Spring 2026 Program Guide

Get ready to explore your creativity! Let’s dance or get messy with clay, and discover a new skill. ARTS

ART EXPLORERS Age: 3Y-5Y

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This is an exciting opportunity for preschoolers to explore and create with a variety of art materials. Students will get a chance to develop their motor skills and expand their imagination. Art activities include painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Bring a paint shirt, water bottle, and a nut-free snack. INSTRUCTOR: SHELLY DAVIES-CONLEY

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DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR YOUTH Age: 10Y-15Y

STORYTELLING 101 Age: 9Y-12Y Get your creativity flowing by playing, writing, and drawing together! Discover fun techniques professional storytellers use to generate new ideas and create scenes and characters in their work. Create your own stories and learn how writers and artists discuss their work with each other to help projects grow. In this course you will learn quick writing and drawing exercises to jumpstart originality, new creative collaboration games and methods to discuss your ideas with others and build on your creative inspirations.

Develop your art skills in this creative drawing and painting program for young artists. Explore drawing, painting, mixed media and collage techniques using graphite, charcoal, tempera, watercolour, colour pencils, chalk and oil pastels and ink on paper. The instructor will demonstrate various styles and techniques and introduce art vocabulary and art history. Students are encouraged to experiment and make their own artistic choices using composition, shape and colour. No experience required.

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $210 | SESSIONS: 8 F CHILD & YOUTH

11:00AM - 1:00PM APR 17 - JUN 5

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INSTRUCTOR: TINA RANGER LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $160 | SESSIONS: 8 TU 3:30PM – 5:00PM COLOUR THEORY 101 Age: 13Y-17Y

INSTRUCTOR: COLLEEN BROWN LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $90 | SESSIONS: 4 TH 4:00PM - 5:30PM JUNIOR CREATIVE WRITING Age: 9Y-12Y

ARTRAGEOUS SATURDAYS Age: 5Y-8Y

APR 14 - JUN 2 #93962

MAY 28 - JUN 18 #93958

Experience ARTrageous fun designing different arts and crafts projects each week. These hands-on fun Saturday mornings will have you exploring, creating, drawing and painting. All supplies included. INSTRUCTOR: SHELLY DAVIES-CONLEY

AiR

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Gain confidence in working with color. Guided by Artist in Residence, and Emily Carr instructor, Colleen Brown, you will engage in dynamic color projects designed to expand your use of color, learn how to mix and create palettes, and explore how color perception shapes emotional and symbolic meaning in artworks—as well as how designers use color to create psychological impact.

Interested in creative writing? Learn the fundamentals of storytelling in this fun-filled class! Students will learn basic techniques in prose and poetry, and learn the essential building blocks of grammar, character, and plot. Students work on various small creative writing pieces including poems and short stories and will be required to bring a notebook to class. INSTRUCTOR: SAM JUDD

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $210 | SESSIONS: 8 SA

10:00AM - 12:00PM APR 18 - JUN 13 #93812

ART WONDERS Age: 5Y-8Y

INSTRUCTOR: COLLEEN BROWN LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $120 | SESSIONS: 6 TH 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Step into a world where imagination knows no limits! In this class, kids will make a variety of crafts and art projects that are totally out of the box. We’ll craft and create with cool and surprising materials—sometimes even things you wouldn’t expect! Every project is a chance to explore, play, and discover new ways to make art. INSTRUCTOR: SHELLY DAVIES-CONLEY

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $115 | SESSIONS: 8 SU

9:00AM - 10:00AM APR 19 - JUN 14 #93953

APR 16 - MAY 21 #93957

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SENIOR CREATIVE WRITING Age: 13Y-17Y

MAKE YOUR OWN ART BOOK Age: 8Y-12Y Explore new ways of making and seeing in this fun filled art class. Students will be introduced to imaginative projects through a wide range of media such as drawing, painting, and collaging. By the end of the last class students will be able to take home their special customized portfolio books, which can be shown off to family and friends. INSTRUCTOR: PAIGE ALLAN NEW!

This class teaches the basics of creative writing in an inclusive and low-pressure environment for teens. Students will work on fiction-writing, poetry, and exploring the mechanics of storytelling by workshopping material with their peers in a guided session. Students work on building a writing portfolio by the end of the semester and will be required to bring a notebook. INSTRUCTOR: SAM JUDD

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $170 | SESSIONS: 8 SA

12:30PM - 2:00PM APR 18 - JUN 13 #93814

ART MIX Age: 7Y-10Y

In this course, students will explore diverse art and artists and be encouraged to bring different elements together to create something unique. They will experiment with mixed media, mixed materials, drawing, painting, and printmaking. Students will be encouraged to apply personal inspiration and influences on their art creation process as they develop skills and build confidence. All levels of artists are

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $115 | SESSIONS: 8 SU

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $170 | SESSIONS: 8 M 3:30PM - 5:00PM

10:15AM - 11:15AM APR 19 - JUN 14 #93954

APR 13 - JUN 8

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CLAY SCULPTURE & POTTERY FOR YOUTH Age: 13Y-17Y If you can think it, you can sculpt it! Students will learn hand-building and sculpting techniques to create functional ceramic cups, bowls, plates and sculptures

AiR ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

welcome to attend. All supplies included. INSTRUCTOR: SHELLY DAVIES-CONLEY

Look out for this icon to join programs taught by Maple Ridge’s very own Artists in Residence . Learn more about our AiR’s at MapleRidge.ca/ArtistInResidence

LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $170 | SESSIONS: 8 SA

finished with colourful glazes. INSTRUCTOR: DUNCAN RYANS LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $242 | SESSIONS: 8 SA

2:30PM - 4:00PM APR 18 - JUN 13 #93813

CLAY HANDBUILDING FOR KIDS Age: 6Y-10Y Bring your ideas to life while you learn about handbuilding and sculpting techniques. Create functional ceramic cups, bowls, plates and sculptures. Each piece will be carefully finished with colourful glazes.

12:30PM - 2:00PM APR 18 - JUN 13 #95797

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INSTRUCTOR: TAMMI VILCHIS LOCATION: ACT ARTS CENTRE FEE: $242 | SESSIONS: 8 TU 4:00PM - 5:30PM

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