Youth Classes

Calling all creative kids! With pre-rolled clay slabs ready to go, students will cut and shape their own ceramic conversation hearts using cookie cutters and simple handbuilding tools. They’ll have access to individual alphabet letters, allowing them to arrange and stamp any word or name they choose—from initials to fun phrases to totally original creations. Each heart will include a small clay hook added at the top, making it easy to hang on a wall, locker, door knob, or display peg.

After the workshop, we’ll bisque fire all the pieces. Kids can return as soon as the following week—by appointment to paint their finished hearts with watercolor, choosing soft pastels, bold pops of color, or anything in between. A fun, creative piece of art they can proudly hang and enjoy!

 

In this special holiday themed class, students will learn how to construct a collagraph plate, making use of various textures and techniques. They will also learn how to properly ink their plate and roll it through our printing press! Our theme is "a holiday scene," which could be a cozy indoor scene by the fire or a snowy nature scene, a snowman, or a Christmas tree. Students will make multiple prints, donating one to the center for our holiday display in the lobby. Their work will be up from mid-November until early January for everyone at the center to enjoy!

Inspired by OSU Museum's Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition

Prairie Arts Center is excited to once again partner with the OSU Museum of Art for this year's
Fall Break Camp. This 3-day camp will begin on Wednesday, October 15th with a visit to the museum for an interactive tour of Cimarron National Works on Paper, an exhibition brimming with inspiring treatments of the most essential and humble art supply there is: paper! During our 3 days of art making, we will explore a range of techniques, both simple and unexpected, that transform paper into two and three dimensional art. Students should bring a lunch and snack, and come dressed for the weather and making messes.

 

Memory maps can connect students to maps in general, their various uses throughout human history, and illustrative map making traditions. It also gets them thinking about way-finding on a very personal level and as an element of story telling and memory. You can facilitate a memory to map together- taking a walk as a group for example- or they can work with a memory all their own. Students could map their neighborhoods, their walk to school or a local park, another special place from their experience, or even their homes and yards. Because it engages memory and is evocative of personal narrative and mythologies, this is also a wonderful activity for adults.