24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
661.255.1050
CAP 2008-09 PROGRAMS SCHEDULE
For further information about these programs please contact CAP at (661) 222-2708.
CAP AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
***All CAP After-School programs are free. No previous experience is required and registration is open to students ages 13 to 19, with the exception of the media arts programs for middle school students (ages 10-14). Register on the first day of class. Parent’s/Guardian’s signature will be required on the participant’s registration form. Attendance to all sessions is required.
Art-In-the-Park Music Program
This twenty-week music program features small group and individualized music instruction for teenagers ages 13 to 19. The program culminates with public performances in April at Art-in-the-Park, REDCAT, and other community performance venues.
Dates: October 6-December 11, 2008 & January 26-April 16, 2009
Time: Monday through Friday, 4:00-7:00pm
CAP Instructor: CalArts School of Music alumnus Nicolas Kello
Partner Contact: Berta Sosa, Director
Location: Art-in-the-Park, 5568 Via Marisol, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Tel: (323) 259-0861
Banning's Landing Community Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dates: October 2-December 11, 2008 & January 22-June 16, 2009
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00-7:00pm
CAP Instructor: CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Manuel Cuchilla
Partner Contact: Lee Sweet, Director
Location: Banning's Landing Community Center, 100 W. Water Street, Wilmington, CA 90744
Tel: (310) 522-2015
CalArts Digital Media Program
This class includes discussions and hands-on conceptual projects using Adobe Creative Suite software, scanners and digital cameras. Students produce posters, t-shirts, and other materials based on an investigation of environmental and other socially relevant themes. Students are encouraged to focus on content-based social statements, political comments, or cultural narratives.
Dates: October 7-December 9, 2008 & February 3-May 26, 2009
Time: Tuesdays, 4:30-7:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Art faculty Shelley Stepp
Partner Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts Mac Lab, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: (661) 222-2708
CalArts Saturday Music Program
This program offers twenty weeks of master classes for up to one hundred middle and high school students. Classes include theory, composition, vocal ensemble, percussion, strings ensemble, chamber ensemble, jazz ensemble, and more. The program culminates with semester-end recitals performed in the CalArts Main Gallery.
*Detailed music workshops' schedule coming soon.
Dates: October 4-December 13, 2008 & January 24-April 11, 2009
Time: Saturdays, 1:00-5:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Music faculty Susan Allen
CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Music alumnus Drew Jorgensen
Partner Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts School of Music, Rehearsal Rooms , 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: (661) 291-3037
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dates: October 1-December 12, 2008 & January 21-June 12, 2009
Time: Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:30-6:30pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Art faculty Chris Peters and CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Pouya Afshar
Partner Contact: Julia Salazar, Executive Director
Location: Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Tel: (323) 226-1617
Inner-City Arts High School Animation Program
This CAP program begins in October and continues through May. Twenty-four weeks of workshops are held for 20 to 40 high school students. The students learn basic animation techiniques, zoetropes, flip books, hand animation, computer animation, and drawing on film. The class includes a 24-hour animation marathon weekend in which students produce collaborative films. The students each create an animated short and collaborative film, which is screened in culminating festivals at Inner-City Arts, the REDCAT Theater, CalArts, and other venues.
Dates: October 4-December 13, 2008 & January 24-May 2, 2009
Time: Saturdays, 10;00am-1:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Leo Hobaica Jr.
Partner Contact: Beth Tishler, Education Director
Location: Inner-City Arts, 720 Kohler, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Tel: (213) 627-9621
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS)/Youth Photography Program
This program provides twelve Saturday workshops during the Spring semester for up to 50 high school students. The course takes place in the state of the art photography facility of the Art School at CalArts. Students are taught a variety of darkroom skills, and computer skills while they focus on creative assignments and work towards a public exhibition. An exhibition of photographs is presented at CalArts and other venues.
