Past Youth Workshops

In this special holiday class, students will learn the basics of soap making! Working with local soap maker, Genipha Backoulou, students will caste their own soap bars, choosing from an array of ingredients and decorations. They will go home with 2 to 3 unique bars of hypoallergenic soap that can be used by them or given as gifts. 

In this class, students will experiment with two types of felting; needle felting and wet felting. For the first project, they will wet felt a bar of soap.  The soap is covered with a layer of felt which they will decorate with colorful pieces of wool.  The finished soap serves as both soap and washcloth and the felted layer continues to shrink as the soap is used. Students will also be able to needle felt at least one holiday ornament using colors and shapes of their choice.  These items make great gifts or they can be kept and used for their own holiday decorations.

Using Natalie Wargin's painting as inspiration, students will create a snowy owl in flight deep in the forest!  Our forest will be painted in acrylic and our snowy owl will be a beautiful watercolor collage. This is a step by step class, ensuring every student's success!

In this week of art camp we will have fun creating artworks inspired by pioneering conceptual artists of the 1970's like On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, and Yoko Ono. We will also learn about Land Art, making our own temporary, collaborative, nature-based sculptures here at the center. Expect a week that, like the 70's, emphasizes experimentation, process, and free-thinking! 

Prairie Arts Center is excited to once again partner with the OSU Museum of Art for this year's Spring Break Camp. Camp will begin with a visit to the museum for an interactive tour of  BLOW UP II: Inflatable Contemporary Art, a whimsical exhibition that explores "the imaginative ways that air is used as a tool to create large-scale sculptures." Students will use these larger than life artworks for inspiration as they collaborate to create a large scale sculpture of their own. We will also visit some of downtown Stillwater's public sculpture, and have the chance to plan and draw out an imagined piece of public art. Finally, as a class, we will create a sculpture garden in miniature, creating works made from polymer clay, cardboard, wood, and more.