Graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic mounted on fabric

28 x 25 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,400

Starting Bid: $980

Buy It Now: $2,100

KEITH BUSWELL graduated with a BFA in art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He works with various printmaking processes such as screen-printing, intaglio, and monoprinting. He also dabbles in drawing and multimedia. Buswell is currently a member of Karen Kunc's Constellation Studios, where he creates his prints. His work has been shown in the US, Egypt, Dubai, France, and Italy. Notably, Buswell received the Perry Family Award in 2018, the 2024 Mayor's Art Award for Visual Artist, and Best in Show in the Small Matters Exhibit at the 437Co Art Gallery in Grand Junction, CO. He is a contributing artist to issues 23, 28, and 50 of The Hand Magazine. In 2021, he became curator and co-captain of the Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, NE. Buswell has also been a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists since 2023. Originally from Council Bluffs, IA, he currently lives in Lincoln with his husband Brad, and their dog, Max. He owns Gomez Art Supply, a locally owned art supply retailer.

Bare Witness: Morrill Fire #3, A Yucca stands amongst Scorched Grass and Sand, Garden County, NE, 2026

Gelatin silver print on fiber based paper

16.5 x 14 x 1 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,250

Starting Bid: $875

Buy It Now: $1,875

KEEGAN DUNN is an ecologist and analog photographer living in Omaha, NE. Dunn uses darkroom photography as a scientific and narrative tool to investigate the twenty-first-century landscape of the Great Plains. He has received numerous research grants to create work about endangered oak woodlands and riverine wetlands that sustain life as we know it in Nebraska. He has completed residencies at Homestead National Historic Park (Beatrice, NE) and Cedar Point Biological Station (Ogallala, NE). He earned an AA in Applied Sciences from Metropolitan Community College (Omaha, NE) and a BS in integrated sciences with focuses in fire ecology, fish biology, and photography. Dunn was a Bemis Center artist-in-residence intern in the summer of 2023.

Monoprint

25.5 x 17.5 x .5 inches

Fair Market Value: $450

Starting Bid: $315

Buy It Now: $675

CHERYL DYER is an interdisciplinary artist and poet from Omaha, NE, whose work integrates expressive mark-making, calligraphy, collage, printmaking, and language. In her visual work, she marries her interests in the written poetic word and writing by hand as she explores the communication potential of both traditional and asemic yet energized marks. Her work explores themes of motherhood, quotidian objects and experiences, aging, memory, and resilience. She holds a BA in communication and a minor in visual art from Iowa State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her artwork has been shown nationally as well as featured in Letter Arts Review. She was awarded runner-up for the Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize twice and has had work published in several literary journals such as Good Life Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Astorian, and River and South Review. Additionally, she works as a calligraphic scribe and instructor.

Acrylic ink and colored pencil on paper

21.5 x 18 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,650

Starting Bid: $1,155

Buy It Now: $2,475

IAN ETTER received his MFA in drawing/intermedia from the University of Iowa. His work has been exhibited at the Marfa Invitational Open, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea, Northwest Art Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Ortega y Gasset Projects, and is featured in New American Paintings Midwest Issue 173 and Art Maze Mag Spring Issue 17. Etter's drawings are included in registries at White Columns, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Ortega y Gasset, Collar Works, Deanna Evans, and PeepSpace Projects. Also a writer and curator, Etter has contributed to Artforum, Glasstire, Patron, Whitehot and Fields Magazine.

A digital photographic collage created from original photographs by the artist and printed on watercolor paper.

45 x 72 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $15,850

Starting Bid: $11,095

Buy It Now: $23,775

DAVID ALLEN BURNS AND AUSTIN YOUNG are the artist duo Fallen Fruit, based in Los Angeles. Working across installation, photography, public art, and participatory practice, Fallen Fruit creates immersive environments that explore place, community, public space, biodiversity, and collective memory. Founded in Los Angeles in 2004, the project began with maps of publicly accessible fruit trees and evolved into a multidisciplinary practice investigating how people share resources, stories, and civic life. Drawing from public archives, museum collections, neighborhoods, and local histories, the artists create site-specific installations, photographs, public interventions, and permanent artworks that transform familiar spaces into opportunities for connection, reflection, and exchange. Fallen Fruit was originally conceived by Burns, Matias Viegener, and Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work.

Artist-in-Residence, 2015

Water, 2023

Porcelain

7 x 7.5 x 8 inches

Fair Market Value: $4,050

Starting Bid: $2,835

Buy It Now: $6,075

DONTE K. HAYES is a research-based artist living and working in Cliffwood, NJ. He utilizes clay material to reclaim and remix history, hip hop culture, and memories remembered and imagined. He graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University in Georgia with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Hayes received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and the Des Moines Art Center, among others. In 2022, he was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami.

