<p>Hello artists and parents of! My DS is a freshman in HS this year and is very interested in art as a future, Michael Stieben being his hero Michael</a> Sieben — Welcome. He is also a strong rower and a B student. Any suggestions from those artists further down the road?</p>
<p>Also, most summer art programs I've found are for sophmores and older. Any for younger?</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>
<p>bring GPA up to super A, then Wesleyan !!!
sleep away pre college for younger kid
UCLA, Otis, KCAI, Innerspark at Calarts</p>
<p>Keep drawing from observation even if HS art teacher lets them draw from photo. Big detriment to development of true talent is to draw from pics. Art portfolios do reflect drawing from observation in a different quality. He should try to take drafting and AutoCad in HS or what ever the shop class is offering.</p>
<p>Many thanks!!!</p>
<p>Go to your closest National Portfolio Day every year, starting this year. Bring sketchbooks or whatever else he has. Don’t worry about who you see, because it won’t matter right now – don’t stand in line for an hour to see a RISD rep. Instead, see 3-4 smaller school reps, let them talk to your son. They will offer concrete suggestions about things to work on right now, and offer encouragement that is more specific than the sort parents give. (It also has more cred, because it’s from art people. :-))</p>
<p>And keep rowing, visit Wesleyan during fall openhouse, meat coach and the team, non-senior can sit in the classes, go see studios. And mom, watch MGMT interviews and performances. Love them? told you so. Hate them? Er… OK.
Jokes aside, keep options alive, as long as he likes other subjects and have decent academic grades, good universities (yes, UT Austin=Michael would do) and liberal art colleges are great places depends on what kind of artist he is or will be to grow as a person and meet people = your mate or friends whom help you life long down the road for money, jobs, place to live, travel, concert sport tickets, legal issue- wise.
You should think backward; what is his eventual goal and how you can help him to get there?
Wanna be real living earning commercial artist? need serious training during UG spending fortune kissing teacher’s butt, intern through and through breaks.
Conceptual or fine-fine? nothing really matters but talents and luck, who you know and charm. Once you are eighteen anyone can enter competitions, even reality TV show cast call for artists are coming.
Intellectual BS big shot? get PhD and live/study abroad master three foreign languages G, F, I and one Asian or Middle Eastern,wait, that’s four- and read write talk tweak burry yourself in the books.</p>
<p>Easier said than done for mom or kid alike. So help us.
Good luck to you and me.
If he does go to Wesleyan, invite me for his commencement, please.</p>
<p>Like MGMT but prefer Passion Pit and M Ward! 
Thanks bears- great thoughts.</p>
<p>woot!
now you an’ me are BFF!!
remember, the commencement with free meal.</p>
<p>I know a kid who graduated with MGMT at Wesleyen. They were just foolin’ around and look what happened. My whole family loves them.
My kid liked it there but would not apply. He wants more art. Maybe he’ll end up at Pratt and hang out with MGMT in Brooklyn :)</p>
<p>mimimomx3</p>
<p>I don’t know where you are located but Parsons has two week courses in August for middle school through high school age. </p>
<p>FIT allows all high school grades to attend it’s pre-college classes.</p>
<p>The Putney School in Vermont has a summer program for ages 14 and up.</p>
<p>Look for local summer and full year programs that will help him with portfolio development. My son didn’t decide on art until he was in college already, but still got a portfolio together at his first school by taking some art/photo/graphics classes and was accepted at SUNY New Paltz as a transfer. He was always artistic but didn’t have any formal classes in drawing until college.</p>
<p>drae! you an me are BFF, too !!
Well, the boys are so big now seldom seen around here.</p>
<p>from what I know and done
Parsons for young one is sort of LaGuardia HS prep art camp for freshman and transfer unless you do LEGO robotic or something, awful expensive and commuter only. Its pre college is so-so but oh so expensive.
FIT might be more challenging but classes are piece meals, not the residential boot camp-sort experience.
If you are tri-state radius and need drawing class badly, Cooper Union has 4 weeks commuter program after passing brutal portfolio review. Its free for all.</p>
<p>If you want fun art camp, there must be tons around, some even sleep away.
If you want art school pre college, few residential ones are offered before sixteen or/and completion of soph year, could be state laws?</p>
<p>thanks everyone! MGMT! :)</p>
<p>My Frodo and Sam, Thomas and Percy, Woody and Buzz, Todd and Copper that can sing and dance, and really really smart and nice when they aren’t high.
Go Wesleyan !!!</p>