Department of Art
Summer Visual Art Academy is an intensive visual arts program for students from grades 6–12. Our faculty of professional Alaskan visual artists will teach classes in Cartooning, Ceramics, Craft of Sewing, Digital Design, Drawing and Design, Metalsmithing, Painting/Mixed Media, Photography, and Printmaking.
Costs are $650.00 for full time students (students take four classes per day) or $375.00 for half-time students (students take two classes per day). Each class is 105 minutes long, five days a week (Monday - Friday) for two weeks.
Classes begin at 8:30 am and are over at 4:30 pm. Students will select their preferred areas of interest and will be assigned to classes prior to the beginning of the academy.
Students who wish to focus more time in any area (i.e., metalsmithing) may request full mornings or afternoons in that area. Beginning and advanced levels will be offered for each course. Register early for best selection of classes.
Visual Art Academy will be held June 5-16, 2023. We are asking faculty, staff and students to stay home if they are sick or if they have been exposed to a person who has tested positive for Covid-19.
Please direct any questions you have regarding the program to: uaf-vaa@alaska.edu
If your child attended VAA last year, you will be sent a registration link when it opens. Otherwise, please check back here in April for a new registration link.
If your child attended VAA in the past a profile already exists. All you need to do is update that information. Otherwise, please follow the process for registration as follows:
IMPORTANT: The VAA questionnaire under the Health Profile contains the class preferences, which are needed to schedule students for their classes. PLEASE fill that out ASAP.
All information in that section needs to be filled out as well.
