The Exhibition:

The term “emerging artist” applies to anyone early in their art career and with no current or previous gallery representation. All 2D and 3D art forms are welcome: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, digital, mixed media, printmaking, etc.) Five artwork samples are required to apply. These five artworks will be used in consideration for determining finalists and do not have to be the final artworks exhibited.

A jury of current artist members will select finalists to show 3-5 artworks in the gallery for the month of January 2026 in our featured show space. An opening reception will be hosted by ACG during the first weekend of the show (date to be determined). Throughout the month, visitors will be able to vote for their favorite artist in the show. The winning artist of the Audience Choice Award will receive a 3-month mentorship, which includes display space in the gallery, work-day shadowing opportunities, and mentoring by members.

Eligibility:

Entry is open to artists who are 18 years or older with no history of professional gallery representation. Please note: it is possible that an artist has shown work publicly without having an established relationship with a professional gallery. Artists local to the Omaha-metro and surrounding areas are invited to apply (within a 75-mile radius or drivable distance). Eligible applicants must submit consistent works in any artistic medium. AI generated art or art created with the assistance of AI technology are ineligible. We are looking for artists with their own style and vision and work created with a high level of craftsmanship. Artists who applied to previous Emerging Artists Exhibitions at ACG are welcome and encouraged to apply again!

Application for Emerging Artists Exhibition:

The application is now open. The deadline to submit your materials is Friday, October 31, 2025 at midnight.

To enter please complete and submit this entry form.

Artists selected for interviews will be notified in early November 2025. These brief interviews will give our selection committee an opportunity to speak directly to the selected applicants and view their work in person before making final decisions.

Artists selected as finalists will be notified by the end of November 2025 and exhibit in the show in January 2026.

The Audience Choice Award winner will be announced following the final day of the exhibition after all votes have been tallied.

The Artists’ Co-op has been showing the work of respected regional artists since 1975. This cooperative group of artists conducts educational and cultural outreach activities, and it maintains and staffs a gallery that features works in a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, pottery, photography, glass, jewelry, printmaking, and drawing. Monthly opening receptions provide opportunities to meet member artists and learn more about their work.

“ACG 50th Anniversary Exhibition, September 2-28, 2025: Call for past members!

If you are a past member, please click this link for more information.

Tuesday, July 1 - Sunday, July 27

The artwork of Virginia Ocken and Gretchen Olberding will be featured in an exhibit, “Feel the Joy”, at the Artists' Cooperative Gallery. Please join us at the opening reception on Sunday, July 6, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Meet the Artists:

Thursday, July 3, 4 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Sunday, July 6, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Opening Reception

Tuesday, July 8, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Tuesday, July 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Artists' Cooperative Gallery has been showing work from respected area artists since 1975. Members conduct educational and cultural outreach activities, and maintain and staff the gallery. The space features a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, jewelry, ceramics, photography and drawing. These openings provide the public with an opportunity to meet our members and learn more about their art.

Our hours are...Tuesday - Thursday 11am-5pm, Friday-Saturday from 11am-9pm, and Sundays 11am-5pm.

The Artists' Cooperative Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, showing work from respected area artists since 1975. Members conduct educational and cultural outreach activities, and maintain and staff the gallery. The space features a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, jewelry, ceramics, photography and drawing. In September, the gallery will have a 50th Anniversary Exhibition and we are inviting all past members to participate. Please complete this form if interested.

The artwork of Annie Troe and Vincent Martin will be featured in an exhibit, “Signature Strokes”, from Tuesday, July 29 - Saturday, August 30, at the Artists' Cooperative Gallery. Please join us at the opening reception on Friday, August 1, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Annie Troe’s command of color and expressive style will delight and entertain you. Her animal art is a fan favorite and just a bit more popular than her flower paintings. Landscapes round out her favorite themes. Annie has recently been featured in Acrylic Works 6, 8, 10 & 11 (Artist Magazine/North Light Books/American Artist).

