• Explore your creative potential

  • Experience the arts this summer

  • Earn college credit while advancing your skills in an area of study

  • Scholarship opportunities available

Explore Your Creative Potential
Transform Your Future

This summer, UCLA Arts offers five Summer Institutes for motivated high school students and one Summer Institute for current university students and professionals.

UCLA Arts’ Summer Institutes allow students to earn college credit while advancing their academic careers and abilities in an area of study.

2025 Precollege Summer Institutes

  • Hone your artistic skills in areas such as painting, drawing, photography, video art, sculpture, or artistic voice. Sessions include studio work, lectures, presentations, and a final art exhibition.

Virtual
June 23 – July 5

Residential (Mandatory Housing)
July 6 – July 19

Commuter
July 21 – August 1

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  • Step into the world of media arts and learn the fundamentals of design within the mediums of graphic, web, game, and audio-visual media. Develop projects and build portfolios using cutting-edge software and technology.

Residential (Mandatory Housing)
July 6 – July 19

Virtual
July 21 – August 1

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  • Create games and game art that express a personal artistic vision through technological expertise. Learn the foundations of game aesthetics, context, and genres in the game development process.

Virtual
July 7 – July 18

Residential (Mandatory Housing)
July 20 – August 2

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  • Express your creativity and explore the relationship between art and software and coding through either the Art & Code or Art & AI learning track.

Commuter
July 7 – July 18
July 21 – August 1

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  • Experience the field of architecture through hands-on design projects, landmark buildings, and LA based architectural offices. Develop your design skills in a studio environment while creating an architecture portfolio.

Residential (Mandatory Housing)
June 29 – July 19

Commuter
June 30- July 18

Virtual
June 30 – July 18

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College/Professional Summer Institutes

  • Explore design and 3D modeling in this immersive four-week program offering students a foundation in architecture.

Commuter
June 23 – July 18

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The UCLA Arts Difference

  • Unmatched Breadth

    From contemporary studio practice to transformative design and cutting-edge AI art—find your passion across the full creative spectrum. Five distinct programs give you choice.

  • Contemporary & Boundary-Pushing

    At UCLA Arts, ideas start with questions. Our programs prepare you for the future of creative practice—whether that's studio art, architecture, game design, or practices that leverage cutting-edge creative technology.

  • Research University Advantage

    UCLA Arts Summer Programs offer resources that only a leading research university can provide. State of the art facilities. World-class museums on campus. Academic rigor that enhances creative exploration.

  • LA Creative Ecosystem

    Whether you're local or coming from afar, UCLA Arts location in LA's dynamic creative ecosystem—where entertainment, technology, architecture, and global arts communities intersect—shapes every program.