Program Overview

Arts Intensive Program Overview

The Arts Intensive program offers students the opportunity to focus on a single, project-based arts class with campus faculty and guest artists. This program provides a unique chance for students to create in small class sizes outside of the pressures of the regular academic year, fostering an atmosphere of intense artistic exploration, collaboration, and innovation.

Program Features

• Access Your Creativity
• Who Participates?
• What to Expect During the Program
• Field Trips and Other Activities
• Campus Resources

Eligibility

All returning undergraduates are eligible to apply.

Applying to Arts Intensive

Courses are enrolled by application.

Accessible and Affordable

Need-based support is available.

Arts Intensive Courses

About AI Courses

The Arts Intensive program includes a variety of courses, such as:

• Bay Area x Los Angeles Arts Immersion
• Design for Silver and Bronze
• Drawing
• Immersive Music Production
• Key-Notes: A Piano and Voice Exploration
• Narrative Filmmaking: From Script to Screen
• Poetry and the Imagination: A Writing Workshop
• Theatre of the People

Past Arts Intensive Courses

Previous courses have included:

• Art & Science of Sound
• Bay Area Arts Immersion
• Circa's Leviathan: Art of Circus Movement
• Creative Writing: The Magic of Baseball in Film & Fiction
• Drawing Marathon at the New York Studio School in NYC
• Fiction Writing
• Filmmaking
• From the Bay to LA: West Coast Art Now
• Immersive Cinema
• Intro to Visual Writing
• Locating the Self: The Poetics and Politics of Identity
• Musical Theater
• Public Art Practice: Site-Specific Mural Installation in San Francisco
• Public Art Practice: Site Specific Installation
• ReVIVAL: A Site-Specific, Multimedia Dance Theater Production
• Scene in Action: Dance, Fashion and Visual Art as Performance
• Sculpture and the Expanded Field
• The Expressive Vessel: An Immersive Introduction to Clay
• Wild Sound Explorers: Digital Storytelling at Jasper Ridge

Program Dates

The program dates for 2026 are Sunday, August 30 - Friday, September 18.

Testimonial

"Arts Intensive was valuable to me because it was outside of the regular school year. I had time to focus solely on my creative work without the pressure of other classes."