A Call to Respond | Carver Bank
A Call to Respond is a five-month series that takes audience interaction and collaboration as its focus, and aims to generate meaningful dialogue about collective action and creative placemaking. From performances to installations to meetups, this multidisciplinary series involves a variety of artists from the Omaha Metro area.
Series highlights include an interactive installation that asks
visitors to define community; a site-specific sculpture by artist Sarah
Rowe; presentations by Carver Bank alumni Dereck Higgins and Denise
Chapman; musical performances by DJ Dojorok and Chikadebia Ebirim;
meetups on such topics as gentrification; a House Party in conjunction
with Native Omaha Days, and more.
As part of the Bemis’s program of Public Engagement, A Call to Respond
contributes to a larger effort to mobilize Omahans around contemporary
arts and ideas; connect artistic practices to local issues; position
community voices at the center of programmatic dialogue and debate; and
cultivate a spirit of neighborliness by actively engaging local
organizations.
Carver Bank will be open until 8pm every third Friday April through September.
Carver Bank is located at 2416 Lake Street, Omaha.
This project is supported by ArtPlace America, a collaboration of leading national and regional foundations, banks and federal agencies accelerating creative placemaking across the U.S. Major support is provided by Annette and Paul Smith, The Sherwood Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program, which supports fearless and innovative collaborations in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg, the City of Omaha, a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant, the Joyce Foundation and the Harpo Foundation.
Photos: Colin Conces
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