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{Alfred University} Ceramic & Glass Engineering Camp
This is a great opportunity to learn about ceramic and glass engineering, to sample life on a college campus and to meet other campers with similar interests and academic ability. The emphasis is on having fun and enjoying our beautiful natural surroundings while learning! With our dynamic, engaging, talented and caring faculty and staff; terrific facilities; and lovely campus, the AU Ceramic & Glass Engineering camp could make this your best summer ever!
{Boston University} Visual Arts Summer Institute
The Boston University School of Visual Arts Summer Institute offers students ages 15–18 the opportunity to experience college life at a leading university while developing technical and conceptual abilities in a rigorous fine arts program. Whether preparing portfolios for college admissions or working to improve skills, students are introduced to materials and methods used in professional artistic practice. Through classes, studio time, critiques, and discussions, VASI students become a community of artists who use their abilities to realize personal and artistic growth.
💰 Scholarships Available
{California State Summer School for the Arts} Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Program is dedicated to helping students meet the challenges of contemporary art making through assigned lessons that address critical thinking and problem-solving, the consideration of historical parallels, and the application of rigorous studio art practices. All students are assigned studio classes, based on the interests they indicate on their application forms. The department offers studio classes in ceramics, digital media*, painting (acrylic only – no spray paint)*, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. In addition, all students participate in required classes of figure drawing, design, and a lecture/guest artist(s) seminar course entitled “Art and Culture”. Special workshops and performances by a number of distinguished visiting artists may be offered, along with field trips to local museums, private galleries and artists’ studios. Studios are open in the evenings for students to complete class projects and accomplish personal work.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Hotchkiss School} Summer Portal: Ceramics Portfolio - Hand-Building Essentials
The Hotchkiss Summer Portals Ceramics Portfolio program is appropriate for both beginning and experienced artists, and emphasizes multiple hand-building methods including pinch, slab, and slip construction, as well as inventive surface decoration techniques. Students will experiment with ceramic materials and gain practical knowledge of glaze chemistry. Projects will explore functional and sculptural form demonstrating three-dimensional design concepts while surveying the rich global history of ceramic art for inspiration. This foundational course will culminate in a program wide presentation and a digital portfolio for submission to secondary schools. The newly renovated Cullman Art Center provides state of the art facilities with three ceramics studio spaces, three kilns, an outdoor working patio, and a breathtaking view of the Hotchkiss campus. The curriculum will include visits to artist studios, galleries and museums including Yale University Art Gallery.
{Hotchkiss School} Summer Portal: Studio Art Portfolio - Drawing from Observation
This instructive and intensive drawing course will introduce students to the fundamentals of observational drawing. Using still life, interior spaces, landscape and the figure, students will learn how to create the illusion of depth, manipulate perspective, and develop value contrast and volume through the use of graphite, charcoal, pastel and ink. Students will be taught techniques such as blind contour, construction drawing, hatching and cross-hatching, and expressive mark making. Artist studio, gallery and museum trips to Yale University Art Gallery, Williams and Vassar colleges will provide students the opportunity to study the work of contemporary working artists and the masters. The newly renovated Cullman Art Center and idyllic setting of our campus will inspire students to assemble a strong portfolio of dynamic drawings. This foundational course will culminate in a program wide presentation and a digital portfolio for submission to secondary schools.
