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.
Join Artur Melika for the last workshop in the series on Saturday, April 6th from 2pm - 4pm for a cookie decorating workshop highlighting techniques that lead to beautiful and tasty results.
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:
Artur Melika is an Omaha-based, queer, Ukrainian-American artist. Melika received his BFA from University of Nebraska Omaha in December of 2022. Art’s current work explores the vastness of the queer experience and how it manifests for individuals coming from different backgrounds. His primary focus is in 2D mediums including printmaking, drawing and painting. Melika is also exploring guerrilla style performance-based work, in public and gallery settings.
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.