Develop a talent or advance in study while experiencing life in a university setting. The New School offers summer college courses for high school students as well as programs for children four and up in music, art, and design year-round in our weekend and after-school programs.
Students leave prepared to enter top art and design, performing arts, or liberal arts colleges; gain greater confidence in their strengths and abilities; and make connections that last for life.
2018 Youth & Teen Programs Brochure
A year of creativity begins the moment you sign up. Explore all Youth & Teen program options, important dates and deadlines today.
Take advantage of the resources of New York City and deepen your knowledge with academically rigorous and creatively stimulating study in art and design.
Parsons Summer Intensive Studies: New York is a three-credit introductory-level art and design program enriched by the vast resources of New York City. This immersion in the art and design college environment is for is for high school students 16-18* years old and for recent high school graduates. In all studio courses, students develop portfolio pieces for college admission applications. *Students must be 16 years of age by July 9, 2018.
Deepen your knowledge and develop your skills while you explore many facets of art, design, and fashion firsthand in Paris.
Experience Paris as an insider, exploring contemporary European art, design, fashion, and photography firsthand in the city’s many design studios and museums. Taught at Parsons Paris, this three-week, three-credit program for high school juniors, seniors, and recent graduates surrounds students with a close-knit learning community in which they work directly with leading faculty and peers from around the world.
Get inspired by Parsons faculty who create exciting opportunities to explore art and design in Saturday and summer classes.
Parsons Pre-College Academy provides diverse classes and certificate options for students in grades 3 through 12. The classes meet on Saturday mornings for 11 weeks in the fall and spring semesters and every weekday for two weeks in the summer. A wide selection of courses are offered, on subjects including animation, fashion, graphic design, interior design, drawing, painting, cartooning, photography, and portfolio development.
Design your own characters and learn how to animate them. In this course, you will create original characters, develop your visual storytelling skills, and learn the principles of traditional animation to make them move. Working with a professional animator, students will experiment with both hands-on and digital animation approaches, view some of the history of animation, and learn about animation as a career.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Create effective visual communications that convey your individual ideas about social and urban topics. Learn design theory and explore concepts and create your projects in the digital media lab using a combination of hand skills and Adobe Creative Suite software.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
A professional designer helps you visualize and render fashion ideas, from research and concept development to the creation of final illustrations. In class discussions on the fashion industry, you learn to recognize the qualities of well-designed garments. Field trips and visits by industry professionals inform you about processes, trends, and careers in fashion.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Give your child a warm and supportive environment in which to grow as a musician and make friends for life. Mannes Prep welcomes students ages 4–18 at all levels of proficiency and individually tailors each student’s curriculum.
A personal continuing interest in the musical growth of each student is central to the spirit of Mannes Prep. Under the direction of award-winning faculty, young students at all levels and of all backgrounds flourish in performance ensembles, through individual instruction, and in music theory courses. Programs available include one for the very young (ages 4–6), the junior program (grades 1–4), the pre-senior program (grades 5–8), and the senior program (grades 9–12).
Join us for a brand new Summer Chamber Intensive this August, featuring a uniquely personalized experience for young musicians!
Students will be grouped into chamber ensembles for the week and work closely with members of Mannes Prep’s outstanding and inspiring faculty. The week features a very low student/faculty ratio, a nurturing musical community, exciting performance opportunities, and plenty of fun! All students participate in daily chamber coachings, sight-reading classes, master classes and workshops, and jam sessions. The week culminates in a student performance, open to family, friends, and the public.
High school juniors and seniors take part in a college-level liberal arts course at The New School and develop their own voices in a supportive atmosphere.
The course brings together peer-to-peer collaboration, immersive study, explorations in and around New York City, and networking opportunities with professionals, artists, and activists. By the end of the course, each student will have generated four works of prose.
In this intensive course students will write a weekly work of fiction- cumulative or separate pieces- that we will then workshop together as a class. Each week we will also discuss and dissect one element of creating a story (such as point of view, the role of dialogue, and plot) utilizing books on craft and works of fiction to deepen our understand and fluency with each. We will have weekly excursions around the city, meant to provoke new story ideas and inspire our writing projects. Meets Monday through Thursday, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Develop a talent or advance in study while experiencing life in a university setting. The New School offers summer college courses for high school students as well as programs for children four and up in music, art, and design year-round in our weekend and after-school programs.
