Projects

You Are What You Think transformed a downtown business storefront space into a site for contemplation of individual thought. An ordinary plumbing business window became an activated space for public participation, altering a typical daily experience along the street. The […]

Tree of Wishes is an experiment into public discourse about desires for the community of Lyons, Nebraska. The installation was comprised of two bare tree branches with individual blank wish lists and an invitation to the public to add their […]

Senior Spotlight brings together two generations that typically don’t interact outside a traditional grandparent/grandchild relationship. The project serves youth and elders by giving them the opportunity to connect face-to-face for dialogue and sharing an experience. Senior students at Lyons-Decatur School […]

Youth have the capacity to be leaders and create a positive impact in their communities. That is the premise behind Community Studio. Jamie Horter and teacher and principal Derek Lahm co-created Community Studio as a project to take students out […]

Visions of Lyons builds on the Tree of Wishes project. Referencing the lists members of the community created for their dreams for the town, the public was invited to engage in deeper discussion around their self-selected topics. Lyons citizens engaged […]

Main Street spaces function as important meeting points for locals and visitors to small town communities. A town’s Main Street also symbolizes the state of a rural community and identity of its inhabitants through the nature of its design. Intentional […]

(My Frontier Fellowship with Epicenter is complete. For a full recap of my work in Green River, click here.) I’m thrilled to announce that I’m embarking on a rural art fellowship with Epicenter. Over four weeks, I’ll be working in […]

Anything and everything is a viable creative material to an artist. The natural landscape in particular provides constant inspiration and possibility for artistic acts. I reside in the geography of the prairie, and the plains have always been to me […]

Works from four years of the Senior Spotlight project are now a book and online publication for the local communities of Lyons and Decatur, NE. Each year senior students spend time with a senior citizen in Lyons or Decatur and […]