Annie was also featured in NOAPS International Spring Show 2022 & 2025. As an internationally licensed artist, you can find her art on garden flags, holiday cards, and more. Or, just watch her paint your favorite painting on YouTube, @AnnieTroe. Annie was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, and now resides in Omaha.

Please note that our closing time on Friday and Saturday nights has moved an hour earlier, to 9 p.m. You can check HERE for our regular business hours.

The Artists' Cooperative Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, showing work from respected area artists since 1975. Members conduct educational and cultural outreach activities, and maintain and staff the gallery. The space features a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, jewelry, ceramics, photography and drawing.

The Artists' Cooperative Gallery is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, showing work from respected area artists since 1975. Members conduct educational and cultural outreach activities, and maintain and staff the gallery. The space features a wide variety of media, including sculpture, weaving, painting, jewelry, ceramics, photography and drawing. In September, the gallery will have a 50th Anniversary Exhibition and we are inviting all past members to participate. Please complete this form if you are interested.

         My paintings and drawings are image based.  I do not consider my work to be photo-realism or realism.  Certainly the images have naturalism but that is not my concern when creating them.  I am interested in the pose, the gesture, the lighting and/or the overall mood of the subject.  I use either acrylics or oils because I enjoy each for their unique qualities.  In drawing I use either colored pencils or oil crayons depending on the look I am trying to achieve.

          My ceramic work consists mainly of polychromed earthenware pieces.  I use both wheel thrown and hand built techniques, choosing the method to use by what the finished piece is to look like.  I create mostly non-utilitarian works intended as art objects.  I have also made knitting bowls with traditional glazes.  But I dislike most earthenware glazes, so I have developed a method of multi-staining that is the signature of my ceramics.

Website: www.duaneadamsart.com

email: dadams@netins.net

website: nashbellows.com

email: nashbellows@gmail.com

I am always creating. Photography is my main creative outlet and with my creative background being primarily as a videographer or cinematographer, I like to challenge myself to tell stories through single frame photos. It is a challenge because I’m so used to being able to tell a full story through moving video and dynamic audio that removing all that noise really allows me to focus on setting the composition, to consider the lighting and color psychology of a scene, and I think all the skills and minutiae of creating a compelling video being distilled into a single silent frame creates powerful and striking images. Most of my photos feel like part of a storyboard where one could imagine what might happen in the next frame or even in the next minute of footage.

Gregory D. Brown has worked in a creative capacity for multiple ad agencies, universities, and medical centers, focusing on videography, photography, and creative design. Currently he works as a multimedia content strategist & creator for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center where he focuses on telling stories about the organization through video, photo, audio, and animation. Gregory is also the marketing chair on the board of directors for the Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards and serves as the producer of the annual awards show.

Contact info: oxyproductions@gmail.com

Instagram: oxy_video

Twitter: @Oxy_Video

Photo: oxyproductions.smugmug.com

Video: oxyproductions.com

email: artfarm07@cox.net

Cindia Carlson’s color palette has become part of her signature style. The organization and contrast of figure in landscape and lyrical-Arabesque line, lend to the uniqueness of her work. Personal motifs represent the content of prophetic dream narratives or back stories. Portraiture-to-mask and multimedia sculptures also hold special interest for her. Cindia is a Nebraska native, book author, and college professor with a long list of exhibitions and achievements.

email: cctsuda@yahoo.com

email: huskercort@gmail.com

Facebook: Daharsh Design Blown Glass

email: fdaharsh@gmail.com

Since the first gather of glass from the furnace in 1999, I have had a passion for glass blowing. With the intensity of working with a molten medium that can quickly take form to a solid state, there is an urgency to create in that moment of time that requires both patience, absolute concentration and spontaneity as the glass is heated, blown and sculpted into its final form.  The luminescent qualities of glass, texture, and layering of multiple colors and patterns appeal to me as it responds to light.  I am drawn to the potential of a material that can vary from a translucent to an opaque medium in a brilliant range of colors and gradations.  I am driven by a passion for the process as well as the untapped potential of creating with a beautiful and seductive material.

