Ivy Tech Center for Lifelong Learning

Fall 2026 classes are open for registration! Whether you want to learn something new or develop a particular skill or creative practice, we have a range of new and returning opportunities to help you on your way this August - December!

Additional offerings will be available in the coming weeks. Full details and registration at ivytech.edu/CLL.

Thanks to all our Ivy Arts for Kids Session 4 campers for a great past couple of weeks! We appreciate all the young artists who joined us this summer, and hope you keep creating and learning!

Thanks to all our Ivy Arts for Kids Session 3 campers for a great past couple of weeks! We hope you all keep on creating this summer, and we look forward to another great group of artists in Session 4.

For any creative kiddo interested in joining this summer, details and registration for our Ivy Arts for Kids programs can be found at ivytech.edu/CLL.

Drawing can be a fun way to explore the world creatively. It is also fundamental to painting, printmaking, and other design and craft disciplines. In these two distinct three-day drawing workshops, you will learn basic, foundational drawing concepts and an effective, step-by-step approach to making realistic drawings with light and shade from direct observation.

In Beginning Drawing, this introductory workshop focuses on ‘start from the ground up’ learning about the range of graphite art pencils, erasers, and drawing paper you will be using, then considering ways to hold the pencil and make marks on paper. You will then be introduced to the concept of drawing languages, and over the course of the workshop, work with the practices of contour line drawing and construction line drawing.

In Drawing: Light & Shade - Graphite, you will start with a brief introduction to basic mark-making exercises, then move on to work with an effective line-drawing technique to begin your drawings with light and shade. From there, you will continue to consider light and shade systematically, learning a step-by-step process for building drawings that gradually and effectively capture the degrees of shading you see, both within and around objects.

For more details, and to register, visit ivytech.edu/CLL.

Thanks to all our Ivy Arts for Kids Session 2 campers for a great past couple of weeks! We hope you all keep on creating this summer, and we look forward to another great group of artists in Session 3.

For any creative kiddo interested in joining this summer, details and registration for our Ivy Arts for Kids programs can be found at ivytech.edu/CLL.