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The CREATE! Torrance Summer Art Intensive, conducted by the Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, is a week long residence program for ninth through twelfth grade students who are talented in the visual arts. This camp has been designed as an opportunity to bring together a group of visual arts oriented teenagers who will form a community in which they can create and explore visual thinking in ways they may not have been able to in a normal high school setting. Specifically, we will be developing the critical and creative thinking skills and dispositions of our artists in residence so that they will be equipped to prosper as individuals and artists in the 21st century.

CREATE! will be an exciting and engaging week in which students work collaboratively to tackle big ideas as they explore their creativity and develop as artists. The program will build around both the new Georgia Fine Arts Standards and the work of Integrative Teaching International.

2010 Keynote Speaker

Mary Stewart, the Foundations Program Director for the Art Department at Florida State University, will be CREATE!'s 2011 Keynote Speaker. As the author of Launching the Imagination- a widely used college visual arts textbook-she regularly gives workshops and lectures on creativity and visual communication. She is also a co-founder of Integrative Teaching International, a national organization devoted to improving college-level art and design teaching by adapting essential art skills to the demands of the 21st century. Stewart will also lead a team of members from Integrative Teaching ThinkTank who will collaborate with the Torrance Center for Creativity and the Lamar Dodd School of Art in teaching the courses at CREATE!