<p>I am curious about art programs for next summer (2010). I will be a rising junior and have attended art programs at the Cleveland institute of art and at an arts academy and camp called Interlochen where I took advanced drawing class. I have a pretty strong portfolio and I really want to attend an intensive program for drawing or painting. Does anyone know anything about the programs at RISD, Otis, Kansas City, NYU, Skidmore, Parsons, or any other places?
I would really appreciate any comments and/or advice!
Thanks!</p>
<p>i’m a junior and i want to do an art program summer 2010 too!
i was looking at RISD or SAIC (school of the arts institute of chicago).
both are intense. RISD is 6 weeks. SAIC is 5 weeks. both are $$ since i don’t live in the states but money isn’t the issue. i want to build my portfolio!</p>
<p>Have you heard good things about these programs?</p>
<p>Does anyone else know anything about summer art programs for drawing/painting?</p>
<p>HI! I attended RISD this summer, and all I can do is rave about it. I was a graphic design major.
In terms of drawing/painting. If you’re doing RISD, I think I’d have to recommend painting, simply based on the experiences of my friends. My roommate was in drawing. She got about the same amount of work from that class (which meets two days a week) as I did from my FOUNDATION drawing class (which met one day) that I had with the same teacher. From what I gathered, it was not a good experience and she didn’t get many portfolio pieces out of it. She barely had work. But this could have been just her, and I don’t know anything about the other teachers (there’s more than one per major).
Painting, on the other hand, has one of the hardest workloads. Now, I can’t speak for what they got out of it, but I know they were doing a LOT of painting (mostly oils).
Unfortunately, my information on those majors isn’t amazing!</p>
<p>Now, in terms of the general program.
The food is delicious, though as with anything, gets repetitive and boring a few weeks in. But they have a meal that changes every time you go in, and all the food is top notch. Pizza, burgers, salad bar, fries, bagels, and cereal at every meal. There’s also Thayer Street not too far, which has delicious food, and all different kinds. Good shopping, too.
In terms of student life. They are INCREDIBLY strict on drugs and alcohol and such. Don’t expect to get away with it. You WILL get kicked out.
There are activities put on every night, and they can be fun as long as you get a few friends to go. You can make the most of it. My hall was enthusiatic about all of it, so it was amazing. We made all the events we went to a blast–even if everybody else thought it was lame. They even do free screenprinting, tarot reading, henna…they put a lot of effort into activities.
And as I said, there’s always Thayer and the mall close by.</p>
<p>Dorms are fine. Curfew (11 on week nights, 12 on weekends) is very strict, and if you get more than three violations you go home. But it’s not hard to follow. </p>
<p>I can’t think of anything else right now, though I’m sure I’m missing stuff. Feel free to ask more on here! I’ll check back.</p>
<p>(Also, I can’t speak for other programs, but the reason I choose RISD was because of it’s intensity and the fact that you get a lot of stuff done. Many other programs I hear are jokes. RISD is not.)</p>
<p>Thank you so much! RISD sounds amazing for sure…I’m disappointed to hear about the drawing though. I haven’t done a lot of painting and while I am taking classes this year I still am not sure whether I will love it as much as drawing. Just wondering, do you get really close with your hall? Are the teachers for the most part good?</p>
<p>Has anyone been to the art program at NYU?</p>
<p>My neighbor went to the Marie Sharpe Walsh Foundation Program at Colorado College this past summer and loved it. Here is the link:</p>
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<p>It is a 2 week intensive art program that is completely scholarship except for transportation.</p>
<p>Thanks! I have heard about the Marie Sharpe Walsh program but it says that it is for rising seniors, so I won’t be able to attend this upcoming summer but the one after. I’m really glad to hear she loved it though! Hopefully I will be able to go when I am old enough</p>
<p>If you live in California, you can do the Ryman program. My nephew does it and loves it. Also interspark which I think is the name for the california governor’s program. It is for current sophomores and juniors. Check your state’s governor’s program to see if it is art focused. Based on my nieghbor who is a rising senior and very good at art, I know there are a lot of programs out. Also be sure to enter your local county/state summer fair. By neighbor took best of show and won a scholarship to a art program (i can’t remember the name.).</p>
<p>The link for ryman is below. It is only open to Southern California students but there is good information in that website.</p>
<p>[Ryman</a> Arts | Arts Education](<a href=“You are being redirected...”>http://www.rymanarts.org/)</p>
<p>Thanks! I didn’t even know there was a county/state summer fair, but I will definitely look into it!</p>
<p>RISD - I actually got super close with my hall, but I didn’t feel that that was always the case. The floor above me was supposedly pretty distant. But the floor below was also really close. I think you’ll find that everywhere, it’s just luck of the draw.
