Arts
Cow House
Art on the Farm is a unique summer program where high school students interested in visual art get the opportunity to study drawing, painting, and photography alongside practicing visual artists in a focused and intimate studio environment. During this 28-day multidisciplinary course, you will work closely with experienced artists dedicated to fostering your creative growth. Experience Ireland’s stunning landscapes and bustling cities while engaging with a new culture renowned for its warmth, wit, and exceptional artistic achievement.
Students of all skill levels benefit from our personal attention and guidance. You will be challenged to experiment beyond your boundaries, consider new possibilities for art-making, and use your chosen medium to relate your ideas to content. During Art on the Farm, you will complete excellent portfolio pieces for advanced placement and college applications.
RISD
RISD Pre-College offers rising high school juniors and seniors the chance to experience life as a RISD undergrad. For five weeks you’ll follow a college-level curriculum with day-long studio classes, critiques and projects. You’ll work alongside hundreds of other creative, highly motivated students from around the world who will challenge, inspire and encourage you to push your limits and produce your best work. You’ll live like a RISD student, access renowned resources and instructors, strengthen your portfolio and forever change the way you approach art and design.
Yale PRE-COLLEGE SUMMER COURSES (IN-PERSON AND ONLINE)
Experience everything that makes Yale unique: Small seminars with top Yale faculty. Time to immerse yourself in a full menu of academic opportunities. Studying at Yale gives students a newfound appreciation for their academics and offers an opportunity to forge friendships that will last a lifetime. Students come to Yale Summer Session to:
Earn credit toward their major and fulfill requirements for their degree
Explore a new field or topic
Focus intensely on one particular subject
Study with Yale faculty
Prepare for the challenges of highly selective colleges
Parsons Summer Intensive Studies (ages 16-18)
Study art and design with Parsons' world-class faculty while experiencing the creative inspiration of New York City in our academically rigorous and artistically stimulating three-week, three-credit intensive program. Our fully immersive courses are tailored to high schoolers preparing to apply for college and feature skill-building project-based learning, art and design field trips, guest speakers from industry, and portfolio reviews.
Parsons online Summer Intensive Studies (ages 16-18)
Study art and design from anywhere in the world in this four-week, three-credit intensive program, which includes a combination of synchronous and asynchronous online learning experiences. You'll study with Parsons' world-class faculty in real time and benefit from hands-on project-based learning in small cohorts featuring group and individual instruction. Our online studio classes tailored to high schoolers preparing to apply for college are academically rigorous and artistically stimulating and include virtual events such as art and design field trips, guest speakers from the industry, and portfolio reviews.
parsons summer academy (grades 3-12)
Parsons Summer Academy offers a variety of dynamic noncredit in-person art and design courses for students in grades 3 through 12. Join us for two weeks in August at our Greenwich Village campus to explore art and design through hands-on projects that develop your creative thinking skills, knowledge of technique, and collaborative abilities. Students in grades 9 through 12 can also focus on creating a specialized fine art or design portfolio. Courses for students in grades 9 through 12 will count toward the Parsons Academy Certificate Program.
Parsons Summer Intensive Studies paris (ages 16-18)
Deepen your knowledge and develop your skills while you explore many facets of art, design, and fashion firsthand this summer in Paris.
Experience Paris as an insider, exploring contemporary European art, design, fashion, and photography firsthand in the city’s many design studios and museums. Taught at Parsons Paris, this three-week, three-credit program for high school juniors, seniors, and recent graduates surrounds students with a close-knit learning community in which they work directly with leading faculty and peers from around the world.
SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) – Early College Program Summer Institute (ages 15-18)
One of the key things that distinguishes SAIC from other art and design schools is our belief that meaning and making are inseparable. That means you begin with an idea and choose the media that best helps you realize your vision. Students are free to combine materials and disciplines or focus on a single medium. Study with our amazing faculty, passionate teachers, and acclaimed practicing artists, designers, and scholars, many of whom teach in the undergraduate program. Make use of our state-of-the-art facilities and resources including our museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the third-largest collection of art in the world. Live in our incomparable residence halls in the heart of downtown Chicago. Explore Chicago in the summer—a city that’s vibrant, exciting, and friendly.
“We want our students to be able to master not just one medium, but to have the freedom to move and explore throughout different disciplines; to experiment; to take risks; to find the right solution for each individual problem. Our interdisciplinary philosophy, accomplished by excellent, enthusiastic faculty, the third largest collection of art in the world, and one of the most exciting cities in the country, make SAIC the whole package.” —Rafael Vera, ECPSI instructor
Online version also available.
OTIS College of Arts and Design – Summer of Art
Summer of Art at Otis College of Art and Design is an intensive, college immersion experience designed for developing creatives in high school or beyond who are 14.5 years of age or older. At Summer of Art, you will have the unique opportunity to develop your artistic skills as you explore specific art and design pathways at one of the nation's top art and design colleges. The program is ideal for experienced, young artists interested in deepening their skills, as well as students with minimal or informal art training.
Coursework includes demonstrations, hands-on learning, lectures, and critiques in a chosen Specialization and/or Drawing Studio. Upon successful completion of the program, students will receive two college credits for Specializations and one college credit for Drawing Studios.
Summer of Art courses are taught by award-winning, practicing, creative professionals. Our courses offer students unique insight into the working lives of artists and designers. Many of our instructors teach in Otis College's undergraduate and graduate programs.
Summer of Art culminates in a final exhibition, providing students the experience of being part of a gallery show with their peers, while sharing their work with family and friends.
UCLA Art Summer Institute
Study at the world-renowned UCLA Department of Art this summer! The Summer Art Institute is designed for talented and highly motivated high school students. The program offers three sessions, two in-person and one virtual, with various specializations to choose from and is structured around a combination of daily, focused studio work, artist lectures, group critiques, and one-on-one meetings with faculty. Students may enroll in one or more session . Students should expect an intensive two weeks of immersive studio instruction and be prepared to work hard.
Specialized Tracks include:
Drawing – Sessions A, B & C
Painting – Sessions A, B & C
Photography – Sessions B & C
Sculpture – Session B & C
Video Art & Experimental Animation – Session A only (virtual)
Painting – International Time Zone – Session A only (virtual)
Writing for Artists – Session A only (virtual)
Other great opportunities:
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
California College of the Arts (San Francisco)
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