aNdrew aNcona :: andrew talks :: part two

aNdrew aNcona :: andrew talks :: part I

Hot Shops and Bellevue University teaming up . . .

me to Hot Shops:


Hi!

I am an art student at UNO. I recently read in the Reader or City Weekly that Hot Shops was going to team up with Bellevue University's BFA program, is that true? I can't find any record of it online and have lost the article. I think it's a brilliant idea but I was just wondering if I just dreamed it up or if it's something Hot Shops is considering undergoing?

Thanks for your time,

-=jd=-

hot shops to me:

Yes we are real. Still much to be done but things are moving in all the right directions.

Subject: From Sarah Baker's Blog --- says a more extensive article will follow in The Reader
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:04:35 -0500
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I'll call this "breaking news"

In Art news, general interest on 19 October 2008 at 8:44 pm

Last week, I got an email in my inbox about something called the "Omaha Creativity [we'll work on getting that changed for The Reader] Institute." It's a project I'd been hearing about via rumor for months in the art community: rumor had it that the Hot Shops, in partnership with Bellevue University, was taking over the adjacent (and huge) Mastercraft warehouse building near its 13th and Nicholas St. home to expand its existing space and scope.

Well, seems its actually happening - or on its way to happening.

Artists from the Hot Shops and Bellevue University have joined forces to do a feasibility study about the project, and the group met Sunday to present its findings. The Omaha Creativity Institute project, estimated to cost $25 million, is earmarked by the group as the "signature project desired by the city for creativity education."

Now, the Omaha Creativity Institute is looking to partner with organizations and Omahans who want to invest in the project.

The Hot Shops will own and manage the OCI, and its campus would include the existing Hot Shops building as well as the 130,000 square foot Mastercraft building, formerly a furniture factory. The Mastercraft building, once it becomes an educational facility, will be open to the public.

The space will house OCI's creativity classes and workshops, Bellevue University's College of Creativity and Design and its BFA and proposed MFA programs. Other opportunities include independently run enterprises of live theater companies, a digital technology/film studio, a professionally curated contemporary art exhibition space, and a mix of commercial shops, both food and beverage, and retail. This mix is used to create a sustainable revenue stream supporting the OCI non-profit cultural entities.

So that's the long and short of this very big news. If you want to see the full findings of the feasibility study, here's the full report in PDF form.

OCI Feasibility Study Results

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Tim Barry

check the link above to view a plan including a picture of what it should look like!!!

inauguration::day

hello all-
this blog has been created this day; the twentieth of november two thousand and eight, under the certain conceptualized condition that Omaha, NE is in need of cultural revival. it is on this day that we artists, we people, must unite. We must join in the share of ideas and concepts freely in order to achieve a unique and honest culture in this town.
In the next week a mission statement will be posted.
any ideas for what kind of new artistic community you would like to see please send them in.

thanks-
-=jd=-