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Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing

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“ Well worth the money invested to release the creativity that had been bottled up for so many years! ” in 6 reviews

“ She is consistent about using positive reinforcement and has lots of enjoyable ways to inspire imagination . ” in 5 reviews

“ Yesterday I completed a 1-day session on memoir with Ripe Fruit School, having taken the 1-day Writing Faith (intro) class a few months before. ” in 3 reviews

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My creative writing students range in age from 25 - 75. Most are 35-55 but everyone is welcome, men & women. For the first two classes in the series, no experience is required. Some students come who are in transition in their careers or lives, or have retired. Others are ambitious with books inside them and want to know how to begin. Some are published, most are not. They are all here to develop their writing voice, find new confidence, and gain competence with the craft. CURRENTLY ON ZOOM. WE HAVE STUDENTS IN AND OUT OF STATE.

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Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing

Established 1991.

Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing offers a progressive, step-by-step series of writing workshops and classes for beginning and emerging writers in an intimate and safe environment in Noe Valley in the San Francisco/Bay Area.

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Ripe Fruit Winter Session starts early February!! Check the website for on-going classes & one-day intensive workshops!! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/

San Francisco Writing School- Creative Writing, Courses, Classes, Workshops , Retreats in Bay Area, and Sonoma "Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing is a unique creative writing program in the San Francisco Bay Area committed to the development of writers at all levels. Ripe Fruit Writing is a greenhouse of the imagination providing support, encouragement, and stimulation to professional and aspiring writer...

My story, "The Tasmanians," just won first place in the fiction contest at Arts & Letters. It will be published in the fall. Here's the announcement: http://artsandletters.gcsu.edu/announcing-19th-annual-arts-letters-prize-winners/

Announcing 19th Annual Arts & Letters Prize Winners - Arts and Letters Congratulations to the winners of our 19th Annual Arts & Letters Prizes. Winners in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction receive $1000 and publication in the upcoming Fall issue of Arts … read more

Get SF Inspiration Early Bird tickets through 12/4!!

Hey writers!! Start out the new year with a weekend immersing yourself in our contemporary literary world! The reliably helpful Poets & Writers Magazine is sponsoring this event here in San Francisco. I plan to be there. How about you? http://www.pw.org/live/events/San_Francisco_Inspiration_2017

San Francisco: Inspiration | Poets and Writers Join us at the San Francisco Art Institute for two days of sound advice, practical information, and inspiration! We’ve put together a celebration of creativity that includes readings, lectures, multimedia presentations, panel discussions, and workshops exploring the literary imagination, innovation…

Napa Writer's Conference was once again an amazing experience back in July. Now it's November! I've started applying to writing residencies in order to find the extended solace I need to finish my short fiction collection. I applied to PLAYA in Oregon and got in! I will be there for two weeks in late January. Beautiful and remote. http://www.playasummerlake.org/

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Good news!! I will be working with Yiyun Li ("A Thousand Years of Good Prayers", "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl"), internationally renowned short fiction writer, at the Napa Valley Writer's Conference in July. I will be workshopping "The Tasmanains." NOTE: The conference offers readings by their awesome faculty, which are open to the public and redolent with local wines. Come on up!! http://www.napawritersconference.org

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I plan to spend the entire weekend at the Bay Area Book Festival. If you can't find something that fascinates you there, you might want to check your pulse!! The calibre of the offerings as well as the breadth & depth of content options are amazing!! SEE YOU THERE!!! http://www.baybookfest.org

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I'm heading to the annual AWP conference tomorrow – the Associated Writing Programs conference – in LA this year. I'll be connecting with my new editor and publishing contacts, going to amazing readings and stimulating panels, and seeing lots of writer friends from around the country. Check out the phenomenal number of panel choices and exhibitors!! Gives you hope that there is a thriving literary world and thousands of people who are still reading books!!! https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference

AWP: Conference Each year, more than 12,000 writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers join our community for four days of insightful dialogue and networking.

