The Uses of Enchantment

Artwork by Dan Toberer

The title is intriguing. It sounds mysterious and maybe a bit ethereal. How would you use "enchantment" in visual or performing arts? How does art enchant you?

We're excited to partner with event organizer and artist, Paula Wallace, in an invitational show that encouraged visual interpretations of our upcoming productions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle. We're merging art forms! How exciting!

Come, join us, and explore local artists' interpretation of the theme in a show at Hot Shops Art Center. The artists' reception and gallery opening for "The Uses of Enchantment" is this Friday, January 11 from 6-9pm. Wine and cheese will be available. This event is FREE and open to the public.

This is part of the Art for Food series of gallery openings. Please bring a canned good or two for donation to the Omaha Food Bank. The big, blue barrels will be in Hot Shops' lobby on Friday waiting for you to fill them.

Artwork by Girl Scout participants in Artventures

More information and a link to event information on Hot Shops' website is below.

The Uses of Enchantment

Friday evening, 11 January, 6-9 P.M.

Nicholas Street Gallery - Hot Shops Art Center

1301 Nicholas Street

Omaha NE 68102

http://hotshopsartcenter.com/

The event is free and open to the public. Non-perishable food donations are being accepted to support the Food Bank. Help us fill the barrels to overflowing.

The Omaha Entertainment Award nominees are also presenting work across the hall in the 1301 Gallery. Art everywhere!

Artwork by David Hansen

The Uses of Enchantment invites the artist and the viewer to consider the themes found in two very different tales being presented by Opera Omaha as part of their 2012-2013 season: The Magic Flute and Bluebeard's Castle. Like the ambiguities and contradictions of life, the composers invite the listener into stories through compelling melodies and a libretto which defies – or defines – the lushness of the music with the dramas of the characters. The artist may see the story, finding its narrative in the common – or certainly using what is common as their agent of vocabulary: clay, pigment, metal, wood, paper.

Begin the year with the arts. Find beauty. Nurture creativity. Be surprised.

Artwork by Matt Schrader

Please join us!