Kenai Art Center

Clay Gingerbread House Workshop with Daisy Jeffords
2025-11-22 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Sorry….THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT!

Clay Gingerbread Workshop with potter Daisy Jeffords
November 22nd 4 pm at the KAC!
Sign up here: https://www.daisyjeffordspottery.com/book-online

Holiday Closure
2025-11-27 08:00 - 2025-12-02 17:00
The KAC will be closed for the holiday and for the Arts & Crafts Fair. We will open again on December 3rd.
For craft fair information: https://kenaiartcenter.org/event/https-kenaiartcenter-org-spring-kenai-arts-crafts-fair/

CALL FOR ARTISTS...to teach workshops at the KAC
2025-11-27 08:00 - 2026-03-04 17:00
The KAC is looking for experienced artists to teach workshops at the Kenai Art Center in 2026.
Painting, drawing, clay works, fiber, collage, weaving, print making, etc! If you love creating and teaching others how to create, we would love to host your workshop here at the KAC.
Workshop artists are responsible for:

Point of sale for all workshop fees
$45 building use fee (payable to the KAC before or on the day of the workshop)
all workshop materials

Workshop artists keep 100% of workshop fees. The KAC will provide advertising, tables, chairs, and other support items.
If you would like to be considered for booking a workshop with us, please contact us via email at kenaiartcenter@gmail.com (attention Charlotte). Please include:

A clear and detailed description of your workshop idea
Images of the finished the product
An artist statement telling us why your workshop will help grow creativity and the love of arts in our area.

Kenai Art Center Winter Arts & Crafts Fair 2025
2025-11-28 10:00 - 2025-11-29 17:00 | kenai Central High School, 9583 Kenai Spur Hwy, Kenai, Alaska, 99611, United States
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. We have not more vendor booths available.
November 28th & 29th. 10 am to 5 pm.
Lots of creative and unique handmade gifts made by our local artists here on the Kenai Peninsula.
If you’re a vendor, it’s never too early to reserve your booth!
Remember, we do not accept applications via email. Payment must accompany application in order to reserve a booth.
You can stop by the Kenai Art Center Wednesday through Saturday 12–5 and pick up a form or mail a form with a check to: The Kenai Arts Center at PO Box 703, Kenai Alaska 99611. For questions: call Vicky at 907-394-7381
or click here for a printable form: (This Event is SOLD OUT)
Kenai Arts application 2025

Clay Gingerbread House with Daisy
2025-12-06 10:00 - 18:30 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Come join potter Daisy Jeffords in our main gallery to learn how to construct a clay gingerbread house ornament. Four new 90 minute sessions available on December 6th. 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, or 4 pm. BOOKING FOR THESE SESSIONS OPENS November 20th at midnight. For more details and to register:https://www.daisyjeffordspottery.com/book-online

Kpen ArtHive
2025-12-13 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-01-10 09:00 - 12:00
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 CHRISTMAS SALE
2025-12-13 10:00 - 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Saturday December 13th
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 Kenia Potters Guild here: https://www.kenaipottersguild.com/

Closed For the Holidays!
2025-12-19 17:00 - 2026-01-02 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The KAC will be close for the holidays on Friday December 19th at 5 pm until January 2nd, opening at 5 pm for the First Friday Opening reception of the DREAMS OF THE SUN call for art exhibition.
For information about the January 2026 DREAMS OF THE SUN call for art submission details: https://kenaiartcenter.org/event/call-for-art-dreams-of-the-sun-january-2026/

Call For Art--DREAMS OF THE SUN January 2026
2026-01-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Call For Art: DREAMS OF THE SUN
Artwork submission dates: November 8th through December 19th 2025
Exhibition Dates: January 2nd through January 30th 2026
Opening Reception: Friday January 2nd 2026 5–7 pm