SUMMER WRITING CAMPS FOR TEENS!!! Last summer these camps all had a waiting list! And the camp won the Best Teen-Focussed Summer Camp award from Parent's Press! Pass the word along to your young people, 11-14 years-old. Thanks!! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/teen-writing-workshops

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG!! Ripe Fruit is offering our Soulfood Memoir Writing class during our spring session starting April 21, as well as the following one-day intensive writing workshops: The Writing Faith on Saturdays, April 16 & June11, and Soulfood Memoir on Saturday, May 14. Come join us or pass the word along! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/soulfood-memoir-writing/

Soulfood Memoir Writing

RIPE FRUIT WRITING starts our winter session in just three weeks. We will start with our introductory one-day hands-on creative writing workshop, THE WRITING FAITH, on Saturday, January 23. This workshop is the best way for people to cross the threshold into the one and only Greenhouse of the Imagination!! HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/the-writing-faith

The Writing Faith

I just called to get some obscure films as research for my current writing project and discovered that Le Video (my savior for such things) just closed!! I mourn the end of direct engagement in making cultural choices in person in a great video store or a fabulous used bookstore. Here is a powerful article about what this means for our culture. http://www.vox.com/2015/11/20/9757186/netflix-video-rental-store

I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died. We tried to comfort them, explaining how our owner had ensured that our collection would soon be available at the public library — for free, even! It didn't help much. Almost to a man they had the same reply: "But you won't be there to help us."

Good news on the writing front! I was accepted to the Tin House Winter Workshop. I will be working with Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum in a small hotel on the coast of Oregon in late January. I was also accepted for a mentorship there, which means Meg Storey, an editor at Tin House Books, will be reading and assessing the entire manuscript of my first short fiction collection!! This brings me one giant step closer to completion!! http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/29283/the-tin-house-winter-writers-workshop.html

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Current and past students of Ripe Fruit have been reporting some successes of late. Rachel Katz will have a short essay published in The Sun and Paige Patterson Duff was just accepted to the top-notch Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program! Lauren Alwan, who has taught for Ripe Fruit, just won the first prize in fiction at the Bellevue Literary Review!! http://blr.med.nyu.edu Keep me posted about your publications and awards!!

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The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead With readers on a reverse migration to print, the “e-book terror has kind of subsided” for bookstores and publishers.

Ripe Fruit Teen Camps were so popular this summer, that I have decided to offer a weekly after-school program in creative writing for teens!! Imaginative writing is almost never taught in the schools and, if so, not by a professional writer. If you know a young teen 11-15, let them know!! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/teen-writing-workshops

Teen Writing Workshop & Summer Camp | San Francisco | Bay Area Teen Writing Workshop & Summer Camp in San Francisco, Bay Area presented by Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing by Master Teacher and Award Winning Author Leslie Campbell

Ripe Fruit Writing starts up our fall session on October 22. Our foundational course: Ripe Fruit 1: The Art of Languaging sets any writer, new or emerging, on the Ripe Fruit Path of Growth. What students gain is life-changing. Tell your friends! Sign up now! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/

Classes Whether you are a seasoned writer, a sprout, or a fertile seed, the greenhouse of the imagination will provide you the loam, the essential nutrients, the savvy shaft of light. Here, you put down your roots and grow. You grow as you alone must, connected to your passion for life and for language. You…

Back from the ivy league of writer's conferences: Bread Loaf. Dining with faculty and fellows, many brilliant and almighty, or simply fired up by sweet-spot combo of heart and innate literary prowess. Loved dancing until midnight, laughing with Poet & Guggenheim Director Ed Hirsch, and looking into the intelligent blue eyes of Charles Baxter. I most valued intimate meetings with key editors of lit mags and pub houses. Writing conferences both bolster and galvanize any writer with ambition. Check out Graywolf's Fiona Mc Crae. https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/pub-talk-interviews-literati

Pub Talk: Interviews with Literati | Graywolf Press Before a book can win an award, it needs to be discovered, nourished, designed, championed, pitched, and loved by readers like you. Your support allows us to invest in the next voice waiting to be heard.

I'm off to the Bread Loaf Summer Writer's Conference tomorrow!! I'll be in a workshop led by Randall Kenan and will be speaking with editors of Graywolf, Little Brown, Random House, as well as hanging out with editors of top lit journals in verdant Vermont!! My goal is to complete my first collection of short fiction by 12-31-15!! http://www.middlebury.edu/bread-loaf-conferences/bl_writers

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Ripe Fruit's Summer Writing Camps for young teens were a great success!! We had waiting lists and had to add a session. These 11-14 year olds are smart, energetic, fun, and concerned about the future of our planet. It was an inspiration and a pleasure to facilitate the writing lives of 42 girls and boys!!

