Kenai Art Center

KPen ArtHive
2026-05-09 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The KPEN ArtHive is Back! What’s an arthive? It’s a global community-based art studio that provides free access to materials and welcoming spaces for self-directed creativity, skill-sharing, and community building. This event will happen the second Saturday of each month from 9 am to 12 pm. Come and go as you please!
The KAC hosts the only ArtHive in Alaska and our purpose is to support local established and upcoming or new artists. It’s a great opportunity to create art, get to know other artists, and to get art guidance if you are looking for it. This event is free and open to the public. Children must be accompanied by an adult. All art created by you can be taken home. For questions, please call Diane at 503-880-1498.

Kenai Potters Guild MOTHER'S DAY POTTERY SALE
2026-05-09 10:00 - 17:00
MOTHER’S DAY POTTERY SALE by the Kenai Potters Guild
The Potters Guild (in the same building as Kenai Art Center) will be selling all types of pottery from bowls to cups and dishes to platters. Stop by and pick up a unique, beautiful hand-crafted gift by one of our local potters. Your mom will love it!
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082007225198

COPTIC BOOK BINDING with Diane Peterson
2026-05-30 10:00 - 14:00
Join artist Diane Peterson as she teaches participants the basics and beauty of custom coptic book binding. This binding method dates back to ancient practices from Egypt and Northern Africa and has held up in modern day as a great way to create journals, sketch books, art books and/or any book that needs to be durable, sturdy and lie perfectly flat.
$75 Workshop fee includes a book binding kit for each participant as well as a book to take home.
To reserve your spot, venmo Diane at: Diane-Peterson-888

About The Artist:

Diane Peterson lives in Kenai,
Alaska. She is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on installation and performance art. She came upon bookbinding by taking a class in Paris, France in 2018. “I am now at a point in this craft that I would like to teach others.” Diane is also the Coordinator of the monthly Art Hive at the Kenai Art Center. The Art Hive is an open studio for the public to come and create art free of charge. Second Saturday of each month 9am-Noon. For more Art Hive info:https://kenaiartcenter.org/https-kenaiartcenter-org-wp-admin-post-phppost6394actionedit/

100 WOMEN WHO CARE 2nd Quarter Meeting
2026-06-02 17:30 - 19:00
Want to change our community but aren’t sure how? Want to learn how others are already making changes for good?
Join us for an inspiring summer evening of connection, community, and collective impact. No long commitments. No complicated process. Just women coming together to make an immediate, meaningful impact on the Kenai Peninsula. The Kenai Art Center will be hosting this upcoming event. Open to the public. Free to attend.
More info about 100 Women Who Care: https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/bpWhMrK/100-Women-Who-Care-Soldotna-Kenai/post/43Lsgk4
