Textile on wooden frame

27 diameter; 1.5 depth inches

Fair Market Value: $750

Starting Bid: $525

Buy It Now: $1,125

HEATHER AKERBERG is an award-winning quilt artist living in Omaha, NE. Akerberg uses color, transparency, and geometric shapes in a mix of fabrics to explore themes of identity and the spectrum of human experience. Her work has been juried into dozens of exhibitions, including Quilt National 2025, where her work received the Outstanding Machine-Pieced Quilt Award. Akerberg earned an MFA from Brown University and is a member of the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild and the Studio Art Quilt Association (SAQA). Her work is part of the permanent collection at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE, as well as in private collections.

Textile on a wood frame

27.5 diameter; 1 depth inches

Fair Market Value: $750

Starting Bid: $525

Buy It Now: $1,125

HEATHER AKERBERG is an award-winning quilt artist living in Omaha, NE. Akerberg uses color, transparency, and geometric shapes in a mix of fabrics to explore themes of identity and the spectrum of human experience. Her work has been juried into dozens of exhibitions, including Quilt National 2025, where her work received the Outstanding Machine-Pieced Quilt Award. Akerberg earned an MFA from Brown University and is a member of the Omaha Modern Quilt Guild and the Studio Art Quilt Association (SAQA). Her work is part of the permanent collection at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE, as well as in private collections.

Bronze with patina

28 x 17 x 10 inches

Fair Market Value: $13,000

Starting Bid: $9,100

Buy It Now: $19,500

RICHARD CHUNG is a figurative sculptor based in Omaha, NE. He earned a BA in art practice from University of California, Berkeley, and has worked in ceramics, bronze, and mixed media for more than two decades. His work explores the human figure as a structure shaped by movement, time, memory, and the surrounding environment. Chung's sculptures have been exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work is included in the collections of the Daum Museum and the Nerman Museum. In 2026, his large-scale bronze public sculpture Horizons was installed at the Omaha Central Library.

Quilted cotton, stain, fleece fabric

37 x 43.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $6,050

Starting Bid: $4,235

Buy It Now: $9,075

JEN CLAY was born in 1985 in Mountain View, NC and earned a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MFA from the University of Florida in 2014. Based in South Florida, her work is interactive and fiber-focused, often incorporating sewn messages. Notable works include Soft Sanity (2019) and Welcome to You&Me (2019), designed for neurodiverse audiences, and a quilt-composed video game and installation at Locust Projects (2023), supported by a Knight Arts New Work Award. She is currently on view at The Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Previous artist-in-residence programs include Oolite Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and the McColl Center. Her practice was featured in a short documentary called, "The Texture of Anxiety," which won a regional Emmy. Currently, she's a studio resident at Mass MoCA until June. In 2027, her work will be shown at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Clay is represented by Baker-Hall Gallery, Miami, FL.

Car, 2025

Acrylic and applique on canvas

40 x 40 x 2.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $5,000

Starting Bid: $3,500

Buy It Now: $7,500

DAN CRANE is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines drawing, digital sketching, screen printing, collage, woodworking, and applique. He often explores themes of color, shape, utility, fan art, reverential subversion, time travel, and general mischief. Rooted in play and experimentation, Crane's work moves fluidly between studio production, collaboration, curation, teaching, and grassroots organizing. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest and has received fellowship, grant, and collaboration opportunities from organizations including Public Media Institute (Chicago), Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City), Joslyn Art Museum, the University of Nebraska, Opera Omaha, Kent Bellows Studio, KANEKO, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Dragon and Castle, 2023

Acrylic stain on canvas in oak frame

23 x 23 x 2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

DAN CRANE is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines drawing, digital sketching, screen printing, collage, woodworking, and applique. He often explores themes of color, shape, utility, fan art, reverential subversion, time travel, and general mischief. Rooted in play and experimentation, Crane's work moves fluidly between studio production, collaboration, curation, teaching, and grassroots organizing. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest and has received fellowship, grant, and collaboration opportunities from organizations including Public Media Institute (Chicago), Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City), Joslyn Art Museum, the University of Nebraska, Opera Omaha, Kent Bellows Studio, KANEKO, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Archival inkjet print

51.5 x 41 x 2 inches

Fair Market Value: $10,700

Starting Bid: $7,490

Buy It Now: $16,050

ROSE MARIE CROMWELL (b. Sacramento, CA) is a Miami based photographer and artist, whose work explores the effects of globalization on the local and the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual. Cromwell makes books, creates dynamic photographic and sculptural installations, and is a filmmaker. She also collaborates with brands and media platforms to tell creative stories and share original narratives.

