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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Hearing Loop Advocacy Journey By Carol S. Lomicky I received my bachelor and master’s degrees from KSC and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I retired from the University of Nebraska at …
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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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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 …
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 phone rings by my beside at 6:30 a.m. Monday May 1, 2022. The caller I.D. tells me it’s Bonnie Caplan. I had just added her to my contacts a few days before when Jackie Purdy had visited with me a …