The Visual Arts Preparatory Department of The Fairmont State University Academy for the Arts provides all ages with a range of visual art media and experiences. Classes include quality age appropriate instruction taught by qualified instructors. Children are encouraged to explore creative problem solving while adults enjoy revisiting artistic interests or learning a new skill through hands-on activities in a group atmosphere.
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Art Adventure Camp
Come embark on exciting adventures in art where the possibilities of creating are limitless. Take a chance and experiment with new media, go on an ‘art adventure’, and explore how to solve real artistic problems that deal with community, values, technical skill, and even self awareness. The studio is ready to be your place to have fun in the arts while learning about yourself and our world.
Re-imagining The Dinner Party
Re-imagining The Dinner Party, one of the major works of art of the 1980s, will encompass a detailed examination of the original, and discuss how it may be changed and yet retain its importance for art and for history. Students will look at the work as a whole and as a very complex set of interconnected media: embroidery, ceramics, art history, design history, and as one of the largest collaborative efforts in modern art.
Students apply this information to "re-imagine" their own Dinner Party in light of new ideas and theories in art, new media, and their own, personal, experiences. The class will include art history and studio practice with collaborative elements. Field Trip to Pittsburgh Day: Wednesday, July 18th -All Day Museum Trip 9-4; Please bring a bag lunch!
Illustrate Fiction
Students will learn about the tradition of books in art--both from the standpoint of how they have been made as material objects (scrolls to codices)--and how books are reconfigured and redefined by contemporary artists. Students will utilize works of fiction created by writers of a similar age or of their own making to develop individual illustrations. Formal and conceptual illustrative techniques will be used in the development of images in a studio setting. Several book making techniques will also be covered including accordion books and the ‘re-arting’ of a book into a fine art object. Field Trip to Pittsburgh Day: Wednesday, July 18th-All Day Museum Trip 9-4; Please bring a bag lunch!
