June 29-July 31, 2009
Washington University campus
Art! Are you passionate about it? Would you like to spend the summer building and documenting your portfolio? Can you see yourself studying and making art in a real studio? If you are 16 or older and have completed your sophomore year in high school, come join other students from across the country for a five-week introduction to the study and practice of making art. You will also participate in organized trips to local museums and artists’ studios. Upon successful completion, you will receive 6 college credits, and you may even receive letters of recommendation for college admissions.
Morning Classes
Drawing: Learn to recognize and manipulate fundamental elements of line, tone, texture, volume, and plane with relations to representational drawing. You'll 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 in three-dimensional form.
Afternoon Elective Classes
Figure Drawing: Using the human figure, students will explore and strengthen their drawing skills with an emphasis on form, volume, and proportion. A wide variety of materials, methods and strategies will be explored to develop a means of personal expression.
Painting: Work on-site and in the studio exploring oil painting techniques. We will look at examples from 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 workload. You must supply a digital camera.
Fashion Design: An introduction to the techniques and materials used in fashion illustration, as well as the challenges associated with designing fashion groups, collections, and lines.
For more information, contact:
Mauricio Bruce
Senior Coordinator of Special Undergraduate Programs
mbruce@wustl.edu
314.935.4643
