Winter One Classes (JAn/Feb 2026) Now ON SALE!

We offer both multi-week classes and one-day workshops!

Sliding-scale pricing options are available for anyone in financial hardship. Find more information here.

2025 Class Cancellation Policy

VISUAL ARTS | FINE CRAFTS |CERAMICS | PERFORMING ARTS

Teen Artists are welcome to explore our Adult Visual Arts Classes here (watercolors, oil painting, drawing) - must email education@chehalemculturalcenter.org for approval before registration.

Class sessions are 6-weeks unless otherwise specified

ART CLUBS for Grades K-5

Art Club: Art & Nature (for Grades K-5) | Mondays 4pm-5:30pm | Jan 26- Mar 2

Artist- Instructor: Annika Morse | $150/ session 

Explore and observe the beauty and wonder of nature through art. Create 2D and 3D projects using a variety of natural and eco-friendly materials combined with painting, printing and collage. Build skills and creativity in a fun environment with friends.

Art Club: Imagination Station for Grades K-5 | Tuesdays 4pm-5:30pm |Jan 20-Feb 24

Artist- Instructor: Annika Morse | $150/ session 

Imagination Station encourages young artists to grow, create, relax, and have fun! Express your likes, interests, thoughts and feelings using a variety of art materials and techniques. 2D and 3D art projects are inspired by stories, artists, music, culture, and art prompts.

SEE UNDER TEENS:

Fantasy World Building for Ages 9-16, Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm

Board Game Workshop Series- Play to Create: The Art of Game Design, Ages 10–14 (Grades 5–8)

For PreK & Families:

Club mud Ages 3-PreK *Parents encouraged to attend with their student 

Weds 10am-11:30am, Jan 21-Feb 25

Artist Instructor Annika Morse, $120/6 week series (all materials provided)

This club is all about trying new things and letting our imaginations soar! Through guided crafts and artistic exploration, our youngest artists will be free to learn, create and make a mess while having fun with clay, paint and much more! 

1 enrollment covers 1 adult & 1 student 

Family Clay Play for PreK-5th Grade | Sundays 3-4:30pm | Jan 25- Mar 1

Families work together to create extraordinary clay vessels and projects. Each week, families will create a different type of hand-built project. One spot will cover 1 Parent/Guardian + 1 child- students must attend with an adult guardian. 

$120/ 6 week session

FOR TEENS:

Teen Art Class: Fantasy World Building

Ages 9-16, Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm, January 22nd-February 26th 

Artist-Instructor: Lillian Carver, $150/session 

If you’re a lover of fantasy, comics, or imaginative storytelling, this six-week course is your gateway to creating a fully realized world of your own. Each week, we’ll explore a different pillar of world building and bring it to life through a unique art piece. From crafting maps and illustrating bustling cityscapes to designing characters, flora, and even entire solar systems, you’ll gradually assemble a vivid, cohesive world one artwork at a time.

Join us and transform your imagination into something you can see, share, and expand.

Board Game Workshop Series- Play to Create: The Art of Game Design, Ages 10–14 (Grades 5–8)

10:30am-12pm, Saturdays Feb 7, 14 and 21

Artist- Instructor: Christian Cook  $75/ 3 week series, All Materials Provided 

Perfect for creative minds who love to play games, invent new rules, and explore how games work.

Ever wondered how your favorite games like Catan, Uno, or Dungeons & Dragons came to be?
In this three-week workshop, students explore the world of tabletop game design—where math meets creativity and play becomes invention. Each session blends play, discovery, and creation. Students analyze popular games, explore mechanics like chance, balance, and storytelling, and design their own original tabletop game to take home and share.

By the end of the series, participants will have:

• Played and analyzed classic games

• Designed, tested, and refined a prototype

• Learned how game creators market and share their designs

Week 1: Play and Discover — What Makes a Game Fun?

Week 2: Build and Test — From Idea to Prototype

Week 3: Refine, Present, and Publish — Sharing Your Creation

Christian Cook is a writer, educator, and designer who teaches storytelling and game design through creativity and play. Combining his background in narrative design, tabletop strategy, and interactive storytelling, he helps students turn ideas into games that spark imagination and collaboration.

Holiday Cupcakes for All Ages : Teddy Bears & Presents!!

Sat Dec 20, 2pm-3pm | $30 per registrant - REGISTER HERE!

Make the season extra sweet at Cake Hoopla’s Teddy Bears & Presents decorating class! Each participant will decorate four festive cupcakes—two adorable teddy bears and two holiday gift boxes topped with colorful fondant bows and holiday sprinkles.

It’s the perfect holiday activity for kids and families to get creative and take home a box of cute, cozy cupcakes to share (or keep for Santa).

