Residential Camps
Welcome to DAAPcamps Residential Camps!
High School Residential Camps began in the summer of 2011. It has grown each summer and now 150 rising sophomores, juniors and seniors join us from all over the country and internationally to explore the disciplines at DAAP. The Camp Leads are comprised of faculty and professionals in the individual industries of Shoe Design, Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Communication Design, Architecture and Interior Design, Fine Art and Digital Film-Making. Campers arrive on Sunday and finish their week on Saturday after a morning show of their work followed by graduation. Studios are comprised of a combination of hands-on work, visits with professionals, fieldtrips and more. Each evening following dinner, there are full-camp activities combining all disciplines…DAAPcamp Alumni Panel, Creative Career Night, Cincinnati Fieldtrip, Sketch Off and social activities. Campers stay in UC student housing chaperoned by House Leads and the Camp Director.
View our Residential Camp offerings below:
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
Do you love buildings, inside and out? Are you interested in designing structures and interior spaces? Then the Architecture & Interior Design DAAPcamp is the perfect place for you to be this summer! This camp mixes hands-on design projects, field trips to local firms and cool
buildings, plus individual attention from UC faculty, all while giving you a taste of college life. So join us, and create a unique experience exploring the worlds of Architecture and Interior Design.
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
If you find yourself “noticing” fashion—sketching ideas, being inspired by color and fabric, always thinking “I have an exciting idea for a look that has never been created!”—then an education and career in Fashion Design is for you! DAAPcamp is the place to explore the Fashion Design process through an immersive week-long experience that investigates fashion theory, conceptual development and technical realization. Learn the tools required of contemporary fashion designers as you develop and craft creations that showcase your unique design voice as the Future of Fashion.
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
This is an intensive drawing, painting and sculpture studio where campers will develop artistic skills, and express their own individual creativity as they work from their imagination and copy works of great masters. Campers will go to diverse sites to draw and paint and will have the opportunity of visiting artists’ studios and talking with artists. Along with expanding their skills in tone, color and proportion, they will learn about major art movements throughout history.
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
Learn the fundamentals of type, photography, color, imagery and motion so that you can connect your ideas and messages to people. Tour an award-winning design firm and learn how to use the tools of design to make your own and collaborative 2D and digital media projects. Students will utilize DAAP’s computer lab, photography darkroom and foundation studios to create unique graphic projects. Introduction to Adobe suites software Illustrator and Photoshop.
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
This is an intensive drawing, painting and sculpture studio where campers will develop artistic skills, and express their own individual creativity as they work from their imagination and copy works of great masters. Campers will go to diverse sites to draw and paint and will have the opportunity of visiting artists’ studios and talking with artists. Along with expanding their skills in tone, color and proportion, they will learn about major art movements throughout history.
Intended for: Rising 10th, 11th, 12th Grade Students
This is an intensive drawing, painting and sculpture studio where campers will develop artistic skills, and express their own individual creativity as they work from their imagination and copy works of great masters. Campers will go to diverse sites to draw and paint and will have the opportunity of visiting artists’ studios and talking with artists. Along with expanding their skills in tone, color and proportion, they will learn about major art movements throughout history.
