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Creative Radar
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Conversations with Lincoln's artists, musicians, performers, and makers — the people shaping the city's creative scene.
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Recent Episodes
Curating Connection: Amber Nore on Art, Mentorship, and Community
Amber Nore has a way of turning a room into a story. As the founder and curator of the Magnolia Art Project, she has spent the last five years building exhibitions across Nebraska and beyond, mentoring New American women artists through the Echo Collective, and creating space for community to gather around art. This year, the Lincoln Arts Council recognized her with the Heart of the Arts Award. She sat down with Creative Radar Lincoln to talk about how it all started, what keeps her going, and what she believes Lincoln's creative community is capable of.
What indulgence leaves behind
Lincoln ceramic artist Olivia Stinson turns bodies into vessels for the things she can't say out loud. This episode covers indulgence, healing, and the ant-covered head currently taking shape in her studio.
Something That Lasts: A Conversation with John Voyage
John Voyage has been playing music since he was a kid in Lincoln, and these days he writes and records nearly everything himself. We sat down in his home studio to talk about his latest album It's Only Fair, including the story behind a three-song sequence inspired by Jeanne Calment, once the oldest person who ever lived, with field recordings his mom captured on the streets of Brooklyn. He also gets into who he collaborates with and the new single on the way.
1,000 Cranes and Counting
Megan Shoemaker spent seven years folding a thousand origami cranes, not for an installation, just because she had to. Then one day it became one. In this episode, we visit her home studio in Lincoln and talk about how she went from corporate jobs and imposter syndrome to owning her identity as an artist, what a three-story crane installation at the Burkholder taught her about vulnerability, and why she thinks making bad art is some of the best advice she can give.