Jewel Rodgers is one of Amplify’s 2026 Generator Series project recipients. Her project, All About Love, explores love as an active practice of self-awareness and repair. We sat down with Jewel to talk more about her work and what it means to love within bodies conditioned by histories of survival.
Read MoreOn December 12th, Cady de la Cruz, Keegan Dunn, and Ami Polite sat down with moderator Sara Jacobson for a conversion about how environmental histories, cultural inheritance, and our ties to the land shape creative subjectivities.
Read MoreOn October 12th, Caitlin Cass, Ilaamen Pelshaw, and Ella Weber sat down with Michael Griffin to take a closer look at irony, contradiction and exaggeration as critical strategies in creative practice that subvert dominant narratives and challenge long-held assumptions with a wink and a smile.
Read More“The idea of humans defined as against/outside nature is deeply embedded in our dominant culture. It’s baked into our vocabulary, and is mostly notably present in western, colonial, extractive culture. I’d like to find other ways to talk about what is natural or unnatural that don't entail ascribing a special status to humans. This is difficult.”
Read More“We must be part of the cultural and technological changes as proactive developers rather than passive consumers. We must be able to create, change and develop new ways of exercising our right to build a more technologically just future.”
Read MoreOn June 13th, Paul High Horse, John Paul, and Barbara Robins sat down with Annika Johnson for a conversation about methods and materials Native and Indigenous artists and culture bearers use to interrogate past erasures, reclaim the present, and vivify Indigenous futures.
Read More“There were many fears at the beginning of the war—but none greater than the sense of doom that seemed at once incredible and certain. This was especially true when the neighboring towns fell, and the enemy swelled into these spaces like a flood ready to drown our village.”
Read MoreOn April 11th, Noni Williams, G. Anthony Galdamez, Ken Heinze, and Carlie Waganer sat down for a conversation about how we define and assess what constitutes failure in creative processes that hinge on investigation, discovery, and uncertainty.
Read MoreOn Friday, March 14th, we sat down with artists and organizers Lydia Cheshewalla, Patrick Costello, and Alajia McKizia to talk about compost as a mechanism for transformation, renewal, and exchange, and explored affinities in their work that bind compost to history, inheritance, and carrying certain types of knowledge forward.
Read More“The fire burns all night and there are many awakenings and many small deaths. The gilded sea of yesterday will spend one breath as ash, then burst forth again, tender and green—the sweet audacity of renewal.”
Read More“You can stir the great mix.”
Read More“Just as two notes come together: a moment of divine harmony
Is green matter and brown matter perfectly balanced?”
“On the evening of September 29, 2022, a protest took place at Dewey Park to oppose the removal of the Harney Street bike lane. Stretching a mile and a half, this was Omaha’s first protected bike lane, connecting Midtown to the Old Market.”
Read More“Refuse the narrow definitions of value and use that are assigned to objects by capitalism.
Refuse what relies on waste for profit.
Refuse what is rejected as trash, what is seen as useless and de-nied the chance to be useful.”
Read MoreOn December 11th, artists and organizers Amanada Huckins, Alex Jochim, Joseph Orzal, Bilgesu Sisman, Marcey Yates, and Rachel Ziegler discussed navigating alternative models of economic organization and building resilience in the face of precarity and the uncertain future of arts funding.
Read MoreOn October 18th, Mi’oux Stabler and Lydia Cheshewalla sat down with Casey Welsch for a conversation about food sovereignty’s role in confronting generations of colonial dispossession and revitalizing community health and cultural autonomy.
Read More“The struggles of artists and cultural workers for fair compensation and financial stability/sustainability cannot and should not exist independent of struggles for housing, healthcare, education, and protections led by people from all walks of life.”
Read More“The composition layers keyboard played by Mary Elizabeth Jo Dixen Pelenaise Kapi’olani Lawson, her vocals (chanting, reading, humming), sounds inside a kitchen, and the voice of Paul Stephen Benjamin singing ‘Black Is the Color.’”
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