Cut paper on panel

20 x 16 x 1 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,300

Starting Bid: $1,610

Buy It Now: $3,450

LAURIE FRICK uses personal data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built works, she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Evidence of her engineering background and long history in high tech is seen in the detailed explanations of how this future will unfold. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and studied at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick's artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and art spaces across North America, including Musée de la Civilization in Quebec, Oklahoma Contemporary, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok in New York, and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. She is represented by GF Contemporary, Michele Mariaud Gallery, and Ivester Contemporary. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, TX.

Artist-in-Residence, 2009

Archival ink and acrylic polymer on canvas

24 x 20 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,350

Starting Bid: $945

Buy It Now: $2,025

DAMIEN GILLEY is an installation artist and painter in Portland, OR. Gilley investigates hidden architecture as a perceptual foundation of our experiences with the built environment and the natural world. Works fuse digital processes with painterly strategies to create large- and small-scale works. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, and the Vermont Studio Center. He has attended residencies including Bemis Center, Tetem Kunstruimte (Enschede, Netherlands), MARC (Kivik, Sweden), and the Sharjah Art Museum (Dubai, UAE).

Hand cut Tyvek, paper, acrylic ink

38 x 58 x 1.5 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $7,650

Starting Bid: $5,355

Buy It Now: $11,475

SUSAN KNIGHT, an Omaha-based painter and cut paper artist, devotes exclusive attention to water and the land that holds it. Using an X-Acto knife, she hand-cuts paper, Tyvek, and Mylar and paints with acrylic ink. Her work distills the structures and systems found in nature into patterned compositions in two and three dimensions, as well as gallery installations. Knight is a recipient of a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and a Percent for Art Commission. She was awarded residencies at AS IF Center, High Cove, NC; The Colorado Art Ranch and The Nature Conservancy Land/Water residency; Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL; and the International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy. She earned a BFA in art from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, and attended the University of Notre Dame, the Glassell School of Art, Houston, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wood, epoxy resin, acrylic and oil paint, dyes, clear finish

31 diameter; 4 depth inches

Fair Market Value: $4,650

Starting Bid: $3,255

Buy It Now: $6,975

TODD MCCOLLISTER works in wood and mixed media here in Omaha, NE. His sculptures address a range of themes from the predicaments of life to more formal ideas like pattern and geometry. He carefully balances colors, forms, and materials, and his compositions are concise. In his Panel Paintings series, various craft traditions create friction against one another. Artworks in his Long Shadow Series are improvisations with complex geometry that shifts and changes as the artist carves compound curves. McCollister shows frequently in Omaha, NE, and his work can be found in lots of private collections in Nebraska and New York. He organizes a monthly event series where Omaha artists can share advice with one another, called "First Tuesdays at Todd's". He earned an MFA in Sculpture from Stony Brook University and a BFA in Sculpture and Photography from Texas Christian University.

Acrylic & paper on canvas

40 x 30 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,350

Starting Bid: $1,645

Buy It Now: $3,525

DEREK MEIER is a painter and mixed-media artist based in St. Paul, MN, where he works as a Designated Manager at Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, collaborating closely with artists with disabilities. His abstract practice explores themes of material exchange, immediacy, aesthetic dialogue, and invented territories. Drawing inspiration from landscapes that merge organic and man-made forms, Meier creates work that emphasizes collaboration and transformation. He earned a BFA in Studio Painting from the University of South Dakota. His work is included in notable collections such as the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the University of South Dakota's President's Collection. Recent solo exhibitions include Held In Relation at Paramount Center for the Arts (2026) and It's Immaterial at Artistry Atrium Gallery (2025).

Acrylic on birch wood cutout

22 x 22 x 1.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,300

Starting Bid: $910

Buy It Now: $1,950

COURTNEY KENNY PORTO is a multidisciplinary artist based in Omaha, NE, whose practice spans abstraction, expressive realism, and modern still life. She is known for her vibrant color palettes and approachable, uplifting subject matter. Porto earned her BA in studio art from Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS, graduating summa cum laude. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and juried exhibitions and is held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. Porto is represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Art, Rennie Art Company, NoName Gallery, and is an associate artist at The Burkholder Project in Lincoln, NE. Beyond her studio practice, Porto has contributed to a range of curatorial and public art initiatives. She has served as Vice Chair of the Joslyn Art Museum's Young Advocates Committee, curated several large-scale group exhibitions, and participated in multiple public art projects.

