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Category: Art

Visual Fine Art Forms

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 …

Categories: Art, Education

John Raimondi’s career as a sculptor began with the models he built in the apartment in which he lived above the hobby shop where model kits were plentiful. He was in the Boston area then, you can tel …

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The Kearney Cultural Partners is a group of local businesses that have joined together to bringing a rich assortment of art, music, dance, theater, movies, history, literature, and family fun to Kearn …

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In the late 1980s Scott Morris donated a downtown building, giving Kearney’s YMCA its first physical location.  Known as “The Storefront,” this small building had a few offices and a large multi-purpo …

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Bob Kerby was born in Colorado June 22, 1929. He was 6 years old and playing in La Junta, CO, where his parents were building contractors. He saw two cowboys riding their horses down an alley. “Boy, m …

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Jack will be fondly remembered as an artist, educator and museum founder. He was one of three people who founded the Museum of Nebraska Art. He was honored to serve as a board member at MONA for a num …

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Drawing his inspiration from the prairie landscapes and seasons, Larry Peterson revealed to audiences the magic of the Plains in both his artwork and art instruction.

Categories: Art, Education

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