Art Camp

Prairie Arts Center is excited to  partner with the OSU Museum of Art for this year's
Spring Break Camp, the Artist's Mark. This 4-day camp will begin on Tuesday, March 17th with a visit to the museum for an interactive tour of Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts, an exhibition that features works from some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century including Jim Dine, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Miriam Schapiro. This exhibition offers us a wide variety of styles and mediums to explore, with the connecting theme of place. During our time together, we will focus on using unexpected materials and mark making while creating both two dimensional and three dimensional works.  Students should bring a lunch and snack, and come dressed for the weather and making messes!

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.

This summer's Kids' Art Studio will be an Encore! of our Artists in the Spotlight summer camps. Each day students will explore a different artist from our summer line-up, creating a finished artwork inspired by their medium, subject matter, philosophy, and/or life. Even though returning summer camp students may be familiar with the theme, the projects will be new. Unlike summer camp, students may attend one day, all four, or anything in between.

Join us for this first week of camp as we turn the spotlight on contemporary artist Nick Cave. Cave is most famous for his Soundsuits, a series of wearable works of assemblage. Part costume part sculpture, these works are whimsical, bright, and other-worldly. The campers will love Cave's sensibility of play and performance and his use of found objects!

This week we take a deep dive into the self made worlds of French artist, Niki de Saint Phalle. Saint Phalle was self taught and her work is still considered by some to be "outsider art." She is perhaps most well known as one of the few female sculptors ever to work on a monumental scale. She also made assemblage work and film, and she was a prolific illustrator. Her work is colorful, child-like, and mythical and sure to spark the campers' creative fire!

This week we turn our spotlight on the ever-versatile and always-curious American artist Jim Dine. Over the years, Dine has worked in almost every visual medium you can think of- printmaking, photography, sculpture, painting, installation, happenings, and drawing. There will be no short supply of inspiration this week!