A degree in industrial and graphic design from the Kansas City Art Institute has facilitated Frank in his glassblowing techniques and concepts. He has designed products ranging from jet interiors, industrial and construction equipment, computers, medical products, and signage as well as designing food labels, illustrations, corporate logos and 3D renderings.

email: rdsculpt@yahoo.com

Contact Info:

Jacqueline Eihausen

702-524-9703, text or phone

(Please leave a message that ID’s you as requesting art information)

--I have created images for as long as I can remember—probably like many artmakers.

--I have long been drawn to the human subject. In childhood my younger brothers often got stuck being models. I have always returned to the figure. The last several years with the Plein Air Painters of Nebraska and Iowa, I’ve swung more heavily into landscape and plantlife.

--A Notre Dame nun, my biology teacher who gave art lessons after school, started me in on oils. Later at Seattle’s Cornish Art School another favorite teacher introduced me to acrylics, which dry so much more quickly—for me, an advantage.

--Given enough time, I’ve veered into visual storytelling. When I read, I love novels, and when I paint, I seem to paint stories, vignettes that act to tell a story, a POV. The works of Remedios Varo, the Spanish Surrealist, are to me, stunning.

--By the time I stopped making art to begin teacher training (’02) I was combining collage with acrylic. Romare Beardon has been a beloved influence. Since retiring in ‘12 I’ve again picked up this exploration. I began using Nat’l Geographic only (“good paper, arresting images, endless pattern”) and have now expanded to other magazines and patterned papers. I began using only the color, texture, and pattern of the collaged pages, their abstract qualities, but now find I weave in pictures of trees, houses, autos. I like the work to invite the viewer to look closely to see where the painting leaves off and the collage begins—a marriage of parts.

--The words: I began adding painted words to my pictures in the ‘90‘s. Since returning to Omaha (’17), I switched to the “ransom note” style of including words, an extension I think, of the “more-collage-more-of-the-time” nature of the images.

--I am primarily a 2D perceiver, but have been dragged (protesting and later thankful) into sculpture by 3D artists/friends. I participated in Omaha’s J DOE public art project in ’01, and

DOECELLI’S BIRTH OF VENUS is in the Founders’ Garden at Lauritzen.

email: agnetag@cox.net

Jasmine grew up in Minnesota, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Marketing, and Master of Arts in Painting Degrees from Minnesota State University, Mankato. While obtaining her Masters, Jasmine was a graduate instructor at the University. After graduation, Jasmine relocated to Omaha, where she is now an Artist, Realtor and the Creative Director for The Key Group with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. In addition to galleries and commissioned works, Jasmine has been a featured artist in The Omaha Street of Dreams and blends her artwork with Real Estate by using her paintings in luxury homes as a showcase for many of her works.

Jasmine has been in love with art since she can remember. Knowing at an early age that someday she would be an artist when she grew up.

Jasmine has won numerous awards for her artwork and has been featured in magazines and newspapers. She also enjoys creating custom works for her clients.

Please Check out the following link to see more of Jasmines Work.

www.JasmineGreenwaldt.com

email: jasmine@OpenAdore.com

Molding Lives & Clay (Omaha Magazine article)

email: thamiltonpp@gmail.com

website: www.thomashamiltonpottery.com

website: www.lindahatfield.com

email: lindahatfield555@gmail.com

My artwork is colorful, complex, and layered with meaning.

The natural world, which offers endless inspiration and reference, also provides my raw materials. For years I’ve collected lost, discarded and organic materials — selected either for their physical attributes or meaning. I incorporate these found objects into my artwork, building upon the associations they carry and the tension created by their unexpected juxtaposition with more refined and traditional materials. The work may also include glass mosaic, embedded items, collage, painted or carved text and representational images.   Manipulating context and creating metaphors, I examine nuances of relationship and the human condition. Recent works — titled “Memento Mori” — acknowledge the vestiges of life within the objects selected and are reminders of the ephemeral nature of life.

