Fine Arts Summer Camps Inspire Creative Genius and High School ...

If specialty summer camps in technology and government don?t meet your home school high school credit needs, perhaps a fine arts education during summer break will inspire your teen?s creative genius. ? Concentrated immersion in music, art, drama, and dance can greatly improve existing proficiency while your homeschool teen learns new techniques, applies theoretical principles, and makes new friends from all over the country. ?Plus any of these exceptional fine arts summer camps would look smashing on the high school credit when college admissions officers consider your teen as a potential freshman.

Nestled in 1300 acres of western Michigan?s Manistee National Forest near Twin Lake, MI, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp is?dedicated to the idea that ?an arts school in a secluded, natural setting can shelter gifted young people from the influences of the outside world and allow them to study with concentrated effort.? ?Sessions are two weeks each with tuition of about $ 1200 ($ 600 a week). ?Campers choose one of ten majors (art, band, choir, dance, harp, jazz, music composition, orchestra, piano, or theater) and one of 28 minors (examples: ?conducting, opera, Shakespeare, radio broadcasting). ?Auditions are not required unless you want a scholarship. ??Most of the faculty have completed their Masters and/or Doctorate degrees, and have extensive teaching with teens as well as considerable performance experience.

Also, tucked away on 1200 secluded acres with two lakes in northern Michigan?s lower peninsula, world-renowned Interlochen offers three week specialty fine arts camps in creative writing, dance (ballet or modern), motion picture arts, music, theatre arts, and visual arts for around $ 45oo ($ 1500 week). ?Approximately 25% of students receive scholarships. ?Auditions and a portfolio are required. ?For example, teens in the creative writing summer camp develop their skills through four hours of daily instruction in two of three areas:

• Poetry?classes focus on lyric, narrative and dramatic poetry; teens explore textures of language, voice, image, metaphor and context through writing and revising various poetic forms
• Fiction?classes focus on the elements of writing the short story including story structure, point of view, character, plot, setting, dialogue and the craft of revision
• Playwriting?classes cover character creation and dramatic structure, scene writing to explore character, action, theatricality and dialogue

For each concentration, students will participate in workshops in which their work will be critiqued by instructors and peers, allowing them to refine their craft. Each camp session culminates in a public performance.

What homeschool teen wouldn?t love to spend two weeks of the summer in the gorgeous scenery of Alaska? ?Nationally-acclaimed SITKA Fine Arts Camp provides high school teens with a two-week long intensive arts experience. Over 60 different classes are offered in theater, dance, music, creative writing, visual arts, Alaska Native Arts, and digital arts. Students work with professional artists in their areas of interest or explore new forms of arts, and at night, they attend performances by their instructors. ?A final performance tops off the two week experience. ?Cost for the two weeks is $ 1095 ($ 550 week), but don?t forget about transportation costs. ? And if your teen isn?t ready to go home, he can?audition for SITKA?s four-week Musical Theater Camp that follows the High School Session and includes roles for actors, dancers, singers, instrumentalists, visual artists, and technicians.

The Indianapolis IRT Summer Conservatory for Youth day camp experience is an immersion into the creative process of theatre. Young people with a passion for this art form learn about theatre-making from professional actors, administrators, directors, and technicians, as well as their peers. ?Teens can take one of two tracks: ?acting or production:

• Acting fine arts day camp?covers?training in acting, voice, movement, Shakespeare, creative dramatics, and dance for theatre. Program will culminate to a public performance on their final day
• Production fine arts day camp involves?training in stage management, directing, lighting, scenic design, costumes, properties and playwriting. Students will also create individual production projects that will be exhibited at the acting conservatory public performances.

Auditions are required, and scholarships are available. ?Acting track students prepare a 1-2 minute monologue and bring a photo the IRT can keep on file. Production Track students should bring a photo and portfolio or letter of intent.?This four-week day camp is a real bargain at only $ 900 ($ 225 week).

Sugarloaf is a one week fine arts summer camp located at 5000 feet above sea level in the Sierra Nevada mountains (Pollack Pines, CA), offering fine arts education in music, art, drama, photography, video, textile arts, voice, and dance. ?Each teen chooses a major and an elective which meets for instruction in the morning and evening with each afternoon off for practice, games, and planned camp activities. ?After evening class each night, it?s time for entertainment, skits, songs, and other fun around the campfire. ?Tuition is $ 440, and scholarships are available.

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Can you recommend other summer fine arts camps that your kids have attended or are planning on attending? ?Have you used the summer camp experience for partial or full academic high school credit on the transcript? ?I?d love to hear your stories in the comments section below. ?And if you use twitter, why not follow me by clicking on the birdie below. ?I often tweet about homeschool freebies that don?t warrant a full blog post, so you?ll be up on the latest giveaways if you follow me.

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