Kenai Art Center

Pale Jail Ale Release Party
2022-02-03 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The Kenai Art Center and Kenai River Brewing have teamed up to promote one of the best kept secrets in Old Town Kenai, the Historic Kenai Jail.

Kenai River Brewing will be in the Art Center Feb. 3rd from 5-7 pm serving up their brand new beer: Pale Jail Ale. There is no cover charge for the event, people 21+ can purchase beer tokens. Pale Jail Ale T-shirt will also be available, and all proceeds go to support the Kenai Art Center. Live music will be performed in the gallery by the Tune Weavers, including jail-themed songs and other country favorites.

The jail was added to the Kenai Police & Fire Station in 1957. In 1973, the building was leased to local artists, who slowly transformed it into the art gallery, pottery studio, and workshop space that still thrives today. Come by the Kenai Art Center, see a show and the preserved historic jail, and have a beer!

Workshop: Charcoal Portrait Drawing
2022-04-30 12:00 - 15:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Learn charcoal portraiture in this interactive class designed for beginners and intermediate artists. You and instructor James Adcox will be exploring a variety of drawing techniques and completing a finished portrait from life. Class is appropriate for teens and adults.
***Class size is limited to 8 participants. RSVP to James Adcox in advance.***
Cost: $65 (this fee also covers model)
When: April 30, 2022
Where: Kenai Art Center
Time: 12-3pm
Contact: 907-283-1999 jamesgadcox@hotmail.com
Other: all drawing materials will be provided. Materials include a variety of charcoal, newsprint, and medium toned paper, and white chalk.

Open Watercolor
2022-05-05 12:00 - 2022-05-29 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
May in the main gallery:
Watercolor is a medium that’s easy to get into but difficult to master. We put out a watercolor-only Call for Art and our talented community artists did not disappoint. With more than 40 paintings entered, a wide range of watercolor techniques and effects are on display: multi-layered transparent glazes, watercolor with bodied paint, dry brush, Chinese brush painting, and more. Come be amazed at what can be created with simple materials and a sheet of paper.
Join us for First Thursday May 5th at 5-7pm. Free and open to the public, refreshments available, and music by Nelson Kempf.

Kenai Peninsula Quilting Guild 2022 Challenge Blocks
2022-05-05 12:00 - 2022-07-02 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Each year the Peninsula Quilting Guild does a Challenge Block, where each quilter creates a 12″x12″ block based on a theme. This year’s theme is “Balance.” There are 17 blocks demonstrating a variety of techniques, made by quilters from Homer, Seward, Kenai, and Soldotna. This show is on display in the Kenai Art Center rear gallery.

First Thursday Opening Reception: Open Watercolor
2022-05-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
OPENING RECEPTION
Join us for First Thursday May 5th at 5-7pm. Free and open to the public, refreshments available, and music by Nelson Kempf.
Watercolor is a medium that’s easy to get into but difficult to master. We put out a watercolor-only Call for Art and our talented community artists did not disappoint. With more than 40 paintings entered, a wide range of watercolor techniques and effects are on display: multi-layered transparent glazes, watercolor with bodied paint, dry brush, Chinese brush painting, and more. Come be amazed at what can be created with simple materials and a sheet of paper.

Mother's Day Pottery Sale
2022-05-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The Kenai Potters’ Guild is having their annual Mother’s Day Sale on Saturday May 7th, 10-4pm. It’s always great to see what the potters have been working on, stop by the gallery for some great handmade gifts.

Kenai Plein Air Group - May 21st
2022-05-21 13:00 - 16:00
Kenai Plein Air Group
Kenai Municipal Park,
1pm to 4pm, Saturday, May 21st
Time to dust off those pochades and french easels and get back outside!
Kenai Municipal Park has a variety of subject matter including open fields, forested paths and bluff views. Bring your art supplies, water, snacks, bug spray, a hat and anything else you may require. There are restrooms and pavilions in case of rain. We’ll meet in the parking lot near the playground. The park is located on North Forest Street in Kenai.
Please RSVP on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/kenaipleinair or send an email to asarren@hotmail.com Also, please share this event with anyone you think might be interested. Hope to see you there!

June 4 - Workshop: Recycle Art
2022-06-04 13:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Do you have creative ideas but lack space and supplies? Do you have objects you can imagine into art? Come join in an afternoon of exploration.
ReGroup encourages community members to display artistic creations made from items normally thrown away. The Recycle Art Exhibit will be on display at the Kenai River Festival June 10-12 2022.

