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POSTPONED: TEDxOmaha Salon
Category: Education • Free • Lectures | Season: Influence
POSTPONED
Beginning Saturday, March 14th KANEKO will be closed as a preemptive measure to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community. All events, public and private, will be postponed and rescheduled at some point yet to be determined. We will do our best to update you regularly and to be as transparent as possible as we move forward.
Explore Inspiration.
What inspires you, who do you inspire, what are you inspired to do…time to explore the first theme of TEDxOmaha in 2010 – Inspiration. This year during the TEDxOMAHA Salons we are taking the time to reflect back over the past decade of TEDxOmaha, revisiting the themes at our annual events. This gives us a huge opportunity to see where the speakers and the ideas worth spreading have gone in that time, and also what new has emerged within the community, and the world.
Our first theme is INSPIRATION…. time to explore what this means and can mean. What does Inspiration mean to you, to your community. How or what inspires you, who do you inspire? Join us, inspire us, be inspired, be inspirational. Inspiration TEDxOmaha Speakers from 2010- Annette Nathan, Gary Wasdin, Jack Phillips Jeff Koterba, Jonathan Benjamin Alvarado, Julian Adair, Lamarr Womble, Matt Mason, Nancy Kirk, Rebecca Lowry, Rebecca Lowry, Rita Paskowitz, Robert Byrnes, Shane Lopez, Tom Trenelone, Yasmeen Bora.
Why will you love TEDxOmaha Salons?
Lively discussion that we all participate in. Smaller gathering so we all have a voice and get to know each other. By focusing on a single topic we get to take a deeper dive into subjects and get to a more granular level. We can keep that conversation and community going because we are meeting every month, and we are meeting in a really creative space.
The Salons are hosted in Kaneko’s SPACE 4, the room with Jun Kaneko’s work. Since the gallery is closed to the public on Mondays, Kaneko would like everyone attending the TEDxOmaha Salons to enter from the WEST side of KANEKO through the Library entrance on 12th and Jones. This will put you right into the space as the room is accessible through the library.
About TEDxOmaha
TEDxOmaha is an independently organized TEDx event. As a part of the global TED community, we connect locally to explore the ideas and situations that affect our cultures, environments, and minds. Most people are introduced to this remarkable collection of human experiences through recorded TED Talks. Through technology, we can hear stories of discovery, heartache, joy, introspection, and imagination from some of the world’s most amazing people. By creating events in Omaha, we produce an experience based on TED’s principles.
Who attends TEDxOmaha? Five hundred of our community’s most curious, forward-thinking people. Activists, artists, philanthropists, modern-day philosophers, policymakers, stay-at-home parents, and more. You, too, can gather with amazing people from our region who share their insights and accomplishments. It helps us witness what is happening – and what is possible – so we can be inspired to take bigger steps together. TEDxOmaha is held annually in October and offers monthly TEDxOmahaSalon events at The KANEKO.
For questions and more information, please visit TEDxOmaha on Facebook!
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POSTPONED: The ABCs of Disability with Gaelynn Lea
Category: Exhibitions • Performances | Season: Influence
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What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words MAR 2020
Category: Education • Free • Passages • What's Your Story • Workshop | Season: Influence
Discovering new meanings of health.
Stories and storytelling create the capability for communities and individuals to adapt, adjust and manage when faced with physical, mental or societal challenges and changes.
KANEKO presents it’s newest Partner Program, What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words, where you are invited to create and explore innovative meanings of health and sickness.
What’s Your Story: The Healing Power of Words offers a safe space to discover and write about new meanings of health and dis-ease as it applies to you and the community around you.
This workshop meets on the first Saturday of every month to write our experiences into existence. This program is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.
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POSTPONED: Artist Talk John Balistreri
Category: Artist Talk • Education • Lectures • Members | Season: Influence
Circles of Influence
POSTPONED: We have made the decision to postpone our Artist Talk with John Balistreri. We want to be sure we are keeping our patrons and artists safe and felt uneasy asking John to travel to Omaha for the event. We hope to reschedule soon and will be in touch when we do. Our team at the KANEKO will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation and will be communicating on social media and our website about upcoming events and our gallery hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding, we hope to see you at the KANEKO soon!
Enjoy an evening of enlightenment and behind-the-scenes information on John Balistreri’s career, including several bodies of work Balistreri has generated spanning thirty years, the comparison and contrast of the educational philosophies of his mentors with current trends in art education, and how the Jun Kaneko Studio and the city of Omaha have served as an important crossroads in his own development as an artist.
