As we come off the heels of a holiday that celebrates love, friendship, and connections, we are turning our focus to building relationships with other artists and art lovers for our first membership event of 2020.
Based loosely on the concept of “speed dating”, Open Book puts Amplify Members in close conversation with six metro artists. Corson Androski, Nick Beaulieu, Anne Dovali, Sarah Hummel Jones, Holly Kranker, and Shawnequa Linder will open up conversations with attendees about their practices, backgrounds, current projects/exhibitions, and how they juggle it all. Each of these emerging artists brings a tremendous amount of creative, innovative energy to our community. If you don’t know them already, or even if you do, this is an opportunity to start real conversations, find out what drives their work, and learn more about what it takes to sustain a creative practice in the Omaha metro.
Appetizers provided, and each member will receive 1 drink ticket. There is no cost to members to attend, but we kindly ask for your RSVP so we can plan accordingly for food and drink.
**Membership with Amplify Arts is required to attend this event. Members should register through the Eventbrite link and password you received by email. Memberships are priced annually at $60/Working Artist or YP, $75/Individual, and $150/Household, and available to purchase online at this link: www.amplifyarts.org/membership
Please contact us at info@amplifyarts.org with any questions about Membership and/or this event!
About the Artists:
Corson Androski: Corson Androski is a researcher, conservationist, software developer, and photographer/filmmaker from Hutchinson, Kansas. Their work uses the concept of care (as labor, affect, and ethic, given/received by humans and other-than-humans, individuals, and systems) to consider emergent communities of illness alongside informal conservation of the small, overlooked ecosystems of weeds and fungi that spring up in the seams of our patchwork flyover state. Corson was awarded one of Amplify’s Artist Support Grant recipients in 2019 and is an Alternate Currents Working Group Member in 2020.
Nick Beaulieu: Nick Beaulieu is a filmmaker, freelance journalist and creative professional from Omaha, NE. Nick's current project is a documentary film examining the state of race relations in Omaha through the lenses of activism, white privilege and family. Prior to the production of this film, Nick was a Contributing Writer on The Last Tear documentary, produced by the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and directed by Christopher H.K. Lee. Nick is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and has held roles at Film Streams, The Omaha World-Herald and Sojern. He has produced freelance content for organizations including The Union for Contemporary Art. His passions include film, analog photography and golf.
Anne Dovali: Anne Dovali’s work examines the interdependencies of fable, myth, oral tradition, and western religious cosmology. Borrowing from sacred iconography, fairy tales, and highly stylized Baroque painting, Dovali's work appropriates traditional depictions of religious rituals and customs to reveal the porous exchange between power, belief, and fantasy. Most recently, geographical landforms and natural phenomena experienced by Dovali during hikes, camping trips, and visits to U.S. National Parks inform concept and construction in her new work. Dovali received a BFA in painting from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In 2016 she was published nationally in New American Paintings. She has exhibited at Project Project, Maple St. Construct, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and other Omaha galleries. She has an upcoming residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City and a forthcoming show at Amplify Art’s Generator Space. She currently lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.
Sarah Hummel Jones: Sarah Hummel Jones is one of Amplify’s 2019 Artist Support Grant Recipients. Originally from Indiana, she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. After graduation Jones moved to Chicago, IL where she attended The School of the Art Institute Chicago for a year and received a Post Baccalaureate in Ceramics. Jones received a Masters of Fine Art in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2014 and shortly after graduation, moved to Brooklyn, NY and worked as a ceramic technician & assistant. Sarah Hummel Jones has been living in Omaha for past 4 years and works at the Union for Contemporary Art as the Co-Op Studio Manager.
Holly Kranker: Holly Kranker’s collaborative project CAR>GO was awarded Amplify’s 2019 Public Impact Grant. Her multi-disciplinary practice uses a variety of mediums to examine our sense of place, personal memory, and efforts to suspend moments in time. Born and raised in Kansas, Kranker graduated Summa Cum Laude earning a BFA with an emphasis in Commercial Art and Interior Design from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. She currently lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska, and joined the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2013 as the Residency Program Manager where she is responsible for all activities related to the organization’s international Artist-in-Residence program. Prior to joining Bemis Center, she was the studio manager and lead assistant to renowned glass sculptor, Therman Statom. Kranker has most recently exhibited at the Joslyn Art Museum and has received awards from the Birger Sandzèn Memorial Gallery in contemporary metal craft, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts in photography, and has work included in the National Park Foundation-Lewis and Clark Historic Trail permanent collection. She was an artist-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE in 2018, and recent sculpture program artist mentor at Kent Bellows Mentoring Program.
Shawnequa Linder: Shawnequa Linder is an Omaha-based mixed media artist. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Arts from Bellevue University in (2006). Since then her work has been exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions including Omaha’s RNG Gallery, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Hop Shops Art Center, MONA and Gallery 1516. Her work explores the varying relationships between chaos and disorder, whether it’s applied in a nontraditional landscape or portrait using a combination of texture and colors.