About Us
The PUPP Art Department is a subset of the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) designed to give students cultural and educational enrichment by exposing them to the visual arts. Education on different visual mediums is covered every summer, resulting in 3 distinct art courses by the end of a scholar's PUPP career.
The Program
The Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) is an intense, academic and cultural enrichment program that supports high school students from six partnering schools in the Mercer County, New Jersey area: Ewing High School, Lawrence High School, Nottingham High School, Princeton High School and Trenton Central High School.
The recruitment process takes place during the spring of 9th grade, with applications available on March 1st each year. Once selected, PUPP Scholars participate throughout the remainder of their high school career. Scholars complete three, intensive six-and-a-half week summer institutes at Princeton University and take part in school-year programming, including weekly after school academic enrichment sessions and a series of cultural excursions. The program's multi-year, tuition-free program prepares scholars for admission and ongoing success within selective colleges and universities.
For more information, visit the official PUPP Website.
The curriculum
Shown above are the requirements for the summer divided by class over a 6-week class period. To help the students keep track of assignments, the Art Staff prepared a Master Checklist so the students had an overview of what they needed on a weekly basis. These subjects were divided by class.
Over the summer, seniors and sophomores are divided into two classes, with one half of each cohort in their respective classes. This results in groups of two or three students being paired together for a final project, allowing for communication between the two cohorts. However, due to the current pandemic, summer projects were individual. Regardless of their final project, sophomores and seniors were still put in smaller rooms to allow for interpersonal communication.
Juniors, on the other hand, work on individual projects each summer in a class specific to them, which is why their summer project is different from the sophomores and seniors.