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First Friday Art Show
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Featured artists:
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7:30-9 PM
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Fall For Pride & Committee Mtgs 7:30-9 PM
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Theme: Grassroots & Community
Location: Peter Pan Park (33rd & X St)
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Theme: Grassroots & Community
Community Support Circle
Art in the Afternoon
Kids Activity
Fall For Pride & Committee Mtgs
ARAN Meeting & Vegan Potluck
LGBTQIA Support Circle
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ALL EVENTS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
First Friday Art Show
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August 7 at 6:30 PM
Join us for live entertainment, food, vendor
booths & activities for the whole family;
creating a welcoming, free, community-centered event for everyone in the spectrum!
Get more information or apply for a booth:
commonroot.net/ffp
Sammi Bray
Tiana Conyers
Deanna Denny
Donna DiPaolo
Amanda Harvey
Deborah Kay Hull
Andira Losh
Lacey Losh
Ramona MacDonald
Diane Martelle Ready
Jonathan Reyes
Barbara Salvatore
Kathleen Tiedje
Jen Volkmer
Azaria Wallick
Cast your votes for your favorite pieces in this show. The top voted
pieces will be featured in Common Root’s 2016 wall calendar,
which we’ll be selling to raise funds for our organization.
Common Root is a 501c3 nonprofit. We facilitate inclusive,
community-building events and provide for the advancement
of the arts. All our events are free & open to the public.
My name is Tiana Conyers and I’m a senior at Benson
High school in Omaha, Nebraska. My aim, among
other things, is to be change, innovation, unique. Never
a reprint, a motif, a stereotype, or a cliché. To startle the
world, to create new tales, draw dreams into life, create
mistakes and learn from them, and produce worlds of
my own that can’t help but leave the world in awe.
Tiana Conyers
Deanna Denny
After 8 years of drawing as a hobby, I decided to
follow my dreams and work toward becoming an
accomplished professional artist. Since about a year
ago, I’ve begun to create an image for my art behind
the alias: T.C., on different media platforms. Initially, I
drew manga and anime style art, but until just recently,
I’ve decided to expand to multiple forms of sequential
art - primarily, comics, graphic novels, character design
& visual development.
Like what you see?
Many of the pieces in today’s show are for sale.
Contact the artist for pricing and details - individual contact
information is available below:
Sammi Bray
[email protected]
Tiana Conyers
[email protected]
Deanna Denny
Donna DiPaolo
[email protected]
[email protected]
I enjoy Zentangle® as a soothing, relaxing, and
purposeful activity; at the same time, the repeating
patterns require I be fully present and aware.
402-560-7774
[email protected]
Because I stress over finding the correct word for a
poem and then relax with strokes of the pen, combining
my poetry with Zentangle® is the best of both worlds.
Amanda Harvey
402-713-9529
[email protected]
Deborah Kay Hull
[email protected]
dkayvisualarts.zenfolio.com
facebook.com/Dkay.VisualArts
Jonathan Reyes
Barbara Salvatore
607-287-0327
[email protected]
bighorsewoman.com
Kathleen Tiedje
silverjinnstudios.storenvy.com
Jen Volkmer
Andira Losh
402-416-4428
[email protected]
facebook.com/by.nature.eclectic
Lacey Losh
[email protected]
[email protected]
Donna DiPaolo
Diane Martelle Ready
308-224-3385
[email protected]
I write poetry to fulfill my need to be creative and find
new ways to express myself. As a result, Common Root
and all they do for the community inspired my poem
“Cultivating Compassion.”
I began this project because I wanted to combine art
with everything Common Root means to me. I have
been drawing art like this since I was a child, as it let
me be creative without actually being a good sketch
artist. I was quite pleased when I found I could do this
using computer graphics.
Ramona MacDonald
[email protected]
etsy.com/shop/ramonami
[email protected]
coloringwithlacey.com
Azaria Wallick
My parents gave my first art kit when I was 4. I built my
first studio in the corner of the living room when I was
7. It was fashioned out of cardboard boxes, a potato
chip clip, laundry bucket with a towel for a cushion,
and some tape to help hold things together. When I
was in highschool I finally upgraded to an easel. Now, I
prefer creating at a table or on the floor.
Jen Volkmer
While I’ve used just about every type of medium
one can imagine I really enjoy experimenting with
acrylics, watercolor, and latex paints. I began formal
training at the Arts and Humanities Focus Program
in Lincoln, Nebraska. At that school I was given the
freedom to explore and try to find my own unique
style. My first bachelor’s degree is in Art History
where I was influenced by the movement in the art of
Jackson Pollock. I use what I know about art history
to drive my painting. My work is classified as abstract
expressionism. The emotion behind each piece is
evident by the use of color.
In the past few years I have designed, collaborated, and
painted several murals across eastern Nebraska. I’ve
taken classes at Joslyn to continue to grow as an artist.