website: www.marciajoffe-bouska.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marciajoffebouskastudio/

email: mjbstudio@cox.net

email: pamaking@allophone.com

website: mkolarartcreations.com

email: mldrtist@aol.com

I attribute most of my aesthetic awareness as an artist to the places where I have lived or worked. These diverse places have given me the opportunity to look at art from the viewpoints of different cultures, each with different economies and political systems. I grew up in Central Asia in the former Soviet Union, where I was taught the aesthetic ideal of Socialist Realism. Living in Honduras shaped my fascination with color and how emotions are expressed through varying shades and hues on the canvas. Coming to the United States created yet more new and different settings for my works of Art. Here discovered for myself the power of Montessori and the amazing connection of Art and Math in Montessori Math and Geometry and this is my next path in artistic exploration.

My wearable art is based on the beauty of nature around me - the blossoms of the flowers and of the changing seasons. I paint my silks in my own flower garden, capturing the changing beauty of the flower landscape, trying to convey my love for the beauty of nature through my paintings on canvas and “paintings” on silks or “sculpting” through Nuno felting.

Currently I am working on using wool and silk to create 3-D paintings also based on Montessori. My love for felting came from Montessori as well: I was teaching about the beginning of civilization and the first exploration of textiles by ancient humans and I discovered felting as the first way of making clothing by our ancestors; where I came from (Central Asia) people in the mountains make a type of home called a Yurt using felting techniques!

www.saatchiart.com/innamontessori

www.etsy.com/shop/InnaKulagina

email: Kulagina.inna@hotmail.com

I find that I can see the world more clearly when I am drawing or painting. I get a thrill out of trying to capture the beauty of nature on canvas or watercolor paper. Given a thematic assignment, I enjoy the challenge of developing a composition that is meaningful to me, and translates to others. I work primarily in watercolor and acrylics, utilizing line and color to convey emotion.

I attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, majoring in Fine Art, however didn’t complete my degree. I was more interested in true love, following Jesus, and starting a family. In time, working in an office products store, clerking at a women’s clothing store, learning technical aspects of the family photo lab business, and later stepping into the executive office, working as an artist with Lincoln and Omaha Public Schools, and a secretary for Special Education all rounded out my education. When I married David Loyd and moved to Council Bluffs, I was invited to paint with plein-air artists, whenever I could. Upon retiring from earning a living in the 8 to 5 world, I stepped up my painting, sought out artistic community, and participated in juried and organizational art shows. I am active in Omaha Artists Inc., have had selected work on display at the Hoff Family Arts and Cultural Center in Council Bluffs, and am a member of Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art. I am proud to be a member of the Artists’ Cooperative Gallery in Omaha.

phone: 402-319-5600 Please leave a message.

email: c.sue.loyd@gmail.com

My work explores the humanness of humanity and the relationship with ones self and how that is manifested with others.  This may present as a charcoal portrait or an oil of a Madonna with closed eyes painted with a surreal twist in bright colors or in a burst of nature portrait.

But even with diverse topics in diverse medium, the overriding theme is connection.  Connection to one’s self, to each other and the idea that there is more under the surface, off the page.

My abstract work allows a wildness and a permission for my input into the work to be done and allow the work to speak on it’s own.  The success of art is when it speaks on it’s own.  That is what keeps me creating, unleashing a voice that doesn’t even have a concept, yet. 

website: www.cindyraeart.com

email: cindymathiasen@gmail.com

My work is an exploration of texture and topography. Using wood as my primary medium, the organic material is altered through the use of modern tools and traditional techniques. The main themes of my work explore the juxtaposition of sterile and weathered, and the tension between organic and manufactured environments.

My aesthetic is informed by architectural influences, both the clean lines of modern design, as well as more ornate historic structures. The shapes and elevations point to the built environment and are inspired by aerial views of the urban footprint.

Contact: (402)-813-7440

Follow me on Instagram @kevinmcclay or visit

website: kevinmcclay.co

email: fortressco@mail.com

email: homestudio1@cox.net

Website: www.gretchenolberding.com/

My love of nature compels me to photograph and paint the landscape, capturing the light, shadows and colors that move me.  Growing up in Nebraska, I loved the wide-open land and rivers, and began painting those magical moments that caught my attention.  Retired in Arizona for 12 years, I have hiked in most deserts and mountains in Arizona & Utah, taking thousands of photos. 

