At Tufts, our Pre-College Programs offer ambitious high school students the opportunity to learn from renowned faculty and experience a rigorous academic environment at a leading higher education institution. Join our community of artists and makers, and spend your summer exploring known and new mediums and developing as an artist. Take art school for a test drive by engaging with SMFA at Tufts’ interdisciplinary approach to art making and create conceptually sophisticated artwork. As you learn to work with new materials and deepen your understanding of familiar mediums, you will make connections to bigger ideas. Over the course of the program, you will participate in foundation classes that will blur the lines between disciplines. Led by a team of qualified artists and educators, students will get instruction on advancing technical skills such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and animation; allowing you to build a portfolio of materially complex, intentional works of art. Group critiques led by instructors, field trips to local museums and galleries, and a critical studies class will facilitate analysis and contextualization of art within the real world, encouraging you to think deeply about what it means to make art!