“Just think about how powerful that is. Those kids ran all the way from Standing Rock to Omaha, from Omaha to Washington DC, to take tens of thousands of signatures to the Army Corps of Engineers, the BIA, the Department of the Interior. That alone acknowledges our survival, acknowledges our cultural teachings.”
Read More“There was this really incredible unexpected difference between my experiences in the National Parks and in this trashed ravine next door. I wanted to understand why Elmwood Park meant so much more for me, was so much more transformative for my thinking on conservation and my artistic practice and my hope for the future generally.”
Read More“Pipelines are nothing new to Indian Country. They're nothing new to our communities. What we're acknowledging now, I think on a more collective level, is an understanding of the impact that these pipelines have not just on the ecological base of our lands, but on the health of our people.”
Read More“Do you know when is the best time to plant a tree? 20 years ago. Do you know the second-best time to plant a tree? Right now. Do you know the best time to organize your neighbors for mutual aid efforts? Also 20 years ago! Do you know the second-best time? Also right now!”
Read MoreOn Tuesday, April 7th, we sat down with Merica Whitehall, Carol RedWing, and Rachel Adams for a virtual discussion about moving the institutional goalpost toward carbon neutrality in Omaha.
Read MoreWe sat down recently with Paige Reitz, Deputy Director at the Union for Contemporary Art and Joey Lynch, the Union’s Director of Facilities and Sustainability to talk about the organization’s move to zero waste, the intersections of social justice and ecological justice, and collectively moving the goalpost toward carbon neutrality.
Read More“We stood side by side as a student gave a speech from the steps of St. John’s church, calling for bold climate action and reminding administration of the university’s professed values. The following day, we named ourselves the Creighton Climate Movement, and immediately began strategizing for the following semester.”
Read MoreOn Friday, January 24th, we sat down with panelists Corson Androski, Karin Campbell, and Taylor Keen to talk about how a changing climate invigorates creative practitioners’ reevaluation of social responsibility, sustainability, and limits to growth.
Read More“As much as my work is grounded in a commitment to sustainability and to raising environmental awareness, it is also rooted in radical hospitality and good old-fashioned kindness.”
Read MoreOn Friday, December 6th, we sat down with panelists Alexandra Cardon, Denise Chapman and Tyler Swian to talk about the value of cultural labor, why it's remunerated differently than other forms of labor, and strategies for collective organizing and cooperation that make employment conditions for culture workers less precarious in Omaha.
Read MoreWe sat down recently with Erin Foley, Finance Manager at Film Streams, to unpack issues around the relationship between art and labor, wage disparity and transparency, collective organizing, and working toward more financial stability in cultural fields.
Read More“Every detail of our contract represents a tooth-and-nail fight with management—but also our commitment to moving the museum toward real justice.”
Read MoreWe sat down with three panelists to discuss the complex and often contested relationship between art and culture and urban development.
Read MoreCan your dwelling be a useful tool to support involvement and engagement in the act of making? Of course, live-work art studios exist in Omaha. But it would be interesting if more models existed that developed ideas further on a larger scale.
Read MoreMedia Corp is a small, mixed use creative space in Omaha’s Gifford Park neighborhood that has been making space and holding space for community centered programming since 2018. We sat down recently with Amanda Huckins and Jesse Fischer, co-founders of Media Corp, to talk about neighborhoods in transition, urban development, and the oftentimes contested roles artists play in the gentrification process.
Read MoreLast week, we sat down and talked with Film Streams’ Executive Director, Rachel Jacobson; Sarah Moylan, Senior Director of Talent and Workforce at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce; and artist and educator Angie Seykora, to unpack some of the issues surrounding the ways in which individual artists, cultural organizations, and creative industries contribute to Omaha’s economic growth.
Read MoreWe sat down with 2019 Artist Support Grant recipients Sarah Hummel Jones and Corson Androski to find out more about the content that drives their work, their respective creative practices, and how they situate those practices within the greater economy.
Read MoreThe oversaturation of universities with aspiring professors in the humanities and arts points to a problem that exists outside of it—namely, a need for other kinds of communities to exist where artists and intellectuals can draw inspiration from one another and offer support to younger minds that are hungry for role models, for constructive criticism, and for a sense of kinship.
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