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!
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Youth Classes
Black Eyes, Bruises, and Monster Skin
In this workshop, you will learn basic Special FX makeup techniques to create truly gruesome effects just in time for Halloween! You will learn how to paint black eyes and bruises and how to make an easy monster skin out of household gelation and food coloring. For a finishing touch, we will take our effects to the extreme with some fake blood. It's sure to be a frightfully good time!
Shadowbox Storytelling - Fall Break Art Camp
Prairie Arts Center is excited to partner with the OSU Museum of Art again this year for our Fall Break Camp. Camp will begin with a visit to the museum for an interactive tour of their current exhibition, Small Worlds: Carolyn Cardenas and Contradictions: Bobby Ross. Cardenas paints tiny, highly detailed interiors and complex urban scenes while Ross works on large canvases and creates surrealist settings that explore contradictions- good and evil, harmony and discord, truth and lies, etc. Both artists are storytellers. Students will think about how we tell stories visually in an artwork and imagine a story of their own into being. Making use of Ross' surrealism and Cardenas' scale and interior settings, we will create shadow boxes full of characters and strange happenings.
Kids Studio August 2nd - 5th
This summer's Kids' Art Studio will be an Encore! of our Art Through the Decades summer camps. We will take our inspiration from the 1920's (Tuesday), 1960's (Wednesday), 1970's (Thursday), and the 1980's and 90's (Friday). Even though returning students may be familiar with the themes and artists of the decades, the projects will be new. Unlike summer camp, students may attend one day, all four, or anything in between.
Learning Through the Lens: A Photography Art Camp for 4 and 5 Year-Olds
In this exciting two day camp for 4 and 5 year-olds, students will explore texture, color, light, perspective, and composition through the lens of a camera. They will create still life scenes to make images of, as well as explore the grounds of the center with their cameras in tow. Through process, play, and experimentation, each student will create a set of images that tell their own unique visual story. For our first ever camp for 4 and 5 year-olds, Prairie Arts Center is excited to be partnering with OSU's Department of Human Development and Family Science and their Early Childhood Education program.
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Week One: the 1920's
This week our focus will be on the so-called Roaring 20's, a decade of dramatic social change and upheaval. We will make artworks inspired by Art Deco, early Expressionism, surrealism, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, urbanization, and 1920's fashion trends. Just like the decade itself, our week will be filled with exploration, invention, and enthusiasm!
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