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2024 STICKER FUNDRAISER

Support the arts and get some cool stickers!

This year we are making it even better and donors get a whole pack of stickers this year! Each sticker pack has 6 stickers total and 5 unique designs by our 'Sticker Stars' who are Calibraska artists, teachers, and students across the state of Nebraska and beyond.

What are you waiting for?

To the Stickers!

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2024 SUMMER TOUR!

Testimonials

“I love that Calibraska has L.A. film industry professionals teaching at Nebraska prices!”

—Calibraska Parent

CALIBRASKA CALENDAR

Most of our classes and offerings are online during the school year and a hybrid of online and in-person in the summer. We will be adding more information on offerings as we nail down our program.

Please feel free to reach out at info@calibraska.org with any questions, etc.

CALENDAR

ABOUT

We aim to support individuals living in rural or disadvantaged communities of any age in recognizing their value and to pursue their creative 'truth' however it may look.

The Calibraska Arts Initiative, part of the non-profit Arts with Others, is focused on supporting creativity in communities where access to technology, cultural institutions, professional mentorship and resources to the pursuit of a creative career or livelihood is limited.

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Programs

PROGRAMS

We strive to provide inclusive and unique programming and offerings to a wide range of ages and areas of the arts including Animation, Film, Acting, Writing, Media Development & History, and more.

Each program is administered by hand picked and vetted professionals in the film & entertainment industry, college faculty, and teaching artists primarily from the west coast who we then individually collaborate with to best serve each demographic of our students/interns. Our diverse team of teaching artists bring an incredible amount of talent, knowledge and experience to our programs.

UNIQUE ARTS EDUCATION

We primarily offer 2 summer art programs; 1 in person or hybrid and 1 entirely online. Our in person / hybrid program includes the “Nebraska Tour”. The tour is in collaboration with a variety of partners across Nebraska to fly out and house Los Angeles or Coast based professionals to provide in person or hybrid workshops, camps, and classes. This also involves lots of fun exposure experiences for the visiting artists including tours of local monuments, museums, county fairs, hikes, sports events, festivals and more! We work with local parents, students, art teachers and school districts to determine what arts areas may be lacking in each location or interests we can support with our offerings. Then we “match” each site with a team of teaching artists we feel will be the best fit.

In addition to the tour, we also provide online classes, workshops, Q&A’s and series of lectures for those in and outside of Nebraska. We strive to provide our programs to a wide range of ages and areas of the arts. This has included Animation, Film, Acting, Writing, Media Development, and more. Each offering is taught by professionals in the industry, college faculty, and teaching artists we individually collaborate with to best serve our demographic.

IN PERSON PROGRAMS

VIRTUAL PROGRAMS

ONE OF A KIND OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT

In addition to our educational programs we also offer internships for pay/credit to young people in Nebraska, California, and beyond to get a one to one interaction with our professional creatives. Our teaching artists are tasked with making themselves available to their interns to offer advice, insight and guidance in pursuing a creative career or livelihood.

To further support our students in pursuing a college program in the creative fields of their choice we have developed the Creative College Prep Course to give customized advice and guidance in applying to college. The course is designed so students can have one on one sessions with our advisors as well as group sessions with the other participants to help build a community of support while on the major endeavor of defining a creative future.

INTERNSHIPS

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

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TEACHING ARTISTS

We strive to employ teaching artists who represent a variety of different art genres including animation, acting, film, creative writing, story and media development, history, theory and more!

We also focus on offering the very important teaching artist role to professionals with an extensive background in arts education and in the creative industries.

We do so they can guide and mentor our students who often lack any access to the industry or input on what careers may be available to them.

We hand pick teaching artists who are living and working in the Los Angeles area, or have extensive experience working in the Arts and Entertainment industries.

For the Calibraska in-person summer tour we prefer to bring out artists who have not been able to teach or travel to Nebraska.

Our teaching artists work at big studios (Disney, Cartoon Network, Nick Animation, etc.) often teach at premiere schools (CalArts, KCAI, RIT, UCLA, etc.) and many own and or director their own production companies in the LA area.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity and Belonging (DEIB) is a pillar of our core values and we choose and vet our teaching artists to uphold those values.

They prioritize holding space for creative learning where acceptance, safety for body and mind, and freedom to explore allow our students to explore their creative truths

Paralell to this, we also strive to employ a diverse team of with a majority of teaching artists coming from marginalized communities, offer equitable pay, and give full autonomy over their pedagogy.