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Be creative! Have fun! Develop your scientific reasoning, skills, and artistic talent this summer. Students will complete a series of projects carefully curated for fun and educational value. Projects are designed to give students the opportunity to try their hand at drawing, painting, sculpting, and more with an emphasis on learning.

Although cutting edge advances in graphic design, digital photography, and CAD (Computer Aided Design) fuse art with technology, arts and sciences have long been intertwined. Knowledge of science and mathematical principles inform art. Sculptors of the human body often begin their tracing by studying Anatomy. Sculptors utilize scientific knowledge of melas, melting points, brittleness and malleability, polymers and principle of material science to fashion masterpieces in various mediums. Knowledge of natural products such as plant material was needed to create dyes and paint pigments, science informs an understanding and use of oils, paint, acrylics, and watercolors. Understanding of perception and cognition also informs art: diminishing size, diminishing detail, perspective, a diminishing contrast, highlighting, and color change are utilized to create perspective. Science and nature can also provide the subject matter in works of art.