Register for the RAM Art To-Go Box

Our Art To-Go Box comes complete with all the supplies and instructions you’ll need for a fun and exciting art project at home. Pick one up for FREE every month for a continuing adventure into new mediums ranging from photo-transferring to bookbinding. Available while supplies last. Ages 10 and up. Register to reserve your free box now!

Following Pickup dates are exclusively on the
2nd Saturday of the month from 11 am – 6 pm                                         Dec. 11.

The UAFS Student Art Exhibition combines the artwork of students at different levels of their studio degrees. Whether they were painting figures or focusing on a culminating body of work, each student faced the difficulties of creating in a hybrid or distance learning environment. Despite this, the resulting artwork captures formal qualities and conceptual depth, some touching on themes of identity and meditation.

Lo que Fluya (Whatever Flows) by Julio Gonzalez

I find myself in a place of uncertainty where I am trying to understand what art is, what good art is, and how I can make something interesting and unique. As I wander and seek answers, I realize I live in a world where I am capable of obtaining so much information/inspiration through the internet. This has caused me to be where I am: simultaneously uncertain and inspired. I am uncertain of what the outcome of these paintings will be but inspired by all the artists that I’ve come across through the internet and social media.

These works of art are an expression of where I am as an artist. They prove exploration of what I am driven to or what I find attractive. Also, they are spontaneous. I find that there is a beauty in creating something in the moment, where I just create what comes from the heart, soul, and spirit. Most of the process consists of seeing a subject as shapes, lines, values, and color relationships.

The subjects of these paintings are my mom, dad, and sister. I chose them as my subject because I am at a moment of my life where I’ll be graduating college due to their hard work and support. I do what I love because of them and there is no better way than to honor them with these paintings.

Figure Painting

The figure painting class takes students through a series of exercises to strengthen their sense of mass and form, color and modulation, and gesture. Using live models, we focus on the intricacies of the human form. This semester’s class looked at how the human figure has been utilized in art movements throughout time. Each painting focused on different aspects such as: the figure as abstraction, the figure as prop, the figure as construct, the figure as academic study, etc.

The Figure Painting class in the Spring of 2021 was a wonderful change from many of the hybrid Covid-19 courses I taught. Utilizing the generous space of the painting studio in the Windgate Art and Design building, I was able to have the students with their own workstations and separated six-feet apart. We were the only class that utilized that room, meaning we did not have to share it with any other students. Since each student had their own materials and easel, we were able to meet twice a week, just like during a normal semester. I believe that this helped to focus the students to be able to produce the paintings shown.

Works by John Hass

Student Gallery Sponsored by                   

Arvest Foundation

On View                                                           

December 23, 2021 though January 23, 2022

What did art mean to John? We have contemplated this a lot since his death. From the time John was born I set out to show him the beauty in everything, we explored every rock, roadside flower, and cloud. At first, his art was reflective of my sensibilities but over the last couple of years he took on art that became distinctly his. Unbounded by rules and conceptions, John’s art became an expression of freedom. In his art, you will find colors and techniques played against each other in unique and joyful ways, and always there is light. John’s smile lit up every room he entered and like him, every piece of his art has a light that brings joy to those who see it.

Ageena, John’s mom

RAM In Studio Classes

John Bell, Jr. Lady in the Lace

Wednesdays, January 5, 12 & 19 – 2022

 3 Classes – 1 – 3 pm

$65 for Members – $75 for Not-Yet Members

In-Person/RAM Studio – Registration Required

Supplies Provided

RAM Zoom Classes

RAM SKETCH with

Laura Wattles

Always passionately in pursuit of art even from a young age, artist Laura Wattles graduated from Missouri State University with a major in Graphic Design with an emphasis in Illustration. Since then, Wattles has worked steadily as a graphic designer while also keeping in touch with her artistic practices such as dollmaking and watercolor painting. She has spent the last 10 years incorporating looseness, life, and even ‘play’ into her art through a sketchbook practice.

In RAM Sketch, Wattles will emphasize and encourage sketchbook drawing as a creative habit, with focus on these four ideas: DAILY (draw every day); EXPERIMENT (try different things); FEARLESS (don’t be afraid to mess up); and FUN (have fun doing it).

Students can either stick to the basics or for the more advanced sketcher, you can put your own creative spin into it. End-of-class show-and-tell will allow artists to engage, critique, and improve community fostering. So, grab your sketchbook and pencil and experience both the improved wellness and artist community of a consistent drawing practice!

This Free Zoom Class is Open to All Artists of

All Skill Levels. Ages 12+. 

Every Tuesday at 7 pm

December 14, 2021

Sketching with Brush Pens: Demos of sketching loosely with a black brush pen to draw animals, buildings, and people. Then we will use a brush pen to sketch an animal that can later be colorized.

An Art Historical Survey of 500 years

7 part Series – Free! Registration Required

Still Life Painting in the Dutch Republic Dec. 9

“Still life painting as a genre originated in the Dutch Republic, as historical scenes were waning in popularity with the newly established art market and the economic boom surrounding the working class. What we, as viewers, interpret as heightened reality stemming from still life paintings is more often constructed reality. Although small details like the veins in rose petals or the nearly translucent wings of a fly encourage a realistic interpretation, these fictitious scenes are wrought with ambiguity and anxiety, mirroring the economic and cultural expansion in which they were made. Please join us to learn more about the fascinating history of still life painting.”

 Vanitas Still Life, Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603

Global Relations in Islamic Painting Dec. 16

“Amidst our technologically advanced age, there is an assumption that cultures throughout history have been impossibly separated from one another, this assumption, however, is not true. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw exponential trade routes established, particularly between the Dutch Republic and the Middle East. The international presence of trade routes brought its tragedies and hardships, but it also allowed a type of cultural flourishing in the arts. Islamic painters were inspired by European art prints, and European artists were often included Eastern elements in their work. There was global communication, and it spread to the Americas, India, China, and across Europe. Please join us as we consider art in the time of global trade.”

Four Mullahs Seated, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1656