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Usdan Center Nov. 2 Open House
USDAN CENTER EXTENDS ARTISTIC FOCUS WITH NEW COURSE: FASHION DESIGN
OPEN HOUSES FOR SUMMER 2009:
Sundays: November 2, January 11, March 15, and Wednesday February 18
Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts, American?s
premier summer arts day camp, expands its artistic focus further for
2009, offering a new course, Fashion Design. Open to students in
grades 9 to 12, the program will cover the basic components and
terminology relating to design, drawing techniques, the historical
and cultural background of fashion, and an introduction to the
fashion design business. Each student will have ample opportunity to
create original designs. The goal is to provide each student with a
fashion portfolio by the end of the course, which includes original
designs in a variety of media. The instructor will be Allison
Solomon, who teaches fashion design at Manhattan?s East Side Middle
School.
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com) is
celebrating its 41st Season as America?s premier summer arts day
camp, and has announced Open House dates for its 2009 summer season.
Open Houses will be held on Sundays, November 2, 2008; January 11,
2009; March 15, 2009; and on Wednesday February 18, 2009. All will
take place between 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. They will give prospective
students and their families a chance to tour Usdan?s magnificent 200-
acre woodland setting in Huntington, Long Island, and to obtain
information and answers to questions from the Center?s staff.
In addition to the official Open House dates, Usdan is open year-
round Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Interested families
may make an appointment to visit during those hours. The Center is
located at 185 Colonial Springs Road, Wheatley Heights, Long Island,
NY 11798. The phone number for an appointment is: (631)643-7900.
Usdan Center has introduced the arts to more than 50,000 Tri-State
Area children since it founding in 1968.. The Center is open to all
young people from age 6 to 18. No audition is needed for most
programs, rather admission is based on an expression of interest in
the arts. Each summer, 1,600 students are transported to the Center
in air-conditioned buses each day. There are 40+ programs to choose
from, including music, dance, theater, film & video, chess, writing,
nature & ecology, and media arts. One-third of Usdan?s students
attend on scholarship. Although the mission of the Center is for
every child to establish a relationship with the arts, the unique
stimulation of the Center has caused many to go on to arts careers.
Alumni include singers Jane Monheit and Mariah Carey, actress Natalie
Portman, and members of major music, theater, and dance ensembles.
In addition to its regular programs, Usdan offers special
opportunities for advanced high school-age performing and visual
artists. These include Music Staff Internships, a Summer Ballet
Intensive, and a year-round program of immersion in the visual arts
for selected high school students, the Usdan Honors Art Collective.
The Collective, open to talented art students in grades 9 to 11,
begins at Usdan Center during the summer, and continues through the
following May with bi-weekly meetings at Usdan, and at New York?s
great museums and galleries.
For more information on all of the above programs, call the Center at
(631) 643-7900, or at (212) 772-6060, or visit www.usdan.com.
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