Norman Firehouse Art Center

The Firehouse provides visual arts education to 306 children in-house through its Art after school and children's summer Art programs. These classes operate under the Firehouse's "creating with the masters" curriculum, which introduces children to the works of master and modern artists and teaches students about the history of Art, museums, and Art techniques while fulfilling the Oklahoma standards for fine arts: visual arts guidelines. The Firehouse is also the number one provider of visual arts education in Norman's public elementary schools.

The Firehouse gift shop is unique to Norman, representing original high- quality fine Art pieces at multiple price points. Ninety percent of the artists are from Oklahoma and make their living from artwork sales. Over one hundred artists are represented in the gift shop displaying: jewelry, fused glass, ceramics, painting, drawing, sculpture, and holiday cards. The Firehouse gallery and gift shop are free and open to the public six days a week. The gallery has seven exhibitions a year, four with professional artists and three highlighting the Firehouse Art Center's grant and donation funded programs, including the healing studio, children's, and veterans programs. Approximately 500 guests visited the gift shop and gallery this year.

The Firehouse provided adult visual arts classes in a full range of artistic mediums to approximately 443 individuals during the current year. This includes programming for us armed forces veterans at the Norman veterans Center and adults with varying degrees of cognitive and physical disabilities in the Firehouse's healing studio. Healing studio is offered free of charge to its participants through 12 scholarships available weekly, for approximately 32 weeks each year. The Firehouse is also a partner to many community events, providing approximately 1,285 individuals with free arts experiences during the year.