Balistreri is best known for his large-scale ceramic sculpture as well as his innovations using digital technology to create ceramic objects using ceramic 3D printing techniques and has been awarded several patents related to this technology.
KANEKO’s NEW quarterly artist-talk series features creators both locally and nationally who are tied to KANEKO’s programming, exhibitions, educational workshops, or mission. Please join the KANEKO staff in welcoming featured artist John Balestrieri as our next artist-talk lecturer.
Special Guest:
Karen Linder is founder and CEO of Tethon3D, a privately held company based in Omaha, Nebraska that develops materials for ceramic 3D printing and provides modeling, scanning and printing services. Notable projects include producing ceramic materials for artificial reef ecosystems, unique construction materials, and a ceramic resin composite for use in stereolithography 3D printing.
“Jim and I filed the corporate formation documents for Tethon Corporation in December of 2011 within a couple of weeks of meeting John Balistreri, the Omaha studio manager for ceramic artist Jun Kaneko. John gave a lecture at the KANEKO on his academic research in ceramic 3d printing that he worked on with Greg Pugh at Bowling Green State University. We were blown away by the technology!” – Karen Linder, Silicon Prairie News Interview READ ARTICLE
About John Balistreri:
John Balistreri is a Professor of Art at Bowling Green State University, where he has been the head of the Ceramic program since 1996. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1986, his MFA from Kent State University in 1988, and received the Emerging Talent Award at the 1995 National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference. Balistreri also served on the Board of Directors of the Archie Bray Foundation. His articles have been published in Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, and American Craft and his work has appeared in many books and ceramic art.
He has conducted over fifty workshops and lectures throughout the United States and China, has had many solo exhibitions of large-scale ceramic work, and has participated in many national and international group exhibitions. Balistreri’s work is also included in numerous corporate, private and museum collections, including the Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN), The American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), The Canton Museum of Art (Canton, OH), The Daum Museum (Sedalia, MO), The American Ceramic Society (Columbus, OH), The Shiwan Treasure Pottery Museum (China), and the Foshan Ancient Kiln Museum (China).
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POSTPONED: MOVEMENT Series: ÆFFECT
Category: KANEKO Core Programs • Members • MOVEMENT • Performances | Season: Influence
POSTPONED
Beginning Saturday, March 14th KANEKO will be closed as a preemptive measure to limit the spread of COVID-19 in our community. All events, public and private, will be postponed and rescheduled at some point yet to be determined. We will do our best to update you regularly and to be as transparent as possible as we move forward.
Nothing is created in isolation.
As part of The Movement Series, tbd. dance collective presents ÆFFECT. This evening length production began in the studio while recording sounds generated through movement. These sounds became the base and inspiration for the original score, structure, and content of the performance. Choreography was re-imagined to the audio samples, and music was generated in response to visual samples and ideas of movement. The result is a production that is a reflection of itself, representing the cyclical nature of collaboration and influence. Nothing is created in isolation.
ÆFFECT features original music by Dereck Higgins and Graham Ulicny.
Friday, March 20
7:30 pm Performance
Saturday, March 21
7:30 pm Performance
About the MOVEMENT Series:
Presented by KANEKO and tbd. dance collective, MOVEMENT is a series of performances and workshops exploring the creative process + presentation of dance. Influenced by both exhibition and space, productions within the series feature site-specific choreography, multidisciplinary collaborations, and encourage dialogue the relationship between movement and visual art. Through interactive workshops, audience members are invited into the process of developing movement-based productions and choreography.
About tbd. dance collective:
tbd. is a non-profit, modern + contemporary dance collective with a creative process + vision built around exploration and collaboration. Operating under the belief that movement can be a platform for communication and connection, it is our mission to provide unique dance experiences through performance and education that encourage dialogue and expand perceptions of movement as an art form.
We work with artists and organizations throughout the community to produce movement based productions that feature site specific choreography and multidisciplinary collaboration. Our work is highly imaginative, diverse in content and structure, and seeks to discover the possibilities for performance within unconventional spaces.
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GENERATOR Series: The State You’re In
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Nebraska-Based Creators
The KANEKO Generator Series returns with its first event of 2020, “The State You’re In,” which will explore the music and art of Nebraska-based creators. This will be a program that asks questions: What is unique about living in Nebraska? How can we characterize our state beyond the catchy slogans and branding campaigns? What does Nebraska sound like? Is there a specific acoustic character to our state? Where are we shaped as listeners and creators by the sonic qualities of the Great Plains?
