TIM GUTHRIE is the Joella Cohen Endowed Chair in Journalism, and an Omaha-based multi-media visual artist and filmmaker. His work has been awarded Independent Artist Fellowships in 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2006 (Distinguished Artist, Filmmaker) from the Nebraska Arts Council for both his traditional and digital art, experimental animation and documentary films. He was also awarded Best Visual Artist, Best Show (3 times), and Best New Media Artist (3 times) by the OEA awards. He has also presented his film and multi-media work all over the country, as well as internationally, including at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. He was a TEDx Omaha speaker in 2018. 

Residencies include the Blue Mountain Center, Vermont Studio Center, Hall Farm, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, International Sculpture Center (who listed him as one of the Top 25 MFA Sculptors in the Nation in 1997), as well as fellowships from the Sierra Arts Foundation, and the Nevada Arts Council, and Nebraska Arts Council, each funded by the NEA.

His films, including “Missing Piece,” have won numerous Best Documentary awards, the 2017 Humanitarian Award (GIFA), as well as multiple Audience Awards, several Special Juror’s Awards, and other top awards. His work has been shown widely, including in Wales, UK (International), Sweden (High Coast),  Bucharest, Sydney (World Film Festival), Hiroshima Animation Festival, 5th Annual Athens International Animation Festival (Greece), Control Arms Conference (Italy), Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, as well as festivals in London, Miami, Copenhagen, Hollywood, and Toronto.

Guthrie is also a PACE artist (Pottawattamie Arts, Culture & Entertainment)

“Guthrie is simultaneously at home with traditional media like drawing and painting, as he is with cutting edge technologies, such as 3D printing and laser cutting. Equally able to create a somber Rembrandt-inspired portrait with oils as a mathematical pattern created with a “drawing robot,” he’s the rare Jack of all trades who is, in actuality, master of many.” – art critic, Kim Carpenter, PhD