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The Stillwater Arts Festival is a community celebration of the visual arts that brings together a diverse range of local and regional artists at the Prairie Arts Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Scheduled for April 18th and 19th, this vibrant spring event has quickly become a cherished highlight of our community. This year's festival exhibition, One in Three showcases artwork from third-grade students across our six local elementary schools alongside contributions from various other community members and organizations.

In addition to the Festival activities, guests can partake in events just a short stroll away, such as the closing reception for Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing at the OSU Museum of Art. Local food trucks will be present on Friday and Saturday, alongside the Stillwater Farmers Market on Saturday morning, offering a little something for everyone. Inside, there will be free-making activities available, and Raku firing can be enjoyed for $10 per bowl.

This festival would not be possible without the generous support of the Stillwater Arts Council, Oklahoma State University, Visit Stillwater, and The City of Stillwater. We deeply appreciate their commitment to enriching our community’s cultural life.

Stay connected with us via our website, Facebook, and Instagram for the latest updates on Stilwater Arts Festival 2025.

Regional Artists=

Zack Easley - Drawing

Pen and ink artist, drawing mostly castles, all featuring brick, hence my nickname the Brick Artist.

Maranda Loughlin - Jewelry

I focus primarily on jewelry that I make myself, along with a few houseware items such as ornaments, bowls, incense holders, etc. 

Kayla Ausmus - Painting/Drawing

I paint using gouache and watercolor on recycled/handmade paper. I incorporate things found in nature and in the garden to enhance the paper. Flower petals and blossoms are some of my favorites to…

Scott Sternberg - Photography

A diverse blend of images captured across the USA.

Darren Marshall - Photography

I'm a nature and landscape artist who lives in northern California, but my home is the wilderness expanses in the western states. I'm especially drawn to the desert southwest, Yosemite, and Death…

Owen Salisbury - Jewelry

I use saws, hammers, and stamps to create jewelry of silver or copper. I also cut my own stones.

Buddy Shaw - Wood

60% reclaimed lumber creating all original designed furniture and sculpture, including solid wood furniture using no metal fasteners and brutilist and geometric sculptures using 100% reclaimed wood.

 Rob Duncan - Clay

I create functional dinnerware and decorative art using fired clay. My pottery includes but is not limited to mugs, plates, bowls, tumblers, oil bottles, spoonrests, and large serving bowls.

Joshua Steele - Photography

I am a landscape photographer located in Des Moines, Iowa.  I use high resolution digital cameras to capture images of the natural world around me. 

Courtney Kelly - Jewelry

Screenprinted shirts, jewerly and embosed metal ornaments

David Krone - Painting
Acrylic on canvas, and prints of original work.
Marissa Jager - Mixed Media

Fluid acrylic and metallic paint done in my sunset or cosmic pour technique. Midwest landscapes done in gold, silver, and copper metal foils. Finished with a glitter resin so they shine in the light!

Michael Allen - Photography/ Digital Art
Being a professional designer and photographer, I strive to create the best archival fine art prints that are signed and numbered with archival ink.
Mark Parker - Painting

Acrylic and watercolors

 Larry Tallent - Jewelry
Larry Tallent - Jewelry

Hand fabricated sterling silver and 14k gold jewelry with natural stones, all original and one-of-a-kind designs. Techniques include reticulation and granulation.

Kathy Shann - Jewlery

Stillwater, OK
Lapidary and silver smith work, including silver and gold, Rocks, semi precious stones, and shells.

Ron Van Den Bussche - Wood
I am a wood turner that makes functional art. My passion is in segmented wood turning.
William Carter - Blacksmith

Hand forged metal items. Ranging from wall art, to tables, and metal art that can be used in home or office.

Gabriel Berg

I design templates for nail patterns and hand weave multiple layers of colorful threads around the nails to create mandalas and geometric designs based on an Eastern European practice of thread art.

Mary Lou Christie - Jewelry

Jewelry is forged using precious metals with traditional silversmithing techniques. Gemstones, fossils and enamels are incorporated. Texture is created by layering, stamping and rolling mill.

