Putney Summer Arts offers unique summer workshops for teens, welcoming a diverse community of students to live and create on our beautiful hillside campus in southern Vermont.

Workshops are designed for students at all levels of experience and focus on each student’s individual trajectory. Students select two workshops as their main focus, and each workshop meets for three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon.

Workshops include: Animation, Ceramics, Culinary, Dance, Farm, Fashion Design, Filmmaking, Graphic Novels & Illustration, Life Drawing, Metal Jewelry, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Songwriting, Storytelling, Theatre, Weaving, and Writing.

Alongside workshops, we have a substantial residential program which includes trips off campus to visit museums, farm work, fruit picking, trip to town and an outback camping trip. Each evening, students also have the opportunity to join additional arts workshops as well as attend our picnic, camp dance and activities days.

Since 1987, The Putney School Summer Arts has provided students with the space, time, and opportunity to focus on furthering their artistic practice and learning. Summer Arts is a community of young artists, arts educators, and professionals who believe teens can be their truest selves through the making of art in an environment where learning collaboratively and taking risks is celebrated.