I just experienced a fabulous and intimate week in Southern Indiana at a writing workshop with Stuart Dybek. Fireflies, swamps, humidity, chiggers, regional writing, and a brilliant & diverse team of faculty and fellows. Check out New Harmony, Indiana! Here is our fiction group and Dybek giving a reading.

My two students who met in a Ripe Fruit writing class just got married! I went to the wedding in a wonderful old world place in the town of Sonoma! Congrats to Lisa & Stefan!

RIPE FRUIT's Creative Writing Summer Camps for Young Teens are filling fast. Do you know a 5th-8th grader who is utterly jazzed by words or who needs a spike in confidence? Here's the link: http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/teen-writing-workshops

Come to the amazingly wide net of the Bay Area Book Festival this weekend in downtown Berkeley!! My guide and friend Jim Shepard will be there Sunday at 1pm to discuss his new novel with Daniel Handler. Something for the whole mishpocha!! http://www.baybookfest.org

Two pieces of good writing news!! I received a scholarship to the New Harmony Writer's Workshop in Indiana this June and will be working with the famed Chicago short fiction writer, Stuart Dybek. And, I have just been accepted to the very competitive Bread Loaf Writer's Conference (25% acceptance rate) at Middlebury College in Vermont in August. http://www.middlebury.edu/bread-loaf-conferences/bl_writers I look forward to workshopping my stories in great company!!

I would like to announce the publication of a new book by a student of mine, Colette Lafia. The book is titled: "Seeking Surrender: How My Friendship with a Trappist Monk Taught Me to Trust and Embrace Life." I helped edit this book and know first hand how caring, gentle, and inspiring its stories are. http://www.colettelafia.com

Home - Colette Lafia Welcome home… to your sacred self. It can be hard to hear the still small voice within when so much is calling for our attention—work, family, health issues, bills, emails, and what’s in the news. We know, deep inside, that our everyday lives are, in fact, our spiritual lives. Yet, we still long for…

A student of mine turned us all on to this two-minute video from Ira Glass (This American Life). The distance between what we want to create and what we actually create and what it takes to close the gap. (Hint: mettle) https://vimeo.com/24715531

Ira Glass on Storytelling UPDATE: Thanks for all your kind words guys! It's quite overwhelming to see this shared and retweeted all over! All sins typographic in nature have been amended,…

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT FOR WRITERS!! (next year it will be in Chicago so Bay Area, now is the time to take advantage of this opportunity) I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS EVENT!! http://www.pw.org/live/events/san_francisco_inspiration

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RIPE FRUIT WRITING is offering our foundational creative writing class starting January 25. Choose a morning or an evening class. Step onto Ripe Fruit Writing's tried and true "Path of Growth" and before you know it, you'll be a confident, competent writer: an innovator!! a creator of culture!! http://www.ripefruitwriting.com/classes/ripe-fruit-1

Ripe Fruit 1 This class culminates with a celebration and reading of your work, a deeply satisfying evening of warmth, quality, surprise and completion.

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Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing is a unique creative writing program in the San Francisco Bay Area committed to the development of writers at all levels. With its effective and innovative curriculum and master teaching, Ripe Fruit has provided encouragement, stimulation, and training to over 5000 professional and aspiring writers since 1991. Known as the greenhouse of the imagination, Ripe Fruit offers year-round courses in memoir, poetry, fiction, editing, and unleashing the writer within, as well as quarterly weekend writing retreats in the Sonoma wine country. Workshops take place in a comfortable, turn-of-the-century Victorian in San Francisco with easy transportation and parking. Each workshop brings together a community of 8-12 students. read more show less

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FOR: MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

SESSION I:  JULY 15– 19,  9am – 12:30 pm

SESSION I: JULY 15 – 19, 2:30 – 6pm

SESSION II: JULY 29 – AUG 2, 9am – 12:30 pm

SESSION III: AUGUST 5 – 9, 9am – 12:30 pm

SESSION IV: AUG 12 – 16, 9am – 12:30 pm

FOR: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

SESSION II:  JULY  29 – AUG 2, 2:30 – 6 PM

SESSION III: AUG 5 – 9,  2:30 – 6 pm

SESSION IV: AUG 12 – 16, 2:30 – 6 PM

• Easy drop off and pick up. Convenient public transportation.
• Comfortable non-institutional setting with good ventilation.
• Healthy snacks included.
• Beautiful out door garden space and decks to use during breaks.
• Hybrid camps include in-person and zoom option
• Experience working with a master creative writing teacher

