Young Artist Experience (YAE) Art Club Classes

We will be announcing our fall art club classes soon and look forward to welcoming you back to the arts center for our Young Artist Experience (YAE) program.

YAE Classes are made possible by generous funding from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation. All classes are held at the arts center and will be listed below.

Elementary Age Group

examples of garden critters made from paper
  • Please note: This is a four-week session

  • YAE Club September - October
  • Elementary School Program (grades K-5)
  • Garden Friends
  • Instructor: Brooke Snyder
  • Dates: 4 Monday afternoons
  • September 11, 18, 25
  • October 2
  • Time: 4 - 5:30 pm*
  • Class Limit: 6 (first come; first served)
  • Pay what you can: $5 - $20 per session

Join us as we kick off the YAE after school art club! During this 4-week session students will explore their creative and artistic skills as they create colorful, fun garden critters designed to move, using pulls and straws that manipulate the critter. Each week students will focus on a specific garden friend: a ladybug, a frog, a butterfly, and a caterpillar. Young students will develop dexterity skills as they cut, color, paint, draw and trace,  as well as learn how to create art with levers and pulls that create movement. Students will also learn a little about how important these garden friends are in our ecosystem and get inspired by other artists who create fun art while exploring their own unique artist’s vision.

All materials are supplied. Space is limited to six so please sign up early at Salmon River Fine Arts Center Square Site.

*Option for after school bus drop off from Pulaski. (School will need a note from parents for each day.) A snack will be provided.

YAE Art Club (Young Artist Experience) is made possible by generous funding from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation


Middle - High School Age Group

three wind chimes made with hand-built clay pots
  • Please note: This is a four-week session

  • YAE Club September - October Session
  • Middle-High School (grades 7-12)
  • Clay Wind Chimes
  • Instructor: Joan Mullen
  • Dates: 4 Monday afternoons
  • September 11, 18, 25
  • October 2
  • Time: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm*
  • Class Limit: 8 (first come; first served)
  • Pay what you can: $5 - $20 per session

Join us as we kick off the YAE after school art club! During this 4-week session we will create clay wind chimes. Students will explore different handbuilding techniques to create their own unique textured wind chimes. Instructions will be provided on how to create “koi fish” wind chimes made from hand-built clay pots, made to fit into each other successively, and a clay tail to form a fish or other desired shape. The first two classes will focus on designing and creating the clay pots. The pieces will then be bisque fired and ready to paint or glaze in the third class. After a final firing, the last class will focus on assembling the wind chimes, embellishing them with string, beads and or feathers.

All materials are supplied. Space is limited to six so please sign up early at Salmon River Fine Arts Center Square Site.

*Option for after school bus drop off from Pulaski. (School will need a note from parents for each day.)

YAE Art Club (Young Artist Experience) is made possible by generous funding from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation.