Summer Program Seeks Teen Artists
Aspiring teen artists have a chance to study with the best in painting, music, writing, dance and film at a monthlong state-sponsored summer school program.
Interested youths should apply by Feb. 28 to the California State Summer School for the Arts, to be held at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia from July 12 to Aug. 9.
The program was created in 1985 by the Legislature and has graduated more than 4,000 students over 10 years. Fourteen of the 450 students selected last year were from Ventura County.
The program offers training in seven disciplines--animation, creative writing, dance, film and video, music, visual arts and fine crafts, and theater.
For California residents, the program costs $1,250, which covers room, board and tuition for the four-week session. Out of state residents must pay $2,950. But there are scholarships.
More than half the students who attended last year received scholarships, and program director Robert M. Jaffe said he expects to equal or surpass that number in 1997.
The faculty members are professional artists. Many are college and university instructors. Students can receive three units of college extension credit.
For more information, call Donna Granata at 658-4768.
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