VISUAL ART STUDIOS

At Live Yes we strive to provide all the artists with the professional tools necessary to explore and complete any creative endeavor and will create adaptive equipment to make any art form accessible to anyone. We teach three classes a day within the visual and performing arts and in the last ten years have taught over 550 classes quarter length classes.

We teach traditional media such as painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, sewing, and so much more! Daily each artist chooses to join class or work on their self-directed body of work, and everyone is encouraged to experiment with all different mediums to develop their own unique style and approach.

Our art studio approach is unique in the way of creating professional art studio environments and filled with all the equipment necessary for medium specific processes. It is important to us the artists have their work presented in the same professional gallery setting as their community counterparts who exhibit in Lincoln. When their work is completed, a show will be scheduled as part of our ongoing solo-exhibition series in our gallery. LYS showcases all of the artwork at our First Friday events. Click here to check out our gallery

Screen Printing and Papermaking

Screen Printing Studio is complete with ten screens, X-Vactor 40”x32” exposure unit, washout booth, four color two station screen printing press, and all the inks and squeegees needed for any job.

Papermaking Studio has a paper press, ten moulds and deckles, large 3 tubs for pulp, dyes for paper and fabric, and plenty of cotton and abaca linters.

Production Studio

In 2021 LYS added a production studio. Our production studio houses a Sawgrass sublimation printer, 27” I-mac with the Adobe Suites, drink-ware heat press, T-shirt press, vinyl cutter, and button-maker. The production studio allows for LYS artists to add their art and designs to a number of readymade products such as shirts, hats, mugs, buttons, and many more. 

Painting and 2D Works Studio

Our 2D studio space is a large room with plenty of space for each artist to work on their 2-dimensional pieces. This space provides our artists with all of the staple drawing and painting supplies such as charcoal, acrylic and oil paints, brushes, pencils, pastels, and many more marking making materials. The space also includes a light table for tracing and reworking designs, a projector and white board for idea generation as well as large flat files for storing completed work. 

Ceramics Studio

Our Ceramics Studio includes a Skutt kiln, two electric wheels, coil extruder, slab roller, tools for carving and detail work, slip molds, plaster molds, and two large canvased tables. LYS continually supplies necessary glazes and earthenware clays.

Sculpture Studio

Our Sculpture Studio offers ample amounts of space to work on large sculptures and installations. LYS supplies materials including but not limited to: wood, foam, metal, plaster, sculpey, plastics, wire, beads, and recycled found materials.

Fiber Arts Studio

Our Fiber Arts Studio offers a large desk space to sew large projects, numerous sewing machines, a loom, many embroidery hoops, crochet and knitting supplies, tufting gun, and so much yarn!