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Your teenager may be a soft-spoken poet, a boisterous street painter or an amazing manga artist. But whatever their artistic style and no matter how advanced their skills, they can find a big canvas for exploring their creativity at the Bay Area’s many art and writing summer camps. Camps range from half-day classes in cozy storefronts to weeks-long institutes at local universities. Class topics are just as diverse. Writing camps range from flash fiction to journalism, while art camps run the gamut from impressionistic painting to digital art boot camp. Many offer camps for younger kids as well. While some of the teenage students at these camps already see themselves as artists, others are just beginning to discover their artistic side, camp leaders say. Most teens are so busy with college-entry tests, academics and athletics that they rarely have the chance to unfurl their creative wings; summer camp gives them time and license to do so. And while building technique is a goal of all the camps, also important is helping each teen discover his or her distinctive voice and style. “Every student is an artist, with unique vision, creative ideas and favorite themes,” says Maria Zhalnina, creative director of the Art School of San Francisco Bay, echoing other camp directors. “We support each creative individual, gently guide them through all steps of creative process. And we make sure that each camp’s theme allows creative freedom.”  But creativity for its own sake is only one of the benefits of arts education, camp leaders say. Forbes magazine recently listed creativity and writing skills as number two and four, respectively, of the top seven job skills desired by employers. If your teen has a heart for art, here is a sampling of the camps they can attend. Camps are listed in order from half-day programs to more intensive courses. WRITING CAMPS Ripe Fruit Teen Writing Camp Inspiring young writers to fall in love with the English language is a mission for Leslie Kirk Campbell, director of Ripe Fruit Teen Writing Camp in San Francisco. Kirk Campbell’s camp, held in a homey Edwardian, offers weeklong sessions on general creative writing in the morning for middle-school students and afternoon for high-school students. “She teaches that a word isn’t just a word,” says Alexa Crandall, 14, of San Francisco, who has attended three of Kirk Campbell’s camps. “It can show emotion and specific meaning. It can bring the reader into the light that the author wants to express.” Each day, Kirk Campbell leads her class through three or four fun and challenging writing exercises that are designed to get their creativity flowing. “We don’t jump into writing stories or essays without first falling in love with the language itself,” Kirk Campbell explains. The students might arrive to find something surprising on the front steps ‒ a variety of hats or shoes, large art books or strange objects, which will become part of a writing project that day. Another time, they might cut several phrases out of short stories and paste them together randomly to make unique poems. Each day, they make up new names for themselves, and while sitting in Ripe Fruit’s comfortable chairs, they come up with qualities of their new character to build their descriptive vocabulary and learn about character development. Kirk Campbell, who has won writing awards, also guides students through various elements of fiction ‒ theme, character, setting, conflict, perspective and voice. She becomes a mentor to her students by offering specific pointers. She tells them when she sees their writing grow and improve. “They can see that I’m excited by specific elements in their writing,” Kirk Campbell says. “They can see that I totally believe in them, which liberates them to be adventurous and free.” Alexa says the experience made her “more comfortable and confident in my writing. At school, I know I can get my point across.” “I am always blown away by what young people can write if you just give them freedom and permission to write from their hearts,” Kirk Campbell says. Weeklong, 3.5-hour classes are $295. See www.ripefruitwriting.com. Berkeley Teen Writing Camp Held on the iconic University of California, Berkeley campus, this camp features weeklong classes, both half- and full-day, for 9th- to 12th-graders on nine topics –  ranging from academic writing to sports writing. The instructors, all professionals in their topics, lead the students through the fundamentals of composition while also emphasizing the fun of it, says Katherine Suyeyasu, director of the UC Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP), which puts on the camp. There’s no sitting quietly and copying lines here; camp is active and engaging, no matter the topic. “In our Backpack Reporter camp, students might learn about investigative journalism techniques by conducting their own field interviews,” Suyeyasu says. “At another camp, such as Engage and Write, writers might wander the campus and write in place for inspiration. Writers in the Rebellious Writing camp might start their day with critically analyzing a current event to inspire their writing.” This last class is for opinionated risk-takers “who aren’t afraid to tell it like they see