Organized by poet, caregiver, and printmaker Amanda Huckins, Creating More Hours: A Temporal Commons offers humanly-scaled models for combining creative practice, social connection, and mutual caregiving. During a series of workshops designed to expand and reclaim time through cooperative caregiving, the gallery space functions as a "temporal commons" for caregivers and their children.
The third workshop in the series on Saturday, March 30th from 2pm to 4pm invites participants to learn how to do relief printing with traditional media and easy-to-cut alternatives in order to create postcard sized duplicates of their very own design with printmaker Kelly Seacrest.
Caregivers with children between the ages of 3- and 12-years-old are invited to participate. Please register to attend. This workshop can accommodate ten participants.
Collaborative care that allows participants to cycle between caregiving and artmaking is an integral part of this workshop. Workshop participants should expect to share in both caregiving and artmaking activities!
Generator Space is wheelchair accessible and located on a fairly busy street with a decent amount of traffic. Please use crosswalks for safety. Unmetered street parking is available on Vinton Street, 18th Street, and neighborhood streets to the north and west of the space.
Generator Series programming is presented with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About the Artists:
Kelly Seacrest is an educator and artist. With her husband Peter Stegen, she founded Wild Learning in 2020, a Democratic Self Directed learning place for kids. As a facilitator at Wild Learning, she supports kids' learning by practicing democracy, engaging in conflict resolution, creating curriculum and being playful with them. Kelly also practices her art and loves painting, drawing and printmaking.
Amanda Huckins is a Nebraskan poet whose work has been published in booklet form as "Trying to End the War" (merrily merrily merrily merrily, 2017) and featured in A Dozen Nothing (adozennothing.com), among other places on paper and online. In her weekday hours, Amanda is an Early Head Start educator and participates in building the brain architecture for social emotional and cognitive development in infants and toddlers. In addition to her paid work, Amanda is a grassroots organizer who works alongside fellow community members to build self-determination, forge non-transactional relationships, and create radical free spaces (such as past DIY spaces The Commons in Lincoln, NE and Media Corp. in Omaha). She is also a letterpress printer who produces posters and other ephemera in her garage print studio, where she teaches typesetting to anyone who wants to learn.