2025 Impact Report
The Union for Contemporary Art navigated a challenging year in 2025 yet demonstrated resilience through renewed programs and community engagement. Several exhibitions and activations fostered cultural dialogue and community participation. Artist development was strengthened through residencies, fellowships, and professional growth opportunities. Our performing arts program was relaunched and announced a full 2026 season. A revitalized co-op studios program led to broader workshop offerings and a welcoming creative environment. And, increased youth and family programs expanded our community impact and engagement.
2022 Annual Report
2022 at The Union for Contemporary Art was another year of vibrant growth and connections. As we moved through our eleventh year of empowering artists and the communities they inspire, we also took some bold steps toward the future. We broke ground on the Shirley Tyree Theater – the future home of The Union’s Performing Arts program! Projects like this reflect our dual commitments to fostering the development of new creative work and creating space for our North Omaha community to gather in dialogue and fellowship.
2021 Annual Report
Ten years ago, The Union for Contemporary Art was founded on the belief that artists play an essential role in shaping the cultural and civic landscape of Omaha. While these ten years have held so many unpredictable moments – joys and challenges, grief and healing – they’ve only strengthened our faith in the power of art to manifest new possibilities. Illuminating the ways we create our community and world together.
2020 Annual Report
After all 2020 has shown us, The Union for Contemporary Art is more committed than ever to our belief in the power of art to build vital community across barriers of all kinds. Throughout this season of distance, we’ve continued to innovate new ways of serving our mission, through our Radical HeARTS initiatives and more.
2019 Annual Report
In 2019, we welcomed 14,245 people to North Omaha to experience the arts and engage in meaningful dialogue at the intersection of N 24th and Lake Streets. This figure is nearly DOUBLE the number of community members we hosted the previous year.
2018 Annual Report
In 2018, we welcomed over 8,000 visitors to North Omaha to engage with the arts, participate in community forums, harvest fresh produce from our Abundance Garden + so much more!
2017 Annual Report
In 2017, The Union engaged over 10,000 community members in our programs & projects... more than twice the number of people we were able to serve in our first five years combined.
