All Summer Arts courses take place on the CSU Monterey Bay campus.
Click on the Course Titles below to jump to more detailed information about the course content, guest artists, how to apply, deadlines, etc.
The application deadline for select courses has been extended. Please click on the link of the course you are interested in, and in some cases, contact the Course Coordinators for more information.VISUAL ART/DESIGN
Digital Documentary Photography and the Art of Seeing
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Scott Hopkins - scott.hopkins@csueastbay.edu
Photography can change the world. Learn how to create compelling visual images and develop documentary projects while being mentored by compassionate and award-winning photojournalists.
Observational Painting: Contemporary and Traditional Approaches to Landscape, Still Life and Portrait
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Andrew Dickson - adickson@fullerton.edu
Open your eyes – learn to see and express your own unique visual experiences while painting landscape, still life and portrait under the guidance of some of the country’s foremost observationally-based painters.
Digital Travel Photography on the Monterey Peninsula
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Mark Larson - mark.larson@humboldt.edu
Join landscape and travel photographers John Sexton, Nevada Wier and Rick Sammon in a fun and creative exploration of light in a coastal travel destination. Learn survival skills for traveling and how to market your work.
Contemporary Painting: Expanding Your Practice
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Samantha Fields - sam@zerodegreesart.com
Expand your practice, build community, and make connections as you pack a year’s worth of work into this inspirational studio-based workshop with one-on-one mentorship from renowned art world insiders.
DANCE
Dynamic Partnering: The Collaborative Creative Process
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Ezra LeBank - ezra.lebank@csulb.edu
PUSH. AcroYoga. The human body knows no bounds. Make inventive, athletic, witty, collaborative performance that crosses boundaries and flips your world upside down.
MUSIC
Strictly Sax: Classical, Jazz and All Things Saxophone
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Marian Liebowitz - liebowit@mail.sdsu.edu
Interested in studying with a world-class assembly of performers and career development experts? MAX YOUR SAX at CSU Summer Arts!
American Classical Guitar
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Scott Morris - ssmorris@csudh.edu
Masterclasses, coaching, concerts and daily workshops with ten of the world’s greatest classical and finger-style guitarists and teachers including Fisk, York, Kanengiser, Tennant and Verdery.
Comprehensive Seminar for Flutists
Course Dates: July 15 to 28, 2013
Coordinated by John Barcellona - john.barcellona@csulb.edu
The complete flute experience: intensive coaching, solo and ensemble performances, orchestral excerpts, recording studio experience and body mapping.
Commercial Music Writing
Course Dates: July 15 to 28, 2013
Coordinated by Elizabeth Sellers - elizabeth.a.sellers@csun.edu
Work hands-on, one-on-one with top pros; max your music writing skills for TV, film and games.
MEDIA
DreamWorks Animation: Acting and Emotional Expression
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by David Chai - david.chai@sjsu.edu
Emerge with the goal of a feature quality portfolio piece (in CG) after spending two weeks animating in a dark room with DreamWorks professionals; a locked door away from picturesque Monterey, California.
The Art & Craft of the Documentary
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Jonathan Berman - jberman@csusm.edu
Transform your creative vision into a festival ready film! Create videos from real life that people can't stop watching. Top documentary pros guide you through an intensive shooting and editing journey.
THEATRE
Steppenwolf Classes West at Summer Arts
Course Dates: July 1 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by John Mayer - playgoing@aol.com
Work with Tony and Pulitzer Award-winning Steppenwolf Theatre Company, one of the most significant theatre ensembles in America, for one intense month in Monterey.
Stage Combat: Rapier and Dagger SPT Intensive
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Terry Smith - tdsmith@csusb.edu
"They fight." Famous words given by one of our greatest playwrights of all time...too bad he didn't show us how. No problem, come join us for a two week intensive as we explore the physical violence of Rapier and Dagger. Add stage combat to your skill set and you'll distinguish yourself from the crowd. Have sword, will work.
Physical Theatre: Text, Movement and Media with Anomic Multimedia Theatre
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Bernardo Solano - bsolano@sbcglobal.net
Fuse body, voice, movement and media into a vision of 21st Century performance with UK-based Anomic Multimedia Theatre.
WRITING
The Triple-Threat Writer: TV, Play, Screenplay
Course Dates: July 1 to July 14, 2013
Coordinated by Bernardo Solano - bsolano@sbcglobal.net
Top writers in film, television and theatre guide students in writing a short film script, a television treatment and a 10-minute play. An indispensable course for the aspiring triple-threat writer.
Memoir Writing: From Personal to Cultural
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Kimberly Dark - kimberly@kimberlydark.com
From writing to revision to audience - explore your life experiences and identities with experienced, successful writers of traditional memoir, short stories, and poetic and experimental forms.
Writing Fantasy for Children and Teens
Course Dates: July 15 to July 28, 2013
Coordinated by Kim Zarins - zarins@saclink.csus.edu
Jumpstart your fantasy novel with the mentorship of three established authors (with millions of books in print), a New York editor, and a New York agent.
Earn 3 to 6 units of transferrable undergraduate or graduate college credit!
More than 70% of our students receive scholarship assistance!
California residents can take one or two Summer Arts classes for the same tuition dollars!
More Information?
summerarts@calstate.edu