Suggestions for industrial design?

unsoccer-mom
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:11:31 +0000

Most of the freestanding art schools have summer residency programs that can be helpful in developing a portfolio. Mine attended Parson’s the summer before her senior year. RISD has a six week program and I think MICA’s is about four weeks. If you’re in the Maryland area, I think the Corcoran has one as well. Some of these are quite expensive. Personally, I think the Parson’s one is totally overrated and extremely expensive. Many art museums also have summer programs and often Saturday programs during the year for high school students. My D took art courses at the MFA after her freshman in HS to work on a portfolio for admission to the visual arts program at her HS. I think the other benefit in attending a summer program is to try-out the college/art school one is thinking of attending as following my daughter’s participation in Parson’s summer program it fell completely off her list of schools. She did, however, come away with a firmer conviction that art was what she wanted to do. I do think that it is better to wait til the summer before senior year for one of the more intense and expensive residency programs.