NExT Foundation

Join us monthly for Expressive Arts Workshops as a form of creative healing and connection!

We welcome you to join us in a supportive and creative environment to promote personal and professional growth & self-care.  Each month, we will offer a creative process for healing and connection, or alternatively, join us and work on your own self-directed creative process with an inclusive community that values the power of co--creation!

Last Friday of the month from 12:00pm-1:30pm * Yes, this one is slightly rescheduled due to summer madness! We are moving our timeline up a wee bit this month. We hope to see you just the same!

1111 N 13th Street, Suite 114 Omaha, 68102

Donations for art supplies & the time of facilitators is welcomed, but our open studios are FREE!

Jump on in and join us! If we have less than 3 people sign up, we will automatically postpone the Open Studio, so please sign up if you're joining!

*Please be sure to un-sign or message us if you need to cancel. We understand things come up, but wish to bring our facilitators up to speed on participant numbers to ensure we offer you a wonderful experience!

*This month, we'll be doing a series of trading card (playing card sized) sized art compositions on cold press paper or card stock, depending on your choice of mediums to use in the art process. Come engage in a process of creating a small series of cards that reflect our monthly theme. This is a loose, playful and simple process for beginner and expert painters/artists alike. Enjoy getting comfortable with collage material, mixed media, watercolor mediums and brushes, and use our stencils, or hand draw or paint aspects of your visual narrative.

What is our theme? It's actually WORLD EMOJI DAY! Let us express emotions in our playful way through our trading cards.

What to expect?

You'll make a set of cards. Of this set, you'll keep one of yours for yourself as a remnant. The others go into the collective art card offerings. You can then take the amount you left to reflect your community artists' creative interpretation. This is a process that started in the 1980's and is a fun and communal way to grow your art collection in small but mighty images!

This group varies month by month, using expressive arts processes that bring artists into new practices that invite play, free expression and approaches that remove barriers to the creative, expressive process.

NO ART BACKGRUND NEEDED! We are process-oriented, not outcome or product-oriented. We are interested in the power of the art process and co creative process, with the way art looks or evolves being unimportant.