{"id":2365,"date":"2022-06-30T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?page_id=2365"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:21:32","slug":"vasi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/vasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts Summer Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>June 29th, 2026 &#8211; July 24th, 2026<\/h3>\n<div class=\"pink bu-callout aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>VASI 2026 will be a day program only with no residential options. Students must be able to commute to campus Monday through Friday to participate. No housing will be provided.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"green bu-callout aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<h5>\u201cVASI exceeded my expectations\u2026<\/h5>\n<p>&#8230;both the activities and the classes helped me grow as an artist and a person. Most of my current portfolio comes from VASI. I honestly don\u2019t know what I would\u2019ve done without that previous work! I was awarded Merit Scholarships at three different art schools when I applied, and I owe most of it to VASI and my summer at BU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Recent VASI alum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<h3>About VASI<\/h3>\n<p>The Boston University School of Visual Arts\u2019 Summer Institute offers high school students (ages 15\u201318) an intensive visual arts program designed to help them build exceptional portfolios and get a taste of the collegiate art school classroom experience. Whether preparing portfolios for college admission or simply working to improve technical abilities, students are introduced to materials and methods used in professional artistic practice.<\/p>\n<p>Students earn three college credits at the program\u2019s completion, and leave the program with work ready to be included in their portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>VASI takes place at Boston University College of Fine Arts, located on the Charles River Campus.\u00a0 The VASI faculty consists of faculty members and alumni of the School of Visual Arts who are committed artists and exceptional teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29th, 2026 &#8211; July 24th, 2026 About VASI The Boston University School of Visual Arts\u2019 Summer Institute offers high school students (ages 15\u201318) an intensive visual arts program designed to help them build exceptional portfolios and get a taste of the collegiate art school classroom experience. Whether preparing portfolios for college admission or simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14125,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126874,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2365\/revisions\/126874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}