Omaha, NE
Omaha's mural scene is one of the Great Plains' best-kept secrets. The Old Market's brick warehouse district, the indie-commercial blocks of Benson, and the upscale-but-grounded Blackstone neighborhood all carry works that reflect a city proud of its working-class roots and increasingly confident in its creative future. The Nebraska Arts Council and a wave of neighborhood development programs have put murals on every corner that matters.
Featured Artists
All artists →Cal Whitehorse
Fourth-generation Omahan whose Old Market murals document the city's history as a Missouri River commercial hub — the cattle yards, the rail connections, the immigrant neighborhoods that built it. Whitehorse's Howard Street piece compresses a hundred years of riverfront commerce into a single scene executed in a palette that references the ochre brick of the Market itself.
Veronica Salazar
Mexican-American muralist who moved from South Omaha to Benson and brought her community's visual culture with her. Salazar's Benson night-scene paintings — the bars, the murals inside the murals, the faces that don't appear in Chamber of Commerce brochures — have made her the neighborhood's most beloved visual chronicler.
Mae Lundberg
Omaha-born illustrator who shifted from book publishing to murals after her Blackstone block mural received an unexpected commission from the neighborhood association. Lundberg's botanical paintings scale her sketchbook precision to building size — the native Nebraska plants she studies at UNL's herbarium rendered at the scale they deserve.