When entering the Merryman Performing Arts Center (MPAC), the visitor’s gaze is immediately captured with Tumbleweed Symphony, a large 13 ft. diameter suspended kinetic mobile. This truly distinctive, …
Category: Education
Take daughter Melanie Ross Brown, a graduate in Sociology from UNL, a social worker at Madonna, and then moving to Phoenix teaching Jazzercise while mothering three sons; and providing Mom and Dad a w …
Before our series celebrating Kearney’s Sesquicentennial, Kearney Creates had already given some attention to Jon Bokenkamp, Claire and Shelley Fort, Javi Fox, Jerry Fox, Jenny Homan, Tom Miles, Jim a …
Categories: Art, Culinary, Education, History, Literature, Music, Photography, Theater
Born and raised in Kearney for 22 years, I moved east to explore and experience new life conditions. First, Omaha and then Massachusetts. I attended Kearney schools with a primary interest in science, …
Amplified ~ The journal and newsletter of the Office of Equity and Diversity September 2022 Words from Elisha Hardekopf, Director of Building a Community of Equity The Route to Authenticity When my gr …
Categories: Education, Literature, Poetry, Stories, Writers
He was born in 1942 in Clonmel, Ireland, and was raised and educated in England. After a brief period as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, he graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor …
Armin-Gerd spent the early years of his life in a monastery children’s home, later he spent most of his youth in boarding schools. After his parents divorced, his mother married the actor Hans Otto, w …
Categories: Education, Literature, Theater
In 1989, Jarab had become one of the leaders of the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Czechoslovakia. In 1994, he recounted a story about speaking to a crowd of over 300,000 people marching for freedom. As …
Categories: Education, Literature, Oration
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 …
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 …