May 25, 2025 11:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Bizzarre Bazaar: a Live Spray Paint Experience Where Art Breaks Boundaries-May 25th 2025 at Bancroft Street Market. Get ready for an electrifying fusion of creativity and urban expression at Bizzarre Bazaar, a one of a kind live spray paint exhibition happening on May 25 at Bancroft Street … [Read more…]
To enhance the Bancroft Street Market Festival Area for Christmas 2024, Edison lights have been added to define the space. Support poles have been painted. The Festival Area will be open during the day for the Hand Made Omaha show, November 30 and December 1, 2024. The lights will also be on in conjunction with … [Read more…]
The City of Omaha has restricted west bound traffic at 11th and Bancroft. Learn about the project. https://www.keepomahamoving.com/projects/11th-street-and-bancroft-street-traffic-diverter.
On Sunday August 4, 2024 Bancroft Street Market hosted an Urban Art Festival. It was hot, 100 degrees, but the artists worked through it. Murals were painted on the Jersey barriers.
The Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is hosting their fourth biennial art exhibition to be held at Bancroft Street Market (2702 S. 10th St, Omaha, NE 68108) during September –October 2024. This exhibition will center around the motto/lema “United through Culture/Unidos a través de la Cultura.” The … [Read more…]
Join us for free sidewalk chalk workshop on the third Saturday of each month June through September 2024. You will learn how to grid an original piece of art and transfer it in scale to the pavement. You will learn coloring and shading with chalk. This is a group activity. It is outdoors in the … [Read more…]
Bancroft Street Market welcomes 1880 House, a non-profit, to South 10th Street. The house, two blocks north of Bancroft Street Market, is located at 2326 South 10th Street in Omaha. The frame house, constructed in the 1880’s, is being restored. An item of historical significance of the structure is that it was the early childhood … [Read more…]
Mutual of Omaha’s downtown Omaha development and the construction of a downtown Omaha streetcar system, makes the time right to discuss enhancing the bicycle/pedestrian connection between downtown Omaha, Lauritzen Gardens and the Henry Doorly Zoo. The south 10th Street corridor is the connecting route. Bicycling, walking and running are healthy activities that appeal to everyone … [Read more…]
Over the 2021 Memorial Day weekend, management at Bancroft Street Market had an opportunity to observe pedestrians on South 10th Street in Omaha. They were walking to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo. Many of them were pushing strollers, and accompanying small children. Unfortunately, at some spots on their walk from Bancroft Street south to the … [Read more…]
In March 2021, Omaha Public Power District installed black iron ornamental streetlights with acorn fixtures on Bancroft Street in Omaha from 13th Street to 1st Street. The streetlights illuminate the street as well as the sidewalk. This is a significant step in developing the street aesthetic connecting historic parts of Omaha near the Missouri River. … [Read more…]