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Gallery 1516

Gallery 1516 is inviting visual artist submissions through March 17 for its recurring Nebraska Artist Biennial exhibition, set to open in May.

Artists living in Nebraska, those who have spent time here as students or artists-in-residence and members of Nebraska-based artists groups are eligible.

Artwork categories include painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, ceramics/ pottery, multimedia and student. A quintet of exhibition jurors will select the works and issue awards for the top pieces in each category. Entry fees this year are covered by the Fred and Simon Charitable Foundation.

Artworks of note will earn cash awards, and for the first time winning pieces will travel to exhibit at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney in September.

For details, entry forms and frequently asked questions, visit gallery1516.org or email sara@gallery1516.org.

— Janet Farber

March 2-14 Omaha Film Festival 2021

Online/ Aksarben Cinema

The highly anticipated Omaha Film Festival 2021 will be both virtual and physical, albeit with limited times and days in the theater. While the festival will run virtually from March 2-14, limited screenings will take place at Aksarben Cinema March 12 and 13. For regular festival attendees, this means something very special. For the first time, we will be able to see every film submitted. In festivals past, films ran concurrently in different theaters and it was impossible to see them all. The opportunity to buy into the virtual screenings means you can sit at home and take in all of the entries at your own pace. Just like every year, there are tons of entries, 94 films to be exact.

Ticket options include an All Access Pass for $90, an All Access Virtual Pass for $70 (virtual screenings only) and an All Access Physical Pass for $50 (Aksarben Cinema showings). Go to www.omahafilmfestival.org for info and tickets. — Paul B. Allen IV

March 12 Free Art? Who Does That?

RBR Gallery

So, what does somebody have to do to get affordable art around here? Well, how does a free, fine art print sound? To promote its new exhibit, RBR Gallery is offering one fine art print to all visitors this month.

The exhibit, Free Prints : Prints Free, opens March 12. The gallery will be giving away prints by local and internationally acclaimed artists. Donations will be accepted, and visitors are encouraged to expand their collections by purchasing additional prints.

Subjects include figurative works, abstracts, landscapes and still life.

Printmaking methods used are intaglio (etching, engraving, aquatint, etc.), screen prints, relief (woodcuts and linoleum cuts) and lithographs.

Free Prints: Prints Free opens with a reception March 12, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and runs through April 3. The Roberta and Bob Rogers Gallery is located at 1806 Vinton Street and open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available at rbrg.org or by calling 402-4964797.

— Kent Behrens

March 12 Celtic Footprint

the little gallery | blackstone

This March, the little gallery | blackstone will host Celtic Footprint featuring works by mother-andson duo Linda and Chad Leahy. The gallery, which recently moved to the Blackstone area from its original Benson home, will host an opening reception Friday, March 12, from 7 to 10 p.m.

Linda’s oil paintings on canvas present iconic elements, in landscape and portrait, of the Celtic heritage. Chad is a mixed media artist. His works on paper depict pivotal moments in the life of Cuchulain, the mythic Irish hero.

Chad is a professional designer and received his BFA in painting and printmaking at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

The opening reception is free and open to all. The show runs through May 1. The little gallery I blackstone is located at 144 S. 39th St., Suite 1B. For more, visit thelittlegalleryblackstone.com. — Kent Behrens

March 19 An Evening with Jill Martin & Logan Mize

The Waiting Room

If you’re a country music fan who has been missing live performances, The Waiting Room has a stellar lineup of country performers throughout the month of March. Whitey Morgan opens the series with an acoustic performance March 3-4, and rising star comedian Darren Knight brings his redneck humor to the stage March 5. Country artist and comedian Rodney Carrington performs March 10-13. On March 19, the husband-and-wife pair of Kansas, singer-songwriters Logan Mize and Jill Martin, takes the stage for an evening of twangy tunes and classic Nashville sounds. The show begins at 8 p.m., and tickets are $35. Rock ‘n roll country group Giovannie & the Hired Guns close out the month on March 24. The Waiting Room Lounge is located at 6212 Maple St. Visit the Waiting Room’s Facebook page for more details and to reserve your tickets. — Alex Preston

March 19 Place Setting

Baader Meinhof

The new artist-run venue Baader Meinhof continues to develop its program, offering Coagulation, an exhibition of its inaugural artist-in-residence, Jack Ryan, with an opening scheduled for Friday, March 19.

Ryan is an emerging talent from New York City, and this will be his first exhibition in the area. His pen and graphite drawings, in which a mélange of detailed figures, objects, symbols and gestural marks suggest a kind of theater within the space of a perspectival grid, will be the main feature of the show.

The artist explains “the drawings are a personal artifact where I attempt to grasp the relationship between the physical world of being in space and the events and cultural elements that would appear as certain as that world itself.”

Jack Ryan: Coagulation opens March 19 and continues through April 30 at Baader Meinhof, 1322 S. 6th St. After the opening reception,visitors must request an appointment by emailing info@baader-meinhof.org. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m.

— Janet L. Farber

Ongoing Eye of the Beholder

MaMo Gallery

Refocus Omaha invites you to participate in a citywide visual storytelling project that showcases unique perspectives from our diverse communities. The project, developed by Leadership Omaha’s class 43 in partnership with the nonprofit BFF Omaha, asks citizens to submit photos, with captions, that show their unique perspectives of the community.

Photographs will be chosen by the Refocus team and published on Instagram, culminating in a public exhibition and limited publication of a juried selection of photographs in June. Published photographs will be chosen based on originality and creativity, composition and design, unique perspective/story and entertainment value.

Submissions have begun and are free and open to all ages. Participants are encouraged to submit via instagram.com/refocusomaha.

The exhibition will be held at MaMO Gallery during June 4th’s First Friday art walk, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The MaMO Gallery is BFF’s mobile gallery, located in a converted Mayflower trailer, and for this exhibit it will be located outside the CityLight Arts Project at 56th & NW Radial Highway. Further information is available at www.bffomaha.org. — Kent Behrens