Maybe you've always wanted to draw, throw a pot, paint a landscape
en plein air. Perhaps you'd like to pick up that old oboe again and make some joyous noise, write a screenplay, a novel, or embark on a writing retreat. The Adult Arts programs at
Interlochen Center
for the Arts will get your creative fires burning. For more than 80 years, this 1,200-acre campus near Traverse City has been the hub for all things artistic in northwest Michigan.
Feel the artistic vibe: The hush of the woodsy campus makes a fine backdrop for creative pursuits all year long, but summer signals the start of its renowned arts camp and music festival, where you can mingle with a mini United Nations — 2,000 students from 50 states and 40 countries, all dressed in powder-blue shirts and navy pants.
Summer adult learners can stay in one of the rooms in Interlochen's historic Stone Center Hotel. Family lodges with one to three bedrooms, private baths and cooking facilities are nestled in the woods. Or you can live like a real student in the spare residence hall units and pretend like you're a teenager all over again.
While you're learning, there's loads of nightly entertainment. Take in an open-air concert at Interlochen's Kresge Auditorium on a breezy summer night and look out at a pink-and-purple sunset over Green Lake. Walk past the log-cabin structures that pepper the campus and hear sweet sounds of violins and concert pianos filtering through the thick canopy of trees. More than 400 student presentations in dance, theater, creative writing, visual arts, motion picture arts and music can be seen and heard throughout the season. (For tickets, go
here or call 800-681-5920.)
Writer: Patty LaNoue Stearns
Source: Interlochen Center for the Arts
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