Summer Art Programs for College Students

Studio Art Centers International

• Studio Art Centers International offers art courses and study abroad programs in Florence throughout the year. SACI's late spring and summer studies courses begin in late May and run through the end of June. Students take two three-credit courses per term, and can choose to attend one or both terms. The school offers courses in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, Italian Renaissance art history, Italian language and painting conservation. Frequent field trips and opportunities to explore Florence's rich art and architecture supplement the coursework.

  Studio Art Centers International Florence
  Palazzo dei Cartelloni, Via Sant'Antonio, 11
  50123 Firenze, Italy
  39-055-289948
  saci-florence.org

Rhode Island School of Design

• In 2008, "U.S. News & World Report" magazine ranked the Rhode Island School of Design first among fine arts graduate schools. You can take courses with RISD faculty and experience RISD life during several different summer studies programs. The Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies offers two-week credit courses taught by RISD graphic design faculty. Classes begin in late June and run through August in three sessions. Students can study graphic design history or image, web, poster, type, magazine or identity design. RISD also offers summer studies courses in art and design, including courses in apparel, architecture, computer design, ceramics, drawing, illustration, film and animation, graphic, web and industrial design, jewelry, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture and textiles. Courses offered in the liberal arts include art history, film history, cultural history, sociology and literature. RISD also offers summer study abroad programs in Copenhagen, Switzerland and Rome for any college-level students or adults.

  Rhode Island School of Design
  2 College St.
  Providence, RI 02903
  401-454-6100
  risd.edu/

Maryland Institute College of Art

• "U.S. News & World Report" magazine ranked the Maryland Institute College of Art fourth in its 2008 ranking of fine arts graduate schools. You can take classes with MICA faculty during the summer. The school offers summer credit courses for undergraduates in art history, drawing, painting, illustration, photography, ceramics and design. The school also offers summer study abroad programs called "travel intensives." Any student who has completed one year of college can apply to these programs. Travel with MICA faculty and study community arts or documentary video in Nicaragua, fiber arts in Turkey, art history or painting in Italy, or sculpture in South Korea.

  Maryland Institute College of Art
  1300 W. Mount Royal Ave.
  Baltimore, MD 21217
  410-669-9200
  mica.edu/

New York Studio School

• The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture offers a rigorous summer session. Students can choose to enter the full seven-week program, which includes a two-week drawing or painting marathon and a five-week atelier class, or they can choose to enroll in either the marathon or the atelier class. Both portions of the summer session require students to work in the studios from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Students can choose to take a drawing, painting or sculpture marathon with current NYSS faculty or visiting artists. The marathons meet in the school's studios or in outside locations, such as Union Square, Long Island, Governors Island or a New Jersey Arboretum. Students can then choose to take an atelier class in drawing, painting or sculpture.

  New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
  8 W. 8th St.
  New York, NY 10011
  212-673-6466
  nyss.org