New Idea For Date Night

Couples in Lincoln, Nebraska, have the opportunity to experience a different kind of “Date Night.”

Romance at the Lux Center for the Arts offers periodic events for couples, allowing them the chance to use art to create something lasting to symbolize their relationship.

Four couples took part in the last date night outings, held in December. Christine Emler was one of the recent date nighters, working with instructors Brandt and Peterson…

“I didn’t know we had to play together,” Emler says.

But that’s the point, says Brandt, education director at the Lux.

“Create something with symbols and icons that represent your love and relationship. Make something to remember the night by,” she says.

Eight pair of eyes nervously look up. Brandt says.

She and Petersen are both sculptors.

“We share a home, a studio and we work together. It is the best — and the worst — thing about our relationship,” Brandt says.

Last winter, she saw a brochure from a Pennsylvania art gallery advertising a Valentine’s Day date of making art together.

Brandt liked the idea. So much so that she decided it should not be reserved just for Valentine’s Day, but occasional Fridays through the year when couples tend to have date nights.

This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for new couples to get to know each other better and for an established couple to remember what they got together for in the first place. I hope that this idea takes off and arty date nights spring up all over the place.