Summer High School/College Art Program

2010 Registration form will be available mid February view scenes from GAC's Summer Art Institute 2007
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Drawing / Painting / Sculpture / Printmaking / Photography

The 2010 Summer Art Institute begins on Monday, July 19 and ends on Friday, August 6. There will be an exhibition of student work August 7 & 8, 2010. A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, August 7 from 3 - 5 PM.
FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING FOR WORKING STUDENTS

Garrison Art Center offers our 12th year of the Summer Art Institute for emerging artists of high school age, entering grades 9 - 12. For this full day three-week immersion program the Art Center dedicates the entire facility to 25 to 30 students who are interested in developing their art skills in an open environment. "For serious ART and serious FUN."
	A PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Our earnest commitment is to be supportive, encouraging and open-minded. This highly successful program offers young artists five professional studios and two galleries in which to work and collaborate enabling them to develop their creative abilities under the guidance of outstanding teaching artists who are masters in their fields. Provocative discussions with faculty and guest artists, field trips, visits to professional studios and the strong encouragement of risk-taking in a congenial environment free students to explore their ideas without limitations. The curriculum consists of drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and black/white photography. While learning traditional techniques and skills, students will be encouraged to explore new methods and incorporate the “hi-tech” world in which we live. Each participant will advance his/her skills within a core curriculum, periodically engaging in group critiques which allows students to collectively and individually respond to and draw from the skills and insights of others. The program culminates with an exhibition of the students' best works in the Art Center's two professional galleries August 7 & 8 2010, noon - 5pm. Opening reception, August 7, 3 - 5 PM.
Garrison Art Center offers students and artists four fully equipped studios: the Drawing and Painting Studio, the Ceramic/Pottery Studio, the Printmaking Studio, the Sculpture/Multi-use Studio and a Black and White Darkroom. These studios are also available for rent for a nominal fee to artists. In addition our two galleries, The Gillette Gallery and The Balter Gallery, may be rented for community events. Please call for more information.
The application process consists of a personal interview at which time the applicant will show samples of work and discuss the program more thoroughly with the program director. The cost of the three-week full day program is $875 plus a $100 material fee. Limited need-based scholarships are available through Garrison Art Center’s Gillette Scholarship Fund. For further information or to set up an interview, please call 845.424.3960 or email info@garrisonartcenter.org.
For further information or to set up an interview, contact Carinda Swann at Garrison Art Center.


Garrison Art Center is located one hour north of NYC on the banks of the Hudson River near the intersection of Routes 9D and 403. We are one block from the Garrison Station stop on the scenic Hudson line from Grand Central Station. We boast one of the most majestic views in the Hudson Valley.

is a not-for-profit organization with programs and exhibitions made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Garrison Art Center is a member of New York Multi-Arts Centers Consortium which receives funds from NYSCA.