*Van pickups available at Franklin, Cleveland, and Lincoln High Schools at 9:00am.
Dates: February 9-May 9, 2009
Time: Saturdays, 10:00am-4:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisors: CalArts School of Arts faculty John Bache and Andrew Freeman
Partner Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts, School of Art Photo Lab, Sublevel, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: (661) 222-2708
Plaza de la Raza/Modern Dance Program
This 18-week program for middle and high school students focuses on modern dance techniques and choreography. Participants create individual original pieces as well as collaborations with the entire class. The dance classes are held once a week in the dance studios at Plaza de la Raza. The dance program students perform in a year-end dance recital at Plaza de la Raza.
Dates: October 13-December 13, 2008 & January 16-March 14, 2009
Time: Fridays, 4:00-6:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Dance faculty Francesca Penzani
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90031
Tel: (323) 223-2475
Plaza de la Raza/Music Program
This program provides instrumental instruction for up to 100 teenagers in trumpet, guitar, bass, drumset, voice, piano, songwriting, music theory and composition and several music ensembles, including salsa band. Eighteen weeks of instruction take place at Plaza de la Raza beginning in October and continuing through March. The workshops culminate in a recital at Plaza de la Raza in March.
*Detailed music workshops' schedule coming soon.
Dates: October 13-December 13, 2008 & January 14-March 15, 2009
Times: Wednesdays through Fridays, 4:00-8:00pm
CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Music alumnus Nicolas Kello
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: (323) 223-2475
Plaza de la Raza/Puppetry Program
This 18-week puppetry production class gives students an opportunity to collaboratively create a puppet play. Instructors teach workshops in puppet and mask making using a variety of materials including cardboard, cloth, papier-maché, and found objects. Creative writing and visual art are also important components of the class as well as filming and video editing using state-of-the-art digital equipment. All of these elements culminate in public performances in March at Plaza de la Raza.
Dates: October 13 -December 13, 2008 & January 14-March 13, 2009
Time: Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm
CAP Lead Instructor: CalArts School of Theater alumna Alison Heimstead
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: (323) 223-2475
Plaza de la Raza/Youth Theater Program
This program provides approximately 45 high school and junior high school students with thirty weeks of instruction in acting, movement, and voice. Students collaborate with teachers, a composer, and a playwright to create an original piece of theater. Artist specialists such as costume, set and lighting designers will join the process in layers during the course of the work to further collaborate in making a full production. A class in design will be offered as an optional supplement for those who are interested in design and technical aspects of production. Classes are held three evenings per week, beginning in October and continuing through May. Free public performances are held in May at Plaza de la Raza and at the REDCAT Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Dates: October 6-December 13, 2008 & January 12-May 30, 2009
Times:
Beggining Theater: Mondays, 6:00-8:00pm
Movement for Theater: Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00pm
Intermediate/Advance: Theater: Thursdays, 6:00-8:00pm
Designing for Theater: Saturdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
CAP Faculty: Former CalArts School of Theater faculty Barbara June Dodge and CalArts School of Theater faculty Marvin Tunney
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: (323) 223-2475
San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dates: October 6-December 9, 2008 & January 19-June 9, 2009
Time: Mondays and Tuesdays, 4:00-7:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty John Mahoney and CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Jonny Gomez
Partner Contact: Lori Backwell, Director
Location: San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, 10896 Lehigh Avenue, Pacoima, CA 91331
Tel: (818) 834-9266
Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra
The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra is the premiere youth orchestra in the Santa Clarita Valley. The organization has three levels of orchestras for elementary through college age students and performs a variety of music from the classical genre. CalArts student instructors play alongside the students as section leaders/mentors. Classes culminate in a performance at the College of the Canyons Performing Arts Center.
