First – let us tell you how cool Summer Arts is!
- Our students get to study with some of the best artists in the world for two to four weeks long.
- Students get three to six units of transferable undergraduate or graduate college credit.
- More than 80% of our students receive scholarship assistance.
- We’re like camp to the Nth degree!
At Summer Arts, artists are free to explore and surpass boundaries, meet other artists who support and challenge them, and make life-long friends and professional contacts. Our students often keep in touch with each other as well as with the artists who lead the classes, which leads to our students getting JOBS!
Taking a Summer Arts class will not only add units to your college transcript and help you to graduate sooner, but you will also be able to add to your resume that you studied and worked with top artists. In the long run, Summer Arts is one of the best personal and professional decisions you could ever make!
So what are you waiting for? Click onto the Courses page, find the genre that interests you the most, and look at the classes we are offering this season. Note that we offer different classes every year, so if you see a course that interests you or an artist you really want to work with, sign up! If we offer it in the future, it may not be for a couple of years, so take advantage of it now!
We look forward to meeting you!
We are always looking for great arts faculty to come to Summer Arts!
You are our link to what the students are learning in the classes on your campus, AND you know what excites and motivates them. At Summer Arts, we give you the opportunity to bring those talented and enthusiastic arts students together with some of the top artists in the world and watch the magic that unfolds. Some of these artists are your friends and colleagues, and some are on the wish list of professionals that you have always wanted to work and study with, too.
About 18 months prior to a given season, Summer Arts convenes a group of faculty interested in proposing courses to be offered. Each year brings a varied number of proposals which are then narrowed down to between 14 and 19 courses, in an effort to offer one to three classes in each visual arts, theatre, dance, music, creative writing, new media, and arts education. The courses are usually two weeks long (we have had some three and four-week long courses in the past), and take place on the resident campus for Summer Arts (we’re at Fresno State until 2010) unless you coordinate one of the Summer Arts international courses which have taken place in Florence, Italy and Brisbane, Australia in the past. Note that only CSU Faculty members are accepted as Course Coordinators as we are a CSU program. If you are faculty at a non-CSU campus, you may want to check out the Prospective Guest Artists information on our website.
So what’s the payoff?
Work with world-class artists and add this experience to your resume and tenure file.
Have an entire class full of students who WANT to be there and are hungry for a fulfilling arts experience.
Two intense weeks of art – one class – no exams to grade.
You get paid the same for these two weeks as you would for summer school.
Want to learn more and get on the list of faculty to propose and discuss courses for an upcoming season? Contact Joanne Sharp, Assistant Director of Summer Arts at 562-951-4065 or jbartok@calstate.edu
We look forward to meeting you!
We often get phone calls and emails from artists and artists’ representatives asking how they can get involved with Summer Arts or how they can book a performance in our season.
All of our performances and lectures are tied to the coursework that we are offering in a given season. For example, an artist will have been invited to teach a class and then, in many cases, will also give a public event as part of his or her residency.
Summer Arts does not present public events by artists who are not linked to the educational aspect of the program.
If artists are interested in working with us as resident instructors for a course, they're a few ways to get connected with Summer Arts:
- Do you have a personal or professional connection with a CSU Faculty member? If so, contact them and encourage them to propose a course featuring your work. Have them read the Prospective Course Coordinator information on our website.
- Send us an email indicating the details of a course you would be interested in teaching at Summer Arts, how students would benefit, and how your course should be marketed.