The Alternate Currents blog is home to articles, interviews, critical writing, and creative research that examine how justice in the arts in documented, interpreted, and enacted.
We sat down recently with Erin Foley, Finance Manager at Film Streams, to unpack issues around the relationship between art and labor, wage disparity and transparency, collective organizing, and working toward more financial stability in cultural fields.
Read More“Every detail of our contract represents a tooth-and-nail fight with management—but also our commitment to moving the museum toward real justice.”
Read MoreWe sat down with three panelists to discuss the complex and often contested relationship between art and culture and urban development.
Read MoreCan your dwelling be a useful tool to support involvement and engagement in the act of making? Of course, live-work art studios exist in Omaha. But it would be interesting if more models existed that developed ideas further on a larger scale.
Read MoreMedia Corp is a small, mixed use creative space in Omaha’s Gifford Park neighborhood that has been making space and holding space for community centered programming since 2018. We sat down recently with Amanda Huckins and Jesse Fischer, co-founders of Media Corp, to talk about neighborhoods in transition, urban development, and the oftentimes contested roles artists play in the gentrification process.
Read MoreLast week, we sat down and talked with Film Streams’ Executive Director, Rachel Jacobson; Sarah Moylan, Senior Director of Talent and Workforce at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce; and artist and educator Angie Seykora, to unpack some of the issues surrounding the ways in which individual artists, cultural organizations, and creative industries contribute to Omaha’s economic growth.
Read MoreWe sat down with 2019 Artist Support Grant recipients Sarah Hummel Jones and Corson Androski to find out more about the content that drives their work, their respective creative practices, and how they situate those practices within the greater economy.
Read MoreThe oversaturation of universities with aspiring professors in the humanities and arts points to a problem that exists outside of it—namely, a need for other kinds of communities to exist where artists and intellectuals can draw inspiration from one another and offer support to younger minds that are hungry for role models, for constructive criticism, and for a sense of kinship.
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