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The Arts Program at Cushing Summer allows students entering grades 6-8 and 9-12 to take advantage of the amazing facilities in the Emily Fisher Landau Center for the Visual Arts and build a robust summer art portfolio.
This Summer, Get Serious About Art
The Arts Program at Cushing Summer is an immersive, academic art curriculum for students entering grades 6-8 and 9-12. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist, if you are interested in seriously exploring the visual arts this summer — from drawing and painting to ceramics and metalsmithing — our Arts Program is for you.
Build a Multidisciplinary Summer Portfolio
With a focus on the fundamentals of color, composition, line, and space, you will explore a variety of visual mediums through hands-on studio work. As you build a multi-disciplinary portfolio, you will be exposed to new techniques and skills, improve your critical eye, and gain a robust vocabulary with which to discuss and critique your work.
During the summer, you will gain exposure to a variety of art concentrations through medium-specific and open-ended assignments. Examples include:
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Painting + Drawing
Students will gain a strong understanding of the foundational skills required to make an image, including composition, line, perspective, proportion, volume, and value. Students will practice refining their observational abilities through assignments such as still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and abstractions. Students will be introduced to traditional painting techniques and processes (watercolor, gouache, and acrylic), and explore techniques in paint application and blending as well as color theory.
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Ceramics
Students will explore various techniques for working in clay, including hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing and decorative styles, and firing techniques. While developing technical proficiency, individual creative expression is encouraged as students learn about ceramics from different historical periods and cultures.
Metalsmithing
Students will develop three-dimensional design skills by learning to shape silver, copper, and brass. While you will begin with simple designs, you will learn and be encouraged to create more advanced original pieces. Instructors will teach you the most up-to-date techniques in shaping, soldering, fashioning bezels, and finishing your pieces.
Your Summer Art Home:
The Emily Fisher Landau Center for the Visual Arts
Cushing Academy is home to one of the most highly respected visual arts programs in secondary education. The Emily Fisher Landau Center for the Visual Arts offers our Arts Program the highest caliber, professional-level facilities for every medium offered, including:
- Ceramics Studio
- Drawing + Painting Studio
- Metalsmithing Studio
- Maude Bowen Carter Gallery
In addition to being home to art classes during the day, three nights out of the week, Arts Program students spend their study hall (8 - 10 pm) working in the Emily Fisher Landau Center for the Visual Arts. You could call it your summer art home.
End-of-Summer Art Show
The Arts Program culminates with an end-of-summer art show in the Maude Bowen Carter Gallery that showcases student artwork made during the summer. All Cushing Summer students are invited to the opening to celebrate the student work, and it is one of the summer’s most anticipated events.
In the Studio — And Beyond
In addition to daily, hands-on studio work, Arts Program students learn about the context in which the various mediums they are working in have developed—the history, the cultural impact, applications, traditional techniques, and aesthetics. Part of the Arts Program curriculum includes trips to museums in and around Boston, readings, and art-related films, which help enrich students’ knowledge and appreciation of particular artists and different artistic movements.
More Than 25 Afternoon Classes + Activities
Afternoons in the Arts Program give you an opportunity to further explore your artistic interests, or to take a break and branch out into other disciplines. We offer additional academic classes to sharpen skills or explore new subjects, performing and visual arts classes to find additional inspiration and flex creative muscles, and athletic workshops to keep fit and active.
Explore Afternoon Programming
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Questions? Connect With Our Director
Our Director of Summer Programs, Chris Roy, would love to connect with you! Send him an email at [email protected] or call (978) 827-7700.