Cotuit Center for the Arts – Youth & Kids Programs
Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Rd, Cotuit, MA 2635
About
Cotuit Center for the Arts – Youth & Kids Programs includes hands-on arts activities such as Clay Studio For Kids: Handbuilding and other visual arts classes like Fantastic Furniture Painting, Big Brush Painting, and Intro to Jewelry Making. The broader program lineup at the Center also includes offerings such as Open Mic in the Art Barn, DIY Cozy Chunky Hand-Knit Blanket Workshop, Made by Hand, Learn Handbuilding, Thrown Together: Wheel for All Levels, and movement and wellness classes like Elementary Ballet 55+, Adult Ballet: Silver Swans 55+ (Mondays), and Soundbath: Rest and Reset.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Options on select dates and multi-week sessions, including weekday and weekend classes in the afternoons, mornings, and evenings
• Price: Clay Studio For Kids: Handbuilding: $117, $108 Members; DIY Cozy Chunky Hand-Knit Blanket Workshop: $120, $108 Members; Fantastic Furniture Painting: $180, $163 Members; Elementary Ballet 55+: $95; Soundbath: Rest and Reset: $35, $30 Members; Made by Hand, Learn Handbuilding: $292, $265 Members; Big Brush Painting: $95; Intro to Jewelry Making: $190, $171 Members; Adult Ballet: Silver Swans 55+ (Mondays): $95.
Cotuit Center for the Arts was founded in 1993 and was incorporated as a non-profit charitable organization in 1995. Its mission is summarized as “Educate, Entertain, Illuminate, Inspire, Include. The arts are essential,” and it states that its mission is to be a welcoming home for Cape Cod’s artists, performers, students, and audiences, working together to make the creation and experience of art accessible, nurturing, and thrilling to all. The Center is described as an established, award-winning, dynamic arts and cultural home.
The Center’s 2025 roster includes 6 Main Stage theater productions, 10 Black Box shows, 150 class and workshop offerings, 10 gallery installations, and over 50 special events, with an average week including about 130 hours of programming across ten locations on its campus. It hosts more than 40,000 visitors yearly for free and paid programming and serves disabled teens and adults and incarcerated youth through outreach programs. It collaborates with local artists, musicians, actors, performers, teachers, volunteers, and the occasional celebrity, and ticket sales cover only half of its financial needs, with support coming from donors and 600 active volunteers.
Instructors and leaders for various programs include Lucy Lee, a highly trained dancer with years of experience teaching ballet and movement to students of all ages and skill levels; Nicole Hendrick Donovan, a certified meditation instructor, sound practitioner, reiki master, and author of “A Life Suspended: A Mother and Son’s Story of Autism, Extinction Bursts, and Living a Resilient Life”; Amy Kelly, who earned a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design; and Joe Gallant, an award-winning Cape Cod artist who has been a full-time painter and instructor on Cape Cod for 25 years. The Barnstable Patriot describes Cotuit Center for the Arts by saying, “Cotuit Center for the Arts… from an artist or audience perspective, who could ask for anything more?”
Last updated January 26, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Options on select dates and multi-week sessions, including weekday and weekend classes in the afternoons, mornings, and evenings
• Price: Clay Studio For Kids: Handbuilding: $117, $108 Members; DIY Cozy Chunky Hand-Knit Blanket Workshop: $120, $108 Members; Fantastic Furniture Painting: $180, $163 Members; Elementary Ballet 55+: $95; Soundbath: Rest and Reset: $35, $30 Members; Made by Hand, Learn Handbuilding: $292, $265 Members; Big Brush Painting: $95; Intro to Jewelry Making: $190, $171 Members; Adult Ballet: Silver Swans 55+ (Mondays): $95.
Cotuit Center for the Arts was founded in 1993 and was incorporated as a non-profit charitable organization in 1995. Its mission is summarized as “Educate, Entertain, Illuminate, Inspire, Include. The arts are essential,” and it states that its mission is to be a welcoming home for Cape Cod’s artists, performers, students, and audiences, working together to make the creation and experience of art accessible, nurturing, and thrilling to all. The Center is described as an established, award-winning, dynamic arts and cultural home.
The Center’s 2025 roster includes 6 Main Stage theater productions, 10 Black Box shows, 150 class and workshop offerings, 10 gallery installations, and over 50 special events, with an average week including about 130 hours of programming across ten locations on its campus. It hosts more than 40,000 visitors yearly for free and paid programming and serves disabled teens and adults and incarcerated youth through outreach programs. It collaborates with local artists, musicians, actors, performers, teachers, volunteers, and the occasional celebrity, and ticket sales cover only half of its financial needs, with support coming from donors and 600 active volunteers.
Instructors and leaders for various programs include Lucy Lee, a highly trained dancer with years of experience teaching ballet and movement to students of all ages and skill levels; Nicole Hendrick Donovan, a certified meditation instructor, sound practitioner, reiki master, and author of “A Life Suspended: A Mother and Son’s Story of Autism, Extinction Bursts, and Living a Resilient Life”; Amy Kelly, who earned a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design; and Joe Gallant, an award-winning Cape Cod artist who has been a full-time painter and instructor on Cape Cod for 25 years. The Barnstable Patriot describes Cotuit Center for the Arts by saying, “Cotuit Center for the Arts… from an artist or audience perspective, who could ask for anything more?”
Last updated January 26, 2026.
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