Street
Ends at–
Trinity Lutheran Church
6340 North 30th Street
For more info (artists and patrons), call Pamela Jo Berry at 402-445-4666
NOSA Arts Crawl to feature diverse art and artists – Friday, August 12
Come do the Crawl!
NOSA Arts Crawl to feature diverse art and artists – Friday, August 12
The 2016 edition of North Omaha Summer Arts has seen the addition of new events and community partners and now NOSA’s gearing up for its 6th Annual Arts Crawl on Friday, August 12.
Founded in 2011 by North Omaha resident Pamela Jo Berry, NOSA is an entirely free, summer-long festival dedicated to the proposition that the arts can heal and build community. Berry, a mixed media artist, saw a need to infuse more art in all its forms into North Omaha and to give artists more opportunities to explore and showcase their work. The festival features some recurring events, such as the gospel concert in Miller Park in June, an Art and Gardening class at the Florence Branch Library in July and the Arts Crawl in August. A weekly women’s writing series just concluded and its students’ work will be published in an anthology.
New this year to the NOSA schedule are a variety of Pop-Up Art events, including the recent Thoreau Meets the Harlem Renaissance and Painting Bird Houses events. More Pop-Up Art happenings are planned. NOSA often works with community partners to present events, including recent collaborations with Compassion in Action, Girls Inc. and the Intergenerational Human Services Campus.
The highlight of NOSA each year is the Arts Crawl. This walkable, continuous art show presents the diverse work of emerging and established artists at venues on or near North 30th Street. This year’s Crawl runs from 6 to 9 p.m. on August 12. It starts at the Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha campus Mule Barn building and ends at the North Heartland Family Service – with Church of the Resurrection, Nelson Mandela School and Trinity Lutheran in between.
The public is invited to walk or drive to each location to view art in various mediums, enjoy art demonstrations and speak with artists about their practice. Live music will be performed at some venues.
Many of the featured artists are from North Omaha.
For this year’s Crawl, each veteran artist is showing alongside a younger or less experienced artist with whom they share a close connection. For example. Gabrielle Gaines Liwaru is showing her art photography beside her daughter Cheamera Liwaru’s own photographs and Aaryon Lau Rance Williams is showing his paintings next to art created by youth from the after school arts program he operates.
“NOSA would like to welcome art lovers from around the metro to come out for this each-one-to-teach-one and it-takes-a-village celebration of community, family and art,” Berry said. “We are thrilled to be in our sixth year with North Omaha Summer Arts and we are thankful for all the partners, artists and volunteers who help make it happen and keep it a free event.”
A reception kicking off the Crawl will be held at the Charles B. Washington Branch Library, 2868 Ames Avenue, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tara Evans and the Golden Thread Quilters, sponsored by Community Quilting Center Inc., will feature approximately 40+ quilts throughout the library. Both traditional and artistic quilts will be on display.
Free snacks and refreshments will be abatable at each stop along the Crawl route.
For more information, call 402-502-4669.
Visit the NOSA Facebook page at–
http://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts
Visit the Arts Crawl event page at–
https://www.facebook.com/events/1133908166708406/
Follow and like NOSA at–
https://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts/?fref=ts# or https://www.facebook.com/groups/1012756932152193/
A NOTE FROM NORTH OMAHA SUMMER ARTS’ Pamela Jo Berry
A NOTE FROM NORTH OMAHA SUMMER ARTS’ Pamela Jo Berry
Hello,
As I was being interviewed for KMTV Channel 3 at the North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl, I could hear and see the artists and the community coming together, and the answers to the questions they asked could not begin to describe the beauty that I felt or saw. I was blessed to be in that position.
The true facts are that the North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl is Metropolitan Community College, Church of the Resurrection, Trinity Lutheran Church, Parkside Baptist Church, North Heartland Family Service and this year – the Washington Branch Library – opening their doors to allow art to bless the community.
It is the artists giving their time, not only sharing their beautiful art, but also interacting with the community
It is the community coming out to meet the artists and experience their art in different forms – visual, literary, performance, music and, this year, fashion.
It is the volunteers that make wonderful food and give direction and stay around to help manage each venue and then help to clean up.
It is all of the people that gave resources and contributions.
It is all the people that took pictures of the event.
It is all of the managers and the pastors that said yes.
And for me it is a lot of prayer and listening and guidance.
Thank you all for making the North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl a good thing in North Omaha,
Pamela Jo Berry
Countdown to North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl underway – The event is this Friday, August 14
Countdown to North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl underway – The event is this Friday, August 14
The North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl countdown is underway, so please clear part of your Friday evening to partake in this progressive arts tour. Whether you drive it or stroll it, you’ll enjoy a laidback night of inspiring art and artists.
So, get your comfy shoes or sandals ready to make the-
NORTH OMAHA SUMMER ARTS CRAWL
Friday, August 14 – from 6 to 9 pm
Sample great art and food at multiple venues. Visual art work by Bart Vargas, Michael Girón, Shea Wilkinson, Pam Hinson, Gabrielle Gaines Liwaru. Brett Henderson, David Guy and many, many more metro artists.
Enjoy the handiwork of Omaha Fashion Week designers.
View a community peace mural.
Chill out to performances by Edem Soul Music Kegey, Kenneth Be, Marilyn Martinez and other musical artists.