Recapturing those scenes in soft pastels is my main passion. I hope my viewers will want to “walk into that scene” that I enjoyed. I have recently returned to my home roots in Nebraska and have begun capturing the landscape of the prairie and cottonwood trees that I love.

Originally a high school History/Political Science teacher and then, an elementary Art teacher, I experimented in all media.  Bachelor of Arts from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in history and political science-1967; Masters of Arts in History – 1971; Graduate work of 18 hours in Fine Arts from University of Nebraska, Kearney-1998-2005.

My journeys and love of challenges has led me to earn my pilot's license, fly a Cessna 182, fly a powered parachute, hike over 350 miles throughout Arizona, and zip-line down Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana.  I am working on getting my golf handicap down into the teens. 

I won't jump out of an airplane, though.

I enjoy experiencing nature in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by this time in nature. I love recreating plants and wildlife in my work.

I work in hand-built porcelain sculpture and use many different mediums, such as porcelain clay, alcohol ink, and experiment with techniques. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style.

website: www.rosewoodenvironmentalart.com

email: charlene@rosewoodenvironmentalart.com

website: tomquestpottery.com

email: tqclay@hotmail.com

gabriellaquroz.com

Gabriella Quiroz (@pinkpigeonstudio) • Instagram photos and videos

hotshopsartcenter.com

Gabi’s work focuses on showcasing the love of finding meaning and beauty in the discarded and temporary of today’s world. The stages of life and decay, and how it progresses. The imagery is a capturing of time and space, highlighting fleeting moments using bones, flowers, and gifts from the natural world- to relate to how we may feel. We are a part of the cycle of life- we are not a separate entity. Yet so often, the globe and its inhabitants are treated as such. We are all connected to the wheel of time- no one or thing is immune.

Gabi's drawings and paintings are an attempt to showcase how she sees this connection and to make it “human.”

Gabriella Quiroz is an Omaha, Nebraska-based artist. Her work has been featured in numerous group showings throughout Omaha and its surrounding areas. Gabi works primarily in oil paints and colored pencils developing works of symbolic imagery through flora and fauna.

While she notes her education in the arts began from a very young age, her formal education took its roots at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts specializing in painting and drawing and a minor in Art History.

For Gabi celebrations such as Halloween, Christmas, and Dia de los Muertos played essential roles in her childhood and still hold meaning for her today. This, in part with her upbringing and experiences alongside other creative people, has led her to study symbolism and how it differs from society to society, throughout time.

Her work continues to involve these subjects heavily, and as a result, it is expanding into exploring more with these mediums.

Please stop by her studio and say hello at the Hot Shops Art Center studio #203. Which is located in Omaha NE.

email: margie1150@centurylink.ne

email: skuo402@yahoo.com

“I have always been intrigued by the works of artists like Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and others, in which they distort ordinary and/or fanciful objects in various ways to create unique perspectives.”  Alan has a photography studio in the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, Nebraska, and teaches photography at Doane University in Crete, Nebraska.

website: www.alanrsmith.com

email: alan@alanrsmith.com

website: theartofdax.com

email: iburneverything@gmail.com

Holly Tarnish

Oil painting, watercolor, graphite drawing

Holly Tharnish lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with a minor in art history in 2019. Holly’s first exhibition commenced in September 2019 at the Florence Mill Museum and Art-Loft Gallery, focusing on her own self-realization within the scope of her vast family history. Her work examines themes of history and heritage, introspection and identity, womanhood, memories, and the contrasts between the world we live in, the stories we tell, and the narratives we keep inside our minds.

Contact Info:

Instagram: instagram.com/withlove.holly/

Website: hollyraetharnish.weebly.com

website: ann-troe.pixels.com/

email: AnnieTroeArtist@gmail.com

website: www.darzart.com

email: darvandevoort@mac.com