I thought the teachers were definitely good! I learned a lot, and enjoyed it immensely.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help! The RISD program sounds so amazing…I hope you don’t mind if I ask you more questions? Are the students in general friendly? Would you say there is an average “type” student who goes there (quirky, dorky, popular, laid back, perfectionistic, etc), or does it really depend on the major? Are the halls grouped a certain way?</p>
<p>No problem! I love questions. 
There’s really every type of person at RISD. There were definitely the cliquey ones, and the fashionistas who wear heels 24/7. And the smokers. While RISD doesn’t tolerate weed and such AT ALL, they’re much more lenient with smoking cigarettes, since some people at 18, and they don’t want to card everyone. So, yes, there are a fair amount of people that smoke cigarettes and sit in their little spot all day. Such a waste. But that’s going to be dispersed about the majors, it’s not like all the fashion majors or something smoke. From what I could tell, the halls didn’t have too much organization…though I can promise it was NOT by your first name. 
We had four Lauras out of 29 girls. Two roomed together. And three Margarets. I’m a Margaret. I’ve never met that many Margarets before, and there didn’t seem to be any others in the program! haha.
There wasn’t actually anyone in my class on my floor, though there was someone with the same major (in a different section), which could be frustrating, but I knew where to find them. There were numerous painting majors on the same floor, though that’s the biggest major.
But in terms of diversity, you’re going to have all types of people in your classes: people who have never done the subject before, people who have been doing it since before they could walk, people that don’t care at all, and people that put everything into their art.</p>
<p>Hey! I did RISD this summer and I would highly recommend it. I was an architecture major, which was definitely one of the most work out of all the majors. The one teacher I had was an absolute prick and an egotistical maniac who gave us way too much work (most nights the entire architecture class was working in the studio). Although, the end result work looked amazing (some of the final models were professional quality). I’m not sure you are interested in doing architecture, but for anyone that is that stumbles upon this post just know that you have to be really dedicated for architecture. If you really want to succeed in it there will be many late, late nights, and you will spend alot of time in the studio. It gets frustrating because often you will have to decline going out with friends to work in the studio at night. Of course, if you like the people in your architecture class that’s good, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of everyone in my class. Most of the kids in the architecture major were perfectionists and suck ups to the teacher. They also were definitely not the most artsy of kids, which I suppose is to be expected. </p>
<p>I know that it sounds like I must have hated it considering what I wrote about my architecture class, but I did really enjoy it. After a week I got used to the workload (although I had a bit of a breakdown the first weekend, and then another one the last week when I just got sick of doing all this work and sort of gave up (I wasn’t the only one who did that). However, I did learn alot, and I met alot of great people. Many of my friends were in the painting major, and kids in the painting major seemed pretty cool, and they had a good workload, so I might recommend that you do that major. Illustration also seemed like a cool major, which also seemed to have a good workload. Fashion claimed to have a lot of work, although I never really saw them doing much, and most of them seemed to party and hang out of the buildings smoking most of the time. Industrial design seemed like a really cool major. The photography major seemed meh… I wasn’t incredibly impressed by the work they showed at the final show. Most of the other majors I don’t know a ton about, but they all seemed pretty good. </p>
<p>Theres definitely a huge amount of diversity to the people. Some have spent years working on art, while others have barely done any work before RISD. If you think you are going to be inadequate, don’t worry, there will be others of your level (and you are probably better than you think you are). It’s just a great program. Do it.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for all the information! I’m curious, I know that I won’t have a lot of time to do stuff in the city because I will be working (and I’m totally fine with that), but is providence fun? It won’t be a major deciding factor, but I’m also looking at a program at NYU which has such an amazing location…
Also, do you know if your painting major friends felt that they really improved? I mean, I know its a 6 week program so the repetition alone makes a difference, but I just wondered if they really learned a huge amount as well as got some portfolio pieces. Did you guys personally learn a lot?</p>
<p>Providence is definitely not New York City. Its nice though. My friends went to clubs a couple times. Theres some out door music events and other things… its not the most amazing city but its not horrible.</p>
<p>YES everyone learned a ton. From what I can tell some of my painting friends improved by an incredible amount.</p>
<p>I’m glad to know that you improve a lot…I really would love to go, but at the same time the NYU program sounds amazing too, especially because of the location and that you take four different concentrations (drawing, painting, sculpture and design). Do you think it would be better to be more focused at RISD or branch out at NYU? I don’t have many opportunities to learn 3d arts here so I think it would be cool to take a sculpture class…</p>
<p>Are there any other pre-college art program reviews for drawing/painting?</p>