Young Artist Studio

CCA's Young Artist Studio Program (YASP) is an exciting, intensive studio experience for students who want to explore the visual arts in a professional art school setting. Eligible students have just completed the sixth, seventh, or eighth grade.

Review the YASP Course Descriptions »

Note: Enrollment is limited to 16 students per class, and return YASP students are encouraged to try new studio selections rather than repeating familiar ones.

2012 YASP Programs

June 18-22 (Oakland campus)

ONE-WEEK, ALL-DAY PROGRAM
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Participants choose one of the following studios:

Animation CLOSED, please choose another course
Black & White Photography
Building with Drawing & Pattern & Form
Cartoon Drawing CLOSED, please choose another course
Designing with Metal / Jewelry Design
Explorations in Painting & Drawing CLOSED, please choose another course
Sculptural Felting &
 Fast and Furious Forms CLOSED, please choose another course

July 30-August 10 (Oakland campus)

TWO-WEEK, ALL-DAY PROGRAMS
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Morning studios are scheduled from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.; afternoon studios are scheduled from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. and from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Participants choose one of the following for their morning studio:

Clay Animation
Digital Photography CLOSED, please choose another course
Motion Graphics
Painting

All students take Explorations in Drawing as an afternoon studio and choose one of the following for their other afternoon studio:

Graphic Design CLOSED, please choose another course
Printmaking 

Sculpture: Found & Made

July 30-August 10 (San Francisco campus)

Participants choose one of the following for their morning studio:

The Art of Animation
 

Architecture: Future House 

Painting
 


All students take Explorations in Drawing as an afternoon studio and choose one of the following for their other afternoon studio:

Digital Photography CLOSED, please choose another course
Graphic Design CLOSED, please choose another course
Sculptural Felting


July 30 through August 10 (Oakland campus)

TWO-WEEK, HALF-DAY PROGRAM

Participants take Graphic Design and Explorations in Drawing. Studios are scheduled from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. and from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Final Exhibition

Each program ends with an exhibition, where family and friends have the opportunity to see what their young artist has created during their time at YASP.

Oakland program exhibitions are held in the Oliver Art Center, a professional exhibition space. The San Francisco program exhibition takes place throughout the Nave.

Final exhibitions schedules:
June 18–22 program: Friday, June 22, 4-5:30 p.m.
July 30–August 10 programs: Thursday, August 9, 4:30-6 p.m.