Michael Walker - Mixed Media

Hand-crafted pens, kitchen utensils, hummingbird houses

Jacquelyn Riggs - Jewelry
Jacquelyn Riggs - Jewelry

I hand-make jewelry using Sterling Silver and semi-precious stones. I make rings, earrings and pendants. My style is simple elegance.

Jennifer Croy - Painting

My acrylic paintings are usually described as whimsical. I love bright colors and subjects that make the viewer giggle.

Gretchyn Nothhouse

I love to create uniquely functional items, Art that you can use and enjoy, everyday! All of my pieces are dishwasher, microwave and oven safe. ALL of the pieces are absolutely lead free and non…

Kristin Schillai - Photography

I’ve taken it upon myself to create this archive of Americana, iconic scenes capturing images of a simpler time. In their loneliness and abandonment I find a solemn beauty. I strive to capture this…

Sarah Machemehl - Clay

Wheel-thrown functional pottery.

Cedre Sanchez - Jewelry

I use a traditional flame torch to heat and melt sterling silver and 14K gold which I shape, carve and polish by hand into wearable fine jewelry that I hand-set with precious / semiprecious gemstones

Erica Bonavida - Painting
I work in oil on canvas and wood panel. My subjects are birds, flowers, and landscapes with an emphasis on flora and fauna native to Oklahoma.
Randy Watkins - Photography

 

I’m a native Oklahoman being born in Stillwater. My roots lay deep in Oklahoma. Past generations of my family lived in Indian Territory, long before Oklahoma became State. With many of…

Jason Wallace - Photography

Stillwater, OKDramatic light and atmosphere describes the essential mystery of how I see the world. This unfamiliarity strengthens the connection between 'here and there' & 'us and them.' The…

Naomi Hart - Mixed Media

I developed a mixed media approach to encaustic painting (hot beeswax). My etchings and drawings are embedded in layers of beeswax along with fabric, graphite, chalk, pastels, rice papers, and more.

Bill Noelker - Jewelry

Healing through art. I am a disabled veteran who uses silver, copper and brass to create one of a kind wearable pieces of art. It is my hope to inspire others to discover the healing power of art.

Ashlee Christiansen - Clay

As an artist, I am inspired by the long-term change of the natural and man-made world around me: the patina of copper, the decay of the forest floor, the movement of rivers and water, and the natural…

Diana Carbajal - Drawing/Painting

As an artist my primary medium is charcoal and ink in a realistic and illustration style. Each piece explores the themes of realism along with light and shadow, and contrast and harmony.

Fred Imhoff - Glass

Hand blown glass set on hand made silver wire.

Randall Chavez - Painting
Randall Chavez - Painting

Being from New Mexico I’m influenced by the landscape around me and I paint with my ancestors in mind. Memories of riding horses with my grandfather or searching for arrow heads with my…

Jo Haven - Clay

White clay combined with mason stain to make agateware pottery. Wheel thrown shapes altered into sculpture.

Tandi Memmott - Clay

Handmade coffee cups, flower bowls, rock vases, angels, etc.

Joshua Cook - Sculpture

I use recycled metal, wood, and plastic, assembled with epoxies and super glue, to create sculptures of plants and animals. The pieces are then hand painted to mimic the color pattern of the subject.

MJ Henderson Smith - Jewelry
MJ Henderson Smith - Jewelry

Hand crafted jewelry using a variety of materials and techniques including PMC, fused glass, sterling silver fabrication, turquoise, leather, misc. beads and stones

Jordyn Richards - Painting

Acrylic paintings on canvas

Ron Walker - Clay
Ron Walker - Clay

My work is mostly wheel thrown stoneware.
Many of the clays and slips are locally sourced. Firng methods include raku, primitive pit firing, horse hair and crackle glazes

David Silver - Wood
David Silver - Wood

Live edges wood construction.

Dan Kemp - Jewelry

I resurrect antique silverware, lost and forgotten in dark and dingy basements, into jewelry suitable for the light of day. I am preserving history through re-purposing.

 

Vendors

 

Alchemy Arts
Alchemy Arts

We grow herbs and flowers, distill the plants to make hydrosols and essential oils. Those are used as ingredients for beard oil,  salves, hydrosol wellness sprays and essential oil roller…

Little Sampling Market

 Little Sapling Market, a family-run art shop dedicated to supporting Oklahoma artists and creators nationwide. We offer a curated selection of unique art, handmade goods, and one-of-a-kind…

Dorinda Hoke Painting/Drawing Vendor
Dorinda Hoke Painting/Drawing Vendor
Caricatures drawn live in black and white or color with professional markers.
 
