Sample Schedule

9 am – 12 pm, M-F: Foundation
12 pm – 1: Lunch
1 pm – 4 pm, M/W: Elective #1
1 pm – 4 pm, T/Th: Elective #2

Virtual Info Sessions

Please attend our virtual information sessions to learn more about our approach to interdisciplinary arts education.

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Tuition

Tuition is listed on the application form. Applications received before March 1 will have a 10% discount.

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M – Th,  9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
July 10 – Aug.  4

Youth will discover and deepen their creative interests through an immersive overview of visual art and design to deepen their visual thinking strategies, deepen their access to their own creativity, and experience aspects of art and design as a profession. Students will improve their technical skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, find friends with common interests, and find potential long-term adult mentors. This four week morning course ends with a culminating gallery show. 

Afternoon electives
Comics Studio
Graphic Design
Object Design
Animation 
Life Drawing 
Photography

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M – Th,  9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
July 10 – Aug.  4

From ideation to live action video, youth will deepen their understanding of film development. The class will teach the full range of cinema’s visual language, from composition to shots, and from the logic of visual narrative to working with actors, recording sound, and making a final edit. Youth will learn core skills for any film student including the building blocks of a powerful scene and discovering effective elements in single film image. Through ideation to the phases of production, youth will have a completed a group film at the end of the four week intensive.

Afternoon Electives:
Cinematography
Editing
Sound Design
Acting

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M – Th,  9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
July 10 – Aug.  4

Modeled after Cornish’s core undergraduate music curriculum, this course will explore foundational theoretical principles in music theory through analysis, composition, improvisation, performance, and listening. This foundational class is an introduction to basic music theory and ear training including: notation for pitch and rhythm; intervals; diatonic (major and minor) scales; chromatic scale; diatonic modes; key signatures; transposition; and concepts in rhythm, meter, and durational notation. This morning session is best combined with afternoon electives in performance and production.

Afternoon Electives 
New Music Ensemble
American Roots Ensemble
Music for Film, Games and TV 
Producing Music 
Audition Prep (Live and Recording)
Voice 101

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M – Th,  9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
July 10 – Aug.  4

A fundamental acting education supports the ability to be successful in any career in musical theater, theatrical plays, and performance production. In this four week intensive, teens will explore the world of the character through work on sensory awareness, physical involvement, imagination, and communication. Beyond any single production, teens will build a foundational knowledge of the theater. At the end of four weeks, discrete work highlighting learned skills as an actor, scene development, and musical scenes, will be shared with families in an informal setting on a Cornish stage.  

Afternoon electives
Performance Production Overview
Musical Theater Movement
Costume Design
Set Design

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