Visual Arts Summer Programs

Develop the foundational skills vital to the practice of the visual arts.

Visual Arts summer students engage in 2-D and 3-D design through hands-on courses such as printmaking and ceramics, and in projects like stone carving, painting, and photography while also strengthening their understanding and use of visual language and their artistic voice.

Arts Odyssey Program
Rising 8th & 9th-Graders
June 20 - 25 / June 27 - July 2, 2021

This one-week program consists of intensive studio sessions in several visual art areas over the duration of the program. These areas broadly include drawing and two- and three-dimensional design classes with specific studio experiences in disciplines such as sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, graphic design, photography and animation chosen yearly by faculty. These studio courses change each year. In addition, students engage in a visual language class where they learn how to talk about art.

Students apply in the 7th or 8th grade and must be legal residents of South Carolina.

Academy Program 
Rising 10th-Graders
July 11 - 24, 2021

This two-week program consists of courses across several visual arts areas. Classes and activities will provide studio experience and build individual confidence in developing, analyzing, and communicating visual ideas. The program consists of intensive studio experiences and includes final critiques prior to the end of program exhibition. The goals of the Academy Program are to give students a broad-based creative experience, and also give them the tools to begin to make objective critical analysis of their own work. 

Students apply in the 9th grade and must be legal residents of South Carolina.