Museum of Nebraska Art, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
KEARNEY — The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) announces programs and classes for August 2025.
MONA Book Club
August 5 | 10:30-11:30 AM | Confluence: John Gottschalk’s Life of Duty, Service, and the Business of News by George Ayoub | Free Event
For avid readers whose interests lie in authors from Nebraska or reading about Nebraska or art are welcome and may join at any time.
Open Studio
August 5, 12, 19 | 10:00-5:00 PM and August 26 | 10:00-2:00 PM | Free event
Bring your own art supplies, or use the supplies and art prompt provided to create your own artwork.
Limited to 25 participants
No Instruction
Bring your art supplies or use the supplies and art prompt provided
Figure Drawing – Clothed and Draped Studies
August 7 | 6:30 -8:30 PM
Cost: $15 members / $20 non-members
Registration required at mona.unk.edu
Work from a live model and enhance your figure drawing skills. Participants will have the opportunity to draw the human figure in an open studio format. Models will either be clothed or draped.
Each workshop begins with short poses for gestures and sketches, followed by longer poses, with a final pose for completed drawings.
Open to all skill levels, the focus of this workshop is to practice proportion, gesture, movement, and perspective.
No Instruction
Open to individuals ages 15 and up
Easels, benches, boards, and tables are provided. Please bring drawing paper/sketchbooks and drawing materials of your choice.
Writing from the Wall: Creative Writing at MONA with Dorothy Miller
August 15 | 10:00-11:30 AM
Cost: $10 members / $15 non-members
Registration required at mona.unk.edu
How can visual art inspire writing? How can writing enhance the way we see? Join Dorothy Miller, retired English and creative writing teacher, to help answer these and other questions by exploring the connections between art, the observer, and the written word. Participants will experiment with different creative writing genres while engaging in close observations of selected artwork, imaginative responses to writing prompts, and shared discussions. All skill levels are welcome. Participants are encouraged to bring a notebook and preferred writing tools. Stools will be provided by MONA. No prior experience with art, art history, or writing is required.
Open to individuals ages 15 and up
Limited to 15 participants
Pottery Basics: Hand Building and Wheel Throwing with Javier Fox
August 25 & 26 | 6:00-9:00 PM, and August 28 | 6:00-8:00 PM
Cost: $100 members / $115 non-members
Registration required at mona.unk.edu
Open to individuals ages 18 and up
This is a three-session class. All materials are included in the cost of the class.
Limited to 10 participants
