Resources

Art & Design Pre-college Summer Programs

Many of the residential art & design pre-college summer programs offered

in the U.S. are listed below:*

Boston University (BU), Boston MA

http://www.bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/summer/admissions/

California College of the Arts (CalArts or CCA), Oakland CA

http://www.cca.edu/academics/precollege

Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg PA

http://www.cmu.edu/enrollment/pre-college/art.html

Corcoran College of Art + Design (CCA+D), Washington D.C

http://www.corcoran.edu/continuing/pre_college.asp

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

http://www.sce.cornell.edu/sc/programs/index.php?v=art&s=Overview

Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI), Kansas City MO

http://www.kcai.edu/spce/highschool/precollege/

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore MD

http://www.mica.edu/x5006.xml

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Boston MA

http://www.massart.edu/x1117.xml

Memphis College of Art (MCA), Memphis TN

http://www.mca.edu/public/pre_college.html


Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), Milwaukee WI

http://www.miad.edu/content/view/14/285/

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis MN

http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1144

Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA

http://www.montserrat.edu/continuing-ed/summer-pre-college.php

Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA

http://www.moore.edu/site/youth_programs/summer_art_design_institute

North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), Winston-Salem NC

http://www.ncarts.edu/summersession/visualarts.htm

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

http://www.cam.ncsu.edu/programs-educational-designcamp.php

Otis College of Art and Design

http://www.otis.edu/continuing_education/summer_of_art/index.html

Parsons-The New School For Design, NYC NY

http://www.parsons.edu/pre_enrollment/summer.aspx

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia PA

http://www.pafa.org/School/Continuing-Education/Summer-Academy-for-High-School-Students/207/

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY

http://www.pratt.edu/ccps-precollege#

Ringling College of Art and Design (RSAD), Sarasota, FL

http://www.ringling.edu/PreCollege.77.0.html

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence RI

http://www.risd.edu/precollege.cfm

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD), Denver CO

http://www.rmcad.edu/high-school-programs/intensive-summer-studio

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco CA

http://www.sfai.edu/Page.aspx?page=111

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah GA

http://www.scad.edu/savannah/summerprograms/rising_star/index.cfm

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago IL

http://www.saic.edu/continuing_studies/high_school/index.html

School of the Museum of fine Arts (SMFA), Boston MA

http://www.smfa.edu/Continuing_Educa...udio/Index.asp

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York NY

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/adm/index.jsp?sid0=4&sid1=63

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY

http://cms.skidmore.edu/odsp/programs/arts/studio/index.cfm

University of the Arts (UArts), Philadelphia PA

http://www.uarts.edu/k-12/precolsi.html

Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN

http://www.watkins.edu/precollege

Washington University (Wash U or WU), St. Louis, MO http://www.art.wustl.edu/Other_Academic_Programs/Summer_Programs/

*We will be happy to add any missing residential art & design pre-college summer

programs to this list. Please email the information to: pboman@artdesignea.com









Pre-college summer programs

offer many advantages to high

school students planning to

study art and design in college.

These programs provide students

the opportunity to:

> study with college instructors

> strengthen conceptual and

technical skills

> work with new materials, media

and processes

> learn to objectively assess

their own work and that of others

> get comfortable living and

working in a college environment

> create new, more accomplished

portfolio pieces

> increase their awareness of

art and design careers

> make friends with talented

peers who have similar interests

> develop self-confidence

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