No matter where you’re planted, odds are you have (or can work to create) the channels you need to strengthen and spread your creative roots.
As creatives, we have a choice – challenge our talents in fresh ways or run the risk of artistic withering. Omaha is fertile ground for this kind of bound-pushing; home to a diverse and supportive arts community. To celebrate our February theme of Divergent, we brought three of our creative leaders together to share their unique perspectives on creativity and how they are moving in different directions to develop it. For anyone looking to strengthen and spread their artistic roots, call it creative fertilizer – without the BS.
About the speaker
Tim Barry, Co-founder and managing partner, Hot Shops Art Center
Professional potter Tim Barry was among a group of creative risk-takers who, in 1999, found a building and formed the highly-collaborative, supportive community of artists that is now the Hot Shops Art Center. This living art museum with over 70 working artists provides educational opportunities and the space to explore creativity through a variety of artistic and creative processes.
Marcey Yates, Founder, Culxr House
Marcey Yates founded Culxr House, a creative art / community hub where artist and entrepreneurs can grow and enrich their own artistic talents, connect with resources and create opportunities. The Culxr House community consists of visual artists, performers, sound engineers, producers, vendors, photographers, designers and videographers.
Stephan Grot, Executive Director, KANEKO
With a background in fine art, graphic design, and technology development, Stephan Grot has worked closely with the Kaneko family for most of his career to organize, manage, and promote Jun Kaneko’s body of work. Grot has been a part of KANEKO’s many unique experiences and creative performances, which were the foundational events for its programming and fundraising practices.
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It took a pandemic and protests for a lot of people to wake up to the fact that we need places of culture in our community in order to make our lives interesting and generate the access to inspiration that we need in order to feel alive. - Stephan
We’ve only been around for a couple of years. The impact we have been able to make has been really great. I didn’t see that coming. When you do something authentic and you just try and do the right thing and you align just right, then the universe of things just happen. - Marcey
The arts celebrate the individual and now more than ever, everybody is looking for their voice and ways to express their voice. - Tim
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Hot Shops Art Center
Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation
