College of Creative Arts Programs

July 28 - Aug. 1, 2025

Improve your guitar skills and find lasting inspiration in an engaging, five-day retreat.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sept. 20 - Nov. 15, 2025

A fun, creative way for parents and their children to connect and learn dance together. 

August 11 - 16, 2025

Strengthen your skills and develop your musicianship as you play, polish, and perform great works of chamber music under the guidance of accomplished string, keyboard, and woodwind musicians.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Nov. 7 - 9, 2025

Whether you’re crafting your first short story or returning to a writing practice after time away, you’ll gain the craft skills, creative spark, and structured tools to bring your ideas to life.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sept. 12 - 14, 2025

Explore the fulfilling world of drawing fundamentals and hone your observational skills as an artist in this three-day, hands-on workshop with a world-class artist-educator.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Oct. 17 - 19, 2025

Join us for an immersive three-day workshop where you will continue to explore and refine your drawing practice.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Aug. 8 - 9, 2025 | Oct. 11 -12, 2025

With gorgeous lakeviews framed by seasonal foliage, you will have an inspiring environment in which to practice your art.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Oct. 10 - 12, 2025

Learn a concrete, step-by-step process for planning, drafting, and sharing your true stories with a published memoir writer.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

June 4 - August 27, 2025

Interlochen’s Nature & Art Series offers a variety of two-hour programs focusing on creative exploration of nature, art, and food. Our goal is to inspire adult learners to interact with our local environment in a positive way. We explore conservation, artistry, sustainability, and ecology while providing an educational and exciting learning experience for all.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to hone your writing skills. Explore fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, novel writing, and more.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to strengthen your technique. Explore movement for musical theatre, ballet, contemporary dance, choreography, and more.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to bring your cinematic visions to live. Write your script, create your shot lists, refine your storyboard, and more.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to unlock your musical potential. Explore music performance in any instrument, songwriting, production, theory, composition, and more.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to help you shine on the stage or screen. Explore acting for TV and film, musical theatre, auditioning, scene study, navigating the acting business, and more.

Flexible

Find the perfect course, certificate program, or private lesson to develop your artistic skills. Refine your technique or explore a new medium, such as drawing, oil painting, graphic design, animation, and more.

Sept. 12 - 14, 2025

Whether you're an art enthusiast eager to explore a new medium or a complete novice looking to embark on a creative journey, this workshop will provide you with a solid foundation in the techniques, tools, and principles of oil or acrylic painting.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sept. 19 - 21, 2025

Open to artists of all skill levels, this three-day workshop offers instruction in how to paint landscapes with a shoreline and a lake from start to finish.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Sept. 20 - Nov. 15, 2025

Come join our social dance classes where people of all ages come together to learn various dance styles in a fun and welcoming environment. Whether you're a beginner or experienced dancer, everyone's invited to join in.

August 5 - 10, 2025

Become immersed in the vibrant world of instrumental music. You’ll participate in daily ensemble rehearsals, sectionals, and chamber music reading sessions. You’ll also enjoy opportunities to attend master classes and play side-by-side with Interlochen’s world-class faculty in both rehearsals and performances.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Oct. 25, 2025

Whether you are an absolute beginner or an intermediate player, participants in Uketoberfest 2025 will have the opportunity to meet others in the ukulele community and develop or enhance their skills on this diminutive, yet dynamic instrument.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Oct. 17 - 19, 2025

Use your own experience as fuel for the creation of dynamic short fiction.

Counts toward Continuing Education Units (CEUs)