Teen Summer Arts, Creative Writing and ESOL programs

for high school students (ages 14 to 17)

on a beautiful hilltop farm in Southern Vermont

NEW in 2009! Farm Program

Arts workshops:

Visual Arts - animation, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, glass arts, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video art, wearable arts, weaving

Performing Arts - theater, modern dance, audio art, chamber music, music composition, songwriting, vocal ensemble

Students work with professional artists, dancers, actors and musicians in intensive workshops and studios.

Creative Writing workshops:

Fiction Writing, Poetry Writing, Playwriting, Writing Intensive

Creative writing students work with authors to create, critique and publish poems, short stories and plays.

English language classes  (ESOL) and cultural learning for non-native speakers. International students learn to speak, read and write English in accelerated classes and cultural field trips.

Farm Program

Learn sustainable agriculture on The Putney School's working farm, with a dairy herd, small animals (pigs, sheep, turkeys, chickens), vegetable gardens plus horsemanship.