The night Sarah Berkeley pressed send on her computer — applying for a permit to hike the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail — she wasn’t thinking about blisters and trench foot.
Or falling into an icy river. Or clinging to a ledge. Or missing her dog, Hope. Or shedding the trauma and distrust that had clouded her life lately.
Read MoreArchways Magazine featured and article about my Art + Activism Course at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Read MoreThe Center for Sustainable Arts Quarterly Publication had a theme of Self-Care in their 20th issue. It featured multi-page photo essay and writings by DATA BLACKOUT participants.
Read MoreHOLDING, a collaborative work by Sarah Berkeley and Regin Igloria, exists at the ACRE Projects in this transient yet sure way, exploring ideas of activity, cooperation, and mindfulness through performance and installation. HOLDING is an exhibition of the work Berkeley and Igloria produced while in residency at ACRE’s summer home in Wisconsin. The six photographs harken to a warmer time, featuring lush green woodland marked here and there by small orange ribbons.
Read MoreOMAHA -- There’s a fine contemporary art exhibition at the Joslyn Art Museum, a show that contains work in media from painting and sculpture to photography, ceramics, video, glass and textiles that effectively captures a slice of art of our time.
That work, however, isn’t from the hot new names working in New York or London.
It’s from 37 Nebraska artists selected for “Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln,” and it illustrates one of the pivotal changes in the art world over the last couple of decades.
Read MoreBerkeley photo show at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
Lincoln artist Sarah Berkeley will present “Places I Sleep,” a series of new photographs beginning Monday at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City.
The in-progress series is themed around the interior spaces that the artist, a Nebraska Wesleyan University professor, has inhabited for at least one night. Berkeley’s work questions cultural norms, such as the 9 to 5 workday, the office environment, indoor living, gender stereotypes and the voluntary sharing of personal data.
Read MoreThese performances are inspired by my work experiences in various locations and environments. For example, I Just Work Here – Episode 2: The Commute was inspired by my hour-long commute to and from work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The performance was 40 minutes of walking upward on a down escalator in a subway station while wearing business attire – heels, a pencil skirt, a blouse, and makeup. The Commute reflects how the distance covered in a commute is a net distance of zero. As commuters, we spend a lot of time in moving in circles.
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