Summer Arts
Create your summer.
Walk into Summer Arts on any given day during the three week session, and you may see children writing articles for a newspaper, staging a musical, organizing a gallery show, designing outfits for a fashion show, rehearsaing for a dance recital and more. Some students do all of these things. Many do several. But every single one chooses what they want to do and how they want to do it.
Summer Arts runs in two three-week sessions for kids ages 5 to 15. Each camper builds their own schedule from a catalog of dozens of classes ranging from visual arts, drama, dance, music, media, photography, textiles, sports, and writing. Class sizes are small. Teachers are working artists and educators. The whole camp gathers every day at 12:30 for the Noontime Show, and each session ends with an Arts Festival weekend that opens to families.
Summer Arts at Fayerweather is part of a thirty year tradition. The program was modeled on the Charles River Creative Arts Program, which our director Toby Dewey ran for three decades before bringing it to Fayerweather. A lot of our staff started here as campers and came back to teach.
Learn more about Summer Arts below or enroll now!
If you have any questions, contact the director, Toby Dewey.
Programs
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About
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Tuition
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Founded in 1967, Fayerweather is an all-gender independent private school enrolling students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade and located in Cambridge, MA. Children here are taken seriously — as thinkers, as individuals, as people whose presence in the world already matters. They learn by doing real things, in real places, for real audiences. They become themselves, in community, over time.
