These sessions provide an opportunity to work in a studio environment from a live model in the artists preferred medium. Artist Jessie Nickerson will structure and time the model as well as be available for some basic instruction and coaching.
A Writing Gym for Women with Christine Ernst.
With Sam Holmstock of Entrain. A Drum Circle is a group of people from just a few to, say, 50, sitting in a circle experiencing the spontaneous creation of music on a variety of drums and World percussion.
Designed for veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is also open to anyone struggling with trauma of any kind: brain injury, stroke, dementia, and PTSD. With Sam Holmstock of Entrain.
This popular workshop with Melinda is BACK for the new year! Try Improv Your Life, a fun AND funny four hours, where you will explore the skills to communicate more effectively, think faster on your feet, and maybe (just maybe) laugh yourself silly!
Before the ‘60s were hip, they were square! Join television hostess Hope Henderson and her musical sidekicks for their 1962 holiday special! Meet Hope’s tv family and special guest stars as they bring holiday cheer and ring in the new year.
Paint large! Experience the fun, freedom, and spontaneity of using large brushes available at hardware stores to create landscape and seascape paintings with artist Joe Gallant!
Explore a new way of printmaking with master printmaker, Alice Galick, in this exciting 3-day workshop!
Follow the yellow brick road! In this rare concert presentation, the Cape Symphony partners with Cotuit Center for the Arts to perform the original lush Harold Arlen score and the script of “The Wizard of Oz.”
Use the barre or mat to sculpt, slim, and stretch your entire body!
Cotuit Center for the Arts offers an open mic series called Salon of Shorts on the third Wednesday of each month in the Art Studio.
At last, Disney’s and Cameron Mackintosh’s beloved Mary Poppins flies into Cotuit and lands on CCftA’s magical stage.
This annual event allows us to say “thank you” to our artistic community.
In a story of survival and unrealized loyalty, "The Weight of Silence" features a mostly female cast whose struggles shed light on everything from abandonment to abuse, and on the inner child who shoulders it all.
For sculptors, painters, and sketchers! This is a great opportunity to create with a model over a multi-day pose, allowing the artist to focus but work at their own pace.
Learn how to create realistic and beautiful portrait sculptures in clay!
Beginners! Join award-winning sculptor Neil Grant as he teaches you how to make all sorts of clay objects using your hands in the fun and relaxed class.
This three-day workshop is your gateway to figure sculpting!
Paula Cole has won Grammy Awards and played sold-out arenas, and she is returning to Cotuit Center for the Arts for a memorable night of smash hits like “I Don’t Want to Wait” and “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”
December's Wine & Music features a Holiday singalong featuring our own David Kuehn on piano! Please join us for what has become a lovely annual tradition.
The Sons of Serendip are a musical group of four friends, who through a series of serendipitous events, came together in graduate school at Boston University and rocketed to popularity after a 4th place finish on America’s Got Talent.
A fabulously fun dance class and a great cardio workout!
Cape Cod master teacher Susan Mendoza Friedman will reinforce basic tap technique with her usual energy and creative style.
Join this absolutely-not-intimidating class with master teacher Susan Mendoza Friedman to find your own rhythm and discover your inner tapper!
Join this absolutely-not-intimidating class with master teacher Susan Mendoza Friedman to find your own rhythm and discover your inner tapper!
This advanced beginner/intermediate level watercolor class will concentrate on different subjects each week.
Photoshop is a wonderfully versatile program for manipulating your photos and creating unique designs all by editing pixels. This class is ideal for bloggers, photographers, and creatives of all types!
Try your hand at watercolors with artist and long-time instructor Rosalie McCarthy in this non-intimidating and fun class!
Acrylic Fridays is a FUN class where you can discover and develop your own painting style. Beginners/intermediate/advanced. All skill levels welcomed!
Turn that old side table into a masterpiece or that ugly chair into an heirloom! Transform old, unwanted, or unused pieces of furniture into works of art! If you can hold a paintbrush you can master the techniques taught in this class.
Use the barre or mat to sculpt, slim, and stretch your entire body!
Discover and explore the inner experience of photography with Heidi Straube!
The idea is to let go of control, get out of your own way and push your limits, allowing the materials to take the lead as you aim to develop a small series of artworks.
Get started on guitar in this fun and easy group class with acoustic guru and all-around nifty guy, Steve Gregory!
Students will learn basic chords and strumming patterns to classic songs that everyone knows. Once you’ve learned a few basic techniques, you’ll be on your way to playing pretty much any song you’d like to.
Intermediate Ukulele covers finger picking, single note melody playing, advanced and novelty strumming patterns, tablature, jazz chords and other fun approaches to the instrument. Arrangements are new and fresh for each new session.
Move up from "newbie" to intermediate/advanced level photo editing in this new class with instructor/juried master fine art photographer Bob Singer!
Scaredy Cats is back! Former students and newcomers welcome!
Discover the age-old art of carving and printing a woodcut with artist Alice Galick!
Explore the use of stencils in your monoprints in this fun class with printmaker and artist Alice Galick!
The class will be full of fun as participants learn the vocals and choreography for songs from Broadway's hit shows!
A great introduction for kids who want to stretch their wings in the theater world (or even just dip a toe in the water!)
Leave your comfort zone and enter a world of exciting and expressive painting with artist Ed Chesnovitch
Learn how to set up and shoot amazing still life and macro photos!
Learn how to use your controls, adjustments, and abilities to help you take and make better pictures. Join fine art photographer/photography instructor Susan Simon in this five-week class as you uncover the essentials of photography.
Cotuit Center for the Arts and Payomet Performing Arts Center are thrilled to present the joys of Joan Osborne and Bob Dylan to Cape Cod this holiday season with a special and electric performance, Joan Osborne's DYLANOLOGY.
Learn to draw the human figure every Thursday morning with artist and Chalkboard Studio co-founder, Jackie Reeves!
An exciting Art History lecture series with Marilyn Rossi!
Learn Italian with Marilyn Rossi!
Please join us for Merry Member Movie Madness on Thursday, December 20th at 7:00 pm in the Main Theater. We will be screening a sing-a-long version of the Christmas classic, White Christmas!
Join award-winning sculptor Neil Grant and go beyond the basics in hand building!
Based on the classic novella written by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men tells the tale of two great friends and their struggle to live the American dream.
Rocker Bruce Marshall returns to the Center for another great concert with the Bruce Marshall Group. At live shows they treat their fans to a soaring ride as they rip through a catalogue of original material that truly sets this band apart.
2nd Wednesday Theater: a monthly play-reading of rarely-performed classics, undiscovered gems, old chestnuts, and exciting new works. January 9 we present "Here," by Lee Roscoe, directed by Carol McManus.
Part of our Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival series. A film by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, narrative feature comedy.
Part of our Best of the Woods Hole Film Festival series. A comedy by Ann Lupo, 2018, 88 min. (Woods Hole Film Festival 2018, audience award, Best Narrative Feature).