Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

Mission

The mission of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts is to support established and emerging writers, visual artists and composers by providing working and living environments that allow uninterrupted time for work, reflection and creative growth and to present and support arts-related programming that expands public awareness and appreciation of the arts. 

Since 2001, the residence has hosted more than 50 working artists each year which include a combination of visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists from across the country and around the world. Each has found privacy in which to create along with ample opportunities to interact with fellow artists in a friendly community located in the rolling bluff country in eastern Nebraska. The KHN Center accommodates up to five artists at a time for stays that vary from two to eight weeks.

About the Center:
The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts was completed in 1969 as a luxury communal dwelling for several leading citizens of Nebraska City, a purpose it served for three decades before its conversion to the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. In its elegant design, inspired by the prairie architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Center itself an artistic expression of graceful living. With its broad overhangs, to shelter windows and courtyards from harsh weather, its southern exposure to bedrooms and living rooms, and an openness that bridges the barriers between the structure and its natural setting, the Center offers residencies of exceptional comfort.