What exactly is CORE Arts?
CORE Arts is a two-week-long, intensive summer arts program where emerging artists can realize their dreams, unleash their imagination, and discover and explore their talents while choosing to stay on DSU’s campus or attend as a day-camper.
Who’s it for?
Ages 11-18 (rising 7th graders – graduating high school seniors).
What am I getting out of it?
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 promotes the creative abilities of young artists who wish to cultivate and enjoy their artistry.
What will I do there?
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: $1050, 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.
2024 CORE ARTS Camp (RESIDENTIAL)
Campers will stay on Delta State’s campus in the dorms in the residential option. Students will be dropped off on Sunday, June 16, and stay in our residence halls through the final day of camp, Friday, June 28, 2023.
In most cases, campers share a room with another camper. If you would like to discuss a single room, please contact Holly at 662-846-4844 or email hsenter@deltastate.edu. The residence halls are single-sex and secure, with BPAC providing a head counselor and the Resident Assistant who works for DSU’s Housing Department.
Cost: $1400, an all-inclusive fee that provides housing for two weeks, three 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: $1050 for the day camp or $1400 for the residential option. There is a non-refundable deposit of $250 due when you register. A limited number of need-based and merit-based scholarships are available. Please contact the BPAC Arts Education Office for more information, or you can fill out this scholarship form and email it to Holly Senter. All campers must be paid in full by JUNE 1st to attend unless prior arrangements have been made. Refunds will not be issued past JUNE 1, 2024. Please contact the Arts Education Office at the Bologna Performing Arts Center with any questions: hsenter@deltastate.edu or 662-846-4844
Location: BPAC, Wright Art Building, Zeigel Hall, HNA, Dining Hall, Student Union, Gym, Pool |
