Fremont Art House's Gallery and Café Keep Different Hours. Here's How to Plan an October Saturday Around Both.

Walk past 631 Park Ave. on a Tuesday morning and the gallery lights are on. Walk past at 6 p.m. that Thursday and the gallery is closed, but the Art Café is open on the same floor. Fremont Art House opened to the public in September. The building already runs on two separate weekly schedules, and most of its rooms are used in different ways depending on which one you show up for.

Todd and Monica Eby own Eby Fine Art and now Fremont Art House. They held an open house and a Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting at the Park Avenue space on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. A separate public grand opening followed on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The listing invited guests to tour the space, meet the in-house artists, and enter a drawing for a gift card to what it called "the area's only Art Cafe." Both of those dates are past. The weekly schedule is what matters now.

Two sets of hours in one building

The Fremont Art House website posts separate hours for each part of the business. The gallery shows work by the resident artists along with local and regional exhibitions, and it is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Art Café calls itself a gathering place "at the heart of downtown Fremont's Creative District." It is open Thursday and Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Here is how those hours line up across a week:

On Thursday and Friday, the gallery and café overlap for one hour. After 5 p.m. the café runs on its own for three more hours, so those evenings belong to the café. Tuesday and Wednesday are gallery-only days. Saturday is the one day both are open together for six hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

That shapes what kind of visit you can plan. If you want to look at the walls slowly, a Tuesday or Wednesday morning gives you the gallery with no café traffic. If you want a drink after work in a room full of original art, Thursday or Friday after 5 p.m. is the window, and the gallery side will be closed by then. If you're bringing a friend from out of town and want the whole building in one stop, plan on a Saturday.

The café describes its menu as "handcrafted beverages" served with "intimate seating." The full menu is posted as an image on the website, so check there before you go.

What the café is built to do

The Fremont Tribune's opening coverage explains why the café isn't a typical coffee counter. Per that report, the bottom level of the building works as both the gallery and the art café. Café visitors can order an "art experience" when they come in, such as painting, or the "soon-to-be splatter room." At opening, the splatter room was still described as planned. The sources reviewed for this post don't confirm that it has opened, so ask at the counter before you build a visit around it.

This explains the café's hours. Thursday and Friday evenings and Saturday daytime are when most people have free time for a sit-down art activity with a drink, and those are the only hours the café is open. Weekday daytime is set aside for something else.

Weekdays belong to classes and studios

Monday is the one weekday the gallery and café are both closed. It is still a full class day. According to the Tribune, Monica Eby teaches art lessons throughout the week:

• Monday: adult water-soluble oils, kids' drawing, a youth intro to oil painting, and adult drawing fundamentals
• Tuesday: adult watercolor and preteen/teen mixed media
• Wednesday: homeschool art and creative process art
• Thursday: intermediate teen mixed media and adult watercolor
• Friday: a kids' class exploring art through mixed media

The class schedule page lists the same Monday-through-Friday lineup, with payment links for each class. Prices aren't posted as readable text, so check the payment links or contact the Art House directly. The website also sells memberships, including a studio pass.

Upstairs are working studios. The Tribune reported that the upper level holds artists' workshops, where residents make the pieces on display around the building. Artists named in that coverage include Tanna Taubenheim, whose character art the paper called gritty and almost surreal, and Sarah Labs, who paints more realistic work. Ashley Muller of Tightly-Wound Knit Wit designs cat toys, and Jon and Wendy Summers paint abstract landscapes and surreal, collage-like pieces. The Ebys' own work also hangs in the space.

Monica Eby told the Tribune the building is meant to hold both kinds of work: the value of solitary studio time and of open shared space, with this as a place where the two meet. "Oftentimes artists are very solitude, and they do their work, and they're by themselves," she said, "but it gets lonely, and so having artist community is super important."

That's why the weekday schedule looks the way it does. Studios and classes fill weekday hours, the gallery opens to the public during the day, and the café adds a social room on the evenings and the one day people are most likely to be free.

Saturday, Oct. 24, start to finish

On one Saturday this month, the Art House schedule lines up with a city event across town. On Oct. 24, here is how the day can run:

1. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.: Wendy Summers, one of the resident artists, leads "Art for Health & Wholeness" at Fremont Art House. Per the workshops page, the session costs $65. The gallery opens at 9 a.m., so you can arrive early and look around first.
2. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: The Art Café is open its full Saturday hours. Come back after the workshop or later in the afternoon.
3. Until 5 p.m.: The gallery stays open an hour after the café closes.
4. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.: The Haunted Trail at Hormel Park, presented by City of Fremont Parks and Rec, opens with a family-friendly hour.
5. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.: The trail switches to adults only for its last hour.

The gallery closes at 5 p.m. and the trail opens at 5:30 p.m. That half hour leaves time to get across town and doesn't leave a long gap to fill. Households with younger kids can do the whole day and be home by 6:30 p.m. Adults-only groups can stay at the Art House until closing and arrive at Hormel Park for the later hour.

The next afternoon, Sunday, Oct. 25, City Parks and Recreation hosts Pumpkin Painting at Clemmons Park from 2 to 4 p.m. Art supplies and 100 pumpkins are provided. The Art House is closed on Sundays, so the Clemmons Park event is the weekend's other art-related option.

The other Saturdays on the fall calendar

The schedule above applies to every Saturday, so other fall weekend events can be paired with the Art House the same way.

Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 10, Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area holds a campsite-decorating contest and trick-or-treating from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Pathfinder and Victory Lake campgrounds, the Fremont Tribune reported. The Art Café closes at 4 p.m. and the gallery at 5 p.m., so you can visit Park Avenue in the afternoon and head to the lakes in the evening.

The next big downtown Saturday is Nov. 28, when the Fremont & Dodge County Convention and Visitors Bureau calendar lists the 32nd Annual Christmas Walk. Downtown businesses will offer specials and treats, and the day includes a petting zoo, horse-drawn carriages, and a tree lighting. Nov. 28 falls on a Saturday, so the Art House gallery and café should both be open on their usual hours that day. This will be the building's first Christmas Walk since it opened. Holiday hours can change, so check the Art House website that week.

Early October showed the same pattern downtown. The Oct. 3 Fall Gallery Walk put local artists inside downtown businesses from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Five-0-Five Brewing Company held its first Fall Festival that same day at 349 N. Main St., with free admission, live music, and vendors. Both events were on a Saturday, the one day the Art House gallery and café are both open for most of the day.

The quickest way to plan around 631 Park Ave. is to decide what you want first: quiet gallery time Tuesday or Wednesday, café evenings Thursday or Friday, or the whole building on Saturday.

If you're already planning Saturdays around downtown Fremont's Creative District and want to talk about which nearby streets fit how you'd like to live, BHGRE The Good Life Group knows the Fremont area well and is glad to help. Contact a Good Life Group agent to start the conversation.