MKAC Galleries 2025-2026 Season Calendar

ABOUT MKAC GALLERIES

Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries provides rich cultural programming for the Emerald Coast and serves as a teaching adjunct for Northwest Florida State College, which encompasses fine arts programming in our 2700 square feet of world-class exhibition space in the McIlroy, Holzhauer, and Hallway Galleries in Building 110, on the Niceville Campus of Northwest Florida State College.

The Galleries preserve a valuable collection of several thousand artworks and artifacts, ranging from ancient amphorae to Salvador Dalí watercolors, including the world’s most extensive collection of paintings by Emil Holzhauer, a member of the New York Ashcan School and a German expressionist painter.

MKAC also curates the Doolittle Raid World War II History Permanent Exhibition in Raider Sports Arena on the Niceville Campus, and the Congressman Robert L.F. Sikes Museum & Collection at the Crestview Center. We offer tours and site visits by appointment, as well as mentoring. We host a volunteer and internship program. Volunteers can serve as docents, preserve and handle artifacts, meet artists, and gain a wealth of experience in the field. All volunteers are required to complete an interview, provide fingerprints/background check, and complete training.

To inquire, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator, Jasmine, at 850-729-6044 or richar48@nwfsc.edu.

We wholeheartedly appreciate our colleagues, artists, contributors, collaborators, supporters, students, volunteers, educators, leaders, visitors, and vendors for all they do and look forward to another dynamic season!

Warmly, Wren

Jennifer Wren Supak, MFA, MA Gallery Director & Curator

Mattie Kelly Arts Center, Northwest Florida State College

AUGUST 2025

BALLISTIC: DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, AND SCULPTURES 2005-2025, KEVIN HARAN

Holzhauer & Hallway Galleries

Exhibition Dates: August 18 – December 18, 2025

Artist Demo and workshops: September 3rd and 4th, 2025

Marie Snow Greene Fine Arts Bldg. 120, Rm. 512, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Artist Reception: September 4, 2025, Thursday 5pm – 7pm

This retrospective traces the arc of one artist’s body of work over 20 years, offering a unique opportunity to see where an artist with a combination of skill, consistency, and imagination could go.

Kevin blends materials, just as he blends realities, through an admixture of realism and fiction. He uses drawing, painting, and sculpture, utilizing a variety of traditional and recycled materials— some quiet and others bright—as he considers family history, military service, weapons, machinery, planes, memorials, monuments, even spaceships, and, ultimately, peace.

Kevin Haran is an accomplished artist and professor at the University of Central Florida’s School of Visual Arts and Design, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students.

33RD ANNUAL EMERALD COAST NATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION

McIlroy Gallery

Exhibition Dates: August 18 – December 18, 2025

Artists Reception: September 4, 2025, Thursday, 5pm – 7pm

The Emerald Coast National is an engaging exhibition featuring contemporary artists working in a variety of styles and media. This year’s theme, “Texture and Touch,” symbolizes connection, involvement, function, comfort, and need. We are pleased to announce that the guest judge for ECN 33 is Nicholas Croghan, MA, MFA, an artist, curator, and the director of the Pensacola Museum of Art at the University of West Florida.

Spring 2026

FROM THE COLLECTION: MARIE SNOW GREENE

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

The Susan Myers Learning Research Commons, Building 500

NWFSC Niceville Campus

Exhibit Opens: Spring 2026

Dedication Ceremony: Date TBD

Marie Snow Greene (American, 1921-2008) was an illustrator who worked in the Pentagon during World War II and later at Eglin Air Force Base. She studied at George Washington University and was a student of the influential San Francisco watercolorist, Dong Kingman (1911-2000). During her time in the area, Greene also studied under Emil Holzhauer, an artist associated with the New York Ashcan School of Art in the early 20th century.

Like many people in the region, Green is a local and global citizen who made her mark in life. MKAC, NWFSC, is pleased to present the legacy of this diligent, creative woman. The Marie Snow Greene Fine Arts Building 120 proudly bears her name and is where students study drawing, painting, and ceramics today, who, like Greene, will go out into the world to pursue their own careers and make their own mark.

Arnie Hart Programming

Annual arts programming in memory of NWFSC’s Fine Arts Department’s inaugural professor of ceramics and sculpture, Mr. Arnie Hart, invests in the creative development of our students and the region as a whole.

STUDENT WORKSHOP

MKAC Galleries, Workroom, Building 110, Room 326

Workshop Dates: March 9 - March 12, 2026, 10am - 4pm & March 12, 2026, 6pm-8pm

Students learn professional practices, framing, matting, and presentation skills.

ARNIE HART JURIED STUDENT SHOW

McIlroy Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 9 - May 7, 2026

Awards Ceremony & Reception: April 9, 2026, 4:30pm-6:30 pm

Student work is guest-judged by a seasoned artist and educator; selected students are invited to participate in what is often their first art show. The winner of best-in-show wins $500.00 and a one-semester full scholarship.

VISUAL ARTS FACULTY SHOW

Holzhauer Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 9 - June 9, 2026

The Faculty Show is an opportunity to learn more about the individual practices of the artists who teach in the Fine Arts program and to discuss their course offerings with them.

