Creative Radar Lincoln

Alex Renbarger paints rooms that don't exist and makes them feel like places you've been. In this episode, the painter and artist in residence at The Lux Center for the Arts talks about memory, color, and why the spaces she paints never have people in them. Alex came to Lincoln for her MFA at UNL and decided to stay, even when people told her she'd make more money somewhere else. We ta...

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. Sh...

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.

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 al...

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 w...