Kenai Art Center

Kpen ArtHive
2026-02-14 09:00 - 12:00 UTC, 2026-09-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Anchorage) | 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.

Make Your Own Collage Workshop with Sharlene Cline
2026-02-21 13:00 - 16:00 UTC
Learn how to make your own collage from magazines, maps, decorative paper, and other items that represent your artistic vision. Join Homer artist Sharlene Cline as she shows you how to create a unique, meaningful and expressive piece of art that represents you, your heart and your imagination. All ages and levels welcome.
Supplies Provided: canvas, decorative paper, magazines, washi tape, maps, adhesives.
Participants, please bring: Elements to add like photos, momentos, etc.
Saturday February 21. 1:00–4:00 pm
$50. For reservations please RSVP with Sharlene at 907-299-7664
This workshop will occur in connection with Sharlene Cline’s solo show titled CONNECTED in the main gallery for the month of February.

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

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/

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/

SUMMER HOURS BEGIN!
2026-06-02 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Anchorage)
Summer Hours Are Now In Effect!
June through August–TUESDAY through SATURDAY 12–5 pm

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 MOTHERHOOD: GOOD GRIEF!
This show will run from June 3rd through June 26th.

CAPTURING OUR TOWN via plein air
2026-06-06 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Anchorage) | The Kite Festival Grounds
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
June 6th Location:
The Kenai Kite Festival (Millennium Square Park, frontage Rd/Bridge Access, Kenai)
Time: 11:00–3:00
Instructions for Artists:
Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

More details about the City of Kenai Annual Kite Festival: https://www.facebook.com/events/millennium-park/kenai-kite-festival/1291678322902462/

CAPTURING OUR TOWN via Plein Air
2026-06-10 15:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage)
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
June 10th Location:
Wednesday Market Soldotna Creek park
Time: 3:00–7:00 pm
Instructions for Artists:
Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
*More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

KPen ArtHive--event cancelled for June and July
2026-06-13 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
No ArtHive for June and July. See you August 14th!
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--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/

Holiday Closure
2026-07-04 00:00 (America/Anchorage)
We will be closed for the 4th of July but will be open for business on Tuesday July 7th 12–5 pm.

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO RAINY WEATHER
2026-07-11 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Anchorage)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO RAINY WEATHER
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
July 11th Location: Erik Hansen Park, 913 Mission Ave, Kenai
Time: 2:00–5:00 pm

Instructions for Artists:
Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
*More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

CAPTURING OUR TOWN via Plein Air
2026-07-25 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Anchorage)
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
July 25th Location:Holy Assumption Russian Orthodox church, 1106 Mission Ave, Kenai
Time: 12:00–3:00 pm

Instructions for Artists:
Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
*More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

THREE CURRENTS, ONE TIDE--A Lifetime Of The Language of Art
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-–A Lifetime Of The Language Of Art featuring artists Annette Henry, Georg-Anne Phillips and Janie Stewart.
This group show will feature the works of three female artists who work and flow together like currents in a river. Their wisdom of experience will feature throughout the works of these artists who use their extensive life experience and long-term artistic dedication to provide a seasoned perspective on art and friendship.
First Friday Opening Reception. Artist talks, live music, and refreshments. Open to the public.
This show will run through August 28th.

(from left to right) Georg-Anne Phillips, Janie Stewart, Annette Henry

AUGUST ABUNDANCE with artist Sara Allen in our back gallery
2026-08-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage)
We would like to welcome artist Sarah Allen to our back gallery for the month of August.
Sara Allen is an Alaska artist and founder of Laughing Lupin Studios. After more than two
decades working in Alaska’s tourism industry, she now creates art full-time from her
home studio in Anchorage with her dog Bobber & her husband Nick cheering her on.
Inspired by Alaska’s wildflowers, changing seasons, and the beauty hidden within everyday
chaos. Sara creates vibrant acrylic and mixed-media paintings filled with bold color, layered
textures and expressive mark-making. While flowers often appear throughout her work,
her paintings are less about specific plants and more about capturing the feeling of joy,
wonder, resilience, and connection to place.
August is Alaska at its fullest. The last of the salmon runs, berries fat and ready for
plucking, gardens overflowing and the fireweed turning to fluff. Woven into that abundance is the quiet
knowledge that the season is already beginning to turn. The first hints of autumn appear, reminding us how
fleeting these bright days truly are.
August Abundance celebrates this uniquely Alaskan moment, when nature is overflowing, the light still
lingers late into the evening, and we are invited to savor the richness of the season before it slips gently
toward fall.
You can find Sara’s art year-round at Tiny Gallery downtown Anchorage and in Girdwood, at the Girdwood
Center for Visual Arts as well as local fairs, markets and on her website.

