NAWA / 🫱🏾🫲🏼 / AHA; OR, THE HANDSHAKE
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Omaha, Nebraska
2:00–4:00 PM | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
7:00–10:00 PM | The Church Arthouse
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is proud to partner with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and The Church Arthouse to present Nawa / 🫱🏾🫲🏼 / Aha; or, The Handshake, a two-part gathering organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees Gavin Kroeber and Warren Realrider on the occasion of Realrider's Summer 2026 Bemis Sound Artist Residency.
Bringing together artists, cultural practitioners, and community members, the project explores land-based approaches to art and artistic approaches to territory. Through public conversation, experimental sound, and collaborative fieldwork across Southeast Nebraska, participants engage movement across ecoregions, Indigenous homelands, cultural fire practices, migration, and the evolving relationships between people and place.
Beyond its public programs, Nawa / 🫱🏾🫲🏼 / Aha; or, The Handshake includes private exchanges, site visits, and collaborative fieldwork that cultivate lasting relationships among artists, communities, and the land. The gathering is part of an ongoing series of artist-led convenings that Kroeber is organizing throughout 2026.
TERRITORIAL PRACTICES:
A CONVERSATION ABOUT ART, SOUND, LAND, AND FIRE
2:00–4:00 PM
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE
Featuring Max Brotman, Juan William Chávez, Lydia Cheshewalla, Alex DeRoin, Kole Galbraith, Gavin Kroeber, Jess Price, and Warren Realrider.
Artist presentations and community dialogue exploring land, sound, ecology, Indigenous knowledge, stewardship, and artistic approaches to territory.
CONFLUENCING: A SONIC BURNOUT
7:00–10:00 PM
The Church Arthouse
3101 S. 20th Street
Omaha, NE
Performances by Kole Galbraith, Doom Flower (solo), Complex Crown, Warren Realrider & Sholeh Asgary, and Juan William Chávez.
An immersive evening of experimental sound extending the day's conversations through improvisation, collective listening, and sonic exploration.
Gavin Kroeber creates gatherings, excursions, and collaborative projects that explore the relationships between art, landscape, and cultural power. Working across visual art, curatorial practice, and performance, he brings interdisciplinary communities together to examine place through decolonial, ecological, and speculative frameworks. A 2025–2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee, Kroeber is also a Creative Capital Awardee and an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow.
Warren Realrider (Pawnee & Crow) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of sound, materials, and site. Through performance, installation, and collaboration, he creates immersive works that draw from Pawnee cosmology, contemporary Plains experience, and experimental sound. A 2024–2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee and Summer 2026 Bemis Sound Artist-in-Residence, Realrider has presented work throughout the United States.
Other Credits + Special Thanks: Sarah Rowe (concert poster), Veronica Pipestem (MO art research affiliate), Aaron Owens (background photo).
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
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