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stART Summer Arts Intensive

stART Summer Arts Intensive

 

 

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Hello, stARTist! 

stART is an audition-based, conservatory-style arts intensive that allows students across the county to cultivate their crafts and discover how other arts disciplines inform their practice. Beginning in 2010 as “The Juilliard Project: Osceola Arts Intensive,” stART illuminates how a career in the arts is profitable and enriching. Taught over two weeks by district teachers and teaching artists from some of the best collegiate programs in the nation, students spend the majority of their days focusing on their major area and end each day taking electives in other arts areas. The program culminates in a student-led showcase performance. The program is open to SDOC, charter, private, and homeschooled students. Auditions are announed in the spring and auditions take place in April. 

stART 2025 will take place at Tohopekaliga High School from June 9-20, 2025.

Questions? Email Dr. D’Ambrosi, Artistic Director, at joseph.dambrosi@osceolaschools.net.

Audition Information 

At this time, the stART 2025 cohort has been selected and notified. Auditions for stART 2026 will take place in April 2026.

stART History

2025

Theme: ”Order in the Art: stART is in Session”

Location: Tohopekaliga High School

2024

Theme: “LEAP!”

Location: Osceola County School for the Arts

2023

Theme: “Do You Believe in Magic?”

Location: Osceola County School for the Arts

2022

Theme: ”(Re)Imagine”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2021

Theme: “Out of the Box”

Location: Osceola County School for the Arts

2020

Theme: No Theme

Location: Virtual

2019

Theme: “THERE/NOW”

Location: Osceola County School for the Arts

2018

Theme: “A Picture’s Worth”

Location: Osceola County School for the Arts

2017

Theme: “Intersections: Where Arts Collide”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2016

Theme: “Illuminate: Reflection of Stories Told”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2015

Theme: “Vaudeville Follies”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2014

Theme: “Going for Baroque: Louis XIV”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2013

Theme: ”Perspectives”

Location: St. Cloud High School

2012

Theme: ”Articulate”

Location: Horizon High School

2011

Theme: “Between the Lines”

Location: Horizon Middle School

2010

Theme: “Sound Stages: The Art of Noise”

Location: Horizon Middle School