Let Your Talent Run Free

Come together. Share your talent.

SUMMER STUDIO 2012

Whether you are into design, technology, music, fashion, or cooking, we take talented individuals like you and help them turn their imagination, excitement, and creative energy into something awesome.

Registration is now open. Apply today!

Complete the Summer Studio application by clicking the "Sign Up" button at the top. At this point, you may either pay the $50.00 non-housing or $100 housing (non-refundable) deposit to secure your spot or pay your full tuition. You’ll be asked to select the workshop of your choice and note if you would if you would like workshop housing or not. If you prefer to pay through the mail or over the phone, please call 800.275.2470 for more information.

Still have some questions? Feel free to browse our site or click on the “Learn More” button at the top of the screen.

What can you expect at Summer Studio?

REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL Our creative workshops put you in a hands-on, collaborative environment learning new skills and creating an awesome final project under the artistic and technical guidance of our industry-savvy instructors.

FORECAST YOUR FUTURE As a high school sophomore, junior, or senior (graduating 2012), you have a unique opportunity to see if our creative community is where you belong. You’ll have the chance to experience firsthand what it’s like to pursue your passion and apply your talent here. Meet other creative minds and take a week to discover what a creative education could be like.

The Summer Studio Experience

Are You Ready To Create Tomorrow?

If you're a high school sophomore, junior, or senior (graduating 2012), Summer Studio is the perfect way to find out if you are cut out for a creative higher education. This summer, bring us your energy and passion so we can help you discover how you can Create Tomorrow.

Cost & Details

Dates & Deadlines

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, June 18, 2012

Deadline for payment in full: Monday, July 2, 2012

Both the application and administrative fee must be received by this deadline.

School Representative Contact Information:

Jessica Pompe
jpompe@aii.edu
412.291.6620

420 Boulevard of the Allies
Pittsburgh, PA, 15219-1301

Workshop Dates, Times & Schedule

MONDAY–SATURDAY
JULY 16–21, 2012

Cost & Housing Information

Tuition without housing: $300 ($50 non-refundable deposit included)
Tuition with housing: $600 ($100 non-refundable deposit included)

You may register by paying the deposit fee of $50, if you do not require housing, or $100, if you do require housing during Summer Studio. Registration is due June 18, 2012, with your balance due by July 2, 2012.

Transportation to and from the airport is not included.

Refund Policy

The $50.00 workshop or $100.00 housing deposits are non-refundable. Tuition and housing fees are fully refundable until Monday, July 9, 2012. After this date, all fees are non-refundable regardless of early cancellation or departure from the workshops.

Forms

DOWNLOAD FORMS HERE

Your application will not be processed without the following forms signed and completed:

• Photo Release Form
• Workshop Release Form
• Medical Release Form
• Code of Conduct Contract
• Housing Form

• Graphic Design/Digital Design/Advertising

Your ideas can go anywhere. Gain a fundamental understanding of the software and techniques used by designers all over the world to create the graphics, brands, and imagery we recognize and interact with daily. This workshop will introduce you to a world that often goes unrecognized — but never unnoticed.

• Entertainment Design/Industrial Design

From furniture, to cellphones and bikes, industrial designers literally create the world around us. Movie sets, special effects makeup, props, and masks are all created by entertainment designers. These workshops will let you take a walk in their shoes and see how your ideas can be brought to life.

• Interior Design/Kitchen & Bath Design

Interior Design is all about enriching the lives of others by creating environments where form and function merge. This workshop will teach you the elements of design, including color and space planning, with a special emphasis on furniture, materials, and textiles.

• Digital Filmmaking & Video Production

Discover the world of digital video production through the lens of actual filmmakers. Our faculty will guide you through pre-production planning, execution, and the post process of editing, special effects, and mastering. You’ll leave this fast-paced workshop with an understanding of how ideas transform into the films you know and love.

• Game Art & Design

Bring your talents, drive, and inspiration and see how it fits in the multi-billion-dollar world of gaming. Working with the same tools the pros use, try your hand at rendering 3D environments and the characters that will inhabit them. This workshop will leave you with a taste of the possibility of a world just waiting for you to create it.

• Media Arts & Animation

The Summer Studio workshop in Media Arts & Animation provides students with an important foundation in drawing skills, color theory, design concepts, audio/video techniques, and basic computer applications. From this foundation, students will develop skills in various aspects of computer graphics and animation.

• Photography

In this workshop, students will have the opportunity to work with cameras and software to photograph and edit images. They will also participate in location and studio shoots.

• Visual Effects & Motion Graphics

See if you’ve got what it takes to make tomorrow come to life. Use the same professional-grade tools our students use and explore a world of creative possibility. If you can see it in your mind and bring that thought to the screen, then you can make it move. Learn techniques for drawing with an eye toward the challenges unique to animation, and you’ll leave this workshop better prepared to conquer those challenges and make your vision come to life.

• Web Design & Interactive Media/Web Design

This workshop is designed to give you an understanding of just how unique designing interactive web experiences can be. You’ll be introduced to the same tools the pros use while combining an aesthetic eye with the ever-expanding power of the web. This workshop is designed to provide you with a greater knowledge of how your ideas can come to life and what it takes to bring them there.

