AI & Art Summer Institute is a three-week course for high school students exploring the possibilities and social impacts of making art with AI software.

Enrollment for Summer 2026 starts February 18, 2026. Please check back then for links and more information.

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The class is composed of short lectures, discussions, workshops, time to work in class, and feedback sessions. No prior programming or machine learning knowledge is required.

Questions

• How are artists engaging with AI, both as a tool and as a subject?

• What is the potential and what are the implications of AI within the visual arts?

• What AI-enabled tools are available and how do they work? How can I choose among them?

Learning Objectives

• Integrate AI into your existing creative practice, wherever it fits best (ideation, experimentation, pattern-making, performance, text) 

• Explore and apply various modalities of AI across a range of media

• Develop your own unique perspective and criticality towards technology, computation and media

Structure of the Class

• Morning activities: Individual and group warm-up exercises.

• Presentations: Review history of AI in art, references to artists, theorists and literature.

• Discussions: Class discussions about work-in-process and idea development for projects.

• Tutorials: “How-to” and Q&A. 

• Studio: Individual time to work and 1:1s with instructor and teaching assistant. 

• Critique: Group sharing, discussion and feedback.

Assignments

This class is built around three exercises and a final project. Each exercise has an in-class workshop and a discussion about your finished exercise on the day that it’s due.

The institute is taught by professionally trained instructors using the most current software and technology. The institute culminates in a final exhibition and the creation of portfolio-ready work that students may include in their college applications in related fields. Students receive 4 units of college credit.