it,” the BAWP website says. To make all their students want to take risks and experiment in their writing, instructors focus on building a sense of community in each camp. That involves developing a supportive peer group and arranging a comfortable space to share their work. Famous writers don’t usually create stories on their own, Suyeyasu points out. “They are supported by a larger community of writers. Sharing writing allows writers to get feedback and new ideas.” For parents and students who are wondering if they want to spend their summer sharpening their writing skills, Suyeyasu offers, “Writing is important not only for college and career success, it is also a way for our voices to be heard. Whether you want to be a journalist, travel writer, musician, politician, activist… or veterinarian, writing is a powerful tool for communication and self-expression. Even famous athletes need to write their best-selling memoirs!” Half-day classes start at $320 per week, full-day classes at $580. A course titled “The Personal Statement: From Zero to Bang in Five Days” is held in Marin as well Berkeley. Learn more at bawpwritingcamp.org . San Jose Teen Writing Institute Teens who are ready to immerse themselves in the world of writing may want to consider downtown San Jose’s Teen Writing Institute. Open to 8 th – to 12 th -graders, the camp is 5 ½  hours a day for two weeks and takes place at San Jose State University. All instructors are published authors of young adult literature or are teacher consultants with the San Jose Area Writing Project, says Kate Flowers, the writing project’s associate director. One teacher, for example, is Hannah Jayne, an author of young adult novels including the Underworld Detective Agency series. All are experienced teachers who love working with teens. Meeting expert writers and hearing their advice had a noticeable impact on his writing, says Jacob Pustelnik,16, of San Jose  who attended last year’s institute. “I was able to learn how to write like ‘high level’ authors,” Jacob says. “I implemented new literary devices to emphasize specific sections within a writing piece.” This year, journalism and creative writing courses will be offered, as well as possibly screenplay writing, digital storytelling, academic writing, character building and world building, although the course topics aren’t finalized. Students typically choose one workshop to attend each week. While the instructors are free to structure the class to meet their goals, most of them incorporate writing games, time for sharing and excursions onto the SJSU campus, Flowers says. Teachers lead the projects, but the students often have the freedom to take them in the direction they want. For instance, in the screenwriting class last year, the students decided to write and perform a musical. “It was a huge hit, and came about organically as the class developed a silly idea into an amazing collaboration,” Flowers says. While it’s called an institute, the program starts later than school, and Flowers says it’s more relaxed and lighthearted as well. “Classes are small, and we get to know each other well,” Flowers says. “Amazing things happen to young writers who aren’t burdened with the pressures of grades or homework. Writers grow by trying out new things in an encouraging environment with supportive feedback from other skilled writers, and that is exactly what TWI campers get.”  The two-week institute is $500 before May 1 or $650 after. For information, see sjawp.org/ssp . ART CAMPS Museum of Children’s Arts (MOCHA) Youth Camp For teens whose artistic interests aren’t so much verbal as visual, the Museum of Children’s Arts (MOCHA) in Oakland offers half-day camps for 12- to 16-year-olds. The weeklong courses are in six different disciplines, including street painting, sculpture, comic art, natural arts, drawing and painting, with each taught by an expert craftsperson who aims to inspire the artist in their students. “At MOCHA we believe everyone is an artist,” Haldun Morgan, MOCHA’s marketing manager, says. “Each day will be a creative and productive experience for all involved.” That proves to be the case in the street painting class taught by Zachary Greer, whose art is displayed publicly in San Francisco, North Carolina and Texas. Greer’s students will experiment not only with acrylic paints, but with paint markers, pastels, clay, stencils and other materials that can be used in street art. They’ll start by creating a small sketch and expand it into a larger piece or mural, Greer says. And they’ll invent a name or street tag that they’ll use to sign their art. “I know many street artists, and some may come and talk to the kids,” Greer says. “We don’t get to paint on the street, but we will take a tour of street art downtown and we’ll look for the names and the styles.” Back in the colorful studios at MOCHA, students will check out the work of prolific street artists from around the world and practice some of their techniques and styles. A lesson on how to seek permission from property owners, get commissioned and not break the law is also on the schedule. At the end of each session, family and friends are invited to celebrate the week’s masterpieces. Any thought that art is just for girls is dispelled by classes like