AUGUST ABUNDANCE will run through Friday August 28th.

CAPTURING OUR TOWN via Plein Air
2026-08-08 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Anchorage)
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
August 8th Location: North Beach, Spruce St, Kenai
Time: 2:00–5:00pm. (PLEASE NOTICE THE TIME CHANGE)
Instructions for Artists:

Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
*More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

CAPTURING OUR TOWN via Plein Air
2026-08-22 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Anchorage)
The KAC is offering twice monthly outdoor art events (June through August) that give artists a chance to get together and creatively capture the scenery, people and feeling of the Kenai/Soldotna Area. This project has two purposes:
1: Offer outdoor events that support and encourage artists to create bonds within the art community.
2. Encourage artists to create plein air works for submission for the upcoming call for art show titled OUR TOWN scheduled for March 2027.
August 22nd Location: Soldotna Visitors Center & River Boardwalk
Time:12:00–3:00 pm

Instructions for Artists:
Join local artists outside while we create art that captures a sense of where we wander, rest, socialize, recreate and live. Grab your easels, paint brushes, paints, camera, sketchpad, paper, scissors, glue, or whatever you use to render scenes and spend some time outdoors with art friends capturing the unique character of Kenai and Soldotna.
Spots in old town Kenai, the Kenai bluffs, the kite festival, Soldotna Creek Park, local historical sites and other places will be where we come together as artists and the community becomes our subject matter for “the canvas”.
Sign in at every plein air location with our event coordinator and you can be part of the group that will be invited to submit works for the March 2027 show titled CAPTURING OUR TOWN.* At this opening reception in March we will be partnering up with the Kenai River Brewing Co to launch a new beer at this annual beer launch fundraiser.
*More opening reception and call for art details coming in the future!
For more detailed instructions and plein air event dates and locations:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Capturing-OUR-TOWN-via-Plein-Air-2.pdf

TWIG CROWNS AND PAPER BOATS featuring artist ABBEY ULEN
2026-09-04 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
First Friday Opening Reception September 4th. 5– 7 pm
In our main gallery we welcome the works of artist ABBEY ULEN in her solo show titled TWIG CROWNS AND PAPER BOATS.
In Abbey’s words:
I truly believe it’s crucial to keep our sense of wonder and curiosity alive. Through this
collection, I hope we’re reminded of where we began—the toys we cherished, the
exploration of the natural world, the people who shaped us, and the magical imaginings
about adulthood that defined our playtime.
Using techniques like thin, flat paint passages contrasted with highly rendered areas, and
layering of additional elements, helps convey emotion in my work. I’m strongly inspired by
the styles of artists like Mary Cassatt and Andrew Wyeth, as well as the imagery and
storytelling of European medieval paintings.”
Live Music, refreshments, artist talk. Open to the public and all are welcome.

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.

Mixed Media Junkies--Group show
2026-10-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
From the MM Junkies:
“We are The Mixed Media Junkies, a local group of artists who focus on art exploration. We are currently creating a variety of repurposed books. Our exhibition, Creative Pages, will feature works blending metals, cloth, papers, wood, leather, and found elements to explore and redefine the book as art. [This] show will feature works blending metal, cloth, paper, wood, leather and found elements to explore and redefine the book as art itself.”
This group is comprised of the artists: Rachel Grossl, Lily Huebsch, Roxanne Sedor, Marali Sargent-Smith, and Jan Wallace.
First Friday Opening Reception in the back gallery will be October 2nd. 5–7 pm.
Artist talks, live music, refreshments, free to the public.
More info to come!

KPen ArtHive
2026-10-10 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Anchorage)
