Reddy’s Grocery Store John Reddy owned and operated a neighborhood grocery store on 4th Avenue in Kearney for many years. I first met him when my dad would take me and my sisters for dime purchases of …
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Category: Art
Visual Fine Art Forms
In 2006, Kearney Public Schools alumnus Robert M. Merryman and local institutional supporters, including the Ron and Carol Cope Foundation, and the Scott D. Morris family, joined hundreds of donors fr …
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Artist Bio by Jeff Montag I am originally from Moline, Illinois, and have resided in Kearney, Nebraska, with my wife and family the last 25 years. Most of my career has been spent in healthcare; howev …
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Photo: Then the Kearney State College, now University of Nebraska at Kearney Art Department. Pictured are Left to Right as you face the photo: Larry Peterson, Jack Karraker, Elmer Holzrichter, Keith L …
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When we launched the Kearney Creates website, one of our hopes would be that viewers would suggest people, groups, or works they think should be on the site. Fortunately, our hopes have not been disap …
You would be right if you thought that title indicated an artist whose imagination and sympathies and concerns are passionate and far reaching and profound. You’d also be right if you thought it was l …
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I grew up on a farm in western Nebraska, where my love of nature and interest in art found their beginning. My camera and sketchbook were with me at all times. Capturing the brief moments of the setti …
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Coming from the south parking area, passing the joyful squeals from the splash pad, you cross the Wayne and Virginia McKinney bridge to see unfolding before you the new Botanical Gardens. All of this …
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For Sondra Jonson, her career in art has been the fulfillment of a childhood dream. By first grade, she began to imagine her future as a professional artist; and by junior high she was taking weekend …
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Libby Clark has been a painter in Kearney, Nebraska, for 20 years. Kearney is where she has enjoyed participating in the annual Art in the Park as well as a city-wide project entitled ‘Cranes on Parad …