CREATIVE METHODS KIDS ENJOY SUMMER ART STUDY.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer VALENCIA -- Can grease stains in a pizza box pizza box - [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. be the subject of a poem? That's just one of the questions high school students from all over the state have been asked this summer as they participate in a four-week program at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. in Valencia. Writing a poem that breaks the rules of line and meter, or practicing a pas-de-deux in ballet class and following the art's rules to perfection Adv. 1. to perfection - in every detail; "the new house suited them to a T" just right, to a T, to the letter -- the students take a variety of different paths. Even stains on a pizza box can be an inspiration. Jenn Garrison, 16, found that out on an assignment in her creative writing class. ``We found grease stains in the boxes and we made them into pictures and then we drew them, and then we write poems about them,'' said Garrison of Westlake Village. ``You're finding things in, like, what you never thought you could find things before. Like, you become aware of, like, your surroundings.'' This year, 514 students in grades 8-12 participated in the four-week program, called InnerSpark, or the California State Summer School for the Arts. About 45 percent of students received scholarship money to attend the program, while the rest paid nearly $2,200. ``It's a chance for talented, but most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , motivated students to work intensively with the best talent available,'' said Robert Jaffe Robert L. Jaffe is an American physicist and the Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Biography Professor Jaffe received his A.B. , director of the program. The California State Summer School for the Arts was created in 1985 by the state of California. The InnerSpark program is supported by a mixture of funding from the state and private sources. This year, the state increased the amount of funding it provides the program, so next summer California students will need to pay no more than $1,350, Jaffe said. ``By law, no one is denied admission solely on the basis of inability to pay,'' he said. Ben Croft CROFT, obsolete. A little close adjoining to a dwelling-house, and enclosed for pasture or arable, or any particular use. Jacob's Law Dict. , 18, lives in Grass Valley, a small community in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . He's surrounded by nature back home, but Croft said he paints his dreams instead of landscapes because they're more interesting to him. ``This is sort of a big change for me because I'm used to living in the woods,'' Croft said. ``No neighbors, no fences.'' Fourteen students attended the program from out-of-state this year. ``High school is very conventional, whereas (at) this place we're all unconventional,'' said music student Andrew Inadomi, 15, as he sat on a bench cradling a guitar. ``We're all unconventional in the sense that we can find other people that are, I guess, just as unconventional as we are.'' On a recent day at the program, students broke up after lunch to attend their classes. Theater students lay down on colored mats for meditative med·i·ta·tive adj. Characterized by or prone to meditation. See Synonyms at pensive. med  i·ta breathing. Composition students sat by a window, music sheets in hand. Dance students practiced steps in the hallway. If high school sets up rules for students to follow, the InnerSpark program knocks them down like bowling pins. A teacher might swear in class, or students might find they suddenly need to decide on their own how to spend their day. ``If high school was like this, I would enjoy it a lot more,'' said student Brian Helt, 17, who is from the Bay area. ``Also, if high school was (like) this, I'd wonder what this would be like. It would probably be chaotic.'' alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color; 1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour SAC edition only; 2 -- ran in SAC edition only) High school students Robert Williams For other persons of the same name, see Williams (surname). Robert Williams is the name of
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