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Advanced Drawing Summer Program for High School Students
Why Take Advanced Drawing
Focused and intricate, drawing is an ideal medium for practicing mark-making. In this program, you will study advanced aesthetic concepts, explore drawing materials, and learn new techniques under the guidance of acclaimed educators. You'll also hone your observational skills through regular still life, figure, and nature drawing sessions.
What You'll Learn
During this drawing summer camp, you will spend up to six hours per day focused exclusively on drawing materials and techniques. Under the guidance of expert instructors, you will explore composition, proportion, perspective, value, and contemporary art practices. Daily studio time allows you the opportunity to create self-directed work. Other features of this program include:
- Drawing foundations and techniques classes
- In-depth study of drawing materials, including graphite, ink, charcoal, and conté
- Virtual artist lectures, workshops, college presentations, and portfolio reviews
- In-class figure drawing sessions
- Open studio tutorials
At the end of the session, you will exhibit your work in the Dow Center for Visual Arts' gallery.
Program Highlights
Exhibition Opportunities
At the end of your session, you'll share your work in an exhibition—the perfect way to celebrate the end of a successful summer at Interlochen.
Dow Center for Visual Arts
During your session, you will learn and create in the Dow Center for Visual Arts, one of the finest facilities dedicated to the study of the visual arts at the high school level. The 36,000 square-foot complex includes separate studios for drawing, painting, metalworking, ceramics, sculpture, photography, printmaking, digital arts, and fibers, as well as a gallery for student, staff, and faculty exhibitions.
Additional Opportunities
If you're interested in applying to visual arts programs at the college/university level, you may also be interested in our one-week Drawing & Painting Intensive and Preparing a Portfolio for College. We are also home to the Arts Academy boarding high school, which offers a visual arts major for students in grades 9-12, as well as a post-graduate year.
The visual arts faculty and program are amazing. They push me forward and challenge me in a way I have never been before. For example, I learned the art of figure drawing. My teachers also taught me how to draw realistically with charcoal, and now it is my favorite means of drawing.
Maria, Visual Arts
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Hear from other Interlochen Arts Camp students and faculty to learn more about the Visual Arts Division.
