Back by popular demand, the 2025 UGA Summer Art Camp has grown from a four-day intensive camp to 9 art classes in partnership with the Summer Academy at the University of Georgia spread across 6 weeks in June and July. Lamar Dodd School of Art faculty and graduate students will teach jewelry and metals, printmaking, painting, and photography. Take your pick! We are delighted to offer day camp and overnight residential options.

 

Photo of student in jewelry studios at Thomas Street Art Complex. Photo courtesy of Sidney Chansamone.

Student in jewelry studios at Thomas Street Art Complex. Photo courtesy of Sidney Chansamone.

 

Are you a high school student eager to elevate your arts practice? Study under acclaimed faculty and graduate students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA. You have the option to delve into four different media practices (painting, printmaking, photography, and jewelry and metalwork) in 9 different week-long camps from June 2 through July 18 (excluding the week of the July 4 Independence Day holiday).

The UGA Summer Art Camp offers an exclusive opportunity to grow as an artist with access to state of the art facilities within a beautiful university campus in Athens, Georgia. Launched over the summer of 2024 with 70 participating campers from across the region, our campers enjoy instruction by UGA art faculty in fully-equipped studios, proximity to the Georgia Museum of Art and the UGA Art Library, lunches at the university's Village Summit Dining Commons, and building new connections with passionate art students in Georgia.

 

UGA Summer Art Camp photo, 2024. Photo courtesy of Sidney Chansamone.

Students showing work in the Dodd Galleries for the inaugural 2024 UGA Summer Art Camp. Photo courtesy of Sidney Chansamone.
 

The 2025 UGA Summer Art Camp, hosted in partnership with the Summer Academy at the University of Georgia, promises to be an exciting expansion of our program, including a new overnight residential option. Take your pick of 9 week-long courses in four different media. Find details here.

All skill levels and arts backgrounds are welcome to participate in our camp! Campers must be age 14-17.

Questions? Send an email to camp director Jon Swindler (Professor of Printmaking) at SummerArtCamp@uga.edu to find out more and to keep up with UGA Summer Art Camp news.

Learn more here.