Celebrating the Arts, Inspiring Humanity

Help Raise Funds for Hildegard Center for the Arts!

On Thursday, May 17th, the Lincoln Community Foundation will sponsor an amazing fundraising opportunity for nonprofits in Lincoln and Lancaster County called Give to Lincoln Day.  This on-line 24-hour giving event will give people the chance to raise thousands of dollars for their favorite non-profits. Hildegard Center for the Arts is registered for this event!  Click here to view Hildegard’s project page at Razoo.com.

For every donation Hildegard Center for the Arts receives on Give to Lincoln Day, May 17th, the Lincoln Community Foundation will offer a challenge match pool of $200,000! Gifts will be matched proportionally based on dollars raised by each nonprofit.

ONLY donations made online or dropped off at the Lincoln Community Foundation office on MAY 17th will be counted towards the $200,000 match pool!

  • To make an On-line Donation, simply click the Give to Lincoln icon (above) or click here.  This will automatically take you to Hildegard’s project page at Razoo.com.  Then Donate!   On-line Donations can be made anytime between 12:am and 11:59pm on May 17th.
  • To make an Off-line Donation, your check MUST be made out to the Lincoln Community Foundation, with Hildegard Center for the Arts entered in the memo line.  Checks also need to be hand-delivered to the Lincoln Community Foundation office 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 100, Lincoln, between the hours of 8:00am-5:00pm.  NO mail gifts will be accepted.

Hildegard salutes the Lincoln Community Foundation for this funding opportunity!

 

A Time for Heroes at Hildegard Center for the Arts

Hildegard Center for the Arts has launched an exciting line-up of projects and events that will celebrate Heroes throughout the 2012/13 year. Called Time for Heroes, this inspiring series will explore the theme of Heroes through a variety of creative activities involving the visual and performing arts, as well as educational collaborative opportunities for schools and home-schools within a 50 mile radius of Lincoln.  Read on to learn more about Hildegard’s first Time for Heroes project, “Heroes” Call to Artists!           

                                              


  “Heroes” Call to Artists;  Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the following winners of Hildegard’s recent Call to Artists ”Heroes” competition;  Vern Friesen, Christine Schleich, Liz Shea-McCoy and Ann Williams.   All of their winning “Heroes” inspired artwork (10 total works!) have been sent to New York for review by a Master Teaching Artist from the Lincoln Center Institute.  Upon review, several of the winning submissions will be chosen for classroom art curriculum as part of Arts Are Basic.  All remaining winning artwork will be featured in a variety of ways as part of Hildegard’s Heroes Among Us project for 2012/13.

Judges for this Art Call included:  Valerie Knobel – Chair of the Art Dept., Doane College,  Michael Burton -Professional Artist, former Arts Are Basic Teaching Artist and Art Lecturer UNL, Kit Voorhees- Founder and former Director of Arts Are Basic,  Nancy Childs – Art Curriculum Specialist Lincoln Public Schools,  Nancy Heiser – Local Artist and Hildegard Advisor.

This Call to Artists was the first in Hildegard’s line-up of Time for Heroes projects. Please click here to learn more about this unique collaboration between Hildegard Center for the Arts and Arts Are Basic (AAB),  who together are sending artwork from Lincoln to New York!

 

Heroes Among Us 

Hildegard Center for the Arts has teamed up with Arts Are Basic for another exciting project called Heroes Among Us.  Using a variety of art media and inspiring lesson plans (with National Standards) Heroes Among Us will invite school children grades K-12  within a 50 mile radius of Lincoln, to discover heroes from both past and present, to identify characteristics of a hero and learn how they can become heroes themselves through their conduct, example and actions. Read on or click here to learn more about this creative educational opportunity!

Students will learn how individuals have been transformed through an act or event to become a lifesaver, a peacemaker, a freedom fighter, an inventor or an “angel”.

Special opportunities for students grades 6-12 will include a Writing Competition,Published Book, a Visual Arts Competition, A Short Film/Documentary Competition and an Opera!

Heroes will also reach out to Cedars Youth Services, Lighthouse, Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach, People’s City Mission

Hildegard Center for the Arts and Arts Are Basic will have the privilege of collaborating with Cedars Youth Services, Matt Talbot Kitchen and Outreach, People’s City Mission and Lighthouse to present special art workshops to students who are served at these sites. We will strive to encourage, educate and empower these children by providing art plans, teachers and supplies to bring Heroes Among Us to kids who could certainly use a hero or two in their lives.

Hildegard Center for the Arts believes this educational project will richly benefit our young generation and demonstrate to society the humanity and compassion that is necessary to create cooperation and mutual respect and make the world a better place.

Hildegard welcomes your input and involvement for this project.
Contact Project Chair Anne Woita (cell) 402-890-2528 or (e-mail: Heroes.Hildegard@gmail.com)

 

Seeking the Light; About Hildegard’s New Book  

Sacred & Spiritual Art and Spaces, captured by local photographers.  

Through the eye of a camera lens, “Seeking the Light” offers a unique look into the sacred and spiritual art and spaces of Lincoln, Nebraska.  From the simplicity of a prayer garden to the intricacy of stained glass and soaring metal spires, this book combines winning photographs from Hildegard’s city-wide “Call to Photographers” competition, along with tour sites featured on the 2011 Lincoln Spiritual Art Tour, as well as nostalgic images from Lincoln’s “lighted’ past. To read more, go to Seeking the Light.

It’s a Book that Inspires
Get your copy!

While supplies last, get your copy of Seeking the Light, available for $20 at any of the following Lincoln locations:

  • From Nebraska, Inc. Gift Shop, Haymarket, 803 Q Street
  • Four Star Card and Gift Gallery, 5500 Old Cheney Rd.
  • Four Star Drug – Bethany,  1340 N. 66 St.
  • Four Star Drug – Piedmont, 1265 S. Cotner
  • Gloria Deo, 5601 S. 56 Alamo Center
  • Indigo Bridge Books, Haymarket, 701 P Street
  • Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Gift Shop, 5401 South Street
  • Noyes Art Gallery, 119 S. 9th Street
  • Roper and Sons, 4300 O Street
  • Sheldon Museum Store, 12th & R
  • St. Peter’s Gift Shop, 4500 Duxhall Dr

Or call Kim Einspahr at 402-488-0678. All book proceeds help support ongoing art outreach programs at Hildegard Center for the Arts.

Hildegard Center for the Arts is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit arts organization designed to unite people of all beliefs, cultures and traditions to inspire humanity through the Arts.

Currently “without walls”, Hildegard partners with existing organizations and communities to provide opportunities in the visual and performing arts, as well as educational programs involving the Arts, humanity, and the “Art of Living”. Hildegard Center for the Arts is directed by a diverse team of Board of Directors and a dedicated group of community Hildegard Advisors.

The vision for Hildegard Center for the Arts is to ultimately have walls and become the center for spiritual, fine and performing arts for the great State of Nebraska.

Who is Hildegard?

The name-sake for Hildegard Center for the Arts is Hildegard von Bingen, a German nun who lived in the Middle-Ages (1098-1179). She was a composer, artist, poet, mystic, religious visionary, social activist and more. Her contributions to the Arts and humanity were both profound and far reaching. Everyone is invited to “Reveal God’s Glory through Human Creativity” at Hildegard Center for the Arts. READ MORE >