I recently had the great opportunity to stop by the Omaha Home for Boys as a guest artist and work with Pam Hinson’s student group. We tried out our hand at some geometric paintings using some isometric graph paper, carbon transfer techniques and our imaginations. One student decided…
Next Friday (the 21st) a small group of KBMP students will participate in the collaborative art project known as Barter Town. Created by Bemis resident Heather Hart and put on in collaboration with the Union for Contemporary Art, Barter Town is, “a series of exchanges where participants bring…
Shaun Murphy is a Saturday regular at the studio. He usually keeps to himself and hangs out in the back computer room with a few other students. When I decided to interview Shaun, the only information I knew about him was his name and that he was pretty quiet…
Kent’s favorite holiday was Halloween and we are happy to keep his tradition alive. Thom dawned his Dobby the House Elf costume during studio, featuring custom made 3D printed ears (designed by mentee Tyler) and a superb hand crafted nose. I went for the classic skull face painted with…
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to spend the afternoon with KBMP staff and students passing out applications and making art at the National Coming Out Day celebration. Not only was it a great way to spend an afternoon, but to me KBMP’s attendance at the event represented the…
The mystique of aerosol is contagious, and many youth find themselves in trouble when they are first exposed to the medium. Urban Art is perhaps the biggest world-wide contemporary art movement. Films such as Exit Through the Gift Shop, Bomb It!, Beautiful Losers and countless others delve into the movement. From its…
This is one of the biggest works in clay to emerge from our Clay Media Program. I caught student Tara in the process of modeling the eyes on her gigantic face and asked her if she had ever heard of Jun Kaneko. “Who?”, she said. We discussed how…
This generation of young people is inspiring in a lot of ways. I’m extremely proud to report that in over three years of working with teenagers in our our studio, I have never once heard a racial slur, or a homophobic remark. It seems that this new generation take…
Preface: Every single person at KBMP has a different story. But when they come to the studio the differences that might otherwise serve as barriers between them dissolve. The one common factor, the glue that holds them all together, is that they come to the studio to create….
As someone who has just started making art I’ve only recently become privy to the thrill of the process. The satisfaction of completing a project start to finish is something I can’t get enough of. Of course, my art and my skills as an artist are in their infant…