Omaha Craft Mafia

SCOUT: DRY GOODS AND TRADE

On Saturday, February 23rd from 6:00-10:00pm Scout:
Dry Goods and Trade will be holding an Opening Party
and Fashion Show. Scout is located at 5019 Underwood
Avenue in Omaha Nebraska within the Historic Dundee
Neighborhood. The Fashion Show will begin at 7pm.
About 20 men and women will wow the crowd in outfits
they have picked out at Scout with local DJ Rey Cantil
providing the music and Omaha artist Jilawan Bunnimit,
aka Miss Cake, showing art. Fringes Salon and Day Spa
of the Old Market will be doing the hair and makeup
for the models and Roberts Dairy has donated many,
many free cartons of chocolate milk. All ages are
welcome and this is a free event. Free parking is
available in the parking lot west of Scout.

Scout: Dry Goods and Trade is a hip and quirky re-sale
retail clothing store for women and men that sells new
and recycled apparel and accessories. Scout recently
opened its doors on January 3rd. The goal of Scout is
to be a socially and environmentally responsible
clothing store that stimulates resourcefulness and
innovative thinking.

Omaha Children's Museum

On the 15th of November the Craft Mafia participated in a "How People Make Things" event at the Omaha Children's Museum. Each Mafia member donated a piece of their art or craft to be assembled into a quilt. The children visiting the museum that night got to print fruits and vegetables on fabric to be added to our quilt. Once the prints are dried and stitched together the quilt will be given to the Children's Museum for their permanent collection. What a fantastic evening!

(The ladies setting up and waiting for the next printer.)

(Our fruits and veggies prepared for heavy inks and little hands.)

(One of our many talented printmakers.)

(The soon to be infamous quilt!)

The Omaha Craft Mafia hosted it's first official Killer Craft Night - and oh what a night!  It was a wonderful success and members have some gorgeous linoleum prints to show off thanks to printmaking goddess and member Amy Haney.  If you a crafter/artist extraodinaire and want in on the fun, apply to the OCM here!  We are also excited to announce our first trunkshow at Hot Shops in the beginning of December - watch our blog for more details or sign up for our mailing list to stay in the know here!  For all pics from our Killer Craft Night, check out the OCM Flickr page here.

Tilly and the Wall will be performing a free concert at Saddle Creek Record's Slowdown on 6 October to celebrate the grand opening of Omaha's first Urban Outfitters - hope to see you there!

{photo by Andrew Kendall}

Our first monthly Killer Craft Night is on Saturday, 29 September at 7pm at HotShops Art Center.  We will enjoy an atmosphere of good food, friends and host Amy Haney will be demonstrating some printmaking techniques - hopefully we will be able to press our own plates!  If you are interested in finding out what the OCM is about, please join us - for more info, click here!

Shelter:  Concepts and Collaboration is a new show featuring the artwork of OCM member Amy Haney.  She worked hand in hand with David Hansen to create the amazing installation featured above.  If you are in the Omaha area, this is a must see.  Shelter is showing at HotShops Art Center in NoDo from 8-30 September.  More info here and here.

{photo by Amy Haney}

After a year and half of trying to get ourselves together and on a roll, we are kicking butt and taking names - literally - our membership drive is in full swing!  So if you have always wanted to join the Mafia, click here - and to read about the bad ass ladies who started it all, click here.