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Music faculty Susan Allen
CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Music alumnus Drew Jorgensen
Partner Contact: Paul Sherman, Orchestra Director
Location: College of the Canyons, 24655 Rockwell Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Tel: (661) 291-3037
Self-Help Graphics & Art/Digital Media Program
This is a 30-week program for teenagers (ages 15 to 18). Students learn computer design applications, printmaking, T-Shirt design, screen printing and digital video production. The program culminates with an exhibition of the work at Self-Help Graphics & Art, at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as with a screening at REDCAT.
Dates: October 7-December 16, 2008
Time: Tuesdays, 4:00-7:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Theater alumnus Reggie Coleman
Partner Contact: Armando Duran, President, Board of Directors
Location: Self-Help Graphics & Art, 3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90063-1896
Tel: (323) 881-6444
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club/Photography Program
This 10-week photography program enrolls up to 40 high school students in the Fall semester. Students work closely with instructors investigating notions of self-expression and community through their photographic work. Presentations about the history and art of photography are offered throughout the semester. The students’ original works are exhibited at CalArts and other venues throughout Los Angeles.
Dates: October 6-December 8, 2008
Time: Mondays, 4:00-7:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisors: CalArts School of Arts faculty John Bache and Andrew Freeman
Partner Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts, School of Art Photo Lab, Sublevel, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: (661) 222-2708
Watts Towers Arts Center/Piano Program
This 24-week program is an introduction to playing the piano for young people. Students learn the basics of music although all levels of experience are welcomed. The program culminates in a public piano recital held at the Watts Towers Arts Center in the Spring.
Dates: October 1-December 13, 2008 & January 21-April 25, 2009
Time: Wednesdays, 3:00-7:00pm and Saturdays, 10:00am-4:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Music alumna Brenda McGee
Partner Contact: Rosie Lee Hooks, Director
Location: Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
Tel: (213) 847-4646
Watts Towers Arts Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dates: October 1-December 13, 2008 & January 21-June 13, 2009
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-7:00pm and Saturdays, 11:00am-2:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Betty Lee and CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Pouya Afshar
Partner Contact: Rosie Lee Hooks, Director
Location: Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
Tel: (213) 847-4646
William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center/Sony Pictures Media ARts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Dates: October 1-December 13, 2008 & January 21-June 13, 2009
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00-7:00pm and Saturdays, 11:00am-2:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Film/Video alumni Javier Barboza and Jonny Gomez
Partner Contact: Ruben Amavizca, Director
Location: William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center, 2332 West Fourth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Tel: (213) 382-8133
CAP IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
CAP is also engaged in in-school programming in many schools and community centers throughout Los Angeles County. These free arts workshops are available to students in the partner schools and organizations only.
Arroyo Seco Junior High School/Improvisation and Theater Games Program
Arroyo Seco Junior High School is a public middle school that is part of the William S. Hart School District in the Santa Clarita Valley. The school has been recognized as a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. Through this program a team of CalArts graduate students goes to the site to teach in Ms. Juliet Fine's 7th grader classes a once-a-week workshop covering theater games and improv exercises. The course ends with a performance of original work in CalArts' Modular Theater in December.
Dates: September 17-December 3, 2008
Time: Wednesdays, 9:35-11:40am
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Theatre faculty Marissa Chibas
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Theater MFA students Dana Gourrier and Evan Frasier
Partner Contact: Juliet Fine, Classroom Teacher
Location: Arroyo Seco Junior High School, 27171 North Vista Delgado Drive, Valencia CA 91354
Tel 661.222.2710
ArtsCOOL Program
The ArtsCOOL Program was developed in 2002 as a partnership between CAP and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch and Educational Options Program. Currently, ArtsCOOL offers programming at 20 Options High Schools in Los Angeles County. These schools each receive 30 weeks of arts programs which meet once-a-week for two hours per class. The classes are taught by teams of CalArts faculty artists, current CalArts students and CalArts alumni who share their expertise in visual arts, writing, film/video, and the performing arts. This program is available only to high school students attending the LAUSD Options High Schools participating in this program.
