Executive leadership · technology · scholarship · community
Omaha-grown interdisciplinary executive, faculty member and scholar-practitioner building connections across creative leadership, emerging technology, health professions education, research, business development and community impact.
Selected work
The archive is designed to show the work, not just list it: institutions built, technologies translated, communities connected and ideas brought into public life.
Executive leadership in creative production, emerging technology, business development, statewide education, research, external relations and advancement.
Explore current work →2026–presentCo-principal investigator on NSF Award No. 2546319 supporting an $8 million statewide E-RISE initiative.
Explore research →2023–presentHolography, VR, connected 3D iWalls and multi-site production used to reduce geographic barriers across Nebraska.
Explore visual archive →iEXCEL visual archive
Featured creative production · 2024
UNMC Healing Arts × Laurie Victor Kay
A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring art, medicine, pain, technology and healing. Hollins helped produce the project’s multimedia and video components within the Davis Global Center, translating the artist’s work across large-scale digital, interactive and holographic environments.
Creative continuity · 2016 → 2026
Hollins first worked with conservation photographer Michael Forsberg and Platte Basin Timelapse through KANEKO’s 2016 WATER season. A decade later, the relationship continues at UNMC, where Hollins is co-producing Forsberg’s Into Whooperland Healing Arts program with Forsberg and his studio for the Davis Global Center.
Selected institutional evidence
KANEKO · 2013–2018
Across twelve thematic seasons, Hollins combined exhibition leadership with public programming, youth education, media, design collaboration and increasingly immersive technology.
Exhibition archive
Selected installation views establish the range of art, design, architecture, culture, immersive media and participatory learning that shaped the KANEKO years.
Institutional photo archive
Education & community
In addition to designing exhibitions and often installing them alongside the artists, Hollins hosted youth and learners of all ages for hands-on, experiential workshops that connected exhibition ideas with creative exploration, dialogue and public learning.
Leadership & collaboration
2018 · Light
2018 · Reality
Public programs
PACE · 2018–2019
During development of the Hoff Family Arts & Culture Center, Hollins worked with PACE leadership, Alley Poyner and project partners, contributing creative, programming, gallery-layout, operational and user-experience input as the new arts center took shape.
Explore the completed Hoff Center
Research & scholarship
Co-principal investigator
Co-author · Springer
Co-author · Second Place Outstanding Project Award
Co-author · Society for Simulation in Healthcare STORM
Media & public engagement
Selected podcasts, interviews, television, radio, documentary appearances and press coverage connecting emerging technology, healthcare education and innovation with broader audiences.
Featured appearance
The Futurists · Episode 328
A national conversation on healthcare simulation, medical imaging, immersive technology, and the translation of entertainment-derived technologies into health professions education and workforce training.
National voice
Panelist — interactive holography, volumetric media and AI
Workshop + invited presentations on AI, XR and future learning environments
Presenter — immersive technology and health professions education
Panelist — evidence, challenges and strategies for haptics
National keynote co-presenter — implementing change in traditional settings
Keynote speaker — Davis Global Center and iEXCEL program
CV sources & verification
Institutional pages, scholarship, media coverage, conference programs and project documentation collected from the professional impact and MBJ source portfolio.