Program CSSSA
California State Summer School for the Arts
Four-week state-run residential arts intensive at Cal Poly Pomona in animation, film, dance, music, theater, visual arts, and creative writing. Nearly 60% of students recently received full or partial scholarships, limited to California residents.
A clearer starting point
What this opportunity is really like
Here’s the short version before you leave Pathfind to investigate the official details.
What you would do
Four residential weeks at Cal Poly Pomona in one discipline — animation, film, dance, music, theater, visual arts, or creative writing — through a state-run program.
Why it might be worth your time
Nearly 60% of students recently received full or partial scholarships, and the campus stay is four weeks.
Is it a good fit?
California residents in grades 9–12.
Planning a summer around this? See the summer programs for 9th graders it appears in, alongside the other verified options.