During the dark winter months in Alaska, we often reminisce of spring and summer–when the sun felt always present and real in our sky. From ancient myths to modern science, the sun has inspired awe, reverence, and creativity. It gives life, marks time, and shapes our days with its warmth and brilliance. For our upcoming exhibition, DREAMS OF THE SUN, we invite artists to explore the sun in all its forms—literal, symbolic, emotional, and environmental.
The KAC is interested in unique and original works including but not limited to: painting, photography, sculpture, textile, digital media, installation, and video, etc that reminds us of our love for the light, warmth and glow of the sun. Whether it’s golden hour landscapes, abstract interpretations of solar energy, personal stories of warmth and growth, or explorations of shadow and illumination, this show invites work that reflects the many dimensions of the sun.
We prefer new art but will accept original works that have not been on exhibition in the KAC in the last 5 years. All 2D and hanging art must have traditional “ready to hang” hardware attached. If submitting work that is framed or under glass, the surfaces must be clean and free of smudges and prints.

Art Entry Submission form must accompany all submissions. For form: https:https://kenaiartcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/art-entry-form-12-12-26.pdf
Artist statements of 250 words or less are recommended but not required and should accompany the above form at time of art submission.
The KAC will use our mission statement and vision statement to guide our choice when selecting works to include in the show. The KAC does not accept works that include violence or sexually explicit nudity. See our statements here: https://kenaiartcenter.org/our-mission/
For questions or more information please contact the KAC Executive Director at kenaiartcenter@gmail.com

KAC Closure due to weather and road conditions
2026-01-16 12:00 - 17:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
We love our volunteers, staff, art patrons and first responders, so for you safety, we will be closed today.

CONNECTED featuring artist Sharline Cline
2026-02-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Join us in the main gallery for Sharline Cline’s solo show CONNECTED.
Connected explores the intricate web of human relationships through the lenses of epigenetics, intergenerational trauma, healing, and ancestral narratives. The exhibition weaves together personal stores, scientific understanding, and community engagement to create a multifaceted exploration of human connection.
Sharline will also offer a workshop on February 21st where participants can explore their own ancestral narratives through mixed-media techniques, creating personal artworks that reflect on family history and identity. For workshop details: https://kenaiartcenter.org/event/make-your-own-collage-workshop-with-sharlene-cline/
To learn more about Sharlene Cline: https://sharlenecline.com/home.html
First Friday Opening Reception: February 6th 5–7 pm. Live Music with Jenny Baker. Refreshments. Free event open to the public.
This show will run from Friday February 6th through Friday February 27th.

BLADES OF BRASS Benefit Concert Live at the KAC!
2026-02-07 14:30 - 15:45 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The BLADES OF BRASS are back! Join us on Saturday February 7th for another live concert to benefit the SOHI and Homer High School band programs.
Established in 2024, Blades of Brass is composed of musicians from Homer to Kenai that are passionate about sharing the excitement and beauty of brass instruments. Come enjoy an afternoon of classical, jazz, and contemporary music!
Suggested donation: $15 per adult. Students and kids attend for free! All proceeds go to the SOHI and Homer High School band programs.
Tickets available at the door (CASH ONLY) or online: https://venmo.com/u/Frances-Jurek

THE CREEL Play by Kate Rich
2026-02-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
The Creel
By Kate Rich
Directed by Jennifer Norton
Friday February 13th. 7 Pm
$20 Adults $10 Youth
“The Creel” by Kate Rich, was written, and is presented, in conjunction with the exhibit “Connected” by Sharlene Cline. Her immersive installation is an exploration of our shared humanity. “The Creel” is a one act play centered around the gifts women hand down from generation to generation. In this story, it is 1974. Ella, a college dropout grappling with the sudden loss of her mother, is guided by a tenacious ancestor from 1845.
The cast includes Rebecca Trowbridge, Adele Person, Deb Rowzee, & Van Hawkins
This play will be performed on one night only at the Kenai Arts Center on February 13, 2025, at 7PM
For Tickets: https://pieronetheatre.ludus.com/index.php?sections=events

Kpen ArtHive
2026-02-14 09:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611

Make Your Own Collage Workshop with Sharlene Cline
2026-02-21 13:00 - 16:00
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 | 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 | 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

MOTHER OF... featuring artist Brianna Allen
2026-06-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Kenai Art Center, 816 Cook Ave, Kenai, AK, 99611
Main Gallery: MOTHER OF… 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
