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In September, Prairie Arts Center was asked to contribute a video tutorial of an art making project to the Annual Youth Conference put together by the Oklahoma Department of Health. This year, the conference is focused on student mental health and emotional resilience. The resulting video features a project that combines self reflection with the fun and easy DIY scratch art medium. The technique of scratch drawing can be enjoyed by kids as young as 6 on up to high school.

In the fall of 2019, our partners at the OSU Museum of Art had an exhibition dedicated to the history and artistry of stop motion animation (see Resources for link). The following project was inspired by one of the featured artists in that exhibition, Gabrielle Tesfaye, and her beautiful work The Water Will Carry Us Home, a work that features watercolor and ink puppets in a narrative about men, women, and children being transported on slave ships (see Resources for link). If you wish to show your student(s) this film for inspiration, we recommend watching it yourself first so you are prepared for the difficult content and questions. We had some great conversations and, as usual, were impressed with the students' keen observations and understanding.

Learn the basics of how to turn a print idea into a linocut block print! We will cover the basics of how to carve, ink, and print a linocut block from start to finish. We will also discuss printing on a variety of materials and how to do different color techniques. 

 

Landscapes have a lot of visual information in them. This workshop will help you sort through the visuals and choose what is important for your landscape painting. You’ll learn what to include, what to emphasize and how to simplify. Other topics: creating spacial distance and atmosphere, color temperatures and values. We’ll work with your photo references and some of mine.