Join us for an exploration of the Arts & Humanities at Yale!
Application deadline extended to April 4! Apply today!
Join the Yale community this summer to make and study art, history, and culture! Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities Summer Scholars Program is a free, two-week academic program for New Haven and West Haven public high school students. In Yale’s special collections, museums, and School of Art, you’ll come face to face with historical documents, art from around the world, and new inspiration for your own creativity. Yale faculty and graduate students will offer workshops on a variety of topics, including graphic design, sculpture, photography, race & citizenship, painting, ancient languages, and more. You can see the 2023 closing ceremonies video here.
Program Eligibility
- Open to current 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students from New Haven, West Haven, or Orange (Amity) Public School
Application Information
- Complete online applicationby (new date!) April 4, 2024: onha.yale.edu/PWAHsummer
- As part of the application, you will need TWO teacher recommendations. The link you send to your teacher is: onha.yale.edu/ArtTeachRec
Program Dates
Student Orientation Day- TBD
Workshop Dates: Mon-Friday, July 22 to August 2
*Students must commit to all days of the program
Example of daily schedule:
9:00am - 9:30am Advisory Time
9:30am - 11:00am Morning Workshop: Graphic Design
11:00am - 12:30pm Enrichment: CCAM Blended Reality Tour
12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch: Franklin Dining Hall
2:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Workshop: Art & Protest in the Beinecke Archives
3:30pm - 3:45pm Recap, Snack, and Dismissal
Example of Workshop Options (accepted students will take 4 workshops)
British Comic Art: Exploring Storytelling | Yale Center for British Art
Explore the unique visual medium of comics throughout history! Focusing on autobiographical comics and zine-making, students will draw self-portraits, create small handmade books, and publish a final two-page comic story. This is not a superhero or manga comic workshop. We will learn how the comic format can help us tell our own meaningful stories.
Close-Looking with Museum Objects | Yale University Art Gallery
Join us at the Yale University Art Gallery this summer for this workshop which begins by “close looking” at a selection of rare museum objects from around the world and across time. Then, channel your own creativity through various mediums, materials, cultures, and perspectives. The practice of looking at, discussing, and making art will engage both students who are artists and art lovers.
Designing the Everyday | Yale School of Art
Every day we encounter people and objects that inspire us, which we can recall and reconstruct in our art. Through creative sketching, poetic writing, and zine design, students will tell everyday stories through graphic design. Students are encouraged to express their own unique interests and everyday stories through guided instruction and peer collaboration. No prior knowledge of drawing, creative writing, or printing is required.
Hold Still! - Storytelling with Digital Photography | Yale School of Art
Come compose, capture, and compile photographs into a cohesive digital project! Students will learn professional photographic techniques and develop a new way of seeing and describing the world around them. By conceptualizing a photo project with text, students will also sharpen their writing skills. Additional activities will include trips to local museums and photography collections. No experience with photography required.
Introduction to Sculptural Papermaking | School of Art
This workshop will introduce students to the 3-dimensional qualities of paper. In an increasingly digital world, this class will expand students’ undestanding of the material world through hands-on learning. Painting and Printing graduate students at the Yale School of Art will help you create your own works of art by making molds for casting and packing paper onto surfaces.
Mapping Your History (Fun with Maps!) | The Beinecke
Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps. With these innovative navigational systems, one might wonder if tangible maps still have a purpose. In fact, the older the map the richer the history! In this workshop, you will be learning about the rich culture of New Haven and its people through decades of maps and relative primary sources. From the earliest surviving map of New Haven in 1748 to current New Haven maps, you will be dissecting one small area in New Haven, exploring the evolution of that area and creating a map of your own that tells a meaningful story.
Race & Citizenship in Jim Crow US and Nazi Germany | The Fortunoff Archive
This workshop focuses on examining how oral histories are collected and what they can and cannot tell us about the past. How can we use oral histories and personal testimonies to study two different historical racial regimes? What can we learn from comparing them? Through oral histories, students will explore how ideas about race in the Jim Crow United States and Nazi Germany in the 1930s were used to limit and deny the citizenship rights of Black Americans and German Jews. The key materials for this workshop come from Yale’s Fortunoff Archive of Holocaust Testimonies.
Making Music with my Feet: Rhythm Tap Dance and its Histories | Department of Music
Join us for an introduction to rhythm tap dance, a percussive vernacular art form pioneered by Black Americans. Students will learn about tap’s rich history (including how tap intertwines with the historical development of jazz and the American stage and screen, and how tap’s current thriving pop, hip-hop, and jazz scenes emerged) and will use their feet to express themselves musically through beats and melodies. Tap shoes will be given to students and no dance experience is required.
More workshops to come!