Northern Kentucky University Art Preparatory believes that the arts are the bridge to imaginative and real worlds that can expand thinking across cultures, help students learn how to solve problems and further develop talent in our region. Art Prep provides community and continuing education programs of the highest quality to students of all ages and abilities and strives to enrich the culture of the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky regions through engaging artistic experiences and outreach initiatives.
Starting Spring 2022
14 weeks (Fridays, 4-5 p.m. or 5-6 p.m.)
Fine Arts Center FA 309
Private art lessons are available to children (ages 8-17) by NKU Art Education and Art students. Lessons are based on the semester which includes 14, 1-hour sessions. Each private lesson is offered once a week for the entire semester for a total of 14 classes.
The total cost for the semester is $300.
For more information about this program please contact Randel Plowman at: plowmane@nku.edu.
Collage is the art of recycling. It takes the old and makes it new again through fragmenting, recontextualizing and combining imagery in new and interesting ways. This four-week online workshop explores the many possibilities that collage can offer.
Several techniques will be explored in this hands-on workshop including creating visually compelling imagery through the use of layering, using color effectively, how to create a strong composition and more.
This workshop is open to both beginner and advanced artists.
A material list will be provided before the course starts.
Instructor: Randel Plowman
Schedule:
June 4-25, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course using a virtual online classroom. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for adults ages 16 and up. Space is limited to 15 participants.
Teachers can earn 10 Professional Development hours!
Course fee:
In this one-week workshop, you will create characters and visual settings for your characters using analogue, digital, and hybrid approaches of making. Drawing, collage, scanning, and the basics of Adobe Photoshop and InDesign will be taught.
Characters can be found in illustrated books, comics, animation, design, and countless other places. This workshop will expose participants to a variety of character styles, hone their ideas for developing character concept, and expand their approaches to visually communicating figure and settings.
If you are student interested in developing skills in character design and experimenting with a variety of materials and techniques, this workshop if for you!
Instructor: Julia Sebastian
Assistant Student Instructor: Anna Dailey
Schedule:
June 6 – 9, 2022
from 12:00 - 2:00 pm in the Northern Kentucky Fine Arts Center.
This workshop is for teens aged 13-18 years old. Space is limited to 12
Course fee:
What is a Risograph?
Risograph printing is a technique best described as a ‘digital screen printing’. The process is much like screen printing, but with the convenience of an office copier. It’s known for its vivid colors and its specific textures. These machines deliver ‘perfect imperfections’ and provide a cheap and easy method for reproducing work at large quantities, like posters, prints and zines.
This four-day, in person, workshop focuses on the basic techniques for risograph printing. Emphasis is placed on printing multiply color layers and registration. Participants can use either digital or hand drawn elements or a combination of both, to create a large edition one-page artist zine, where personal content will be exploredThis workshop is open to both beginner and advanced artists.
Instructor: Randel Plowman
Assistant Student Instructor:
Schedule:
June 13-16, 2022
in the Printmaking Studio - FA 102
Workshop meets live on NKU’s campus Monday through Thursday from 6-8pm est.This workshop is for adults ages 16 and up. Space is limited to 10 participants.
Teachers can earn 10 Professional Development hours!
Course fee:
In this four-day workshop students will learn the basics of screen printing, including exploring hand drawn elements and using digital imagery and photo emulsion.
This workshop will focus on two projects:
• Creating a limited-edition screen print on paper using drawing fluid and screen filler.
• Creating a digital screen print on a tee shirt using film and photo sensitive emulsion. (Tee shirts will be provided)
This workshop is open to anyone ages 13-18.All supplies will be includedStudent
Instructor: Amanda Bollman
Mentor Instructor: Randel Plowman
Schedule:
June 20-23, 2022 FA 102
Workshop meets live on NKU’s campus Monday through Thursday from 2-4pm est.This workshop is for ages 13-18. Space is limited to 12 participants.
Course fee:
Does your child love stories and making? If so, they will have the opportunity to hone their visual story-making skills, work with a variety of materials, and probably laugh a lot along the way.
During this one-week workshop, we will create popsicle stick character puppets, props, and backdrops to visually tell a story of each child’s creation. This workshop will connect kids’ ideas to physical creating by giving them making instructions to help bring their stories to life!
Instructor: Julia Sebastian
Schedule:
June 28-July 1, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every day from 9-10:30 a.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so your child can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for children ages 5-7. A short material list will be provided. (Parents/caregivers are encouraged to work with their child.)
Course fee:
If you are a parent who has a child that is hands-on and creative, consider this four-day online art workshop for them. All of the projects can be done at home by following along live online. In this four-day workshop we will be exploring a different project each day to better understand the elements and principles of design that help make artwork more interesting and exciting.
Instructor: Abigail Sutton
Mentor Instructor: Randel Plowman
Schedule:
June 7-10, Workshop meets online using Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 1-2:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course.
