1001 S Duck Street, Stillwater, OK 74074
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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!
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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. The 2026 Stillwater Arts Festival will take place April 17–18, 2026.
This year, our annual spring community exhibition draws inspiration from OSU Museum of Art’s Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts, which highlights more than 127 years of work united by a shared sense of place and artistic dialogue. In response, we invited local artists and community members to create works inspired by Stillwater, then passed those pieces on to others as creative prompts. The result is a chain of artworks in conversation—connected by shared colors, textures, landscapes, and interpretations of place.
Inside the Prairie Arts Center, guests of all ages can participate in free, hands-on art making activities throughout the weekend. In addition, festival goers can take part in Raku Firing ($10 per bowl). Prairie’s pottery studio instructors and students have created bowls for visitors to glaze using the ancient raku technique. Instructors will be on hand to help participants choose glazes and firing materials and to guide them through the firing process.
In addition to festival activities at the Prairie Arts Center, visitors can explore special programming throughout the Stillwater Cultural District, including offerings from OSU Museum of Art, Block 34, Stonecloud Brewing Company, Stillwater Public Library, and Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar. Local food trucks will be on-site, and the Stillwater Farmers Market joins us on Saturday morning.
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Stillwater Arts Council, Oklahoma State University, Visit Stillwater, and the City of Stillwater. Their continued dedication helps ensure the festival remains a valued community tradition.



Conversations with Place and Each Other: A Stillwater Artists' Salon
This year, our annual spring community exhibition takes its inspiration from OSU Museum of Art's current exhibition, Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts. This exhibition features works spanning over 127 years of production, all by artists inspired by the East End of Long Island, a place known for its extraordinary light, coastal landscapes, and a vibrant and supportive community of artists. There are many styles, mediums, movements and artistic visions represented but what binds them together is place. And bound as they are by place, they are also bound to one another, artworks influencing artworks and artists conversing, sometimes across time, with one another about their craft and their love of place.
So, in conversation with the exhibition, we decided to see what would happen when we asked local artists and community members to make works inspired by Stillwater. And what would happen next if those first artworks were passed on to act as inspiration for another group of artists? Which works would be in conversation? Which artists would share a spark about Stillwater- the same color, or texture, a shared view of the landscape, or a just a feeling?
Artwork by pastel artist Jude Tolar.

Art Making Activities
Friday, April 17th


A Heartfelt THANK YOU to Our Incredible Supporters!
This festival simply would not be possible without the generosity and dedication of so many people, and we are so grateful for each and every one of you.
A special thank you to The City of Stillwater, Visit Stillwater, and the Stillwater Arts Council for guiding and supporting us through the entire process of the festival. The City of Stillwater helps set up the festival around our space and works hard to spread the word to the community. Visit Stillwater equally supports getting the word out about the festival and provides grant funding that helps us cover marketing materials and food for our artists. Together, their partnership and commitment year after year is the reason this festival has continued to thrive for so many years.
We are so grateful for Mitchell Alcala, who generously volunteered his photography services across both days of the festival. His beautiful photos capture the spirit and energy of the event, and we are lucky to have his talent behind the lens preserving these memories for years to come.
A delicious thank you to Hideaway Pizza for donating lunch for our artists on Saturday, and to HTea0 for keeping everyone refreshed with tea throughout both days — your generosity means the world!
To all of the artists who donated artwork to our exhibition this year — thank you for sharing your creativity and passion with our community.
And last but absolutely not least — a huge thank you to the students and instructors here at the Prairie Arts Center. You stepped up in so many ways, and your support and enthusiasm make all the difference.
Without all of you, none of this would be possible. THANK YOU!