Summer Programs

Each summer, in addition to continued private music study, hundreds of Community School of the Arts students participate in CSA-sponsored Summer School of the Arts workshops, Group Classes, and Summer Events. These provide a concentrated experience where students learn, bond, and form new ideas and interests. Don’t miss out on CSA’s lively summer programming schedule.

Private Music Lessons Private lessons are offered on all instruments and voice. We welcome beginners, intermediate, and advanced students of all ages.

Explore the Arts
Through two different hands-on workshops, designed for the needs and interests different age groups, students will make beautiful and exciting, interactive art objects and discover their unique artistic talents and creativity. Students will design and create their own puppets, pottery, paintings, drawings, outdoor creations, and much more. And, as always, new inventive projects appropriate for CSA veterans and novices alike.

Weekly Arts Workshops Pottery, jewelry, drawing and painting, and puppet acting workshops for older students and teens, designed to excite students and challenge their creativity.

Visual Arts Classes (for Children, Families and Adults) This summer is a pottery class for children and families, along with a summer pottery class for adults, as well as private and semi-private pottery lessons offered for teens and adults.

Week of Jazz Don’t miss this opportunity to stretch your technique and musical knowledge! This workshop, for students entering grades 8-12, will include interactive performances by professional musicians, workshops and classes on performance skills and more.

Puppet Acting Workshop Students entering grades
5-11 will script and cast themselves and giant puppets in a dynamic performance for family and friends.

Early Childhood Music is a multiple arts curriculum for young children from 18 months to 5 years old, and is a wonderful way to introduce music to young children.

SCIENCE in the morning, ARTS in the afternoon!  Spend the whole day at UCONN this summer! CSA Summer School of the Arts offers some programs coordinated with the morning programs offered by UConn's Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST) program. Shuttle buses will pick up KAST participants at the end of the morning science activities and transport them to CSA's home at the Depot Campus 5 minutes away.
For KAST details, visit the website at www.KAST.uconn.edu.