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Bemis and Qwest Install New Public Art
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The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts unveiled its Art 4 Omaha Artist-in-Industry Steel Collaboration Project
on Wednesday, August 31. The project is a collaboration between
Valmont Industries and Qwest Center Omaha.
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The Art 4 Omaha initiative is intended to raise public art awareness by collaborating with community members to create spectacular contemporary artwork for display in prominent locations.
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Learning to Fly
by Matt Lowe
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Blue Cube
by R. Justin Stewart
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Project 1 involved a collaboration with Valmont Industries to build five original large-scale sculptures for placement at exterior areas around Qwest Center Omaha.
More than forty artists submitted proposals to the Bemis Center’s national sculpture competition. An independent jury of national and regional arts professionals selected the sculptures, and the Bemis Center awarded each artist a $5,000 honorarium. Catherine Ferguson, David Helm, Matt Lowe, Jackie Sterba and R. Justin Stewart were awarded the opportunity to create these large-scale steel sculptures.
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Sky Fin
by Catherine Ferguson
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Project 1’s Lead Sponsor, Valmont donated the resources, materials, studio workspace, access to machinery, painting and finishing services and the assistance necessary to fabricate the sculptures.
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Vista 17
by Jackie Sterba
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The Bemis Center also worked closely with the Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority (MECA), which manages Qwest Center Omaha, to ensure that the sculptures compliment the facility’s architecture at the chosen locations. Sites for the five sculptures include the South Arena Plaza, the Northwest walkway and the Ak-Sar-Ben Terrace, which overlooks the Missouri River.
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Art 4 Omaha Project 1 Sponsors
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Valmont Industries, Inc.
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Buland Group
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Clark Creative Group
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Fraser Stryker Meusey Olson Boyer & Bloch, PC
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Jeff and Danielle Gordman Family
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Hilton Omaha
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Hunt Transportation
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infoUSA
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Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben
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Omaha Steaks
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Tadros Associates, LLC
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SilverStone Group
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The Bemis Center’s Art for Omaha Project 2 is a special community project featuring a giant 40-foot-wide by 75-foot-tall fabric banner on the Qwest Center. Oriented to the important traffic corridor of 10
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Street, the banner is Omaha’s “Cultural Quilt,” celebrating our city’s rich diversity and cultural heritage for all to see.
Twenty-five high school and community groups such as Girls Inc. and High School students from around Omaha gathered together to create the iconic images that comprise this united, visual symbol.
For more information and images of Omaha’s Public Art
click here
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