Summer 2018 Applications must be submitted on or before February 28, 2018.
California State Summer School for the Arts provides the highest quality professional artistic training to the most deserving teenagers regardless of their economic situation. More than 30 percent of our students receive financial aid. CSSSA expects to equal or surpass that record in 2018. No student who has the drive and talent to succeed in ther application process will be denied admission, sollely on the basis of inability to pay.California students are charged a comprehensive fee of $1,850 to cover room, board and tuition for the four-week 2018 summer session at Cal Arts in Valencia.
CSSSA is also able to help some of its students with college aid through the distribution of Herb Alpert Scholarships for Emerging Young Artists. An agreement between CSSSA and the Herb Alpert Foundation, which has committed $1.6 million in funds for this project, means that 21 students each year are designated Scholarship recipients. The Scholarships are awarded every summer to three students in each of seven categories: Animation, Film, Writing, Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. In 2018 in each category, one outstanding student will receive $40,000 to be awarded over the course of four years, and two students will receive single-year awards of $2,500.
Applications to CSSSA for the summer 2018 program are submitted online and are due on or before February 28, 2018 by 6:00pm PST. To learn more about CSSSA or to apply online, visit www.csssa.ca.gov, or contact the Sacramento headquarters at comments@csssa.org or
(916) 229-5160.
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This is not a program of the Ventura County Arts Council
but we strongly urge teen artists, writers, musicians, and performers to consider
this opportunity