TERRITORIAL PRACTICES: A CONVERSATION ABOUT ART, SOUND, LAND, AND FIRE
Saturday, August 1, 2026
2:00–4:00 PM
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street, Omaha, NE 68102
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is excited to partner with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts to present Territorial Practices: A Conversation About Art, Sound, Land, and Fire. This roundtable will feature brief presentations by visiting artists Max Brotman, Juan William Chávez, Lydia Cheshewalla, Alex DeRoin, Kole Galbraith, Gavin Kroeber, Jess Price, and Tulsa Artist Fellow and Summer 2026 Bemis Sound Artist-in-Residence Warren Realrider, and open up into a wider dialogue with members of the Omaha community, exploring land-based approaches to art and artistic approaches to territory.
Territorial Practices is part of a larger, two-part event titled Nawa / 🫱🏼🫲🏾/ Aha; or, The Handshake, which will also include Confluencing: A Sonic Burnout at The Church Arthouse from 7–10 PM. Featuring sound performances by Kole Galbraith, Doom Flower (solo), Complex Crown, Warren Realrider & Sholeh Asgary, and Juan William Chávez, this concert will be an immersive, sensory counterpart to the afternoon’s discussion.
EVENT INFORMATION
Nawa / 🫱🏾🫲🏼/ Aha; or, The Handshake
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Omaha, NE
Part 1
Territorial Practices: A Conversation About Art, Sound, Land, and Fire
with Max Brotman, Juan William Chávez, Lydia Cheshewalla, Alex DeRoin, Kole Galbraith, Gavin Kroeber, Jess Price, and Warren Realrider
2–4 PM at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE
Part 2
Confluencing: A Sonic Burnout
with performances by Kole Galbraith, Doom Flower (solo), Complex Crown, Warren Realrider & Sholeh Asgary, and Juan William Chávez
7–10 PM at The Church Arthouse
3101 S 20th St, Omaha, NE
Nawa / 🫱🏾🫲🏼/ Aha; or, The Handshake is organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees Gavin Kroeber and Warren Realrider, on the occasion of Realrider’s residency at Bemis Center. It will bring together a diverse group of visiting artists who are making land-based work and, in various ways, engaging territory: moving back and forth across vast ecoregions, tracing the migration paths of other species, restoring Native fire landscapes, and deranging settler-colonial spatial regimes. Participants include sound artists, prescribed and cultural fire practitioners, former Nebraska residents, and Pawnee and Otoe-Missouria descendants visiting their ancestral homelands. In addition to the public talk and concert, it will also feature several days of private exchanges, site visits, and artistic fieldwork at sites across Southeast Nebraska, bringing visiting and local artists together to build relationships with one another and with the land. It is part of a series of related gatherings Kroeber is organizing this year, with others planned in California, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Other Credits + Special Thanks: Sarah Rowe (concert poster, forthcoming), Veronica Pipestem (MO art research affiliate), Aaron Owens (background photo).
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