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Six programs / all free / ages 11–18

Programs.

No auditions, no portfolio, no fee and no fee waiver to apply for. Bring a young person, or send them on the bus — we run one from the high school on program days.

Enrol a young person

What a family pays

Materials, tools, the kiln, film, the bus and a hot meal are all included. There is no sliding scale because there is nothing to slide.

Age

When

Watercolours of the coast drying on a paint-marked table, brushes in jars and an apron over a chair

Harbor Studio

Drop-in after-school studio. Drawing, painting and ceramics, with materials and a hot meal provided every session.

Ages 11–14
Mon–Thu, 3–6pm
School year
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Open · No cap Enrol →

A letterpress and trays of metal type beside a screen-printing bench, finished prints pegged to a line overhead

Second Story Press

A teen printmaking and zine lab upstairs. Students set type, pull prints and publish two issues a year to the town.

Ages 14–18
Tuesdays, 4–7pm
School year
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14 places · Per term Waitlist →

A half-finished mural in flat orange, teal and mustard on a brick wall beside a wet quayside

Tide Marks Apprenticeship

Six students a year are hired to design and paint a public mural alongside a lead artist and the city. This is a job, not a class.

Paid · ages 16–18
$18 an hour
Summer, 10 weeks
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6 places · Apply by 1 Mar Enrol →

Shelves of unglazed handmade bowls and mugs, a clay-covered wheel and two kilns by the window

The Clay Room

Hand-building and wheel work, with two kilns in the back yard. Everything a student fires, they keep.

Ages 11–18
Wed 4–7pm, Sat 10–2
Year round
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12 places · Per session Enrol →

Black-and-white prints pegged to a line above developing trays under a red darkroom safelight

First Frame

Film photography and a working darkroom. Cameras are lent for the term; film and paper are ours.

Ages 13–18
Thursdays, 4–7pm
School year
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10 places · Per term Enrol →

Unframed student work taped in a loose grid across a lobby wall, a folding table set for an opening

Summer Studio Intensive

Four weeks in July, every weekday, one medium chosen by the student. Ends in a show at the Liberty Theatre.

Ages 11–18
Weekdays, 9–3
July, 4 weeks
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40 places · Opens 1 Apr Notify me →

How enrolment works

Step 01

Tell us who is coming

One short form: name, age, which program, and anything we should know. No income questions, ever.

Step 02

We reply in two days

Either a start date, or a place on the list with the date it is likely to clear. We do not leave people guessing.

Step 03

Turn up

Bring nothing. Aprons, materials and a meal are here. A parent signature is needed once, on the first day.

Harborlight Youth Arts

418 Wharf Street, Astoria, OR 97103
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 00-0000000

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