Architecture
and Interior Design
For architecture and interior design, StY organizes pathways for you to combine the experimental design of spaces with practical projects. For students who want to engage artfully the creation of structures and spaces, you’ll have the ability to focus your drawing and 2D and 3D design skills on the places we live, work, and play in. Work in this challenging field expands your technical skills while you discover innovative approaches to problem solving for real-life projects.
Seize the Year (StY) focuses on advising and supporting students whose interests and activities are centered in the Arts. Working with students and their parents, we aim to develop a year-long pathway with a structured level of engagement for experimentation and growth.
Our years of experience in the field of arts education at the college level confirms that students in the visual arts are often experiential learners who absorb new information by creating something tangible. Many gifted and talented students working in the visual arts have not been adequately supported in their educational, co-curricular and social settings. This lack of support often impedes the development of skills necessary for future educational and career challenges.
The StY method fosters holistic arts experiences that produces significant positive results for one’s creative, academic and social development. These results include the time and space for portfolio development and refinement, building evidence of proficiency to compete for college scholarships and appropriate opportunities in the arts to discover an expanded community of like-minded students and professional mentors.
We work with emerging artists whose focus encompasses a wide range of artistic fields including painting, sculpture, design, photography, film video, and electronic-based work. StY facilitates an interdisciplinary approach now prevalent in contemporary art and design that combines different mediums.
We believe that, in a time of heightened intolerance and pressing threats to our core democratic values, it is vital to foster the imaginations of our young creative makers and thinkers.
