Dittmer ArtBarn- Studio classes – where art meets artisan in the country!
Dittmer ArtBarn offers year-round classes and located just outside St Louis. We believe in project based learning, use the farm environment as a background to create. Adults and kids will have fun creating using standard studio, natural and recycled materials. The animals play a large part of the learning as well, they provide hands-on, inspirational and willing subjects for your objects-de-art.
• Life, landscape-drawing and painting
• Sculptural needle felting
• Figure making in air-dry paper clay, wood and paper
• Ceramics
• Beginning digital: Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Animal husbandry
• Encaustics (wax painting)
• Altered garments and accessories
• Multi-media art and jewelry
• Plaster and Silicone Casting Workshops
• And more...
So what about this combination of art and the farm life? Sound weird? It's about personal re-invention and celebration of assets. I started thinking about the animals and the fact of our lovely ranch and my art passion, then started exploring how to share it with the community. Being from the city, I realize not everyone gets to have up-close and personal experiences with non-human personalities.
When my parents answered my most fervent obsession for a horse at age nine (well, it was my mothers horse but that didn't matter...) my life was forever changed. After over 25 years of school (double BFA, Double MFA), and nearly 30 years of Art Director on large thematic and graphic art projects for the Busch and SeaWorld Corporation, I decided it's nigh time to follow my heart and BELIEVE.
Kim Wilson
Resident Artist and Crafts-person for
Dittmer ArtBarn
studio classes in:
• Life, landscape-drawing and painting
• Sculptural needle felting
• Figure making in air-dry paper clay, wood and paper
• Ceramics
• Beginning digital: Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Animal husbandry
• Encaustics (wax painting)
• Altered garments and accessories
• Multi-media art and jewelry
• Plaster and Silicone Casting Workshops
• More
