Youth Art Program

Join a Park Ranger and local art instructor during Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park's 161st Anniversary Weekend for our popular youth art program!

 

Junior Rangers create masterpieces on a National Park battlefield!

NPS Photo / T. Hegler

Participants will spend time learning about the documentation of Civil War Battlefields both during and after the Civil War. There will be a special emphasis on the different mediums used by artists at the time and developing an understanding of how art can be used as a way to appreciate, document, and memorialize important landscapes. A Park Ranger will be joined by local artist Jill Hooley to discuss the practice of plein air painting and charcoal sketching before heading to the battlefield to create art in real time outdoors!

 

NPS Photo

Two program sessions will be held on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Program times and ages are as follows:

Watercolor Painting: 9:00am - Noon: Ages 6 years - 8 years
Charcoal Sketching: 1:30pm - 4:30pm: Ages 9 years - 12 years

Things to Know:

• The maximum number of participants per session is 20.
• Participants must be aged 6 - 12. No exceptions.
• The program is completely FREE -- no park entrance fee is required.
• The registration form closes on Sunday, June 8th at 11:59pm.
• Participants are selected on a first come, first served basis.
• Participants will be notified of their selection by Wednesday, June 11th and will be given further information at that time.

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the children's youth art program Recording the Landscape: Plein Air Artworks on the Battlefield.

Please note: registration has closed for the charcoal sketching program for ages 9-12.

 

If there are any questions, please contact Park Ranger Taylor Hegler at [e-mail] or via telephone at [phone].

This program is made possible through generous grants from the Marietta Kiwanis Foundation Art Fund of the Cobb Community Foundation and America's National Parks. Additional program support is provided by the Friends of Kennesaw Mountain.

 

Jill Hooley

MEET THE TEACHER:

Jill Hooley is a local artist and art instructor in Marietta, Georgia. She received her B.F.A. from Alfred University in Almond, New York and received her M.A. from Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia. Jill recently retired from teaching art at Marietta High School and is currently the 2D instructor at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art.