In 2017, Amplify partnered with real estate developers PJ Morgan to facilitate two murals and a semi-permanent sculptural installation in one of Omaha’s oldest residential neighborhoods, Little Bohemia. Collaborating with neighborhood residents, the neighborhood association, and neighborhood business owners, Amplify worked to identify potential sites, lead neighborhood walking tours, issue an open call, and assemble a jury of community stakeholders to review submissions and make final selections.
The installed works activate public spaces by inviting pedestrian foot traffic and offering residents and neighborhood visitors moments to slow down, reflect, and consider our city’s rich history.
Ceramic Birdhouses: Iggy Sumnik; Murals: Hugo Zamorano and Nolan Tredway
Hugo Zamorano was born in Los Angeles, California. He began his path as an artist when his kindergarten teacher read A Very Hungry Caterpillar to the whole class. That is when he decided to be an artist. California is where he raised his first Pit Bull dog and where he discovered Graffiti Writing and Hip Hop. He now resides in South Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska is where he began to grow as an artist, where he received his BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where some friends became family, where he began boxing, raised his current Pit Bull, and met his fiancée.
Nolan Tredway was was raised in the Great North by a mountain and a burning forest. He learned the art of storytelling from his time among the Volkos, before studying art at the University of Nebraska and Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain. He is currently the co-director of Tugboat Gallery (Lincoln, NE) and founder of the performance art collective, kindred.
Iggy Sumnik received his BFA with a dual concentration in ceramics and scupture from Detroit's Wayne State University in 2004. He was a sculpture instructor with Detroit's historic Pewabic Pottery, Camp Tamakwa in Algonquin Povincial Park, and Youthville Detroit, the largest and most comprehensive youth development center in the midwest. In 2008, Iggy completed a three-year apprenticeship at Jun Kaneko Studio in Omaha.