Ages 5–17 Programs
Full-Day | Week-Long
Brookline Arts Center’s Summer Art Programs are weeklong, full-day programs where kids and teens ages 5–17 can explore their imagination, experiment with materials, and create alongside friends in an engaging, inclusive, and vibrant arts space.
We offer private lessons and financial aid to accommodate anyone who wishes to take a class. For questions about our policies or for more information, reach out to us at office@brooklineartscenter.com
Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Shamayam Sullivan (she/her)
Class Fee: $584 Materials $45
Zoom into art this week as we explore whole new worlds within our environment. We will create miniature art as well as magnify the microscopic world around us in abstract paintings, sculpture, drawings and mixed media.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Quincey Spagnoletti (she/her)
Class Fee: $584 Materials $45
Zoom in to see the world from a new perspective with digital photography. Students will learn basic introductory camera techniques using light, shutter speed and exposure. This week will cover portraiture, still life, mixed media, and abstract photography. Each day, the teacher will introduce a new photographer for the students to study and learn from. At the end of the week, students will have a portfolio of images they can be proud of. On the last day of class, each student will be invited to print their favorite photographs to exhibit in a mini gallery show with their classmates.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Romy Saint Hilaire (she/her)
Class Fee: $648 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $417 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Megan Hyde (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Invent a world from the past, or one that only exists in your imagination. Campers will create maps, symbols, mosaics, clay objects, story pots, and mysterious artifacts inspired by ancient art from around the world. This hands-on week combines drawing, painting, clay, collage, and mixed media with storytelling and world-building. Campers will imagine the people, creatures, places, and stories behind their creations while learning how artists across time have used art to decorate, communicate, celebrate, and leave clues for the future.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Zoe Schein (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
From our earliest days as a species, humans have been making art. This week, we will travel back in time to meet our ancient ancestors and to learn what, how, and why they made it! We’ll make 3D objects that tell stories, mosaics of daily life, quill-and-ink maps, and more. Drawing on traditions from across the world, we will explore art that was made for decoration, storytelling, investigation, or even worship. Finally, we’ll ask the question: what will our art say about us when we are the artists of the past?
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Romy Saint Hilaire (she/her)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Nanette Pengelly (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Quincey Spagnoletti (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Young artists will create their own characters, settings, and mini stories through drawing, painting, collage, and comic-inspired projects. Campers will explore silly expressions, action poses, speech bubbles, and simple story scenes in a playful, age-appropriate way. Through games, drawing warmups, and hands-on projects, students will learn how pictures can tell stories while building confidence, imagination, and their own creative voices.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Zoe Schein (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This weeklong intensive walks students through the process of brainstorming, developing, and creating their own unique comics stories. We’ll cover topics like character design, facial expressions, and story strategy, developing our skills through fun, no-experience-necessary exercises. Each student will end the week with a fully-executed graphic story to share with their friends and family
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: TBD
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Quincey Spagnoletti (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Have you ever been to the zoo and wished you could see dragons and unicorns instead of just lions and tigers? Join us for an imagination intensive, reading about and recreating our favorite fantasy beasts in a variety of creative mediums. Take a walk through your imagination as we paint, draw, and sculpt both real and imaginary fantastical characters and creatures.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Sarah Ginocchio (she/they)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Create fantasy creatures, characters, magical worlds, and illustrated stories inspired by myths, legends, anime, comics, games, and your own imagination. Campers will explore drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed media while designing original beasts, heroes, maps, and fantasy-inspired artworks.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Robbie Moser (he/him)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Laura Jaklitsch (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Quincey Spagnoletti (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This week, we will cover artists from the pop art movement, cubism, expressionism, and impressionism. Learn from the artists who created the movements! Each day will be inspired by a modern artist who paved the way for contemporary artists today. Examples include Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrain, Keith Haring, and Yayoi Kusama. Students will leave with a portfolio of art inspired by some of these modern artists.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: William Valdes (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This week, we will cover artists from the pop art movement, cubism, expressionism, and impressionism. Learn from the artists who created the movements! Each day will be inspired by a modern artist who paved the way for contemporary artists today. Examples include Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrain, Keith Haring, and Yayoi Kusama. Students will leave with a portfolio of art inspired by some of these modern artists.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Robbie Moser (he/him)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Megan Hyde (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This week is all about animals: furry, feathery, scaly, silly, wild, and imaginary. Campers will create animal-inspired art through drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and mixed media. Projects may include pet portraits, wild animal paintings, colorful creatures, animal masks, forest friends, and imaginary beasts. Campers may even use their own pets or favorite animals as inspiration while exploring texture, pattern, color, and storytelling through art.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Quincey Spagnoletti (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
From beloved pets to wild animals to totally imaginary creatures, this week is all about bringing animals to life through art. Campers may use their own pets, favorite animals, forest creatures, or invented beasts as inspiration while creating drawings, paintings, comics, and character designs.
