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Save the Date for the 2014 Mayor's Arts Awards
 Mark your social calendar today for May 28th 2014! Come celebrate Lincoln's finest artists and most generous patrons recognized at the 36th annual Mayor's Arts Awards on stage at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts.
This year's recipients are talented and revered. But we are not letting our secret out yet... Watch for the winner's announcement coming soon!
This year's theme is GET SM'ART. Count on a fun-filled night to remember with our very own take on Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. Talented filmmaker and award winning Alexander Jeffries will film a Lincoln GET SM'ART episode to commemorate this year's recipients. So charge up your shoe phones and join us!
Of course, it's no secret that the Lincoln Arts Council has generous community support for this meaningful event and we are proud to recognize and thank our sponsors.
Award Sponsors
- Speedway Properties (Artistic Achievement - Visual Arts plus Scholarship Tickets)
- Lincoln Industries (Artistic Achievement - Youth)
- Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital (Artistic Achievement - Performing Arts)
- A to Z Printing (ArtScene Backstage Award)
- Lincoln Community Foundation (LCF Art for Kids)
- Joe & Judye Ruffo (Outstanding Event)
- RunzaŽ Restaurants (Halcyon Allsman Benefactor of the Arts)
- Talent Plus (Heart of the Arts)
- Legacy Estates (Legacy of Art)
- Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather (Mayor's Choice Award)
- Enersen Partners (Enersen Urban Design)
- Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation (Kimmel Foundation Awards)
- The Gladys Lux Education Award Endowment
- The Richard Hay Arts Organization Award Endowment
Additional Funding
- Video Sponsors: Liberty First Credit Union ∙ St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center ∙ Mr. Steve Wake
- Event Supporters: Black Hills Energy ∙ Jerry and Annette Hall ∙ Farmer's Mutual Insurance Company of Nebraska ∙ Mrs. Ann Rawley ∙ Mr. Wayne Boles ∙ Cornhusker Bank
- Banner Sponsor: Union Agency
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 It's so much more than purchasing local art - it's a grass-roots, art movement!
And you can be part of it.
Lincoln is so fortunate to have this platform to connect artists with those interested in supporting their careers. The goal, borrowed from the world of small farms, is a deeper-than-commerce connection between people who make things and people who buy them. Whether you are new to contemporary art and just want to get your feet wet or you have a passion for supporting the creative community where you live - CSArt is an opportunity just waiting for you.
CSArt Shares 2014 are available for $400. For this investment, each shareholder will receive 10 original pieces of art. At $40 per piece, you receive an original work that is perfect for collecting or gifting. In addition to the art, you are provided with opportunities to socialize with the artists and fellow art collectors at three art distribution events. There is no more personal or accessible way to be involved in local art commerce.
Shares are available to purchase from the Lincoln Arts Council office, Monday through Friday between 9 am and 4 pm. Drop by with your check or phone for a credit card purchase. 402-434-2787.
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 The month of February was an exciting one for 1st and 3rd graders at Elliott Elementary School. With funding from the Nebraska Arts Council, AmeriCorps members at the Lincoln Arts Council were able to bring Jordan Buschur, local artist and teacher, to Elliott to teach bookmaking.
During the 3-week residency, more than 100 students learned the technique of folding an accordion-style book, wrote and illustrated their own story about an animal, and created hard covers for their book with mat board and decorative paper. Third graders also learned how to make a book with a spine. The students at Elliott were thrilled to meet a "real live artist" and had fun inventing fantasy stories to tell and illustrate, including a cat and a pig that move to the moon, a cheetah who fights a dragon, and a snake who has an adventure. For many of the students, this was their first chance to explore the process of story development, and they practiced a new vocabulary word: "pagination." During the final session, several students mentioned wanting to teach their siblings the bookmaking process that they learned with Jordan - one first grader proclaimed "I know how to do something my big brother doesn't!"
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Spring Fundraiser: Education Outreach
". . . strong causal relationships do in fact exist between arts education and a range of desirable outcomes."
