Omaha Becomes a CreativeMornings City

Omaha has officially been accepted into the CreativeMornings (creativemornings.com/cities/oma) community and will join 157 other creative cities across the globe. CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community and will serve as a new outlet for our city to be recognized on a global scale, adding to Omaha’s strong arts and culture scene and growing reputation.

Kim Sellmeyer, creative director for the Greater Omaha Chamber and Steve Gordon, brand architect and founder of RDQLUS Creative serve as co-hosts for the Omaha chapter. Sellmeyer’s desire for Omaha to become a CreativeMornings community came from the We Don’t Coast brand building process and the need for our community to have a place where creatives could come together to collaborate.

The monthly breakfast lecture series is designed to highlight our creative community, which employs more workers in arts and culture than Salt Lake City, Louisville, Kansas City, Austin, Raleigh, Des Moines, Colorado Springs, and Nashville. (U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 – 2013). The first series kicked off with the global theme, fantasy, Nov. 11 at 8 a.m. at the Hot Shops Art Center. Nebraska native and world travelling photographer Dean Jacobs headlined the event.

Find out more about Omaha CreativeMornings and register for the next event at creativemornings.com/cities/oma.