Angled Section, 2026

Ceramic stoneware, slips, and glaze

13 x 11 x 8 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,600

Starting Bid: $1,120

Buy It Now: $2,400

GARET REYNEK (b. 1986, Omaha, NE) is currently based out of Omaha, NE. He received a BA from Hastings College in ceramics and business in 2010, and in 2018 earned an MFA in ceramics from Wichita State University. He has been a studio assistant to artists Jun Kaneko, Conrad Snider, and John Balistreri. Reynek has adjunct-taught at Butler Community College, Wichita State University, and Newman University. His works involve abstract ceramic sculptures derived from experiences and visions one may encounter when moving through urban environments. Reynek has been a resident artist at Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts and exhibited in Wichita's national juried exhibition and Beyond the Brick Yard 10th annual exhibition in Helena, MT.

Acrylic on canvas

29.5 x 35.5 x 2 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $2,000

Starting Bid: $1,400

Buy It Now: $3,000

LARRY ROOTS was a full-time painter and sculptor who resided in Omaha. He earned his BA in painting from the University of Northern Colorado, where he was named the 2005 Alumni of the Year in the visual arts. He was the owner/director of Modern Arts Midtown Art Gallery, had shown regionally and nationally, and is in corporate, public, and private collections including Sheldon Museum of Art, Museum of Nebraska Art, and Sioux City Art Center, IA.

Monochrome Clew, 2026

Archival cardstock with thread wrapped binding

Dimensions variable, approximately 18 x 8 x 8 inches

Fair Market Value: $2,800

Starting Bid: $1,960

Buy It Now: $4,200

ASHLEY VAK is a sculptural bookbinder from Omaha, NE. She discovered her passion for art and design early on, drawing inspiration from her father's precision as a mapmaker for the city of Omaha and her mother's creative skills. After high school, she pursued her foundation studies at the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to complete her BFA in Book Arts at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where she was awarded the Bertha Mengedoht-Hatz Artistic Excellence Scholarship. Vak further honed her artistry by becoming a certified cake decorator and studying metalsmithing in Florence, Italy. Her work is part of the new Omaha Central Library's permanent collection as well as part of the Todd Simon Art Collection. Driven by process, Vak places a strong emphasis on creating tactile experiences in her art. Her sculptural books transform industrial materials into organic, evocative forms, inviting viewers to engage with them on a physical level.

Uncompromised Void, 2026

Carved and turned wood

12 x 18 x 6 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,500

Starting Bid: $1,050

Buy It Now: $2,250

DENNIS D. WATTIER is a wood artist living and working in Omaha, NE. His goal is to create works of art that highlight his turning and carving skills in a creative manner, and in some cases, to tell a story. He has created his own unique style and uses special techniques to create intricately designed vessels and bowls. The use of different laminated hardwoods in his work has been evolving to include more sculptural forms, which add a certain vitality and creative edge to the vessels. His work is represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Arts, and his work has won several awards in juried shows, including (Best of Sculpture) at the Nebraska Biennial, 1516 Gallery, and at the 12th Annual Juried Show, Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE. Most recently, he was the recipient of the 2025 PACE New Masters Artist of the Year at the HOFF Center, Council Bluffs, IA. Along with this recognition, his winning sculpture was purchased for the HOFF permanent collection.

Turned and carved wood

15.5 x 11 x 9.5 inches

Fair Market Value: $1,300

Starting Bid: $910

Buy It Now: $1,950

DENNIS D. WATTIER is a wood artist living and working in Omaha, NE. His goal is to create works of art that highlight his turning and carving skills in a creative manner, and in some cases, to tell a story. He has created his own unique style and uses special techniques to create intricately designed vessels and bowls. The use of different laminated hardwoods in his work has been evolving to include more sculptural forms, which add a certain vitality and creative edge to the vessels. His work is represented by Anderson O'Brien Fine Arts, and his work has won several awards in juried shows, including (Best of Sculpture) at the Nebraska Biennial, 1516 Gallery, and at the 12th Annual Juried Show, Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE. Most recently, he was the recipient of the 2025 PACE New Masters Artist of the Year at the HOFF Center, Council Bluffs, IA. Along with this recognition, his winning sculpture was purchased for the HOFF permanent collection.