“Network”
04122301
2023
18’H 8’W 4”D
painted wood construction with bronze figures, bronze buckets and stainless steel ladders
2008
Aluminum chimes, galvanized steel structure, electronics, computer, and custom computer program.
South Omaha Sound Field is an interactive public art piece commissioned by the City of Omaha and Metropolitan Community College for the new South Omaha Library. The sculpture was inspired by the diverse immigrant heritages, old and new, that make-up South Omaha. When viewers interact with sensors on each of the seven pieces, the sculpture plays music. The songs played by the piece changes depending upon how the viewers interact with it.
2014
wood and bronze figures
“COLLABORATION” was created for the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Community Engagement Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The small bronze figures building the wood letters are portraits of the people who come together in the Community Engagement Center to build a stronger Omaha.
Artists: Jamie Burmeister, Heidi Beckwith, Brandon Cain, Richard Feierman, Kia Gray, Shelia D. MacIorowski, and Kaycee Wise
Medium: Lampshades and computer controlled LED lights
Year: 2016
“Metropolitan Community College delivers relevant, student-centered education to a diverse community of learners.” The intent of Illumination is to represent MCC’s mission while responding to the site of the installation. This piece gives the MCC Express a dynamic visual presence that responds to the daylight that comes through the windows during the day and emits light through the windows when the sun goes down. Light is one of the most universal and fundamental symbols. Light is knowledge, illumination, intelligence, goodness, transcendence, purity, optimism, and morality. One of the greatest things about Metropolitan Community College is the diversity of students. Tremendous opportunities for education and understanding happen when people of different races, ages, backgrounds, and cultures come together to learn at MCC. The varied lampshades will be chosen to represent the diverse group of people that make up Metropolitan Community College’s faculty, staff, and students.
2018
“Monuments” is an ongoing sculpture project that seeks to tell the stories of ordinary people through large-scale sculptural portraits. If given a chance, everyone has an interesting story to tell. These public sculptures have the potential to create interest in common people that may foster an understanding of people.
“Irene” is one of these monuments constructed for the Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa. “Irene” is one of the many migrants to Dubuque from the Marshall Islands. Irene and the other Marshallese migrants to Dubuque have overcome many obstacles to create a new life in Iowa. This 12-foot tall steel portrait combines the form of Irene’s head with a house.
“House 05012001”
2020
48”H 48”W 4”D
wood construction with bronze figures
Cottonwood Hotel Omaha Nebraska
2015
Carved wood, tree and forest.
“Stairs” was created by Jamie Burmeister while participating in the Serenbe Artist in Residence in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. The tiny staircase leads from the forest floor to a wood pecker hole high in a decaying tree.