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CALIBRASKA ARTS INITIATIVE

Where west coast art meets Nebraska flair!

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

 

—Calibraska Parent

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SUMMER 2020 CLASS DOCUMENTATION

Calibraska 2020 Animation Games Session 2

Calibraska 2020 Animation Games Session 2

Work from our 2nd session of Animation Games taught by Aaron Holmes. This class is a collaborative course where students each draw segments and or frames of animation that are then compiled together. This class also included live rotoscoping over produced animation.
Calibraska 2020 Animate Now!

Calibraska 2020 Animate Now!

Work from our Summer 2020 online class Animate Now! Taught by Aaron Holmes and assisted by Ezra Peterson Behnen and Annie Wang. Students learned animation by using items around their house and even outside!
Calibraska 2020 Animation Games Session 1

Calibraska 2020 Animation Games Session 1

Work from the first session of our Animation Games Class which took place during the summer 2020 online program! Students were asked to crete separate animation stills that were combined together to make their own unique sequences.
Calibraska 2020 Puppet Making and Story Telling

Calibraska 2020 Puppet Making and Story Telling

Check out documentation and performance from our Puppet Making and Story Telling Class from our Summer 2020 Online program!
Calibraska 2020 Sketching on the Daily

Calibraska 2020 Sketching on the Daily

Documentation from our summer online class, Sketching on the Daily: Creating a Place for your Art! Students were given a series of fun drawing prompts and story ideas and even did a little animation!
Calibraska 2020 Stand-up and Improv Session 1

Calibraska 2020 Stand-up and Improv Session 1

Check out documentation from our first session of Stand-up and Improv with our friends at Comedy Playground!
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ERICA LARSEN-DOCKRAY
Co-Founder & Director
Phone:  308.631.5704
erica@calibraska.org
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ABOUT

Since its kickoff in 2013, the main objective of the Calibraska Arts Initiative has been to form a bridge between California and Nebraska, to inspire and familiarize these two commonly disconnected populations.  

Using creative connections, we are able to bring individuals together who may otherwise never interact.  We are primarily focused on creating two major opportunities: to allow Los Angeles-creative-industry-based artists and students exposure to small-town Nebraska culture and hospitality and, second, to provide access to high-end educational opportunities, mentorship, training, and exposure from Los Angeles creative industries to midwest residents of all ages in western Nebraska.   

Calibraska is the brainchild of CalArts adjunct faculty member and Nebraska native Erica Larsen-Dockray and Vistabeam Wireless Chief Marketing Officer, Monique Larsen.  

 

In spring 2013, Monique asked Erica, who at the time was in her seventh year of teaching animation in Los Angeles, if she would consider teaching an animation workshop during her summer visit with family back in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  A few weeks later, Calibraska was born.  

Since that summer, over one hundred students ranging from 5 to 65 years have participated in the animation classes and five students and alumni from the California Institute of the Arts animation programs have visited Scottsbluff for the first time to teach and assist the classes.

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2022 Calibraska Promo Video

2022 Calibraska Promo Video

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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Animation 1.0 - Animation Playground
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Animation 1.0 - Animation Playground

Work created by students in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in collaboration with the West Nebraska Arts Center. This is the Initiative's introduction to animation class where students learn a variety of animation techniques each focused on the principles of animation.
2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Animation 2.0
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Animation 2.0

Work created by students in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in collaboration with the West Nebraska Arts Center. This is the Initiative's second tier animation class where students learned dialogue with clay characters and story development.
2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Registrationless Animation
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Registrationless Animation

Work from students in our Sketchbooks and Style class in Scottsbluff, Nebraska ages range from 9yrs to 15.
2019 Calibraska Arts initiative Character Design and Paper Puppets
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2019 Calibraska Arts initiative Character Design and Paper Puppets

Work created by students in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in collaboration with the West Nebraska Arts Center. This is the Initiative's second tier animation class where students created unique characters, made them into paper puppets and animated them.
2019 Calibraska Cineflix Film Camp! - Scottsbluff, NE
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2019 Calibraska Cineflix Film Camp! - Scottsbluff, NE

Student work from the Cineflix Filmmaking camp in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. In this course, students learned about filmmaking pre-production, production and post production techniques as well as film theory and more! To find out more check out our website at www.calibraska.org
2019 Calibraska Animation 3.0 - Scottsbluff, NE
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2019 Calibraska Animation 3.0 - Scottsbluff, NE

Work created by students in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in collaboration with the West Nebraska Arts Center. In this class, returning students learned a variety of animation techniques and concepts focusing on acting and dialogue. Visit our website for more information: www.calibraska.org
2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Kids Klub Section #2 Animation
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Kids Klub Section #2 Animation

Work created by 3-5th graders in North Platte, Nebraska as part of the Kids Klub after school program in collaboration with Mid Plains Community College. Students learned the principles of animation through a variety of techniques!
2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Kids Klub Section #1 Animation
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative Kids Klub Section #1 Animation

Work created by 3-5th graders in North Platte, Nebraska as part of the Kids Klub after school program in collaboration with Mid Plains Community College. Students learned the principles of animation through a variety of techniques!
2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative North Platte Animation Camps
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2019 Calibraska Arts Initiative North Platte Animation Camps

Work created by multi-generational students in North Platte, Nebraska in collaboration with Mid Plains Community College. Students learned the principles of animation through a variety of techniques!
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