Summer Schools
Royal College of Art Summer School short courses take place from June to August.
Contemporary Art Summer School
22 July – 9 August 2024 (online)
“This course offers the unique opportunity to look at your practice differently. I want people to walk away with a new joy in their practice and a different way of looking at what they have been working on so far.”
Dr Despina Zacharopoulou, Short Course Leader
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Art and Design Portfolio Development
27, 28 & 29 June, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 July 2024 (online)
Fully booked - register your interest
“The portfolio as a practice is inherently multidisciplinary. As a self-authored publication, a portfolio translates a body of work through thoughtful art direction, critical writing and content curation.”
Richard Nash, Short Course Leader
Typography
4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25 & 28 June 2024 (online)
Complete - register your interest
“Typography is part science and part art. This course aims to acquaint you with the core principles of typography (the science) and inspire you to develop your powers of typographic expression (the art).”
Adrian Shaughnessy, Short Course Leader
Curating Contemporary Art and Design
8–19 July 2024 (online)
Fully booked - register your interest
“We provide a highly interactive environment in which participants develop their own curatorial practices and critical perspectives while building new networks and working collaboratively together.”
Linda Rocco, Short Course Convenor
The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling
Fully booked - register your interest
How we start a story can prove difficult but to make this possible we are offering you a starting point. Composition, tone, colour, pacing and tempo are the things we have to engage with.”
Professor Andrzej Klimowski, Short Course Leader
Present Futures: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Art
9, 10 & 13 May 2024 (in person)
Complete - register your interest
"Like no other course offered by an art school, this five-day collaboration between Acute Art and the RCA will offer tools to navigate the art world of tomorrow."
Daniel Birnbaum, Short Course Leader
Editorial Design
7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28 & 31 May 2024 (online)
Complete - register your interest
“Learn the craft and art of editorial design, which is defined as the presentation of information (text and image) in a coherent, relevant and innovative manner, allowing the reader access to subject matter of all kinds and on various platforms."
Adrian Shaughnessy and Astrid Stavro, Short Course Leaders
Architecture Summer School
15–19 July 2024 (in person)
Applications closed - register your interest
"An intense and immersive architecture & interior design summer school offering design studio experience, visits, lectures and skills training."
Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri, Short Course Leaders
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Get in touch with Jo Chounta if you'd like to find out more about this or any of our other short courses.
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