Each registration includes:
• Admission for one participant
• Four cupcakes in Cake Hoopla’s signature Fetti flavor (vanilla cake baked with rainbow sprinkles), with vegan chocolate and gluten-friendly options available
• Vanilla buttercream frosting and fondant in holiday colors
• Fun, festive sprinkles
• Step-by-step instruction and use of professional tools

Instructor: Cake Hoopla

Creative Writing for Ages 12+

Tuesdays 5:30pm-7pm, Jan 20-Feb 24

Artist Instructor: Annika Morse $150/session 

If you like designing your own worlds and dreaming up new stories then this class is for you. This class will focus on creativity and thinking outside the box while also teaching the building blocks of writing a good story and how to edit your writing. Writing materials provided, bring yourself and your thinking caps!

Creating & Playing w/ Winter Herbs (Ages 7-15) | Weds 4:15PM-5:15PM | Jan 21- Feb 25

(No Class Feb 18)

Artist-Instructor:  Mckaila Egan is the creator of Medicine Ghippsy

$100/5 week session, covers all materials, herbs, tools & culinary equipment

In this fun and hands-on class, kids will explore the world of herbs and nature!

They'll learn how to identify common herbs, make their own herbal teas, and create natural art and simple body care products like lip balm or bath salts.

Through creative projects, the kids will connect with nature, use their senses, and discover how plants can be helpful in everyday life.

Fiber Arts for Teens Ages 10-18 

Wednesdays 4pm-5:30pm, Jan 21-Feb 25

Artist-Instructor: Kat Puente $170/session (all materials provided) 

Ever thought about fabric as art? What about thread as a way to illustrate ideas? This class is about communicating ideas through fabrics, threads and found objects. In this class students will learn how to fuse fabrics, do free motion stitching on a machine, and utilize various embroidery techniques to create a 20” x 20” art quilt of their own design. 

Needle & Thread Club for Teens & Adults

Thursdays 5pm-6:30pm, Jan 22- Feb 26

Artist-Instructor: Annika Morse $150/session (all materials provided) 

Your favorite pair of pants with the hole in the knee can be fixed! That sweater you always wear that makes you feel cozy year after year? It can be fixed! Learn how you can bring your old favorites back to life and add handmade detail to your wardrobe through mending and embroidery.  This course will teach basic sewing and embroidery techniques as well as focusing on experimenting with sashiko (Japanese mending). 

Lights, Curtain, Middle School presents: Supervillains Anonymous will return Winter 2026

Class sessions are 6-weeks unless otherwise specified

SUNDAYS

Family Clay Play for PreK-5th Grade | Sundays 3pm-4:30pm | Jan 25- Mar 1

Families work together to create extraordinary clay vessels and projects. Each week, families will create a different type of hand-built project. One spot will cover 1 Parent/Guardian + 1 child- students must attend with an adult guardian. 

Artist-Instructor: Pilar Swanson, Studio Manager | $120/ 6 week session

MONDAYS

Ceramics Club (Grades K-2) | Mondays | 4pm-5:30pm | Jan 26- Mar 2

Come join us for this handbuilding and wheel-throwing class for young ceramicists, both new and returning!

For Kindergarten- 2nd Grade Only

Student led clay play with instruction. A hands-on introductory course that teaches our youngest learners foundational ceramic skills and practices. Students will learn how to build creatures and vessels out of clay. In addition to learning how to build ceramic pieces, students will learn how to view and observe artwork.

Artist-Instructor: Pilar Swanson, Studio Manager | $150/session

TUESDAYS

Teen Ceramics (Grades 6-12) | Tuesdays 4:15pm-5:45pm | Jan 20-Feb 24

For beginning and returning students alike- focus on wheel throwing or handbuilding!

Artist-Instructor: Anneliese Kiefer | $150/session

WEDNESDAYS

Ceramics Club (Grades 3-5) | Wednesdays 4pm-5:30pm | Jan 21- Feb 25

Come join us for this handbuilding and wheel-throwing class for young ceramicists, both new and returning!

For 3rd-5th Grades Only

Theme based and student led clay play with guided instruction. Building off the skills learned in K-2 Ceramic Club students will learn how to build bigger and taller handbuilt forms. Students will have opportunities to potentially throw on the pottery wheel. 

Artist-Instructor: Lora Froescher of Hands on Art | $150/session

THURSDAYS

Teen Ceramics w/Pottery Wheel Focus (Grades 6-12) | Thursdays 4:15pm-5:45pm | Jan 22-Feb 26

Learn the basics of throwing on the potters' wheel. We’ll also explore hand-building techniques, glazing, and surface design with a “creature” theme.

Artist-Instructor: Courtney Maulding, former Ceramics Studio Resident | $150/session

Sliding-scale pricing options are available for anyone in financial hardship. Find more information here.

2025 Class Cancellation Policy