Artist-in-Residence, 2021

Pigment print with wood and found object

18.5 x 18 x 4 inches

Fair Market Value: $800

Starting Bid: $560

Buy It Now: $1,200

EPIPHANY KNEDLER is an interdisciplinary artist and educator exploring how we engage with history. She earned a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Political Science from the University of South Dakota. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at East Carolina University. She is based in Aberdeen, SD, where she serves as an Assistant Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Art Department at Northern State University, a Content Editor with LENSCRATCH, and the co-founder and curator of the art collective Midwest Nice Art. Her work has been exhibited in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vermont Center for Photography, LENSCRATCH, and Dek Unu Arts. She has received awards from LensCulture, the Lucie Foundation, F-Stop Magazine, and Photolucida Critical Mass.

Monoprint silk screen on paper

20.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $600

Starting Bid: $420

Buy It Now: $900

JILL NAHRSTEDT (b. 1977, Omaha, NE) is a Chicago-based artist whose paintings, screen prints, and mixed media works beg a perspective shift through investigations of mark-making and visual record-keeping with nature as a regular muse. Solo exhibitions of Nahrstedt's work have been presented at Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, and Picnic Wine and Provisions Gallery. Her work has been selected for juried exhibitions, including at Bemis Center's 2025 Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, The Art Center Highland Park, and Arc Studios and Gallery in San Francisco. Nahrstedt has participated in artist residencies, including most recently at Lakeside Inn, and has completed commissioned projects for local and national businesses. Her work is held in numerous private collections internationally. Nahrstedt received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MEd from DePaul University, and is an active member of Spudnik Printing Press and Rise and Repaint Network.

Digital photography

37.5 x 25.5 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,700

Starting Bid: $1,190

Buy It Now: $2,550

ARIEL PANOWICZ is a Photographer and Creative Director based in Omaha, NE. Her work lives in a rich, colorful land, highlighting vibrant people and places. After receiving her BFA in photography from The Art Institute of Colorado, she returned to Omaha to plant her roots in an effort to help build the creative community in her hometown. Through her creative direction, styling, and unique location scouting, she aims to showcase the beauty that can be found in seemingly mundane moments and places. She believes in the power of photography's ability to remind us we have more in common than we are made to believe. A visual thread weaving humanity together. Her love for community led her to open up Luli Creative House, a rentable creative studio and event space, in 2022. Luli is dedicated to providing an inclusive, safe, joyful environment for the community to come together to create and connect with each other.

Textile and acrylic on canvas

11 x 14.5 x 2 inches

Fair Market Value: $4,100

Starting Bid: $2,870

Buy It Now: $6,150

AMI PARK is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working across textile installation, sculpture, and painting. Through repetitive processes of stitching, binding, knotting, and layering fiber materials, her work explores themes of tension, accumulation, memory, and human connection. Drawing from her background in fashion and craft, she transforms traditional textile techniques into sculptural systems that investigate the relationship between control and organic growth. Park received a BFA in fashion design from Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, MANA Contemporary, Pen + Brush, Chashama, and CICA Museum, among others. She is a recipient of support from New York Foundation for the Arts, CERF+, Puffin Foundation, and Artists' Fellowship, Inc. Park has participated in residencies at LMCC Arts Center, Prairie Ronde Artist Residency, and Stove Works, with upcoming residencies at Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Stove Works in 2026.

Handwoven cotton textiles and denim on canvas

21 x 21 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $550

Starting Bid: $385

Buy It Now: $825

SARAH PARYS is a textile artist and weaver based in Omaha, NE. Bold colors and contrasting patterns seem to be a recurring theme in Parys's work. Whether it be decorative or functional, her work tends to add a sense of warmth and security that other mediums cannot achieve. Her work has been exhibited both locally and regionally, including the Salina Art Center (Salina, KS), Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE), and the Sioux City Art Center (Sioux City, IA). She received her studio art degree from the University of Nebraska Omaha and an associate's degree in interior design from Metropolitan Community College.

Digital print on archival paper

41 x 29 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

BEN PLACZEK is an Omaha-based photographer and creative professional whose work explores the enduring rhythms of the natural world. Placzek's work has been shown in venues such as Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts; Gallery 1516 in Omaha, NE; Praxis Photo Arts Center in Minneapolis; and featured in various national publications.

The Shape of Together, 2026

Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta, presented with a natural-white mat, museum glass, and black oak frame

33 x 45 x 1 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $4,200

Starting Bid: $2,940

Buy It Now: $6,300

POLINA SCHLOTT is a photographic artist living in the Loess Hills near Council Bluffs, IA. Her work is rooted in close observation of the natural world, with a particular focus on birds, wildlife, movement, and the quiet emotional moments that often go unnoticed. Through photography, she explores themes of freedom, fragility, instinct, resilience, and the unseen forces that shape both the natural world and human experience.