This workshop is for children ages Ages 8-10.
Course fee:
If you are a parent who has a child that is hands-on and creative, consider this four-day online art workshop for them. All of the projects can be done at home by following along live online. In this four-day workshop we will be exploring a different project each day to better understand the elements and principles of design that help make artwork more interesting and exciting.
Mentor Instructor: Randel Plowman
Instructor: Abigail Sutton
Schedule:
June 7-10, Workshop meets online using Zoom, Monday through Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course.
This workshop is for children ages 11-14.
Course fee:
In this four-week online workshop, students will be learning a variety of digital drawing techniques using Procreate app on a touchscreen tablet, such as an iPad or Android tablet. Students will learn how to navigate through the app, familiarize themselves with interface tools, and create their own calligraphy, animations, and portraits by the end of the course. This course is for anyone who loves to create all types of digital art, such as animation, comics or colorful illustration.
A touchscreen tablet such as an iPad or Android, drawing stylus and Procreate app ($9.99) is required for this course.
Instructor: Mikayla Werner
Mentor Instructor: Julia Sebastian
Schedule:
June 5-26, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 2-3:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for teens ages 13-17.
Course fee:
This course dives right into the basics of graphic design, no experience necessary! The four-week independent studio project will give students an idea of what it’s like to be a full-time designer, starting with fundamental skills, design principles, understanding the problem-solving processes and how to give or receive feedback. The hands-on experience with digital and analog production processes will elevate students' confidence while shedding light on the different career paths the field has to offer. Students will walk away from this course understanding vocabulary, rationale, and importance of visual communication design.
Required Materials:
Laptop or Computer, Sketch-book, pens and pencils
Optional Materials:
Adobe Suite
Instructor: Katherine Truitt
Schedule:
June 5-26, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 2-3:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for teens ages 13-18
Course fee:
Glitch art is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data/code or physically manipulating electronic devices.
During class time, we will touch on the definition of a glitch, the power of a glitch, and the myriad of ways to force one to happen. This includes some basics like data moshing and hex editing to produce a glitch aesthetic. There will be three critique opportunities for students to get feedback on their work.
Theory may include covering Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism Manifesto, Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of the Poor Image and there will be a unit on famous uses of glitches in art and culture (including old Kanye West and Rihanna music videos, and how to find glitch in the art historical canon). Lively discussion encouraged!
This workshop is open to both beginner and advanced artists.
No supplies needed, just a computer.
Software:
Students should download, Audacity, Processing, and Avidemux. These are all free downloads.
Instructor: Anna Christine Sands
Schedule:
June 5-26, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 1-2:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course using a virtual online classroom. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for adults and ages 14 and up. Space is limited so sign up early.
Teachers can earn 10 Professional Development hours!
Course fee:
In this four-week online workshop, you will create a "zine" edition of your own! This can include text and pictures, pictures only, text only. Both printing and binding techniques will be taught.
If you are an artist, writer, teacher or anyone with a story to tell, a point to make, or just like to draw and make things, this workshop is for you! No previous experience necessary.
"Zines" (pronounced "zeens", short for magazines) are self-published mini books or original content about anything the author/illustrator chooses. Examples of topics range from comics, fanfiction, politics, art, and personal stories. Generally, they are reproduced on a photocopier in small print runs for sale or trade. Zines have been produced since the 1700s and were created by politically involved artists In the Dada and Surrealist movements in the early 20th century and the 1970s Punk subculture.
A material list will be provided before the course starts.
Instructor: Randel Plowman
Schedule:
June 5-26, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 12-1:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for adults ages 16 and up.
Teachers can earn 10 Professional Development hours!
Course fee:
Collage is the art of recycling. It takes the old and makes it new again through fragmenting, recontextualizing and combining imagery in new and interesting ways. This four-week online workshop explores the many possibilities that collage can offer.
Several techniques will be explored in this hands-on workshop including creating visually compelling imagery through the use of layering, using color effectively, how to create a strong composition and more.
This workshop is open to both beginner and advanced artists.
A material list will be provided before the course starts.
Instructor: Randel Plowman
Schedule:
June 5-26, Workshop meets online using Zoom, every Saturday from 2-3:30 p.m. EST. Zoom meetings and demos are recorded, so you can watch later if you choose. All content can be downloaded and viewed anytime throughout the course using a virtual online classroom. Space is limited, so sign up early.
This workshop is for adults ages 16 and up. Space is limited to 15 participants.
Teachers can earn 10 Professional Development hours!
Course fee:
Anna Christine Sands was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1993, she grew up in a world never not knowing what the Internet was. This connection to cyberspace eventually deepened and was compressed into a studio practice examining art in the post-Internet world.
She attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati and was awarded an BFA in Photography in 2016. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
If you have questions about any of the workshops please contact Randel Plowman at plowmane@nku.edu.