The State You’re In features a world premiere by composer Stacey Barelos which weaves narrative reflections from the community with string quartet, as well as music composed by composers Mathew Fuerst, Dana Murray, and Anothony Donofrio, poetry by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, and a special art installation by Susan Knight.
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Unapologetic Me: Film Screening & Pop-Up Exhibition
Category: Free • Performances | Season: Influence
A Celebration of Black Queer Art
Join KANEKO and Andrew Aleman Consulting for unapologetic me: A Celebration of Black Queer Art. We invite the Omaha community to join us for an evening filled with visual art from several Omaha-based black queer and trans artists. The evening will end with a showing of unapologetic me: Black | Gay | Man. This screendance by Justin Dominic and producers Justin Dominic, Micaiah Carter, and Daniel P. Calderon, tells a story through movement and visual imagery, about the intersectionality of being a black gay man. Justin Dominic and Daniel P. Calderon will be joining us from New Jersey for a filmmakers discussion following the showing.
Tickets: This program FREE, but registration is required and space is limited. A suggested donation of $10 cash donation is requested at the door – all money raised goes to our featured visual artists.
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Soundry Workshop: Sounds Inspired
Category: Generator Series • Performances • Workshop | Season: Influence
Spark your creativity with words of local authors!
Collaborating with members of KANEKO writing groups, Soundry participants will create original music to be performed at a 2020 Omaha Under the Radar event!
Soundry is a musical workshop part of the GENERATOR Series. With classes geared towards adult learners, Soundry investigates the art of sound installation, instrument building, and 21st century composition techniques. No music experience is required! Soundry is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos, and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country!
About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization.
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Architecture with HDR
Category: Education • Members | Season: Influence
Build & Explore with HDR Architects
Join the HDR team for a five-day design camp that will introduce the interesting interplay between the concept of a circular economy and the practice of architecture. In this camp, students will explore how ideation, design techniques, modeling, drawing– and, above all, collaboration between fearless designers–can be applied to regenerate and reimagine form and structure, creating “new” architecture through the actual construction of a full-scale design-build project that will be displayed in the KANEKO galleries. Children Entering Grades 7-9.
Sponsorship Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer sponsorship assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our sponsorship program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what sponsorship you’ve received.
Half of all students who attend our summer camps are sponsored by the KANEKO due to the generous giving of our members, donors and grant giving organizations. Sponsored students are selected based on financial need and they attend our week long camps for free. If you become a KANEKO Friend Member, your membership will automatically sponsor a child for summer camp. Enrolling your child in summer camp will also help support the financial sponsorship of fellow campers.
Apply for a Friend Memberships and sponsor a summer camper today: Apply Now
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Video Game Design
Category: Education • KANEKO Core Programs • Members | Season: Influence
Explore the creative process of video games.
A returning champion from summers past, Video Game Design camp welcomes a new instructor that offers an exciting new creative process! In this camp, students will jump into the video game development pipeline and practice 2D game design principles alongside the RHO Interactive game design team. Using the Unity game engine and open-source software, campers will create new character skins, animations, backgrounds, and complete playable levels using RHO’s multiplayer battle-game “Megaton Punchers”. This camp offering requires no coding, as we will focus on the creation of digital assets and the use of in-engine tools for making fully interactive experiences focused on core game design principles and narrative development practices. Children Entering Grades 7-9
Sponsorship Available: We believe that every child should have the opportunity to explore their creativity! We are so happy that you would like to enroll your child in the Creative Summer Camps at KANEKO; embracing creativity at this age is vital for young learners and leaders. We know that for many families the cost of Summer Camp can be a financial burden that they might not be able to afford, which is why we are happy to offer sponsorship assistance to our students. If you wish to register your child through our sponsorship program, please click the button below. Once we receive your registration, we will reach out to you within a month to let you know what sponsorship you’ve received.
Half of all students who attend our summer camps are sponsored by the KANEKO due to the generous giving of our members, donors and grant giving organizations. Sponsored students are selected based on financial need and they attend our week long camps for free. If you become a KANEKO Friend Member, your membership will automatically sponsor a child for summer camp. Enrolling your child in summer camp will also help support the financial sponsorship of fellow campers.
Apply for a Friend Memberships and sponsor a summer camper today: Apply Now