Age groups: youth 10-18 & Adult. Workshop is FREE, and a variety of materials, supplies, and tools will be provided.
For more information call: 907-252-2773

TWO workshop dates:

April 23 2022
2-5pm
Soldotna Library

June 4 2022
1-4pm
Kenai Art Center

June 9 - Live Concert: Wild Shore New Music
2022-06-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Wild Shore New Music Features the Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

Kenai Art Center welcomes Wild Shore New Music, a New York-based, Alaska-raised chamber music collective featuring composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. on Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 7 p.m at the Kenai Art Center located at 816 Cook Dr, Kenai, AK 99611.
The concert is a free event with a suggested donation of $20 at the door.

Wild Shore New Music presents new chamber music in south-central Alaska and is one of the only organizations dedicated to contemporary chamber music in the state of Alaska. Wild Shore fosters collaborations between living composers, versatile musicians from all over the U.S., and creative artists and residents from the state of Alaska. ​Founded in 2012 by three Alaska-raised musicians, Wild Shore presents concerts, lecture recitals, and education workshops across Alaska and the US. This year, Wild Shore will feature musicians from Alaska performing the works of Brooklyn-based composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and have a group of performers from New York and Alaska.

The program will feature several of Mr. Phillips’ works including Unlimited, from his larger work Changing Same. Mr. Phillip writes that Unlimited is “about my conscious acknowledgment of my heritage in popular and contemporary music and culture, but reflects a post-black aesthetic… Through a lens of individual experience, Changing Same explores some of this richness, diversity, and complexity of blackness in America during my lifetime.”

Other works include The Spell of Vanishing Loveliness, a piece about Mr. Phillips’ personal experience on the day the Twin Towers were attacked, and Never Has Been Yet, a piece for piano and narrator setting the text of Langston Hughes’ poem “Let America Be America Again.”

Performers Includes:
Sunrose Winslow, voice (Homer, AK)
Katie Cox, flute (Brooklyn, NY)
Sandra Cox, clarinet (Anchorage, AK)
Rose Crelli, violin (San Francisco, CA)
Andie Tanning, viola (Brooklyn, NY)
Mannfried Funk, cello (Homer, AK)
Kade Bissell, percussion (Anchorage, AK)
Scott Hansen, piano (Fairbanks, AK)
Jame Moore, guitar (Princeton, NJ)
Joseph C. Phillips Jr., composer/conductor (Brooklyn, NY)

June 18 - Workshop: Sgraffito
2022-06-18 12:00 - 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Learn the magical fiber-art process of “Sgraffito” with instructor Celia Anderson.
Date: Saturday June 18th, 2022
Time: 12:00-5:00 pm
Venue: Kenai Art Center
Workshop fee: $85
Contact: Celia Anderson via email, celiacarlanderson@gmail.com
Email to register, for supply list (minimal), and any questions

July 9 - Workshop: Chinese Brushwork for Beginners
2022-07-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Chinese Brushwork for Beginners: Bamboo with instructor Sharlene Cline
Learn Chinese brush painting techniques through expressive brush strokes, brush loading, and color mixing. All levels welcome, and all supplies provided!
Date: Saturday July 9, 2022
Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
Venue: Kenai Art Center
Workshop fee: $60
Contact: Sharlene Cline
907-299-7664
sharlenecline@outlook.com
sharlenecline.com

August Exhibition
2022-08-04 12:00 - 2022-08-28 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Sites Unseen – Graham Dane and Linda Infante Lyons
Come visit the gallery Wednesday – Saturday, noon – 5pm. 816 Cook Ave.

First Thursday opening reception
2022-08-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us for the opening reception of Sites Unseen: Artwork by Graham Dane & Linda Infante Lyons
Thursday August 4th, 5-7pm
Free and open to the public, refreshments available.
Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave.

Kenai Plein Air Group Paint Out
2022-08-29 11:00 - 17:00
Kenai Plein Air Group
Next Paint Out: Monday, August 29th, 11am
Lawton Drive Ext. Trail, Kenai
We’re heading out at 11 a.m. Monday morning to paint/draw on the Lawton Drive Extension Trail in Kenai. Parking is on Lawton Dr. down the street from the golf course. You’ll see pull-off areas on either side of the road before it ends at a yellow gate. Be careful not to park in front of the fire hydrant. Follow this link for directions https://goo.gl/maps/CrSYdDekhfSY51faA.
This area is full of gorgeous wetlands and expansive views. Bring bug spray. It will be a short walk in from the cars so pack accordingly. Also, no restrooms just the facili-trees.