The schools are located throughout Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice, Pacific Palisades, Carson, Huntington Park, Westchester, and downtown Los Angeles areas. Hundreds of high school students participate in the culminating performances and exhibition held annually at California Institute of the Arts, Plaza de la Raza, REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, and other venues.
Option schools currently participating in the CAP/ArtsCOOL Program are:
Central East Los Angeles High School, Del Rey High School, Eagle Tree High School, Amelia Earhart High School, Albert Einstein High School, John Hope High School, Independence High School, Frida Kahlo High School, Miguel Leonis High School, Robert Lewis High School, Jack London High School, Monterey High School, Phoenix High School, Ramona High School, Will Rogers High School, San Antonio High School, Temescal Canyon High School, Henry Thoreau High School, Walt Whitman High School and John Wooden High School.
CAP Faculty: CalArts faculty members Marvin Tunney, Beatrice Lawluvi, Darcy Huebler, Steve Brown, Leo Hobaica, Niki Rousso-Schindler, among others, and CalArts alumni Reggie Coleman, Miyo Hernandez Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole, Jahmad Rollins, Morena Santos, Pouya Afshar, Chris Armstrong, Sandy Ding, Eddie Felix, Juliana Sankaran-Felix, among others, along with CalArts student instructors, and visiting artist Rose Portillo.
CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty and CAP ArtsCOOL Coordinator Betty Lee
Tel: (323) 304-1599
Bell High School/Video and Animation Program
This 20-week program for teenagers (ages 15 to 18) takes place after-school, once-a-week at Bell High School during the school year. The course includes learning basic video techniques, lighting, sound, interview techniques, story development and story boarding, and digital editing on state-of-the-art digital equipment. The workshops culminate in screenings of the students’ videos at Bell High School, CalArts, at REDCAT Theater, on the World Wide Web and other venues.
Dates: January 15-April 23, 2009
Time: Thursdays, 3:30-5:30pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Nancy Buchanan
Partner Contact: Joan Dooley, Classroom Teacher
Location: Bell High School, 4328 Bell Avenue, Bell, CA 90201
Tel: (323) 560-1800
Franklin High School/Playwriting Program
This two-semester long CAP program is a collaboration among CAP, Franklin High School, and the CalArts School of Theater. Twenty to thirty students in Mr. David Levine’s theater classes participate once-a-week with CalArts instructors. The students learn theater games, exercises, and work one-on-one with the CalArts graduate students to create original five-minute plays. The plays are all presented at CalArts’ New Works Festival in the Spring, acted by the MFA acting students with the high school playwrights on stage.
Dates: October 8 -December 10, 2008 & February 25-April 15, 2009
Time: Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Theater alumna Vicky Grise
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Theater faculty Marissa Chibas
Partner Contact: David Levine, Classroom Teacher
Location: Franklin High School, 820 North Avenue 54, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Tel: (323) 550-2000
Gertz-Ressler High School/Vocal Program
The vocal program takes place for 10 weeks during the Fall semester and 10 weeks during the Spring semester. This program focuses on classical vocal repertoire as well as contemporary, jazz, and world music traditions. Through a curriculum encompassing many musical idioms, students will expand their technical and expressive boundaries with the study of improvisation, extended vocal techniques, and vocal techniques from around the world. The program culminates with a public performance at the high school in the spring.
*Dates To be Determined
CAP Lead Instructor: CalArts School of Music alumna Wendy Vazquez
Partner Contact: Eliza Zamor, Assistant Principal
Location: Gertz-Ressler High School, 2023 South Union Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Tel: (213) 745-8141
Inner-City Arts/Elementary Animation Program
Each semester, CAP brings animation education to an elementary school working with Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles. Approximately 32 fifth graders from LAUSD elementary schools such as Frank del Olmo Elementary School, Sierra Park Elementary School and Norwood Elementary School, work twice-a-week with CalArts faculty and student instructors to learn animation techniques and produce an animated short film. The students explore animation through making flipbooks and zoetropes, inventing characters and writing stories, recording voices and sounds, and creating cut-out puppet animation. The completed films are screened in festivals at Inner-City Arts, REDCAT, and other venues.
