All Classes

Wet Felted Bracelets

Learn how to make an artful felted bangle bracelet in this wet felting class. You will have plenty of time to make several bracelets and can choose from two different styles. Please bring a bath towel and a pair of nylons (knee-high or regular) to the class. All other materials provided.

Hanging Plant Embroidery Workshop

Join us in learning embroidery techniques while creating a fun hanging plant design! You will get to choose a hang plant pattern and embroidery colors provided by the instructor. Through the process, you will learn various stitches for embroidery that will add style to the design! No previous experience required.

Diatom Paper Sculpture

Description: This activity pairs science with art, observing and exploring with making, and gives students the chance to take a tour at the OSU Museum of Art. It is inspired by Glass Houses, a multimedia artwork by Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting that is currently on display in the exhibition The State We’re In Water: Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere (until May 29, 2021). This exhibition explores humanity's complex relationship to water- our dependency on it, our awe and love for it, as well as our careless waste and destruction of it. Glass Houses is a large, colorful installation piece that celebrates the tiny micro-organisms known as diatoms. Diatoms provide the earth with much of its oxygen through the process of photosynthesis and they are known as the "gems of the sea" because they are encased in glass and made of all the colors of the rainbow.

Spring Break Art Camp - Humans and the Hydrosphere

Prairie Arts Center is excited to partner with the OSU Museum of Art for this year's Spring Break Camp. Humans and the Hydrosphere will be an exploration of the museum's current exhibition, "The State We're In Water: Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere." The hydrosphere is the sum total of all the water on the planet. Students will be using the lens of art and art-making to learn about watershed habitats, wastewater recycling, and the imprint of water movement on the land. They will also have the chance to explore and express their own relationship to water and participate in an interactive tour of the exhibition led by Cat and Christina at the museum.

Take Better Pictures!

Ever wondered why some photos are so arresting and others are just "meh"? Do you want to take your own photographs to the next level? Join instructor Jen Johnson on Thursday, Feb. 25th from 6-7pm to learn some basic in-camera composition tricks that will help elevate your photographs and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own. Post edit tips will also be provided. No experience or technical knowledge of the medium required! This is a FREE community event, open to all ages and skill levels.

Harriet Powers Story Quilt Collage

In our last session of Art Academy for 6-10 year olds, we focused on folk traditions from around the world. This lesson is inspired by well known American folk artist and quilter, Harriet Powers. Powers was born into slavery in 1839 in rural Georgia. She was a wife, a mother of nine, and it is speculated that she earned a living later in life as a seamstress. Only two of her quilts survive, both of them traditional applique and piecework. They are bold and skillful examples of so called story quilts, an art form which extends back to ancient African textile traditions. Each panel uses symbols and figures to tell a story. Powers' stories are an interesting mix of the mythical and religious and the personal and local.

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