As an elementary teacher I incorporate art into the core
curriculum as much as possible as I believe that there
is a correlation between art, math, and the emotional
well being of a child. Within the next year I’ll begin my
masters in K-12 Art to help budding artists find their
own unique style.
If you’re interested in learning more about me,
following what I do, or would like to commission a
piece please check out my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/by.nature.eclectic
D*kay VisualArts is born from Deb Hull. A transplant
from the Pacific Northwest where her family still
remains, she’s lived in Nebraska since March of 2006,
after she fell in love with a man while visiting friends
and family in the midwest. Her Nebraska man taught
her how to appreciate her surroundings and see her
world in a new way. Engaged to marry since 2012,
photography has taken a backseat to her sweetheart’s
battle with leukemia. They are both looking forward
to some creative normalcy after his recent remission
from cancer.
Deb is known for photography, but also likes to dabble
in drawing and painting. She prefers landscape,
conceptual, macro, abstract, and flower photography.
More recently, she’s discovered that Black & White
photographs make her heart pitter-patter all the more.
Deborah Kay Hull
Deb’s love for the arts, and learning about new ways to
be more creative, grows stronger as time passes.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dkay.VisualArts
Online Portfolio: http://dkayvisualarts.zenfolio.com
Email: [email protected]
I am a grassroots community organizer. I am also a
poet and designer. I create metal sculptures, collages,
chainmaille and jewelry. My work focuses on my life
experience, struggles, natural beauty, innovation
and fusing many aspects of form and function, in
interconnection. I love the interplay of concepts
and deep symbolic meaning that taps our shared
consciousness.
Andira Losh
I’ve been creating art since I was old enough to hold
a crayon and received an Associates Degree in Visual
Publications in 2004.
I’m a professional Digital Prepress Specialist & Graphic
Designer. I’m a steward of the Losh Free Library (in my
front yard), beginning it’s third year of operation. I also
volunteer as a Community Organizer with Common Root.
Lacey Losh
Ramona MacDonald
I’m currently creating an adult coloring book entitled
‘Libraries Around the World Coloring Book’ which
was a project directly inspired by the piece I submitted
into Common Root’s First Friday Art Show!”
Check out my website: coloringwithlacey.com
Simply, I am an artist. Pencil-purist; pencil-hater.
Learning to paint; enjoying then destroying. I grew up
drawing, but started getting serious about it one day
when I locked myself in my bedroom and enlarged
a picture of a beautiful person on a dress pattern with
a graph like my mom had said I should. I didn’t want
her to know I was giving in! And I couldn’t believe how
amazing it looked when I got done. I was astonished.
That was when I was around 12, I would say. By the time
I was 14, we had moved from South Africa to America,
and I was a full-time commission artist. People thought
it was just so novel that I was 14, I guess. I’m still “arting,”
but I feel like I have a long way to go to be what I want to
be and create what I feel inside me.
I have recently started exploring the field of digital art
and have really been enjoying the learning experience.
I love technology and the freedoms it gives us. ArtRage
is my preferred tool, but Adobe Cloud has been a great
help, as well.
I studied art at the University of Nebraska at Kearney,
graduating in 1987 and later earned a Masters in
Psychology. With those degrees I’ve enjoyed many
years of teaching art, photography, advertising, speech,
drama & art history to students 5 – 85.
Diane Martelle Ready
Now I work at a ‘paint & sip’ place in Kearney where
I teach painting classes. I also do art classes part time
for MPCC. For fun I do face painting, freelance art and
photography, sing, kayak, cook and visit family and
friends. Life is good!
Barbara studied Art at Rhode Island School of Design,
and Parsons School of Design before completing her
BFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of Visual
Arts, NYC. Her work has been in galleries in New
York and Nebraska, and on book and journal covers,
including ‘Eagle Dancer’ on Plains Song Review, 2012.
Even so, her art has taken the back seat to business,
raising a family, and horses, and further studies.
Her illustrations are included in Native Language
Dictionaries for the Omaha, Biloxi and Atakapa.
Barbara is a student of the Ponca Language, and
recently served as the Ponca Language Educator for
the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. She has returned full
time to her art and writing, and you can find her art
and stories at www.bighorsewoman.com
Barbara Salvatore
“All my life I wrote and painted life as I saw it and
dreamt it. So many big stories have been born in
dreams, and I wake up curious to find out more about
the people and places. That is the creative process for
me. Dreaming or imagining, trying to capture what
you saw, and the curiosity to find out more.”
-Barbara Salvatore, Artist/Writer
I fell in love with painting in high school and have
never stopped since. In the beginning I only worked
with acrylic on canvas, but have recently branched into
wearable art, jewelry and other mixed medias. I like
to keep discovering and innovating different materials,
ideas and techniques into my art to keep them ever
evolving and ever changing ‘and to keep from getting
bored.’ Like so many other artists, my biggest struggle
is appreciating my own work.
Kathleen Tiedje