• Fashion Design/Fashion & Retail Management

Gain a deeper understanding of the world of fashion and sharpen your own design skills in this exciting, collaborative workshop. You’ll have an opportunity to develop your eye with lessons in color theory and pattern selection that will change the way you look at trends. This workshop will also introduce you to the fundamentals of creating and maintaining effective consumer environments. Supply chain management, human resources, display presentation, and effective pricing models will all be covered in this introduction to the high-pressure, challenging world of retail management.

• Culinary Arts/Hotel & Restaurant Management/Baking & Pastry

Get in the kitchen and see if you’ve got what it takes. This workshop will introduce you to basic knife skills, ingredient selection, and regional cooking styles. You’ll learn to execute several dishes and develop your own personal interpretation of some classics. Best of all, you’ll meet like-minded peers and see if the kitchen might be in your future.

All workshops conducted at The Art Institutes schools are non-credit bearing and do not transfer into any of the programs offered at The Art Institutes.

Refund Policy

The $50.00 workshop or $100.00 housing deposits are non-refundable. Tuition and housing fees are fully refundable until Monday, July 9, 2012. After this date, all fees are non-refundable regardless of early cancellation or departure from the workshops.

Private Policy

The Art Institutes system of schools is committed to protecting any personal information that you may provide to us. We want you to understand what kinds of information we gather from you, how this information is used and protected, and how you can control its use. This statement discloses the privacy practices of The Art Institutes Web site. By using The Art Institutes Web site, the user agrees, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. Any changes in our Privacy Policy will be communicated in this page, so please check back from time to time. This policy applies to the online collection of information at this Web site only.

Who may use this Web site

The Art Institutes Summer Studio Web site is not intended or designed to attract users under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable data from any person we know to be under the age of 13, and instruct users under 13 not to send us any information for collection on The Art Institutes Web site.

The Art Institutes Web site is designed for users from the United States. Users from other countries are advised not to disclose personal information to The Art Institutes unless they consent to having their information used as set forth in this Web site's Privacy Policy rather than under the law of user's home country. When you disclose personal information to The Art Institutes through The Art Institutes Web site, you transmit data to a server located in Pennsylvania, and are subject to United States and Pennsylvania law. You should not send any personal information to The Art Institutes Summer Studio Web site unless you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy and by United States and Pennsylvania law.

Information collected

In general, you can visit this Web site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our Web site tracking software collects the domain names but not the email addresses of visitors. Domain name information that we collect is not used to personally identify you, but is used to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We use this information to measure the use of the site and improve the content delivered on the site.

When you make a request for further information from The Art Institutes, you are asked to provide certain contact information that is collected and used for the purpose of responding to your request. The information collected from you may include your name, address, telephone number or email address.

We collect personal information you submit pursuant to the registration and purchasing processes of our Web site. If you e-mail us, you are voluntarily releasing information to us. In addition, we may have collected similar information from you in the past. We use that historic information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By using our Web site you are consenting to our continued use of any such information.

When you make a request for further information and provide The Art Institutes with your personal contact information, that information is collected and used for the purpose of responding to your specific requests. We do not share, sell or lease personal information about you except as set forth in this Web site.

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The Art Institutes may use your contact information to reply to you and send information to you. The Art Institutes does not intend to reveal individually identifiable information to third parties except in the manner stated in the Privacy Policy. The Art Institutes will provide aggregated information received from you to third parties. The Art Institutes takes commercially reasonable precautions to prevent the aggregated information provided to third parties from including significant individually identifiable information.

If The Art Institutes is requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide information on individuals, The Art Institutes may, without your consent, provide such information. In matters involving claims of personal or public safety or in litigation where the data is pertinent, The Art Institutes may use or disclose your personal information without your consent or court process.

We may use information you submit to investigate security breaches or otherwise cooperate with authorities pursuant to a legal matter. We may also remove personally identifiable information and use remaining data for historical, statistical, or business planning purposes.

Updating Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect on The Art Institutes Summer Studio Web site by logging into your account and using the My Account link at the top of the page. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

Will your information be secure?

The Art Institutes system of schools recognizes that you may be concerned about the security of your personal information and we are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our Web site. Even with such technology, no Web site is 100% secure. We will take reasonable measures that we believe are appropriate to protect your information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, and, where possible, will ask that any third parties to whom we may transfer your information take comparable steps to protect that security. If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your access information and password and for restricting access to your computer. You also agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your password.

All billing information and other sensitive data is encrypted to increase the likelihood of security. We are the owner of data you supply to us.

Information-sharing disclosure request - California

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request one Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure per year which will identify the third parties with whom The Art Institutes system of schools or any of its affiliates has shared the information we have collected from you. You may request the Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure by writing to us at: The Art Institutes, 210 Sixth Avenue, 33rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. You may also send us your Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure request via e-mail at webadmin@edmc.edu or by telephone at (toll-free) 1.888.624.0300. We will respond to your request for a Notice of Information-Sharing Disclosure within thirty (30) days of receipt.

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Our Privacy Policy only applies to the various The Art Institutes.edu Web sites including The Art Institutes Web site. Our Web sites contain links to sites outside our control. Please be aware that these sites may collect information about you and operate according to their own privacy practices, which may differ from our Privacy Policy. Remember to consult that Web site's own Privacy Policy, as once you are outside any Art Institutes.edu Web sites, any information you submit is no longer within our control.

Questions regarding our Privacy Policy

If you have questions concerning our privacy practices, contact us at:

Privacy Administrator
The Art Institutes
210 Sixth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Fax: 1.412.995.7295
Email: webadmin@edmc.edu