A multidisciplinary collaborative of Omaha and Lincoln-based leaders in the fields of design, performance, education and placemaking has begun fundraising efforts for a new project aimed at reviving neighborhoods, schools and public spaces post-pandemic.
Omaha Mobile Stage, a mobile performing arts venue, will be a catalyst for supporting performing artists and engaging communities via free, live entertainment in public space. The project currently includes 15 organizations and has raised over $36,000 of its $125,000 goal.
The first phase of the project is lead by a collaboration between Partners for Livable Omaha, award-winning architect Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA of Actual Architecture Co.; FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team), an award-winning student designbuild program at the UNL College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Omaha-based theatrical designer and technical director Brendan Greene-Walsh; and Nebraska Innovation Studio.
The bulk of the designbuild phase occurs within the framework of the FACT Collaborate! Studio class offered by UNL’s College of Architecture. During the fall 2021 semester, a team of 4th year architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design students will create the stage at Nebraska Innovation Campus inside the Nebraska Innovation Studio, one of the nation’s top makerspaces, a 16,000-square-foot facility with a full metal shop, wood shop and rapid prototyping room.
Phase 2, after construction is complete, Omaha Mobile Stage will operate as a mobile, public venue for performing artists of all ages and disciplines.