Gosney Creative

Using upcycled vintage books, Elizabeth makes pin-back buttons, magnets, framed prints and spiral notebooks featuring artwork from decades past. Also thrown into the mix are her original designs,

 

Exhibition
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ONE IN THREE is a community-made art installation that celebrates the process of pollination. Come immerse yourself in the visual pleasure of a handmade garden, scaled up! Walk among human size flowers and spy all the colorful pollinators doing their job. Learn a little bit more about pollination and it's relevance to us humans while you're there. For example, did you know that, on average, One in Three bites of our food is made possible through the pollination process? Love your coffee? You can thank the pollinators! This exhibition is a true community collaboration with contributions from local artists, SPS third graders and their art instructors, Perry High School art students, Still Wonder and the participants of their programming, the OSU Botanic Garden and Beekeeping Club, as well as our own art students here at Prairie Arts Center. The opening of this exhibition is Friday, April 18th, coinciding with the Stillwater Arts Festival. On Saturday the 19th, we welcome the OSU Beekeeping Club to the exhibition. They will share their knowledge and provide visitors with a hands-on experience with bee hives and beekeeping gear (sans bees!). Please come and enjoy!

 

Making Activities

Friday, April 18th

1pm - 4pm FREE Art Making Activity

FREE Tattoo Screenprinting (not permanent )
 
3pm - 8pm Raku Firing ($10 a bowl)
Prairie's pottery studio instructors and students have been making bowls for you to glaze using the ancient technique of raku. Instructors will be on hand to help you pick glazes, firing material, and to guide you through the experience. Raku pottery is not food safe. 


Saturday, April 19th
 
10am - 6pm FREE Art Making Activity

 

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10am - 5pm Raku Firing ($10 a bowl)
Prairie's pottery studio instructors and students have been making bowls for you to glaze using the ancient technique of raku. Instructors will be on hand to help you pick glazes, firing material, and to guide you through the experience. Raku pottery is not food safe.


10am - 6pm FREE Making Activity with OSU Museum of Art
 
10am - 6pm  FREE Tattoo Screenprinting (not permanent )
 
 
Food Trucks
Friday, April 18th
 
Saturday, April 19th
 
 
 

STONECLOUD BREWING is one block east on 10th Street.

 
Around Town

OSU Museum of Art
Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing - Exhibition Dates: April 2 – 20, 2024

Reception: Friday, April 18, 2025 | 5 – 7 PM

Downtown
Art Walk
April 18th, 5pm – 7pm
721 S Main St.

Stillwater History Museum
Family-Friendly
Heritage Day
Saturday, April 19, 2025

11:00-3:00

SHOP Downtown Mainstreet

Thank You  
 
 
Please help us in saying THANK YOU to our supporters. The City of Stillwater, Visit Stillwater, and the Stillwater Arts Council guided and supported us through the entire process of the festival. The Stillwater Arts Council provided dinner, lunch, and snacks for our artists throughout the festival. The City of Stillwater sponsored the music and helped keep us organized and on top of all the details. Local artists Mo Wassell and Jaqui Savage created our beautiful awards for our award winners. Mitchell Alcala volunteered his photography services for both days.Hideaway Pizza donated lunch on Saturday for the artists. HTea0 provided tea for both days. Visit Stillwater awarded us a grant to go toward marketing material for the festival. SPS third graders and their art instructors, Perry High School art students, Still Wonder and the participants of their programming, the OSU Botanic Garden and Beekeeping Club, and our own 11-14 year old art students here at Prairie Arts Center all contributed to the beautiful One in Three exhibition this year. And finally, last but not least, a big thank you to the students and instructors here at the Prairie Arts Center. They have stepped up and helped in many ways, and we appreciate all of their support. Our pottery studio instructors, interns, and students have thrown a total of 120 bowls for us to sell and Raku! Without all of this support, we couldn't have done it! THANK YOU! 

 
2023 Recap Video 
 

All Images by Mitch Alcala Photography