BFF Omaha
Headquartered in Benson, BFF is dedicated to building community through arts engagement. We support the arts & our community through Advocacy, Education, Inclusion, Opportunity, and Unique experiences (AEIOU). We provide a social infrastructure that is integral to the community’s well being and supportive of local artists, businesses, residents, commerce, and the environment through interactive art programs.
Photos Courtesy of Katera Brown
Building community
through arts engagement.
Values. BFF supports the Arts & our Community through Advocacy, Education, Inclusion, Opportunity, and Unique Experiences. AEIOU! (We’d like to buy a vowel!)
Vision. While continuing to build community in Benson and Omaha, BFF envisions using our 10-year history as a guiding template to expand the mission to build community through arts engagement in other neighborhoods and cities.
Belief. We believe that everyone has the right to create, experience, and cultivate the arts in our communities.
Acknowledgment.
BFF Omaha acknowledges the historical legacy of colonialism by honoring and paying respect to the land, which was taken by conquest, along with the domination of the people who inhabited the land, and the imposition of white supremacy. We do it to raise greater public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights as a small step toward equitable relationship and reconciliation.
We acknowledge the historical legacy of colonialism and non-western ways of knowing
that holistically link mind, body, spirit, and the human and non-human.
We acknowledge that the space we are in, and the land we are on, are part of who we are and how we know the world.
Here in Omaha we are on native UmoHo (Omaha) and Ochethi Sakowin land.
“Ni Bthaska” is the UmoHo term for “flat water.”