Open Studios

Our artists frequently open their studios to visitors. Short readings, musical presentations or visual presentations are sometimes scheduled amid informal visits with the artists. Our next open studio event will be held Thursday, February 2 from 5 - 7 p.m. to meet our current resident artists, view their work in progress, and learn about their creative process.

Gallery Receptions

Reception for Privacy and the Plains featuring the work of photographer, Kimberly Thomas, is scheduled for Thursday, February 2 from 5 -7 p.m. in conjunction with a First Thursday Open Studio event. The exhibition will remain on exhibit through Thursday, March 1, 2012.

Gallery hours & information.

Community Outreach

Continuing Education Offered Through Partnership with SCC
KHN continues to partner with Southeast Community College which offers a variety of classes in continuing education and personal enrichment. Interested students must register through SCC and should contact the SCC Nebraska City Continuing Education Coordinator, . The current schedule of classes to be held at KHN include:

Bob Ross Painting: Compact Rose Group Saturday, November 12 from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. This oil painting class, taught by Don Belik (a certified Bob Ross instructor), is designed for painters of all abilities including beginners. All supplies needed will be provided by the instructor for a materials fee of $20 payable the day of class via cash or check. Finished painting does not include a frame. Students under the age of 16 must register and attend with an enrolled adult. Tuition for this class (not including materials fee) is $30. Class #: ACSX-1625.

Resident Activities

Matt Dehamers was a visual artist-in-residence during the spring of 2006. A mural by Michael Dehaemers (KHN visual art resident 2006) was recently installed at the Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, Colorado. The mural relates to aspects of the school's history and movement throughout the last century from New Mexico to Southern Colorado to its current location in Aurora, Colorado. It also speaks to the life of St. John Francis Regis for which the school is name who worked with people in small medieval communities throughout the French Alps. Some of the imagery draws a relationship between the geography of Rocky Mountains and French Alps.

Another mural by Dehaemers, commissioned for the I-44 Welcome Center in Joplin, was also dedicated in May 2010 by The Missouri Department of Transportation to kick off Missouri Tourism month. Dehaemers says, “I enjoyed hearing all the stories the welcome center staff had about people coming through reacting to the mural including a group of Tibetan Monks who stopped to pose for a couple of pictures in front of it.”

Matt has also been awarded a public art commission to create a public art piece for the KCATA at the Troost Corridor (due to be completed by September 2010) in Kansas City, Missouri. The concept of this public art piece is a large scale kinetic sculpture that will move in relationship to arriving and departing buses. Matt’s work will soon be seen on the Creighton University Campus in Omaha, Nebraska. He is creating a multi-dimensional installation that will involve people from the Creighton campus and Omaha community. The project deals specifically with issues surrounding the world water crisis and will be installed at the Lied Arts Center.

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