North Omaha native, resident and artist Pamela Jo Berry saw a need for more art to be infused into her community. So she dreamed up something called North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) in order to bring art in all its forms into that underserved neighborhood. With the help of partners and collaborators she’s made it a reality. This free, family-friendly arts festival for the community, by the community wraps up Year 5 with the annual Arts Crawl on Friday, August 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. The Arts Crawl happens at venues up and down and around North 30th Street.
Take a stroll or drive from Metropolitan College Fort Omaha campus north to various churches to Heartland Family Service/Solomon Girls Center to enjoy inspiring visual art and soothing live music by artists from the community.
Sample the work of artists in a wide variety of mediums and meet some of the artists sharing their work.
Free refreshments and homemade snacks available at each stop.
“I am very excited about the fifth annual North Omaha Summer Arts Arts Crawl.” Berry says. “From 6 to 9 p.m. we have five locations showing beautiful art and serving really good food. New this year, the Washington Branch Library is hosting a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and there will be food and art there as well.
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The Arts Crawl features established artists and newcomers, all of whom love to share their art and its story with audiences. The food is wonderful at each stop. The deserts at Parkside Baptist Church are another work of art.”
The Arts Crawl lineup:
• Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha campus, Mule Barn Building #21 New this year: Work by Omaha Fashion Week designers and photographer David Guy at the Mule Barn
• Church of the Resurrection, 3004 Belvedere Blvd. (just northwest of 30th and Kansas Ave.)
•Trinity Lutheran Church, 6340 North 30th St. (30th and Redick) Featuring a Community Peace mural made by teens and seniors from the North Omaha Intergenerational Human Services Campus
• Parkside Baptist Church, 3008 Newport Ave. (30th and Newport Ave.)
• Heartland Family Service/Solomon Girls Center, 6720 North 30th St. (30th and Titus Ave.)
NEW THIS YEAR:
• Washington Branch Library, 2868 Ames Ave. is hosting an Arts Crawl reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Enjoy art and refreshments at the library.
Berry describes the Community Peace mural that a group of teens and seniors from the North Omaha Intergenerational Human Services Campus made under the direction of artist Pamela Hinson:
“This year we wanted to make a mural about North Omaha,” Berry says. “It is a beautiful, vibrant place to live, yes. even with all the attention on the violence and the issue of poverty. There are sweet, peaceful neighborhoods, people of different hues, faiths and languages, families of all generations in the parks, community gardens and small forests. And there is art in all forms.
“Many people care about North Omaha’s redevelopment and the well-being of the people. Better things are on the horizon. There is much prayer for peace in exchange for the violence that seems to linger in the in-between spaces here.. Our mural is about peace in and for North Omaha. Maybe as we focus on the good that can be found here, better ideas for mastering poverty and violence will come forth.”
The mural will be displayed at Trinity Lutheran Church during the Crawl.
The North Omaha Summer Arts team invites the general public from all over the metro to come participate in this important milestone of 5 years bringing art to North Omaha. Discover art and artists in our midst whose work deserves wider appreciation and recognition.
Before, during or after the Crawl, enjoy some of North Omaha’s other resources, including the Loves Jazz & Arts Center, the Carver Bank, the Union for Contemporary Art, the Bryant Center, Miller Park and the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation.
Please Like the NOSA Facebook page and indicate you’re going to the event on the NOSA Arts Crawl Facebook Event page.
For more information, email pamelajoh100@hotmail.com or call 402-502-4669/402-709-1359.
North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl – Friday, August 14 from 6 to 9 pm
North Omaha native, resident and artist Pamela Jo Berry saw a need for more art to be infused into her community. So she dreamed up something called North Omaha Summer Arts (NOSA) in order to bring art in all its forms into that underserved neighborhood. With the help of partners and collaborators she’s made it a reality.
This free arts festival for the community, by the community wraps up Year 5 with the annual Arts Crawl- Friday, August 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. At venues up and down and around North 30th Street. Take a stroll or drive from Metropolitan College Fort Omaha campus north to various churches to Heartland Family Service/Solomon Girls Center to enjoy inspiring visual art and soothing live music by artists from the community. Sample the work of established and emerging artists in a wide variety of mediums.
Free refreshments and homemade snacks at each stop.
Before, during or after the Crawl, enjoy some of North Omaha’s other resources, including the Loves Jazz & Arts Center, the Carver Bank, the Union for Contemporary Art, the Bryant Center, Miller Park and the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation.
The Arts Crawl lineup:
Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha campus, Mule Barn Building #21 New this year: Omaha Fashion Week at the Mule Barn
Church of the Resurrection, 3004 Belvedere Blvd. (just northwest of 30th and Kansas Ave.)
Trinity Lutheran Church, 6340 North 30th St. (30th and Redick) Featuring a Community Peace mural made by teens and seniors from the North Omaha Intergenerational Human Services Campus
Parkside Baptist Church, 3008 Newport Ave. (30th and Newport Ave.)
Heartland Family Service/Solomon Girls Center, 6720 North 30th St. (30th and Titus Ave.)
NEW THIS YEAR:
Washington Branch Library, 2868 Ames Ave. is hosting an Arts Crawl reception from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Enjoy art and refreshments at the library.
FREE and open to the public. Family friendly.
Please come participate in this important milestone of 5 years bringing art to North Omaha. Your support is appreciated.
For more info, email pamelajoh100@hotmail.com or call 402-502-4669/402-709-1359.
Thank you,
The North Omaha Summer Arts team
P.S. Please pass the word to friends, family, colleagues. Like and share our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/NorthOmahaSummerArts. Visit and share our North Omaha Summer Arts Crawl Facebook Event page.
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