Date & Time: February 24 – May 11 10:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Garden City Campus

Adelphi University’s 10-week art intensive, For the Love of Art, gives high school students the opportunity to improve and fine-tune their artistic craft.

Discover and Explore Your Passion

Adelphi faculty members will help mold artistic minds as students participate in one of our 10-week-long Art Foundation and Graphic Design art intensives. Each session offers three hours of studio time each week during which they will focus on either drawing or graphic design. The conclusion of each intensive is marked by an exhibit featuring student work.

For the Love of Art spring intensives are open to high school sophomores and juniors. Senior nominations may be approved on a limited basis if space permits.

Classes will be held on our Garden City campus. 

Art Foundations

An intensive in drawing the human form, taught by accomplished figurative artists, graduates of the academic tradition taught at the New York Academy of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Adelphi University, offers high school juniors and seniors a chance to expand their skills while building their portfolios.

Graphic Design

Students will use state-of-the-art digital applications to dive into the exciting world of Graphic Design; creating posters, logos, designs and promotional materials for a variety of uses. The intensive will introduce students to the wide world of visual communication and the broad uses of Graphic Design in the contemporary world.

This event is part of the Annual High School Special Event Series . Learn more about Adelphi’s Department of Art and Art History

View work from the Fall 2021 Graphic Design intensive program

Spring 2024 Schedule

Registration Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024

Art Foundations

  • Saturday Morning Sessions are 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET.
  • Saturday Afternoon Sessions are 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET 

Graphic Design

  • Saturday Morning Sessions are 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET

Classes will be held every Saturday from February 24 through May 11 (no classes on March 30 and April 27)

Nomination Process

Students must be nominated by their teachers in order to participate in the program. Space fills up quickly.

Please follow the directions below to nominate a student for For the Love of Art:

  1. To nominate a student for the Art Foundations and the Graphic Design Program, submit the Online Nomination Form. 
    Art Foundation Nomination Form
    Graphic Design Program Nomination Form
  2. Once we have received the completed nomination form and the student’s spot has been confirmed, students will receive an email informing them of their nomination and explaining the next steps. Nominators will be copied on a confirmation correspondence.
  3. All confirmed participants must have the Parental Consent Form signed by a parent or legal guardian. Forms will be sent via email to students and their nominators.

In order to accommodate as many schools as possible, we will accept up to two nominations for Art Foundations and an additional two nominations for Graphic Design for a total of four nominations per school.

For more information on the Discover and Explore Event Series, please contact infoevents@adelphi.edu or call 516.877.3690.

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