Current Artist Residencies

Thanks to the Nebraska Arts Council's Artist in Schools/Community Project Funding, the Lincoln Arts Council will conduct the "Learning Through the Arts" Artist in Residency program in the Lincoln Public Schools in the winter of 2012.

Learning Through the Arts: Artists in Residence at Lincoln Public Schools Spring 2011

Katie Frisch at Riley Elementary School:

The Lincoln Arts Council, with funding from the Nebraska Arts Council’s Artists in Schools and Communities residency program, hosted local fiber artist Katie Frisch to do a twenty hour artist residency program at Riley Elementary in April 2011. Katie was granted to work with Mrs. Jessica Northup’s five classes of 3rd and 4th graders at Riley Elementary to create a nuno felted forest.  Each class met with Katie during their regular art class three times over the course of three weeks.  The five "trees" that make up the forest are made of silk panels which are felted with Alpaca wool.  All five classes got to design and felt their own tree conceptualizing on ideas about spring, growth, and nature.  This installation will be permanently housed in the media center at Riley Elementary School.

Born and raised in Lincoln, Katie Frisch is a fiber artist and bookmaker.  Katie holds a Bachelors Degree in Women’s Studies and Religious studies and a Master of Arts in Textiles, Clothing & Design.  She is the owner of the online store Feeding the Lake, a website she started in June 2010, where she sells her handmade books.  She is currently an Artist in Residence at the LUX Center for the Arts and is listed on the Nebraska Arts Council’s roster of teaching artists.

Katie’s interests lie in teaching the community about using collaborative techniques and subject matter to encourage artistic confidence.  Her areas of expertise include fiber art, wet felting, nuno felting, papermaking, bookmaking, silk screening on fabric or paper, and guided journaling.

Sarah Brown at Huntington Elementary School:

Sarah Brown, a Lincoln native, is co-owner and co-director of the Conservatory of Contemporary Dance in Lincoln. Sarah is a former professional ballet dancer with Omaha Theater Ballet, has served on the faculty of the UNL Dance Department, and is in her second year in the Nebraska Teaching Artist Initiative program that connects artists from metropolitan areas to student populations in rural school districts. Sarah was in residence at Huntington Elementary School in April and May 2011. She provided 5th grade students an introduction to the art of dance as a method of expression and communication used to impart the ideas and emotions of individuals, groups and world cultures. Sarah lead the students in a vareity of lessons in creative movement that incorporated writing, visual arts and multimedia.

2010 Artist Residencies

Margaret Berry at Lincoln Public Schools' Arts & Humanities Focus Program:

Former LAC Executive Director Margaret Berry has taught many workshops and residencies throughout Nebraska. She exhibits locally at Haydon Art Gallery. Her current passion, the art of encaustic, is a method of painting that uses molten beeswax mixed with pigment instead of paint. Berry employs various techniques and materials, guiding students to design unique encaustics by pouring wax over a variety of objects then using oil paint to add color and further texture. Berry has been invited to display her encaustics internationally. Students at the LPS Arts & Humanities High School created works that were placed on exhibit at the school.

Ann Gradwohl at Norwood Park Elementary School:

Ann Gradwohl is a Lincoln artist whose art installations have been exhibited at Sheldon Art Museum and Lied Center for Performing Arts. She specializes in new media and digital filmmaking, and is involved in many projects and community installations that deal with social and political issues. As the resident artist at Norwood Park Elementary School from February to April, 2010, she taught students a variety of filmmaking techniques. Each grade worked on a special short film, kept secret until the community film festival on May 13, 2010.