Summer Programs

To learn more about our summer session classes (May 19-June 20)click here.

Portfolio Plus
June 29 - August 2

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Open to students 16 or older who have completed their sophomore year in high school. This five-week program is an introduction to the study and practice of art making. Students will take two morning classes and an afternoon elective, as well as participate in organized trips to local museums and artists studios. In addition, students will learn to document their work in both slide and digital formats. Upon successful completion, students may receive letters of recommendation for college admission.

Morning Classes

Drawing
Teaches the student to recognize and manipulate fundamental elements of line, tone, texture, volume, and plane with relation to representational drawing. Students work in a variety of media and techniques (charcoal, pencil, pastels, and wet media) from the figure, still life and the environment.
2D/3D Design
This class offers an introduction to basic design principles and their applications on the two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional form.

Afternoon Elective Classes

Advanced Drawing in Color
This technique-driven course teaches students how to draw realistically using color pastels. Compositional skills are emphasized. Value, temperature, and intensity of color are explored using figure, still life, and landscape.
Painting
Students work on-site and in the studio exploring oil painting techniques. We will look at examples from art history as well as from contemporary artists who are painting in innovative ways.
Sculpture
This class provides a study of contemporary sculptural concepts and processes in various media including plaster, wax, plastics, metal, and wood fabrication with emphasis on development of technical skills.
Digital Photography
This course explores digital technology for capturing, enhancing, and producing still lens-based images. It addresses basic digital camera operations, the visual language of camera-generated images, and computer overflow. Students must supply digital camera.
Fashion Design
Students will become familiar with the techniques and materials used in fashion illustration, as well as the challenges associated with designing groups, collections, and lines for popular and selected consumption.

Tuition

Estimated costs for residential students is $4,940. Tuition for commuting students is $2,850. An additional $350 should be budgeted for art materials. If a student withdraws from the program after classes begin, no portion of tuition will be refunded.

Merit Scholarship for Tuition

If you wish to be considered for the merit scholarship submit a CD or slides of 8 to 10 images of your most recent and best work. Any work on CD should be submitted in a simple non-timed PowerPoint presentation. Deadline for scholarship applications is April 1, 2008.

Staying on Campus

If you choose to stay on campus, you will live in one of our secure modern residence houses and participate in organized weekend activities with other members of pre-college programs. There are study rooms, kitchenettes, laundry facilities, floor lounges and a computer lab available for use in the building. Resident Advisors (RAs) living in the halls provide advice, information, social planning and will assure that the rules and regulations of the program are maintained. A meal plan will allow you to enjoy a variety of food choices available across the campus.

Application Process

Applications must be postmarked by April 1, 2008. Space is limited.

Please send the following materials:

1. Completed application form.

2. Statement of interest in the program-approximately 100 words

3. A letter of recommendation from an academic teacher, art teacher, principal, high school counselor, or artist/architect who knows you well.

4. Official high school transcript (most current).

5. A check, made payable to Washington University in St. Louis, for a $30 non-refundable processing fee. You will be notified upon acceptance and a deposit will be required to confirm your admission to the program.

Mail application and all materials by April 1, 2008:

Portfolio Plus Program
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1031, One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Mauricio Bruce
Senior Coordinator of Special Undergraduate Programs
mbruce@wustl.edu
314.935.4643


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