Activities

Come relax and be creative in our Community Art Studio!  Every Saturday, from 10am-12pm, we will provide the space and supplies for you and your family and friends to enjoy a making activity. Directions and an example will be provided for each activity, as well as a staff member to answer questions. Please plan on staying with your children, as this is not a drop-off class. These activities are free, suitable for all ages, and come and go. The projects will change monthly. 

The (Handmade) Ornament Emporium is the place to come to find unique, handcrafted, and up-cycled ornaments for this holiday season! Ornaments are lovingly created by the staff and artists here at Prairie Arts Center. Give these treasures as gifts or hang them on your own tree! All proceeds go to supporting future programming here at Prairie Arts Center.

Prairie Arts Center partners with the OSU Museum of Art, the OSU Museum of Art Advocates, and OSU's Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History to host free professional development workshops and retreats for Oklahoma educators on a variety of special topics. We strive to provide regional K-12 educators with the pedagogical tools, inspiration, resources, and support to bring elevated visual art curriculum into their classrooms. It is also our hope to give teachers the opportunity to relax, reflect, and learn from one another. Be on the look out for our next professional development workshop!

Come visit us for Pottery Seconds Sale! The Prairie Arts pottery studio staff, students, and instructors are hosting this fundraiser to help support the center. Proceeds will go towards supplies for youth classes, equipment, and our scholarship fund. Pottery seconds are either glaze experiments, flawed in some minor way, or overstock, and will be offered at bargain prices. We will also have several ceramic pumpkins for sale as we always do during this time of the year.  Pottery Seconds can be affordable home decor additions or early holiday gifts! This event is one day only in the parking lot in front of Prairie Arts Center.

Join local fiber artist, Vicky Berry, in creating a "community quilt" that will tell a story of Stillwater and bring community members together in artistic collaboration.  Inspired by the work of quilter, Maria Shell, Berry is inviting community members to participate by making a block for the quilt with imagery from their own Stillwater story- a favorite place, a memory, a symbol of meaning. These brightly colored blocks will be joined together by Berry and volunteers from the Cimarron Valley Quilter’s Guild to form a large quilt with the word STILLWATER surrounded by 76 community squares. Participation does not require sewing experience, only the desire to be creative in community and contribute individual memories and meaning to the collective!