Eraser on wood panel

21 x 18.5 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $950

Starting Bid: $665

Buy It Now: $1,425

EVAN STOLER (b. 1993, NE) graduated from Denison University in Ohio with a BA in studio art and biology in 2016. Since then, he has shown collections of work that are part of his While Supplies Last series in Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha, NE, and other galleries in the Midwest and South. Stoler was an A.I.R. Vallauris ceramics resident in France in 2017 and a PADA resident in Portugal in 2022. The Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards nominated Stoler as Outstanding Emerging Visual Artist in 2022. Stoler is currently represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Arts and spends his time in Omaha, NE, and Atlanta.

3D lenticular media

34.5 x 24.5 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $4,800

Starting Bid: $3,360

Buy It Now: $7,200

MARY ANN STRANDELL is a painter of note. Her work examines the intersection of nature and technology in our participation with society. Combining places and objects as content markers, she considers the collapse of historic space between the baroque, modernism, and the post-modern. These subjects are explored with drawing, painting, and 3D lenticular media. Works begin as singular paintings and evolve into 3D lenticular. Its hypnagogic complex montage system translates hand-drawn images into a language of glitch, with interwoven optical fabrications. Strandell's BFA is from the University of South Dakota; her MA and MFA are from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her work has been exhibited and written about widely. She has received numerous grants, residencies, and awards, including the NEA in Midwest Painting Arts, an Arts and Humanities Grant, a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship Grant, and a 2025 Arts in Public Places Commission, Miami.

Artist-in-Residence, 1996

3D lenticular media

33.5 x 37.5 x 2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $6,450

Starting Bid: $4,515

Buy It Now: $9,675

MARY ANN STRANDELL is a painter of note. Her work examines the intersection of nature and technology in our participation with society. Combining places and objects as content markers, she considers the collapse of historic space between the baroque, modernism, and the post-modern. These subjects are explored with drawing, painting, and 3D lenticular media. Works begin as singular paintings and evolve into 3D lenticular. Its hypnagogic complex montage system translates hand-drawn images into a language of glitch, with interwoven optical fabrications. Strandell's BFA is from the University of South Dakota; her MA and MFA are from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Her work has been exhibited and written about widely. She has received numerous grants, residencies, and awards, including the NEA in Midwest Painting Arts, an Arts and Humanities Grant, a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship Grant, and a 2025 Arts in Public Places Commission, Miami.

Artist-in-Residence, 1996

Untitled 002 2026, 2026

Colored pencil on paper

44 x 34 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $9,550

Starting Bid: $6,685

Buy It Now: $14,325

MEL TINGLEY is an artist based in Omaha, NE. He received his BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1975 with an emphasis on sculpture and drawing. He later went on to complete a BS in mathematics at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1987. His approach to the arts has been influenced by both of these degrees. When asked, he will say that his fine arts education contributed to his success in mathematics because it taught him to see what is there and not what his mind imagines is there. He has never pursued a career as an artist but successfully worked as an actuarial analyst for many years with several local insurance companies. He continued to produce artwork in both the Hot Shops (2009) and home studio settings (2009 to the present) and began entering works for the Bemis Center Annual Benefit Art Auction beginning in 2010. He currently produces two-dimensional pieces using a soft wax-based colored pencil. The current drawings are vibrant and color-dense with an intentionally formal approach.

Untitled 001 2026, 2026

Colored pencil on paper

50 x 34.5 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $10,600

Starting Bid: $7,420

Buy It Now: $15,900

MEL TINGLEY is an artist based in Omaha, NE. He received his BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1975 with an emphasis on sculpture and drawing. He later went on to complete a BS in mathematics at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1987. His approach to the arts has been influenced by both of these degrees. When asked, he will say that his fine arts education contributed to his success in mathematics because it taught him to see what is there and not what his mind imagines is there. He has never pursued a career as an artist but successfully worked as an actuarial analyst for many years with several local insurance companies. He continued to produce artwork in both the Hot Shops (2009) and home studio settings (2009 to the present) and began entering works for the Bemis Center Annual Benefit Art Auction beginning in 2010. He currently produces two-dimensional pieces using a soft wax-based colored pencil. The current drawings are vibrant and color-dense with an intentionally formal approach.

Reception, 2018

Silk, cotton, polyester thread, silk organza, bamboo, wool, silk fibers, glass beads, acrylic paint, and paper.

31.5 x 31.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,300

Starting Bid: $1,610

Buy It Now: $3,450

SHEA WILKINSON has been creating with textiles since childhood. Wilkinson worked for several years in the medium of art quilts, but currently works with felted textiles. She is currently based in Nashville, TN. Wilkinson's work has been exhibited widely in national juried exhibitions, received numerous awards, and has been published in books and magazines around the world.