Kenai Art Center

DOT MANDALA NECKLACE Workshop with Rachel Grossl
2026-03-21 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | 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

Decorative Egg Workshop with Sandra Lewis
2026-03-24 17:30 - 20:30 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join teacher and artist Sandra Lewis to learn how to create your own Origami Paper Covered Eggs and Batik Eggs.
Just in time for Easter or Mother’s Day. A gift for someone else or for YOU. No experience needed.
Supplies included in workshop fee.
To reserve your spot email Sandra at: sklewis60@gmail.com. (cash, check, Venmo welcome)

KPBSD Annual Student Art Show
2026-04-03 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
35th Annual 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. In the main gallery we show the works of high school students. The back gallery showcases the middle school art works. The KPBSD art teachers hang the work. We would like to thank judges Bryan Olds, Joshua Ostraff, and Susan Watkins for volunteering their time to award prizes. 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. The show runs from April 1 through April 24th. This is a free event. Open to the Public.

LIGHTS AND PERFECTIONS--Artist Moira Ireland
2026-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 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/

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 UTC | 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

COPTIC BOOK BINDING with Diane Peterson
2026-05-30 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
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 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
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

MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF featuring artist Brianna Allen
2026-06-05 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | 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 Potters Guild--Clay On Display 2026
2026-07-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
In our main gallery in July, the Kenai Potters Guild will put their CLAY ON DISPLAY within the theme of BIG AND SMALL.
Established in 1973, the guild’s pottery work space is located next to the Kenai Art Center in old town Kenai. Classes are hosted by Studio Potters who have the time and desire to share their craft.

From the KPG:
“Learn – Create – Pass it on“ is the mantra we stand by in the KPG, this way of thinking is essential to our guild for several reasons.
First being that we all began our practice by learning.
Second, creating and continuing to practice this age old craft is vital to us as artists.
Concluding with Pass it on to ensure that pottery will be ever present in our vibrant art community.”

For More info about the KPG: https://www.kenaipottersguild.com/work/moment-57agf. or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenai_potters_guild/

This show will run through July 31st.

A MIDLIFE REVERIE Theresa Ritter Solo Show
2026-07-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
We are excited to welcome artist Theresa Ritter and her solo show titled A MIDLIFE REVERIE to our back gallery in July.
First Friday Opening Reception July 3rd. 5–7 pm.
From Theresa: “Reverie is a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream if you will. I am a lifelong creative who has explored many avenues of expression before falling in love with painting and finding the courage to share it with the world. This past October, I turned the big 5-0, which led me to a lot of reflection over the first half of my life leading to the inspiration for this show. While my reveries of the last 50 years were not always pleasant, I definitely came across memories that shaped me into the person I have become today. From early childhood memories, those awkward, angst-filled teen years and life beyond as a responsible adult…so much packed into all those years that have raced by all too quickly. This body of work is a reflection of some of my memories….”
This show will run through July 31st.
For more information about Theresa Ritter:https://ohmycraftyheart.com/

THREE CURRENTS, ONE TIDE
2026-08-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us in the main gallery for THREE CURRENTS, ONE TIDE--featuring artists Annette Henry, Georg-Ann Phillips and Janie Stewart.
This group show will feature the works of three artists who work and flow together like currents in a river.
First Friday Opening Reception. Artist talks, live music, and refreshments. Open to the public.
More info coming soon.

Abbey Ulen. Solo Show
2026-09-05 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us in the main gallery in August to experience the works of artist Abbey Ulen.
First Friday Opening Reception August 7th 5–7 pm.
More info coming soon!

SILENT ART AUCTION 2026
2026-10-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us in our main gallery in October for our SILENT ART AUCTION annual fundraiser.
The Silent Art Auction opens at our First Friday Opening Reception October 2nd 5–7 pm.
The largest annual fundraiser for the Kenai Art Center is just around the corner. The KAC staff has handpicked and invited your favorite KAC artists to participate by donating unique and original art for auction at our biggest fundraising event of the year. Visitors to the gallery will be able to bid on art throughout the month. Bidding closes on Friday October 30th at 5 pm. The winning bidders will be contacted the next day.
The Kenai Art Center is 100% funded by private donors and we couldn’t exist without this support. This fundraiser supports the Kenai Art Center’s workshops, programs, and preservation of our historic old town Kenai building. Many thanks to everyone for supporting and participating!
Show/Bidding dates: Friday October 2nd through Friday October 30th.
Live Music. Refreshments. Open to the public.

BIG ART--SMALL DIMENSIONS Call For Art Exhibition
2026-11-06 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | AK
Call Summary: We invite artists 18 ages to 100+ to submit original artwork for our upcoming BIG ART–SMALL DIMENSIONS (12x12x12) Nov–Dec Exhibition. The goal is to celebrate creativity within a smaller, uniform, format. This is an open-theme show. For Specific show details please visit: https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/12x12X12-Call-For-Art-Show-Prospectus.pdf
Important Dates:
Submission Dates: October 3rd through October 31st 2026.
Opening Reception: Friday November 6th 5– 7 pm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday November 4th through Friday December 18th
Artwork Post-Show Pick-up: Saturday December 19th during business hours or January 6th through January 30th 2027.
Please see our mission statement and vision statement guidelines and subject matter on our “about us” web page.

Kenai Art Center Arts & Crafts Fair 2026
2026-11-27 10:00 - 17:00, 2026-11-28 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | 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 (America/Anchorage) | 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

Kenai Potters Guild Christmas Sale 2026
2026-12-12 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The Kenai Potters Guild Annual Christmas Pottery Sale!
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Come and see the original and unique pottery for sale at the PAG’s annual Christmas event!
For more information, contact the Kenai Potters Guild here: https://www.kenaipottersguild.com/

KAC Christmas Holiday Closure
2026-12-21 08:00 - 2027-01-08 17:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The KAC will be closed for the Christmas holiday beginning Wednesday December 21st through January 8th opening at 5 pm for our SECOND Friday Opening Reception and January 2027 exhibition.