Victoria Goro-Rapoport

McIlroy & Holzhauer Galleries

Exhibition Dates: September 3 - December 17, 2026

Artist Reception & Gallery Talk: September 10, 2026, 4:30pm-6:30pm

Victoria is a Professor of Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is a practicing artist and printmaker. Throughout her career, she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. A master herself, she works in the metal-point tradition of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Albrecht Dürer, original masters of the technique. Thematically, her works explore the intersection of imagination with science and technology, sensitively or humorously, highlighting both their connections and their departures.

Congressman Robert L. F. Sikes Museum

Mattie Kelly Arts Center proudly preserves, protects, and shares material culture concerning the public service of Robert “Bob” Sikes between 1940 and 1979. During this time, he was the longest-running representative of Florida’s 1st Congressional District.

Congressman Robert L. F. Sikes Museum, Northwest Florida State College, 805 East James Lee Blvd, Crestview, FL 32539, open during business hours, contact MKAC Galleries, 850-729-6044, artgalleries@NWFSC.edu

Doolittle Raid Permanent Exhibition

The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle’s Raid, led by Lt. Col. James Doolittle, on April 18th, 1942, was a strategic air raid by the United States on the Japanese islands during WWII. Trainees for the raid trained at Eglin Field, Florida, beginning March 1, 1942, for concentrated training in simulated carrier deck takeoffs, low-level and night flying, lowaltitude bombing, and over-water navigation.

This exhibit opened in 2013 during the April anniversary, with three Raiders present for the inspirational tradition “Turning of the Cup” ceremonies. There are roughly 750 items in the collection maintained in the NWFSC College Library in the Susan Myers Learning Research Commons, Building 500, Niceville Campus.

Doolittle Raid Permanent Exhibition, Raider Sports Arena, Open before Raider events. Northwest Florida State College, Raider Arena, 100 College Boulevard, East, Niceville, Florida, 32578. Contact MKAC Galleries, 850-729-6044, artgalleries@NWFSC.edu

MKAC PERMANENT COLLECTION

Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries preserves a multimillion-dollar collection of art and artifacts.

Harmuth Mask Collection

Congressman Robert L. F. Sikes Collection

MKAC Galleries preserves the historical, personal, and career artifacts of Robert L. F. Sikes, the longest-serving congressman in the 1st Congressional District of the State of Florida.

Emil Holzhauer Collection

In 1967, German expressionist and Ashcan School painter Emil Holzhauer bequeathed the majority of his artwork, comprising over 400 paintings and studio papers, to the College, making it the custodian of the most extensive single collection of Holzhauer’s work and the copyright holder of his image use.

The Harmuth Mask Collection was given to Northwest Florida State College in 1998 as a promised gift from Dr. Henning and Anne Harmuth of Destin, Florida. The Harmuths traveled the world together for nearly forty years, amassing an impressive collection of works from every continent except Antarctica.

L.R. Davis Early American Flint Glass Goblet Collection

Lachlan R. Davis of Destin (a Washington, D.C. native) bequeathed his Flint Glass Goblet Collection to Northwest Florida State College in 1994. Over 330 goblets, made from locally sourced materials, comprise the Collection, assembled between 1950 and 1993. It is one of the most complete collections of such goblets in the United States.

Marie Snow Greene Collection

The Marie Snow Greene Collection comprises paintings, prints, and drawings by Marie Snow Greene, as well as archival materials and works of art collected by the artist. Greene was a watercolor artist and local art teacher and had been a longtime student of Emil Holzhauer.

M.J. Davis Bellflower Pattern Pressed Glass Collection

Mildred J. Davis donated her extensive collection of Bellflower-pattern pressed glass to Northwest Florida State College in 1994. The Davis Bellflower Collection of glassware with a delicate design of flowers, vines, and tendrils, as well as incised lines, is complete except for two goblets that Davis was never able to locate.

Salvador Dalí Collection

In 1999, collector Dotty Blacker donated her complete suite of 100 Dalí woodblock prints to Northwest Florida State College. Commissioned by the Italian government in 1951, the prints reflect Dalí’s 100 watercolor illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s early 14th-century masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.

Sublette New Guinea Collection

In 1994, Alvah T. Sublette, Jr., of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, donated the 300-piece New Guinea Art Collection to Northwest Florida State College. All items in the collection were obtained in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea or from sites along the Gulf of Papua.

MISSION

Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries conducts programs to enhance the educational mission of Northwest Florida State College. In service of arts and culture on the Emerald Coast, the galleries present exhibitions highlighting accomplished artists across styles and media, and also exhibit, preserve, and present historical information. The MKAC Galleries are a valued cultural asset for the Emerald Coast.

Hours: Monday - Thursday, 10 am to 4 pm.

Tours: Contact artgalleries@nwfsc.edu or call (850) 729-6044.

Building 110, 100 College Blvd. E, Niceville, FL, 32578

Website: mattiekellyartscenter.org/galleries/

Facebook: @MattieKellyArtsCenterGalleries

Instagram: @mkac_galleriesnwfsc

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Kristen “Rhea” Goff, Chair

Dr. Jon Ward, Vice Chair

Cory Fosdyck

Megan Harrison

Lori Kelley

Maj. Gen. Don Litke, Ret. USAF

Tanner Peacock

Lyndsi Stevens

Mel Ponder, President

: 33rd

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