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REFRESH YOUR ARTISTIC PRACTICE<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Summer Studios<\/strong> is a dynamic, week-long, studio-based course designed for students in the Boston University Online Master of Arts in Art Education program<\/a>\u2014as well as other art educators seeking to reinvigorate their practice.<\/p>\n

Spend a transformative week on campus in the heart of Boston, reconnecting with your own creative voice while building lasting bonds with classmates from your virtual courses. Surrounded by museums and cultural landmarks, you\u2019ll dive into two immersive studio electives taught in state-of-the-art facilities.<\/p>\n

Additional experiences, including field trips, campus exhibitions, and spontaneous adventures with classmates, inspire and spark fresh ideas. Group workshops, pop-up demos, and make-and-take sessions provide practical tools you can immediately apply to your teaching. After the week intensive, return home to continue your investigations. The course culminates in the creation of a teaching artist portfolio and visual journal.<\/p>\n

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Summer Studios offers an unforgettable, practice-rich experience where you can expand and renew your artistic practice, gain new strategies for the classroom and other instructional settings, and connect with a vibrant community of peers and instructors, all in the heart of Boston.<\/p>\n

2026 Summer Studios Details<\/a><\/p>\n

What Our Artists Say<\/a> | Sample Schedule<\/a> | Sample Course\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n
Descriptions<\/a> | How to Register<\/a><\/h5>\n

WHAT OUR ARTISTS SAY<\/h2>\n
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“Being in these intensive studio classes, we’ve been really able to dive into those different materials and methods. I definitely learned a lot of techniques where [faculty] do show us beyond just the art style, but how we could put it into our classroom, how to work with our students on it.”<\/p>\n

-Juliana Dennis (CFA’27), Online MA Art Education<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“A lot of times I feel like I am kind of following the same routine with what I’m teaching and both studio courses I took have inspired me to branch out a little bit and incorporate different media into my classroom.”<\/p>\n

-Madeline Wilk (CFA’25), Online MA Art Education\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Teaching printmaking is so methodical that I’m sort of guiding students from step A through to step Z, with a lot of ‘a-ha moments.’ Students may be getting a result that they weren’t necessarily expecting, but that happy accident in the print shop is usually an unexpected sort of step in a different direction that could take them even further.”<\/p>\n

-Erin Kerbert (CFA’17), Summer Studios instructor\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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More from participating students<\/h5>\n

“New content knowledge for Units with my students.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“TAKE this course! It really makes the whole program more meaningful.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m reconnected with my own personal artistic practices after a long hiatus.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Being present with other artists\/art educators and walking through the processes together. It really anchored my other coursework in making it more meaningful.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I felt that I grew as both an artist and an educator in this course!”<\/em><\/p>\n

“I learned about the world of puppetry and how this can be incorporated in the art room. Being allowed to play and explore with the different materials also gave me ideas on how I could approach adaptive arts and just general knowledge of how I could better utilize materials with students. I was happy to have had a chance to explore the technical mechanics of puppet making through lambe lambes. It really challenged me to be creative and innovative in a new way in thinking about STEAM based learning.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

SAMPLE SCHEDULE<\/h2>\n
Saturday (Day 1)<\/h5>
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