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Advanced Drawing Summer Program
The Advanced Drawing program is an outstanding summer opportunity for serious student artists to focus exclusively on drawing materials and techniques. During your three weeks here, you will explore composition, proportion, perspective, and value, and work to build your observational skills. This program is designed for students in grades 9-12 who have established drawing skills. You'll have six hours a day of intensive coursework, complemented by a daily studio seminar. You will be introduced to contemporary art practices, and have the opportunity to create self-directed work.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Advanced Painting Summer Program
Focusing exclusively on painting materials and techniques, the three-week Advanced Painting program is an excellent summer opportunity for serious high school artists. During your time here, you will explore composition, color theory, processes, materials, and the elements of painting and contemporary design. This program is designed for students in grades 9-12 who have previous drawing or painting experience and established skills. You will have six hours of intensive coursework each day, complemented by a daily studio seminar. You will be introduced to contemporary art practices and ideas, and have the opportunity to create self-directed work.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Drawing & Painting Intensive
This program explores traditional drawing and painting techniques in combination with contemporary processes. Students will be drawing from life, and will learn to understand proportion, value, perspective, and composition. Along with observational drawing and painting, students will develop their personal voice and subject matter through an exploration of contemporary painting and drawing processes. With a strong conceptual foundation and improved observational drawing skills, students will be prepared for the diverse curriculum of higher education art programs.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Interlochen Center for the Arts} Visual Arts Summer Program
In the three-week Visual Arts program, you will study with highly talented faculty and students from around the world. You'll be a part of a community focused on ideas, craftsmanship, and the exchange of artistic values. Courses are designed to help you build foundational skills and develop your creativity. Students participate in six hours of studio instruction per day. During this time, you will work to develop your technique and artistic expression in your two chosen concentrations. Studio class options may include: Digital Media; Figure Drawing; Metals Studio; Painting; and more. At the end of the three-week session, you will exhibit the work you have created throughout the Dow Center for Visual Arts.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Loyola Marymount University} Make Something! An Introduction to 3D Design
Make Something! An Introduction to 3D Design is a hands-on workshop promoting creativity and personal artistic expression. Through basic visual problem solving and conceptualization, students will explore the elements of art and principles of design, while developing a more focused level of skill with various tools and media. Engaging in a series of functional art and sculptural design projects, students are encouraged to experiment with a range of materials including wood, plastic, resin, cardboard, and plaster, while better understanding a variety of processes, including power tools, laser-cutting, and casting. This course is designed with exercises that are great for anyone seeking to evolve creatively, including students new to design. Participants will leave class with a portfolio of work, which they can use in their college applications, as well as an advanced sense of their own artistic vision. There are no art prerequisites for this program, however students must be rising juniors or seniors by the start of summer to apply.
{New York Film Academy} Photography Summer Camps
At a time when anyone with a smartphone can be called a “photographer,” NYFA’s photography camps are focused on shaping the next generation of photographers to not simply be “good,” but to become truly extraordinary in an increasingly crowded field. Students in the photography summer camps work with a network of professional photographers, industry professionals, and their fellow classmates to obtain new ways of looking at the same image while learning a wide variety of technical and artistic approaches.
{Syracuse University} 3D Art Studio
In this two-week, NASAD (National Association of Schools of Art and Design) and New York State accredited, intensive studio arts course, students will have the opportunity to launch and expand upon their understanding of a variety of sculpture methods as they create work for a successful university-level portfolio. This course teaches traditional techniques and processes while encouraging participants to explore unfamiliar approaches and visual languages that develop life-long-creative confidence.
{Tufts University} Intensive: SMFA Studio Art
Join our community of artists and makers and spend your summer building a portfolio of new and exciting artwork! In line with SMFA at Tufts’ approach to interdisciplinary art making, the goal of the Pre-College Summer Studio Intensive program is to coach students through creating conceptually sophisticated artwork. As you learn to work with new materials and deepen you understanding of familiar mediums, you will make connections to bigger ideas. Over the course of the program, you will participate in foundations classes that will blur the lines between disciplines. Taught by a team of qualified artists and educators, these classes will include instruction to technical skills such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital media. As you work on open-ended projects, you will build a portfolio of materially complex, intentional works of art.
💰 Scholarships Available
{University of Massachusetts Amherst} Digital Drawing & Watercolors in Architecture and Landscape Architecture
This fun watercolor rendering workshop is designed for high school students at all levels who are interested in architecture and landscape architecture as well as fine art to experience the professions from an artist’s perspective. No experience needed. Viewing architecture and landscape architecture as a form of fine art, students will learn fundamental artistic concepts pertaining to the medium of watercolor. Hands-on working knowledge of the medium and essential techniques such as watercolor wash tips will be addressed to preserve transparency. Students will begin with a light gray monochrome rendering of a Doric column capital. It will help them develop a basic understanding of the qualities and characteristics of light, shade, shadow, and reflected light as well as learning fundamental Beaux-Arts wash techniques. They will then work on a variety of projects with an emphasis on architectural and landscape rendering, from simple to complex, to explore Color and Composition. Throughout the workshop students will not only learn watercolor rendering techniques, which are practical in the professional world, but also develop a sensibility of how architectural geometries, landscape forms and color combination may modulate light, shade and mood.
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