The title of a recent New York Times article says it all: Art Makes You Smart. We couldn't agree more! And to that end, your Lincoln Arts Council (LAC) facilitates experiences for both students in the classroom and the young adults tasked with designing and funding specific projects.
For example, AmeriCorps members working through the LAC office procured underwriting for Artists in Schools and Communities through the Nebraska Arts Council which places teaching artists in Lincoln Public Schools (LPS) classrooms. Jordan Buschur worked with First and Fourth grade students at Elliot Elementary to develop a story and to create the book that would allow them to capture and share that story with others. Janine Copple will work with Fourth and Fifth graders at Everett Elementary involving students in the multi-step process of print-making; providing a fresh approach to literacy and story-telling through art. Janine, who is a bilingual Spanish-speaker is an especially good fit for Everett as the student population is 49% Hispanic or Latino. By this thoughtful process of finding the best fit for artist and student, we can create the best learning environment for creative experiences that would otherwise be unattainable.
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Lincoln Arts Festival Call For Artists!
The Lincoln Arts Council is now accepting applications for participation in the 14th annual Lincoln Arts Festival to be held Saturday, September 27, 2014 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, and Sunday, September 28, 2014 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at SouthPointe Pavilions (2910 Pine Lake Road). This premier art event in Lincoln brings over one hundred artists from all over the country for a fun weekend of art sales and demonstrations. Great weather brought nearly ten thousand art lovers last year. We expect to grow this year with more great artists, memorable food and fabulous live music wrapped in a festival atmosphere that everyone enjoys.
If selling your art in an outdoor, festival setting seems like a good idea, go to https://www.zapplication.org/event-info.php?ID=3305 to find out about our festival, and many other festivals all over the country. You will submit your application online on Zapplication. Photos and a $25 jury fee are required, with easy instructions right on Zapplication. Join us for a great weekend at a festival that many of our artists say is their favorite.
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CSArt Update
The artists for Community Support Art (CSArt) 2014 have been commissioned and shareholders are in for a season of locally-produced, locally-sourced creations largely inspired by the environment in which we live! Mayor Chris Beutler joined Lincoln Arts Council staff and board to officially announce this year's participants on February 13. We will feature three artists each month in this space so that you can get acquainted. All of the artists and samples of their work can be viewed any time at www.artscene.org/community-supported-art.
 Heather Hanft -- A mixed media artist creating tactile porcelain objects inspired by naturally "found objects." Says Heather: I like to pick out those points in life were a person pockets a common yet pleasing object as a memento of an experience. Finding a part of that experience that can be taken with you, something that will continue to encapsulate the feeling of the event after all is said and done. In the same way, I appreciate how the mind floods with memories when we uncover objects from our past. A mere object can have power and that object, beyond the material it is constructed from holds associations and significance... CSArt offers just the kind of viewer experience that I have wanted to create and deliver these intimate sculptures.
 Twyla and Thomas Hansen -- A collaboration of husband and wife featuring a photograph from Tom and a prairie poem from our State Poet - Twyla. In addition to poetry, Twyla has had a life-long interest in the land having degrees in Horticulture and Agroecology. Just as pastoral poets from ages past, Twyla finds endless inspiration in capturing our connections with the environment through creative writing. She and Tom have often talked to creating a piece together and we are delighted that CSArt provided them the opportunity.
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 Carol Hartman DeVall -- An established artist in a variety of media, Carol is creating a linoleum block print which will be hand-colored with watercolors. Says Carol: I have a BFA from University of Nebraska Lincoln. For around twenty years did almost nothing but paper mache and 3-D mixed media with it. Then I switched to hand colored linoleum block printing. Then started playing with clay. Now I alternate between them and often combine them in new ways... I love color and whimsy with subtle dark and/or silly twists. I hope to create art till I'm a hundred years old.
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March First Friday
Before you head out for First Friday on March 7th, be sure to check out our interactive First Friday Guide.
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And Now, Your Moment of Artistic Zen.
 What inspiring acts are you up to? Send your videos to info@artscene.org, and you could be in our next newsletter!
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