Kenai Art Center

FOR THE BIRDS Call-For-Art
2026-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The KAC, the Kenai River Brewing Company and the Tune Weavers will be getting together for this MARCH 2026 call-for-art show and beer launch fundraiser titled FOR THE BIRDS. Live music and a locally brewed blueberry and chia inspired lager will be on offer at this bird themed fundraiser.
Opening Reception: Friday March 6th 5–7 pm.
Visit the Kenai River Brewing Company: https://www.kenairiverbrewing.com/
More info about The Tuneweavers: https://www.facebook.com/tune.weavers.3/
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Art Submission Details for artists: What peaks your artistic interest in birds? Movement, sound, behavior? The KAC is looking for bird themed art–2D, 3D, fiber art, sculpture, kinetic, photography, digital, etc that celebrates the love of birds. Work submitted must be created in the last 5 years and not shown at the KAC before. All artists applying must be Alaskan residents and 18 years of age or older. All submitted works must be accompanied by a filled out art submission form. All works must have traditional hanging hardware attached. Works that hang must be completely assembled when submitted and all unique hardware must be attached and supplied by the artist.
Artwork Submission Dates: February 7th through February 28th 2025.
Show Dates: This show will run from Wednesday March 4th through Friday March 27th.
Download a submission form:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/art-entry-form-12-12-26.pdf

For more information: kenaiartcenter@gmail.com

KPen ArtHive
2026-03-14 09:00 - 12:00 | 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.

DOT MANDALA NECKLACE Workshop with Rachel Grossl
2026-03-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Cost: $25 or $40 for two students. Cash and check only. Reserve your spot at the KAC
Age: 10 yrs to 100
All Supplies Included
16 spots available
For Questions, contact Rachel at 907-953-3288
More info about the workshop: Dot Mandala Necklace Class

KPBSD Annual Student Art Show
2026-04-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
KPBSD Student Art Show.
Every year the main and back galleries at the KAC exhibit creative, unique and inspiring art from the minds of our local students. The KPBSD art teachers jury and hang the work. The KAC loves to help support these middle school and high school artists and we invite you to come and enjoy this show.
The First Friday Opening Reception will be Friday April 3rd at 5:00 pm. This is a free event. Open to the Public.

LIGHTS AND PERFECTIONS--Artist Moira Ireland
2026-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
In our main gallery the KAC will be featuring painter Moira Ireland in her first solo show titled LIGHTS AND PERFECTIONS.
Artist Talk 6 pm. Live Music. Refreshments. Free Event. Open to the public.
This show will run from April 29th through May 29th
Moira is not new to the KAC. She won first prize in a previous call-for-art judged show and has shown many interesting and creative pieces at open shows at the KAC.
Moira watches for the revelation of the divine presence in everyday instances, dreams and stories. Her use of mixed media and paint seeks to capture a glimpse of the future in process, the dance of creation declaring the divine and the movement of faith as action. Moira enjoys the contrast of reflective and shiny surfaces with heavy texture and pattern. She also layers natural elements or objects over abstract imagery.

Moira Ireland is a Kenai artist who paints from her home. Between walks with her dog and homeschooling her 5 children, she can be found at her easel, in her garden or working on her home. Moira expects to graduate from Milan Art Institute in 2026 and is looking forward to traveling this year both around Alaska and beyond.
More about Moira:https://www.instagram.com/moiraireland.art/

Kenai Potters Guild MOTHER'S DAY POTTERY SALE
2026-05-09 10:00 - 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
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

MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF featuring artist Brianna Allen
2026-06-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Main Gallery: MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF solo show featuring artist Brianna Allen
First Friday Opening Reception Friday June 5th
Live Music. Refreshments. Free event and open to the public. This show runs from June 3rd through June 26th.
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, cement installation work and the written word.
For more info about Brianna and her project: https://www.momologuecollective.com/
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Back Gallery: Artist Zirrus Vandevere.

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.”
Zirrus’ show will be opening concurrently with Brianna Allen’s solo show titled MOTHER OF…
This show will run from June 3rd through June 26th.

Kenai Art Center Arts & Crafts Fair 2026
2026-11-27 10:00 - 17:00, 2026-11-28 10:00 - 17:00 | kenai Central High School, 9583 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai, Alaska, 99611, United States
An eclectic mix of homemade local goods to help us celebrate the Christmas Holiday!
Come and choose from beautiful, unique and original artistic items to help fill Christmas presents, stockings, and mantlepieces! November 27th and 28th at the Kenai Central High School commons and gym. The event runs Friday and Saturday 10:00 am–5:00 pm.
Vendor Information:
It’s not too early to reserve your booth. Registrations must be received either by postmark or in person at the Kenai Art Center by November 14th 2025. We do not take any applications via email due to payment needing to accompany the application.
Booth fees are as follows:
8×8′ Booth (limit 3)- $165
4.4′ Booth (Limit 2)- $85
Early Set-Up Fee-$25
Reserve a Booth for 2025
Booth Application: https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-Kenai-Arts-application.pdf
Vendors are welcome to reserve a booth by dropping off an application at the Kenai Fine Art Center or by mailing it in. We do not accept applications via email because your payment must accompany the application in order to reserve a booth. Please make checks payable to “Peninsula Art Guild.” Applications are available at the Art Center, or you can print them out at home by following the link above.
For questions, please call Shannon at 907-953-0247. If mailing your application, please use this address below:
Kenai Art Center
P.O. Box 703
Kenai, AK 99611

Kenai Art Center Winter Arts & Crafts Fair 2026
2026-11-27 10:00 - 2026-11-28 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
An eclectic mix of homemade local goods to help us celebrate the Christmas Holiday!
Come and choose from beautiful, unique and original artistic items to help fill Christmas presents, stockings, and mantlepieces! November 27th and 28th at the Kenai Central High School commons and gym. The event runs Friday and Saturday 10:00 am–5:00 pm.
Vendor Information:

It’s not too early to reserve your booth. Registrations must be received either by postmark or in person at the Kenai Art Center by November 14th 2025. We do not take any applications via email due to payment needing to accompany the application.
Booth fees are as follows:
8×8′ Booth (limit 3)- $165
4.4′ Booth (Limit 2)- $85
Reserve a Booth for 2025
Booth Application: https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-Kenai-Arts-application.pdf
Vendors are welcome to reserve a booth by dropping off an application at the Kenai Fine Art Center or by mailing it in. We do not accept applications via email because your payment must accompany the application in order to reserve a booth. Please make checks payable to “Peninsula Art Guild.” Applications are available at the Art Center, or you can print them out at home by following the link above.
For questions, please call Shannon at 907-953-0247. If mailing your application, please use this address below:
Kenai Art Center
P.O. Box 703
Kenai, AK 99611
