Exhibition: JUNE 2026

June 3, 2026

TWO GREAT SHOWS

Main Gallery— MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF with artist BRIANNA ALLEN

In our main gallery the KAC will be featuring painter Brianna Allen for her solo show.  

From Brianna:

“I am a multidisciplinary artist who gathers stories to practice self-introspection, community building and consider the broader strokes of social systems around motherhood. My art practice considers how sharing vulnerable stories in exhibit, literary and performance venues inspires a deeper kind of listening. It builds relationships, it awakens joys and insecurities. My social art practice project, The Momologoue Collective is informed by a community of story contributors, creative partners and audiences. I continue to expand upon an interdisciplinary approach that includes paintings, installation, performance, and playwriting. I’m building an archive of voices to timestamp mothers’ lived experiences in America, exploring topics of grief, bodily autonomy, and care systems. My work proposes a reevaluation of care systems towards a future centered in support, listening, protection, education and connection”.

This show will highlight paintings and the written word. For more information about Brianna and her work: https://www.momologuecollective.com/

Preview of some works in Brianna’s show:

Back Gallery: SYMBIOTIC CULTURE: INNER LIGHT with Zirrus Vandevere and her solo show.

Zirrus will be installing sculpture pieces made from found/reclaimed materials and SCOBY (the mushroomy looking growth that occurs during the fermentation process while making kombucha). Zirrus describes her work this way: 

“The fact that it’s a living, growing thing that sticks to itself and to substrates as it dries in various states of translucency feels symbolic to me on a number of levels. It feels abundant, messy, curious and earthy, like life. Like culture. Like symbiotic relationships that sometimes get messy. Like all things with senescence, unless preserved for a time in one way or another, will return to the soil and meld into nature carrying its own complexity of energy that can neither be created nor destroyed but only changed…

In this way, each container shaped little soul is both entirely unique and ultimately similar to others in its clade. Like you. Or like me.

In my installation for the back gallery, I’m hoping to discover new ways to play with these creatures and how they interact with various substrates in homage to life and to creativity itself, illuminating and protecting the pieces to hopefully instill in viewers some sort of simulacra of curiosity and reverence for all things coincidentally ephemeral and somehow also held within the construct we call time.” 

Quick Sneak Peek of Zirrus’ show:

Zirrus’ show will be opening concurrently with Brianna Allen’s solo show titled MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF!

Artist Talks 6 pm. Refreshments. Music by Robert Parsons

Opening Reception: June 5th , 5-7 pm

Exhibition Dates: June 3rd through June 26th

More Exhibit info:

  • Artist Talks 6 pm
  • Live Music by Robert Parsons
  • Lite Refreshments
  • Free Event
  • Open to the public
  • Location: Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Avenue
  • Gallery hours: 12-5pm, Tuesday – Saturday