Thank you for your interest in the Visual Arts Precollege Program at Sarah Lawrence College!
The application deadline for this program is May 1, 2026.
The application form cannot be saved and restarted. Please set aside 15 minutes and have all the information you need readily available BEFORE starting your application. This includes your response to the personal statement questions listed below (we recommend typing them in advance in a Word document that you can upload) and 3 separate PDFs of finished pieces of artwork, which can be anything that you consider a creative act (i.e. a drawing, collage, painting, paper mache sculpture, etc.)
Once you have collected all of your supplemental pieces, you may begin your application by clicking on the button below the questions.
Address each of the questions below with approx. 6 sentences per question:
- This program is a three-week art making intensive. Describe what makes you interested in and prepared for such a commitment (5 hours a day, every weekday for 3 weeks)?
- What inspires you to make art? Please specifically discuss what outside of art inspires your art. You will be drawing on other disciplines/ subjects/ programs/ interests/ jobs/ travel (outside of art) in the studio. We would like to know what that is for you. What feeds your creativity and research?
- Think about a time when a piece you were making didn’t turn out as planned. What did you discover during that process - about your creativity, persistence, or how you respond to challenges? This is a question addressing your openness as a learner and your willingness to grow/ change/ adjust as an artist.
- What are you most comfortable with when you make your work and what makes you less comfortable? This can be about your attachment to a certain discipline/ to a certain process/to certain imagery.
- How does this program help you achieve your future goals? What are you most excited to learn about in relation to art making?
- This summer the program will take place in an environment that is communal. You will be learning with others, creating side by side, communicating, critiquing, discussing, sharing ideas and techniques. What have your experiences been in making art next to other artists? How do you feel you can grow? How do you feel you can contribute?
Please have on hand your 3 separate PDFs of finished pieces of artwork readily available to upload to the application.
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