street painting. “Boys get into it, and girls really get into it as well,” Greer says. The camp is $200 per week. More information can be found at mocha.org/museum/youth-camp . Art School of San Francisco Bay With several locations and a large portfolio of camps, the Art School of San Francisco Bay has something to offer nearly any teenage art aficionado on the west side of the bay. Weeklong courses for teens include manga, advanced manga, comic art, stop motion animation and fan art and can be taken either in half- or full-day segments at studios in San Francisco, Mountain View and San Jose. A digital painting and drawing camp is held on summer Saturdays and a 3D-modeling camp on Sundays in Mountain View. Impressionist painting camps for kids up to age 14 are held in Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Francisco. One thing these camps have in common is their focus on technique-building, says Maria Zhalnina, the art school’s creative director. “Yes, the students have fun at the camp,” Zhalnina says. “Yes, they create artwork that will add to their portfolios. But most importantly, they bring home a whole new set of skills that helps them to improve their performance dramatically.” Some techniques they learn apply to many disciplines, such as methods for representing human anatomy or shadow and light, and others are specific to the course. In the manga class, for example, students learn the shoujo and shounen styles and practice with Copic markers. In impressionist landscape camp, students practice the impasto technique and learn about the effets de soir or impact of sunset and twilight. Though each camp follows a curriculum, teachers offer students room to experiment. Often, they literally move out into the wide-open space for inspiration. In Mountain View, campers visit the nearby Heritage Park. The Palo Alto impressionistic landscape camp meets at Foothill Park, while San Francisco campers spend time at the Botanical Garden and the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park, as well as in the school’s own backyard. Many of the teenagers, already excellent artists, end up teaching each other. Still, they benefit from receiving instruction from a teacher with a trained eye and a wide scope of experience, Zhalnina says. In one advanced manga camp, for instance, the students were particularly skilled, but they always drew one character at a time and never placed it in a context. “We decided to help them move their skills to the next level and make a comic page with a story, interesting composition, cool characters, etc.,” Zhalnina says. “The biggest challenge was to finish in time! The results were amazing.” Three-hour camp is $250 per week; 6.5-hour camp is $475. See www.artschoolsfbay.com . Stanford Summer Art Institute Teens who are so passionate about the arts that they’re thinking of making it their career can find the support and instruction they need at the Stanford Summer Art Institute. The institute offers high school students ages 14 to 17 a choice of one of six courses in music, photography, architecture, visual arts, product design or a mix of these, during three-week overnight sessions on the Stanford campus. The instructors come from the university’s art and academic community, and each one designs the course according to her or his distinctive style and expertise. Classes are small ‒ usually less than 15 students – and students participate hands-on , performing, composing and creating alongside peers who share their passion. Art students, for example, learn about product design, applying tools such as CAD, Photoshop and Illustrator to build new product prototypes . Architecture students observe scale and form while sketching structural plans on the Stanford campus. Photography pupils play with story, composition and light as they take field photos and refine them for a portfolio by the end of the session . The experience is intensive and inspiring, says Diana Sunshine, communications director for Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies. She adds that camp organizers often hear from students, “’It’s the most transformative experience I’ve ever had.’” “They learn a great amount of material in a short time,” she says. “They learn, ‘I can do a whole bunch of amazing things.'” Students not only gain confidence in their artistic and social skills, but they learn they’re capable of attending a school like Stanford. They also begin to see the arts as a viable career. “They usually hear a lot of, ‘You should never go into the arts. You’ll never make a living.'” Sunshine says. “We hear from them afterward that they believe they can …make a good living. An exact quote from a student is you ‘can go into the arts and be successful doing what you love.’ They’re jazzed!” Candidates must submit an application with artwork, written responses, test scores and teacher recommendations. The institute has a rolling deadline this spring until the program is full. The $6,000 fee includes field trips, housing, dining and supervision. Scholarships are available. Information on the art institute and nine other Stanford pre-collegiate summer institutes ranging from writing to bioscience can be found at spcs.stanford.edu .

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