We’ll explore expression, pose, personality, movement, and storytelling through projects, games, silly warmups, inking, coloring, and mixed-media art.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Robbie Moser (he/him)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Laura Jaklitsch (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Megan Hyde (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This week will take us to the moon and beyond as we design and build our own lunar-themed colonies, make paintings of nebulas and galaxies and imagine life beyond our planet.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Zoe Schein (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Explore outer space through drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and mixed media. Campers will create galaxy-inspired artworks while experimenting with a wide range of materials and techniques, including watercolor, charcoal, oil pastel, printmaking, collage, and color studies.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Robbie Moser (he/him)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Shamayam Sullivan (she/her)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Dive into the Multiverse of comics and cartooning! Through fun prompts and projects, students will explore essential skills like crafting expressive characters, dynamic poses, and interdimensional storyboarding. They'll then unleash their creativity to develop and bring to life their own original comic stories, leaping from one universe to the next!
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Zoe Schein (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Young cartoonists will create characters, comics, and stories inspired by alternate worlds, portals, superheroes, fantasy settings, and imagined universes. Campers will explore the comic-making process from character design and expressions to poses, scenes, inking, color, and storytelling. Through projects, games, drawing warmups, and practice exercises, students will build their own comic worlds and discover their unique cartooning voice.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Robbie Moser (he/him)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Laura Jaklitsch (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: TBD
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Dive deep as we explore crazy creatures, corals, and chasms on the ocean floors! From schools of fish to coral reefs to the monstrous giants of the sea, let’s explore the colors, textures, and shapes that make up the underwater worlds that share our planet! Projects will include watercolor, mixed-media collages, 3D sculptures, and more!
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Zoe Schein (they/them)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
Explore coral reefs, sea creatures, underwater landscapes, and imagined ocean worlds through drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. Campers will experiment with color, texture, pattern, and form while creating watercolor seascapes, mixed-media reef collages, sculptural sea creatures, and deep-sea inspired artworks.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Romy Saint Hilaire (she/her)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Ages: 5–7
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Elliot Kramer (he/they)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
In this fun-filled vacation program, students will explore basic drawing techniques using colorful materials while developing their creativity and imagination. They'll learn to express themselves through simple shapes, lines, and textures, while learning the fundamentals of design and illustration!
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Sarah Ginocchio (she/they)
Class Fee: $730 Materials $45
This weeklong program will introduce young artists to the key principles of illustration and design. Through a broad sampling of illustration genres, such as storybook illustration, comics and graphic novels, advertisement design, logo making, and more, students will build their understanding of how design works while communicating the stories and ideas that matter most to them.
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Ages: 8–12
Time: 9:00a–4:00p
Instructor: Romy Saint Hilaire (she/her)
Class Fee: $810 Materials $55
Explore the wonderful world of clay in this guided ceramics studio. Campers will sculpt from their imagination while learning hand-building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-making, carving, attaching, texture-making, and glazing. Projects may include bowls, vessels, tiles, creatures, sculptures, and decorative objects inspired by campers’ own ideas. This class focuses on creative hand-building rather than wheel throwing. Finished ceramic work will be fired and ready to take home approximately 6-8 weeks after the session ends.
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Ages: 12–17
Time: 9:00a–2:00p
Instructor: Ashley Vick (she/her)
Class Fee: $521 Materials $55
Spend your Summer exploring the wonderful world of jewelry and metals! Students will gain a general knowledge of jewelry-making and metalsmithing techniques in this week-long intensive. Techniques covered will include soldering, piercing, and embellishing in copper and brass. Students must feel comfortable working independently with sharp tools and torches.
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Private Lessons
One-on-one Lessons and Group Lessons are offered by the BAC faculty for all ages with pricing ranging between $75–$150 per hour.
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Financial Aid
The BAC believes the arts should be accessible to all! Tuition assistance (or financial aid) for full season classes, intensives, and workshops is available for all individuals and families throughout the year. Click here to be redirected to our financial aid form.
Please do not register for a class you wish to apply financial assistance for, the BAC will assist you with your registration process if your application has been accepted.
Tuition assistance requests will not be fulfilled until 1-2 weeks before the start date of the requested class. Tuition Assistance requests can be fullfilled up to 2 weeks after the start date of the session if space permits. Until then, we ask for your patience while we work to place students in their requested classes. Scholarships for Ceramics & Jewelry are granted per individual once per fiscal year (September – August). Financial Aid does not apply to private lessons.
We are, additionally, proud to partner with the Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program – in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector to allow participants to identify the amount they can contribute towards class tuition