Artist in Residency Program
Lux Center for the Arts offers three-month to two-year residencies to artists at any stages in their career in ceramics, printmaking, painting, fibers and metals. Resident artists receive studio space, exhibition opportunities and teaching experience, while they work to launch their careers as professional artists.
If you are interested in becoming an artist in residence, contact Natalie Nelson, 402-466-8692, or download the residency application PDF and submit your slides.
Current Artists in Residence
Natasha Overholtzer
Natasha Overholtzer received an MFA in jewelry and metal arts from the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa in 2007. Natasha works in a variety of medium including metal, clay, wood, and fabric while drawing her inspiration from a variety of sources including nature, geometry, ideas of permanence and preciousness. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Russia and Korea. Her work is also featured in 500 Metal Vessels from Lark Books. Natasha joined Lux Center for the Arts as the inaugural metals artist-in-residence in August 2009. She teaches jewelry and metal arts classes for youth and adults as well as beginning jewelry for Doane College at the center.
Learn more about Natash at www.designsbynatasha.com
Susan Stark
Susan Stark holds a BFA in Studio Art, a BS in Art Education, and a BS in Theatre Arts from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Before coming to the LUX Center, Stark was an art specialist for grades 7-9 at Brimhall Junior High School in Mesa, Arizona. She has also taught ceramics workshops for youth and adults at the Mesa Arts Center and the Phoenix Art Center in Arizona. Since October 2009, Stark has been a ceramics artist-in-residence at the LUX Center and now teaches community classes for youth and adults.
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