Harvest Auction Exhibition
2022-09-01 12:00 - 2022-09-25 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611

First Thursday
2022-09-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611

Harvest Auction
2022-09-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
***Must have a ticket to attend***
Tickets on sale at the Kenai Art Center.
Silent Auction: 6pm
Outcry Auction: 7pm
816 Cook Avenue

November 5 - Workshop: Chinese Brushwork for Beginners
2022-11-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Sharlene Cline is teaching another great Chinese painting workshop at the KAC November 5th, 1-4pm, just in time to make your own Poinsettia holiday card. If you’re interested in taking this fun course, please contact Sharlene. Workshop fee is $60, all materials provided.
MUST RSVP
907-299-7664
sharlenecline@outlook.com
www.sharlenecline.com

Christmas Pottery Sale Extravaganza
2022-12-10 10:00 - 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Christmas Pottery Sale Extravaganza! Saturday December 10th, 10am-5pm at the Kenai Art Center. Come by the gallery for some great ceramic shopping.

Workshop: Doodling with Directions
2022-12-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Come doodle with instructor Rachel Grossl!
Ready to have fun with only a pencil and micron pen. Artist enthusiasts ages 9-99 welcome. All supplies included. Erasers need not apply.
$15/person or 2 for $20
To enroll in this fun workshop please contact Rachel directly after 5pm, contact info below.

Workshop: Gel Plate Printing - Notecards
2023-01-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Create beautiful one-of-a-kind prints with gel plate and acrylic paints with instructor Diane Dunn. Take home 12 uniquely printed note cards.

Workshop: Intro to Silverpoint
2023-01-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Silverpoint is the common term for Metalpoint, the art of drawing with metal on a clay-coated surface. While silver was traditionally the most widely used, drawings can be made using lead, copper, silver, or gold. Learn the fundamentals of drawing with metal, a favorite medium of Da Vinci, Dürer, and other Renaissance masters. All levels of experience welcome, and all supplies provided. Workshop limited to 10 participants.
To enroll in this workshop, please contact instructor Alex Rydlinski directly. Email to: alexrydlinski@gmail.com

Workshop: Elfjes Poetry for Writing
2023-01-28 12:00 - 15:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Learn to create Elfjes – “Elevens” little poems with just 11 words – with instructor Diane Dunn.
Take home whimsical poems that can add a touch of fun to any diary or journal

To enroll in this workshop, please contact Diane Dunn directly, contact info below.

First Thursday Opening Reception
2023-02-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us 5-7pm for the opening of two new February shows:
Metalwork & Play
Ed Hutchinson: Alaska Wildlife Portraitures
Special music provided by the Kenai Peninsula Brass Quintet

Workshop: Chinese Brush Painting
2023-02-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Learn Chinese brush painting techniques and create a Chrysanthemum painting with instructor Sharlene Cline. All experience levels welcome, and all supplies provided!
To enroll in this workshop, please contact instructor Sharlene Cline directly. Contact info below.

Workshop: Gel Plate Printing - Notecards
2023-02-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Create beautiful one-of-a-kind prints with gel plate and acrylic paints with instructor Diane Dunn. Take home 12 uniquely printed note cards. Limited to 6 participants, reserve your spot by contacting Diane Dunn directly. Contact info below.

Workshop: Doodling with Directions
2023-02-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Come doodle with instructor Rachel Grossl!
Ready to have fun with only a pencil and micron pen. Artist enthusiasts ages 9-99 welcome. All supplies included. Erasers need not apply.
$15/person or 2 for $20
To enroll in this fun workshop please contact Rachel directly after 5pm at 907-953-3288

Special First Friday Opening Reception
2023-03-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us Friday March 3rd, 5-7pm for the opening of Bird Call, a community open call show all about birds.
Kenai River Brewing Co. is releasing a brand new beer at the event, and the Tune Weavers will be playing live music in the gallery.
See you here!

First Friday: Bird Call & Beer Release Party
2023-03-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us March 3rd, 5-8pm for a special First FRIDAY! (No First Thursday this March, come out Friday instead!)
The gallery will be filled with bird-themed artwork from our amazing creative community.
Kenai River Brewing Co. will be releasing a new bird-themed beer: Ya Yellow-bellied Sap-Sucker!
The Tune Weavers will be providing live music, including some bird-themed songs, of course!
The opening reception is free and open to the public as always, but beer will be available for purchase. Proceeds from this fundraiser go towards the KAC’s ongoing building repair & renovation fund, to continue bringing you big and wonderful changes to this historic Old Town Kenai building. What we’ve done these last couple years, including the rear gallery/workshop room and the new gallery flooring, is just the beginning! Hope to see you March 3rd, thanks for supporting the Kenai Art Center.

Artist Talk: Enjoying Birds *NEW Date*
2023-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Artist Talk: Enjoying Birds

Presenter George Kirsch will discuss the fascinating hobby of birdwatching, and will be informative and interesting to all wildlife oriented people of all skill levels. Special emphasis will be placed on the location and identification of birds by sound, and of bird photography.
This presentation is free and open to the public, March 16th, 6-8pm at the Kenai Art Center.
Kirsch is known for his crisp, lively photographs of birds, and has three pieces currently on display in the KAC gallery.
