Janice Wyatt Mississippi Summer Arts Institute CORE Arts Camp

Each day, campers will receive wide-ranging and intensive instruction from experienced teaching artists in a variety of art forms including dance, literary arts, music, theatre, and visual arts. Campers customize their schedule by choosing their own course of study in a five-period-per-day format. Courses offer a tremendous opportunity for individual instruction, with a teacher-student ratio of approximately 1:12. Core Arts exists to promote the creative abilities of young artists, teach valuable and marketable skills to a future workforce and introduce Delta State facilities to middle and high school students.

Campers fill out surveys so that we know what types of courses to schedule for upcoming summers, but we also take into account that new and emerging artistic disciplines like comic book drawing and digital arts are especially popular with our young artists. Courses we have held in the past include dramatic improvisation, scene and character study, musical theatre, hip-hop dance, introduction to Photoshop, mixed-media portraiture, painting with found materials, web-series development, and many more! Students will also partake in evening and weekend activities, which have previously included trips to Memphis to see Broadway performances in Memphis, professional baseball games in Jackson and Memphis, guided canoe trips along the Mississippi River, artist led tours of Peters Pottery and McCarty Pottery Studios, and a private tour of the Grammy MS Museum with Karaoke.

2023 CORE ARTS Day Camp (NON RESIDENTIAL)
Ages 11-18 (Rising 7th graders through graduating high school seniors)
Cost: $950, an all-inclusive fee that provides all art supplies, field trips and tickets for activities over the weekend, admission to GRAMMYMS Museum, breakfast and lunch daily, an MSAI t-shirt, water bottle and backpack.
2023 CORE ARTS Camp (RESIDENTIAL)

In the residential option campers will stay on Delta State’s campus in the dorms. Students will be dropped off Saturday, June 10 and stay in our residence halls through the final day of camp, Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
Campers may choose to stay in an individual room or to share a room with another camper. The residence halls are single-sex and secure, with BPAC providing a head counselor in addition to the Resident Assistant who works for DSU’s Housing Department.
Cost: $1250, an all inclusive fee that provides housing for 2 weeks, 3 meals a day, all art supplies, admission and tickets for all weekend activities and field trips, breakfast, lunch and dinner in the DSU Cafeteria for the duration of their stay, an MSAI t-shirt, water bottle and backpack
Tuition and Fees
Cost: $950 for the day camp or $1250 for the residential option. There is a non-refundable deposit of $150 due when you register. Both need-based and merit based scholarships are available, please contact the BPAC Arts Education Office for more information. Please contact the Arts Education Office at the Bologna Performing Arts Center with any questions: hsenter@deltastate.edu or 662-846-4844