The bemisUNDERGROUND:
is an innovative curatorial residency program that provides community-based artists with the rare opportunity to curate exhibitions of their own design at the Bemis Center. The 3,000-square-foot gallery space is ideally suited to the presentation of experimental and cutting-edge contemporary art that includes - but is not limited to - visual, audio and performance art.

UNDERGROUND exhibitions run for five weeks, and curators receive a stipend to execute their projects as well as administrative mentoring and assistance in promoting their shows. The bemisUNDERGROUND program is unique not just to Omaha and to the Midwest, but to the entire country and serves as a model for engaging local artists with their communities. A jury of art professionals chooses a new group of six curators each spring.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. To download a document outlining the application process click here.

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724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
12th and Leavenworth
Phone: 402.408.2397
Rachel Ziegler, Underground Director: 402.341.7130 x 15
E-mail: rachel@bemiscenter.org