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Join us in learning how to do basic embroidery stitches like back, stem, and chain stitches in a freeform design. Freeform stitching is a great way to relax and create art without having to worry about pattern tracing or staying in lines! You will be provided with all of the threads and fabric that you need to make an abstract design and stitch freely to make fun textures and shapes in your hoop.

Have you ever been interested in learning the art of metalsmithing in order to create your own, one-of-a-kind jewelry? Now you can at Prairie Arts Center! In this Beginning Metalsmithing and Jewelry course, students will learn to solder, texture, saw, file, and set a stone while creating a beautiful ring to take home. Students will also learn jewelry studio safety protocols and how to properly use and care for the tools. No previous metalsmithing experience is required. Upon completion of this course, students may sign up to use the studio during open studio hours.

Join fiber artist Desir'ee Rember to learn the basics of crochet. In this class, you will learn how to make a foundation chain as well as the single, double and half double crochet stitches. Selecting the right tools for your projects and how to read a crochet pattern will also be covered. Please bring a size I 5.5 mm aluminum crochet hook and two skeins of worsted weight acrylic yarn, any color except black.

Prairie Arts Center is excited to partner with the OSU Museum of Art again this year for our Fall Break Camp. Camp will begin with a visit to the museum for an interactive tour of their current exhibition, Small Worlds: Carolyn Cardenas and Contradictions: Bobby Ross. Cardenas paints tiny, highly detailed interiors and complex urban scenes while Ross works on large canvases and creates surrealist settings that explore contradictions- good and evil, harmony and discord, truth and lies, etc. Both artists are storytellers. Students will think about how we tell stories visually in an artwork and imagine a story of their own into being. Making use of Ross' surrealism and Cardenas' scale and interior settings, we will create shadow boxes full of characters and strange happenings.

Learn how to knit with Marianne Weber, starting with the absolute, bare bone basics! You will learn how to begin a project by casting on and the two stitches that you need to know for any project. Please bring your needles (size 8) and yarn. The less fuzzy the yarn the easier it will be to learn!