mural progress

This slideshow documents the progression of the mural project from the beginning. Read more about the Constellation Studios mural below to learn more.

the constellation studios mural

The Constellation Studios Mural is a major artwork designed and painted by Karen Kunc with teams of students and volunteers. It is an imaginative nature-based abstraction of flowing transitions from watery pools – with her Blue Heron Press logo – to entwined plants, to symbols of galaxies and planets, to constructivist op-art geometric forms, to expanding clouds, radiating star clusters, and a cloud bubble filled with text-like calligraphy, all culminating with a large symbolic multi-branching tree. These themes reference the natural environment, organic vs. geometric interplay, micro- to macrocosmic perspectives, inter-dependence of creative imagination in art and science that celebrates the patterns of life.

community news & happenings

Surface Impressions – international juried print exhibition
June 17, 2024

Constellation Studios and the LUX Center for the Arts collaborate to present the third biennial ‘Surface Impressions,’ an ambitious international juried exhibition focusing on hand-produced relief prints from woodblock, linoleum cut, wood engraving, and mixed media relief prints. This showcase will continue our work of bringing fine art prints to...

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PAPER
February 25, 2024

This exhibition features an elegant array of paper as itself and as sheets for decorative purposes.   Paper has served as a carrier of meaning for centuries, weathering handling, spinning into thread, bookworms, distribution.  Making handmade paper invites exploration of the malleability of pulp for creation and imagery.  This show presents...

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Holiday Show & Sale: 10 Years/100 Works/$100
November 21, 2023

Holiday Show & Sale: 10 Years/100 Works/$100 Dec 1, 2023 – January 31, 2024 First Friday Opening December 1, 6-8pm   Special Sale hours: December 15-17, 11- 4pm   Anniversary Party Event: Tuesday, January 16, 6:30 – 7:30pm   This special showing and sale event celebrates the season and the...

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Special Music night with Kjell Cronn & Pance Zaev, September 1
August 3, 2023

Join us for a free special musical-night with Kjell Cronn and Pance Zaev.  Enjoy light snacks and beverages.  Cronn is a local singer-songwriter-artist with a nomadic history and wistful romanticism to his songwriting storytelling.  Zaev is a local musician who is an accomplished reed player with a polished style, from...

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Check out the Sales listings!
July 1, 2023

Visit https://constellation-studios.net/sales/ for the online Sales of select prints, artist books and Handmade at Constellation Studios items.   Find special works for gifts, enhance your art collection, support makers!   Updates and new items are added regularly.   Also visit www.KennyWaltonGlass.com  for handblown glass vessels and paperweights in the online store.

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Constellation Collaboration with UNL Students: Monoprint & Collage Printstallation
March 28, 2022

April 1 – April 26, 2022 April 1 First Friday Reception 6:00 – 8:00 This exhibition presents the workshop investigations of invited UNL art students to engage with monoprinting and “gum transfer” techniques for a three-day intensive experience to create a variety of images and materials for a collaborative installation...

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Shop Handmade at Constellation Studios
December 8, 2021

Visit the Constellation Studios sales page for unique and handmade items:  prints, hand-bound books, decorative boxes, printed t-shirts, natural botanical dyed silk scarves, handmade paper art. Perfect for gifting and collecting! For handblown glass vessels and paperweights, visit: www.KennyWaltonGlass.com

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“an accounting”
June 15, 2021

Artist in Residence Elizabeth Katt will be working at Constellation Studios this summer to continue her performance/action, “an accounting” begun in 2020.  By hand, she meticulously documents each death due to coronavirus in the United States – one tally for each life lost, according to data from Worldometer and Columbia...

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Mural Update & Refresh
November 2, 2020

Flaming Tree on the mural

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Nine Nebraskans Public Art Installation
June 1, 2020

Nine artists from the region were invited to design and carve their own large woodblock for printing impressions at Constellation Studios, which took place in May with one-by-one printing sessions at the studio.   The 9 large 24” x 36” black and white prints will make a composite Artwork that will...

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Surface Impressions: International Print Show
June 1, 2020

June 5th – August 28th   2020 Juror:  Mark PascaleJanet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago co-organized by Constellation Studios and Lux Art Center • First Friday August 7, 5 – 8pm • Upcoming! Steamroller printing of Nine Nebraskans woodblocks, August 15, 1-4pm, Lux...

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Artist in Residence Aleksander Wozniak
September 24, 2019

Aleksander (Olek) was here through all of September 2019. Olek comes from Szczytno, Poland, and he is head of printmaking at the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland. While at Constellation Studios he was a guest at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School...

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