Students leave prepared to enter top art and design, performing arts, or liberal arts colleges; gain greater confidence in their strengths and abilities; and make connections that last for life.
2018 Youth & Teen Programs Brochure
A year of creativity begins the moment you sign up. Explore all Youth & Teen program options, important dates and deadlines today.
Classes are kept small, encouraging one-on-one attention and instruction.
Young artists, designers, writers, and musicians build meaningful friendships with like-minded peers.
Students receive mentorship from experienced faculty, which nurtures talent and collaboration.
City as Classroom: Programs in New York and Parsons Paris use their unique position in cultural hubs to enhance the classroom experience.
Summer Intensive Studies: New York
Take advantage of the resources of New York City and deepen your knowledge with academically rigorous and creatively stimulating study in art and design.
Parsons Summer Intensive Studies: New York is a three-credit introductory-level art and design program enriched by the vast resources of New York City. This immersion in the art and design college environment is for is for high school students 16-18* years old and for recent high school graduates. In all studio courses, students develop portfolio pieces for college admission applications. *Students must be 16 years of age by July 9, 2018.
Deepen your knowledge and develop your skills while you explore many facets of art, design, and fashion firsthand in Paris.
Experience Paris as an insider, exploring contemporary European art, design, fashion, and photography firsthand in the city’s many design studios and museums. Taught at Parsons Paris, this three-week, three-credit program for high school juniors, seniors, and recent graduates surrounds students with a close-knit learning community in which they work directly with leading faculty and peers from around the world.
Get inspired by Parsons faculty who create exciting opportunities to explore art and design in Saturday and summer classes.
Parsons Pre-College Academy provides diverse classes and certificate options for students in grades 3 through 12. The classes meet on Saturday mornings for 11 weeks in the fall and spring semesters and every weekday for two weeks in the summer. A wide selection of courses are offered, on subjects including animation, fashion, graphic design, interior design, drawing, painting, cartooning, photography, and portfolio development.
Design your own characters and learn how to animate them. In this course, you will create original characters, develop your visual storytelling skills, and learn the principles of traditional animation to make them move. Working with a professional animator, students will experiment with both hands-on and digital animation approaches, view some of the history of animation, and learn about animation as a career.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Create effective visual communications that convey your individual ideas about social and urban topics. Learn design theory and explore concepts and create your projects in the digital media lab using a combination of hand skills and Adobe Creative Suite software.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
A professional designer helps you visualize and render fashion ideas, from research and concept development to the creation of final illustrations. In class discussions on the fashion industry, you learn to recognize the qualities of well-designed garments. Field trips and visits by industry professionals inform you about processes, trends, and careers in fashion.
Sep 22 - Dec 08 Fall 2018 Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Give your child a warm and supportive environment in which to grow as a musician and make friends for life. Mannes Prep welcomes students ages 4–18 at all levels of proficiency and individually tailors each student’s curriculum.
A personal continuing interest in the musical growth of each student is central to the spirit of Mannes Prep. Under the direction of award-winning faculty, young students at all levels and of all backgrounds flourish in performance ensembles, through individual instruction, and in music theory courses. Programs available include one for the very young (ages 4–6), the junior program (grades 1–4), the pre-senior program (grades 5–8), and the senior program (grades 9–12).
Join us for a brand new Summer Chamber Intensive this August, featuring a uniquely personalized experience for young musicians!
Students will be grouped into chamber ensembles for the week and work closely with members of Mannes Prep’s outstanding and inspiring faculty. The week features a very low student/faculty ratio, a nurturing musical community, exciting performance opportunities, and plenty of fun! All students participate in daily chamber coachings, sight-reading classes, master classes and workshops, and jam sessions. The week culminates in a student performance, open to family, friends, and the public.
High school juniors and seniors take part in a college-level liberal arts course at The New School and develop their own voices in a supportive atmosphere.
The course brings together peer-to-peer collaboration, immersive study, explorations in and around New York City, and networking opportunities with professionals, artists, and activists. By the end of the course, each student will have generated four works of prose.
In this intensive course students will write a weekly work of fiction- cumulative or separate pieces- that we will then workshop together as a class. Each week we will also discuss and dissect one element of creating a story (such as point of view, the role of dialogue, and plot) utilizing books on craft and works of fiction to deepen our understand and fluency with each. We will have weekly excursions around the city, meant to provoke new story ideas and inspire our writing projects. Meets Monday through Thursday, 1:00-5:00 p.m.