Fall Art Academy - Tuesday

Art
Academy is our after-school arts program designed for students who are
interested in exploring and developing their artistic aptitude.
Throughout each six week session, students engage with the visual arts
through looking, discussing and making. They can expect to work in
multiple mediums, both 2D and 3D, including painting, drawing,
sculpture, collage, photography, printmaking, and mixed media. Art
Academy helps students develop strong visual literacy and critical
thinking skills. It also supports social and emotional development,
increases manual dexterity, broadens understanding and appreciation of
other cultures and histories, and gives students the opportunity to
problem solve and make mistakes in a low stakes environment. Not to
mention we have a lot of fun! For the 6-10 year old cohort, each session
has a guiding theme (like artists from a certain geographical region,
or art from a certain time period, or art that is somehow related to
music or animals) and each class yields a "final" work or project that
is shared and discussed. For the 11-14 year old students, the focus
shifts to project based instruction with an emphasis on skill building
and there is often a collaborative element that requires students to
ideate and co-create together.

 Instructor:
Art educator Jen Johnson
holds an undergraduate degree in art history and English literature
from the University of Kansas, as well as an MAT (Masters in the Art of
Teaching) from the English Department at the University of Montana. In
her own practice, Jen is equally invested in understanding the larger
world through her interactions with the art objects of others and the
making of her own art objects. Jen considers her greatest strengths as
an educator to be the facilitation of reflective and critical
conversations about art and art making, as well as the creation of safe
environments for authentic explorations into the practices of
self-expression and making. Her preferred mediums are mixed media,
printmaking, and photography, but she enjoys the act of creation no
matter the medium and considers it one of her greatest joys to make art
alongside others.

Course Type:
6 weeks; class meets once a week for 1.5 hours

6-10 yrs: Tuesday, August 25- Tuesday, September 29, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
6-10 yrs: Wednesday, August 26- Wednesday, September 30, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
11-14 yrs: Thursday, August 27- Thursday, October 1, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Tuition:
$100.00

*Refunds
will not be given if cancellation is made less than a week before the
beginning of the session. If Prairie cancels a class, a makeup class
will be offered. Makeup classes are not offered to students who miss a
class.