EXHIBITIONS
Bemis Center’s Benefit Art Auction is Omaha’s premier celebration of contemporary art, attracting more than 1,500 established business leaders, emerging professionals, artists, and other movers and shakers in our region to the two-week exhibition and October 24 auction event. Proceeds support participating artists and help ensure Bemis Center’s exhibitions, artist residencies, LOW END performances, and public programs remain free and accessible to all, year-round.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Benefit Auction
Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery – Edmonton
July 26 – November 1, 2025
Reception: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 2 – 4pm
Woodland Gestures, a collaborative exhibition by Lara Felsing and David McGregor, invites connection with the complexity of Alberta’s forest ecosystems. Centered on generative interactions with the land, the work reflects each artist’s distinct approach to gathering. Through attentive presence, the artists express a shared kincentric relationship with the natural world and a deep care for the places they inhabit and explore.
This year, Alberta Craft is celebrating 45 years of promoting and advocating for Craft in our province. As part of the celebration, we are presenting Craft Perspectives, which invites artists to reflect on the past while considering the future of Craft in Alberta.
Craft Perspectives showcases new works inspired by historical objects, archival collections, and cultural artifacts found across the province. Artists have delved into museum vaults, explored archival treasures, and uncovered forgotten stories—reimagining them through the lens of contemporary Craft.
Participating artists: Brett Boyd, Brooke Bampton, Caitlin Sian Richards, Christie Foreman, Devon Clark, Elaine Zimmer, Glenda Schoepp-Drake, Gracie Safranovich, Heather Kehoe, Katelin Karbonik, Lara Felsing, Margaret R. Hall, MJ Belcourt, Ruby Sweetman, Sara Norquay, Vivian Smith
Alberta Craft Council: Craft Perspectives
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In this final exhibition marking the Art Gallery of Alberta’s 100th anniversary, fourteen Alberta artists consider collective and individual futures while reflecting on two interrelated questions: What can we hold onto? And What will we leave behind? This exhibition considers what we need, what we don’t, what is possible to maintain and the marks and legacies we leave. Organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman.
Artists: Mohammad Abbasi, Forouzan Afrouzi, Erin Boake, Raneece Buddan, Lauren Chipeur, Lara Felsing, Megan Feniak, Cheyenne LeGrande, Simone Saunders, Angeline Simon, Taiessa, Teresa Tam, Allison Tunis, Alex R.M. Thompson
To enter Kinship Ecologies is to step into an expression of overwhelming gratitude for the natural world—the smell of the land perfumes the space. Everything is harvested, gifted or reclaimed and will ultimately decompose into the land.
Lara Felsing knows that her hands are the same as those of her mother, grandmother and daughter. They are hands that harvest medicines, pick berries and make dyes. Generations of her family, strong Métis and Woodland Cree women have preserved the land’s wisdom, knowledge and skills.
For Lara, this is only a small gift of thanks given to the land to kin. Kinship with the land is a collaboration, a partnership. It is a relationship built on care that our society has been sorely neglecting. Reparation will be the work of generations and will not be as whole as it once was.
Explore Alberta Craft’s national exhibition, Innovative Threads: Contemporary Weaving, highlighting the work of twenty-one Craft artists across Canada. In this group exhibition, artists investigate a variety of approaches to weaving. Works range from traditional to conceptual, where material and methods are both revered and subverted. Artists address themes of sustainability, mass production, and climate change, while others delve into topics such as queer and trans identity, feminism, and the societal value of labour in textiles. See how this group of artists skillfully employ and challenge our notions of weaving in physical and virtual spaces.
Participating artists:
Anthea Black, Camille Richart, Carol Ann Apilado, Corrina Hammond, Crys Harse, Dan Laine, Deb Turner, Fern Facette, Harrison Sirois, James Lavoie, Jen Hiebert, Karla Mather-Cocks, Kate Ritchie, Kelly Ruth, Lara Felsing, Liv Pedersen, Mati Laforge, Nur Cirakoglu, Ozana Gherman, Shelley Ouellet, Sylvie Roussel-Janssens
land, body, sister is an interdisciplinary collaborative project by Métis artists Lara Felsing and Gabriella Heron. Clothing made from upcycled second-hand plant medicine-dyed fabrics and repurposed remnants is stitched together to honour the artists’ connection to land and body. Created at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, land, body, sister shares process photographs and land-based inspiration alongside one-of-a-kind garments. Curated by Gabriella Heron. June 2 – 27, Red Brick Arts Centre & Museum, Edson, AB.
Ana Watterson, fiber artist, Gallery Manager of the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, and organizer of Yarn & Yack, a monthly knitting and fiber workshop, put out a call for artists working in and around textiles.
Inspired by the warmth, community, and creativity cultivated in these monthly meetings, the goal of this show is to explore a shared knowledge of fiber arts, as well as spotlight individual artistic practices. Each maker has their own unique story. Whether learned from or inspired by a mother, grandmother, friend or the internet the work connects and exchanges individual stories and traditions. The pathways of these threads and fibers tell the history of how knowledge is passed, how bonds are formed and pieces composed.
Watterson seeks to extend this experience to visitors;
I want them to contemplate the hands in each work, the knowledge, time, memory that is imbued in these pieces. I want them to wonder how it’s made, to leave and come back, go to one of our workshops, have some questions answered, but leave with more.
Collective Threads is a culmination of social, pedagogical and physical experiences. In its tapestries, weavings, illustrations, and quilts the community can see the breadth of textile media and depth of personal dedication to practice.
Contributing Artists: Lucy Beizer, Madison Berg, Kelly Boehmer, Capucine Bourcart, Katie Commodore, Lara Felsing, Candace Hicks, Eleanor Kagan, Layla Klinger, Shradha Kochhar, Steven and William Ladd, Spandita Malik, Jonathan Michaud, Erin McQuarrie, Kate Phillips, Leslie Pontz, Henry Rolnick, Rachel Snack, Christl Stringer, Ana Watterson and Jessie Mordine Young
Visual poets come together for a fascinating show of tactile poetry as part of Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial 2024
This 3-day long exhibition brings together artist’s books with sculptural quality and introduces international artists to Swedish audiences and beyond. Some of the featuring works involve beeswax, discarded textiles, cards and more. This visual poetry exhibition will be curated by visual poet Astra Papachristodoulou and is being held at the historic Victoriateatern in Malmö, Sweden.
The exhibition features a selection of object poems by Joakim Norling’s Malmö-based
Timglaset as well as UK-based zimZalla (UK), Guillemot Press and Essence Press amongst others. The contributing artists showcase ways of elevating the written word from off the page in interesting ways. Participating artists include Hartmut Abendschein, Simon Collings, Stephen Emmerson, Lara Felsing, Caroline Harris, Sophie Herxheimer, Briony Hughes, Yvonne Litschel, Imri Sandström, Karenjit Sandhu, Vik Shirley and Greg Thomas.
An exhibition rooted in collaboration, conversation, and knowledge-sharing, Listening to the Land presents recent works by Treaty 6 based artists Christina Battle and Lara Felsing. Considering our relationships to land and community, as well as the potentials of artistic gesture during times of crisis, this exhibition invites viewers to engage in conversations centering caring and careful perspectives of approach.
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