Dates: September 24– December 12, 2008 & January 26-May 3, 2009 (subject to change)
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
CAP Faculty: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Leo Hobaica
Partner Contact: Beth Tishler, Education Director
Location: Inner-City Arts, 720 Kohler Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Tel: 213.627.9621
My Friend's Place/Creative Writing Program
This program works with students individually and in groups to create works which express a variety of concerns ranging from individual, social, and political identity to the emotional dynamics of family and interpersonal relationships. Because students at My Friend’s Place are often at particular risk to homelessness and marginalization, their work addresses commonly accepted notions of background, present status, and of the future with uncommon urgency. Students produce poetry, stories, essays, artwork, photography, and video in an expanded notion of the expressive limits of “writing.” The year-long, two semester workshops culminate in both the publication of an anthology of student work and a public reading at My Friend’s Place.
Dates: October 3-December 12, 2008 & January 13-May 19 2009
Time: Tuesdays and Fridays, 12:30-2:30pm
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Jon Wagner
Partner Contact: Camilla Brannstrom, Special Projects Coordinator
Location: My Friend’s Place, 5850 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028
Tel: (323) 908-0011
Share the World Program
The CAP Share the World Program, a partnership with the City of Santa Clarita and the six local Santa Clarita School Districts, brings CalArts world music and dance ensembles to provide performances and workshops for students in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Santa Clarita Valley. The ensembles available range from jazz, Latin jazz, Balinese Gamelan to North and South Indian music, and African music and dance among many other offerings. The program begins in October and continues through May.
Dates: October through May
Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Music alumnus and CAP Public Programs Coordinator Drew Jorgensen
Partner Contact: Donna Avila, Santa Clarita Valley City, Arts and Events Coordinator
Tel: (661) 291-3037
William S. Hart High School/Wrtiting Program
This two-semester, twenty week-long writing program is a collaboration among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), William S. Hart High School, the CalArts School of Critical Studies and the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations. The program involves a group of approximately fifty E.S.L. students from William S. Hart High School in an intensive creative writing workshop that will culminate with readings at CalArts and at William S. Hart High School and with the publication of a collection of the students’ writing.
*Dates to be determined
CAP Faculty Advisor: School of Critical Studies faculty Mady Schutzman
Partner Contact: Maria Lacy, Assistant Principal
Location: William S. Hart High School, 24825 Newhall Avenue, Newhall, CA 91321
Tel: (661) 222-2710
Watts Towers Arts Center/Jazz and World Music Program
The CAP Jazz and World Music Program with the Watts Towers Arts Center brings free performances by CalArts music and dance ensembles to high schools in the Watts, South Central Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles areas. The ensembles available range from jazz, Latin jazz, Balinese Gamelan, to North and South Indian music, and African music and dance, among many other offerings. Over two thousand young musicians take part in this program, which includes master classes in specific instruments. The program begins in October and continues through May.
Dates: October through May
Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Music alumnus Drew Jorgensen
Tel: (661) 291-3037
CAP SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM
*An application process is required to be accepted into this program. Applications will be available in April 2009.
The CAP Summer Arts Program (CAPSA) is a free, three week-long intensive summer arts program for experienced young artists entering grades 10, 11, 12 or graduating high school, interested in further exploring their art form, building their artistic skills and deepening their cultural understanding and personal expression in one of five arts disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Visual Arts. This program is led by outstanding artists on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and CalArts student instructors guide students through exciting and creative experimentation in the arts. The program takes place in July and culminates with performances and exhibitions at Plaza de la Raza.
CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Critical Studies alumna Carribean Fragoza
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: (661) 253-7715