2026 Generator Series Project Recipients
Amplify’s Generator Series supports artist-led projects that foreground collaboration and participation to cultivate a deeper sense of belonging and shared understanding of place. They engage civic histories, local ecologies, and cultural traditions as living materials to create work that invites reflection, exchange, and collective meaning-making.
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Selected Artists - 2026 Generator Series Projects
Jewel Rodgers is the 2025–2029 Nebraska State Poet and a 2025 Academy of American Poets Fellowship recipient. A three-time Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award nominee for Best Performance Poet and a three-time TEDx speaker, she has toured nationally for more than a decade, performing in schools, festivals, conferences, and public spaces. Her work has appeared in projects such as 100 Years | 100 Women (Park Avenue Armory, New York) and she was a finalist in the 2024 Blackberry Peach Poetry Slam. An interdisciplinary performer and spatial practitioner, Rodgers merges poetry, storytelling, and placemaking to inspire communities across Nebraska and beyond.
Jewel’s project, All About Love, is a three-part spoken word and jazz fusion EP that explores love as an active practice of self-awareness and repair. Rooted in North Omaha’s history of cultural innovation, questions around what it means to love within bodies conditioned by social and civic histories of violence and survival are central to the project. A live performance and listening session in summer of 2026 will mark the release of the EP and invite deeper reflection about love’s potential for self-inquiry and repair.
Mihusah is an Umóⁿhoⁿ (Omaha) wau (woman) of the Iⁿkesabe (Black Shoulder Buffalo) clan and a Prairiescape designer. Her work honors our land of two centuries past, when fire and buffalo hooves cultivated the vast plains, and when the woman of the lodge tended gardens filled with corn of every color. Her concepts begin and end with the intent to restore balance in the relationship between land and people by creating spaces of engagement. Prariescapes are living artworks where elder plant relatives are respected teachers, the land and all its lifeforms are the classroom, and humans are helpful and hopeful students.
The Medicine Maker eARTh School, Mi’oux’s project, is a living learning space located on the grounds of the Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte House of Healing in Walthill, Nebraska, on the Umónhon Reservation. This site, built in 1906 by Dr. Susan, the first Native American doctor and a woman of the Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation, remains a sacred landmark of healing and community care. At its center will be a large-scale, permanent sculptural garden where plants she once gathered and prescribed will grow, blending traditional Indigenous plant medicine with the story of her Western medical practice.