Register for Spring Classes!

Stop by the building to fill out a registration form or register online:

Click here to read class descriptions and register for classes

We offer a variety of classes for youth and adults in:

Dance: Ballet, Dance & Fitness, Middle School Dance, Youth and Adult Tap, Youth and Adult Hip Hop, Hip Hop Aerobics, Cheerleading, Swing Dance, and Belly Dance

Kindermusik: Village, Our Time, and Imagine That

Language: Baby Sign Language I and II, Basic American Sign Language I for youth and adults, Basic American Sign Language II and III, an private ASL lessons

Music: Beginning Group Piano, Piano I

Private Lessons: Drums, Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Strings, Trumpet, Voice, and Sign Language

Theatre: Youth Drama and Shakespeare Troupe

Writing: Creative Writing Workshop

Class Spotlight

Cornerstone is excited to offer Scrapbooking again. On Tuesdays from 6:00-7:00, just bring your book and photos and let Cornerstone provide the rest. We have a variety of papers, plain and printed, wonderful stickers, a die cutting machine, and all the other scrapbooking tools and embellishments you will need to create a one-of-a-kind memory book. Linda Rose will provide new ideas and guidance for the hour. You will finally be able to finish some great pages, and if you opt to take the Open Scrapbooking hour from 7:00-8:00 on Tuesdays, you can finish even more pages!

Join the Shakespeare Troupe this spring! Meeting on Mondays from 6:00-7:00, this class is led by Robby Tompkins, the Cornerstone Director of Education who is also a director with Muncie Civic Theatre. This class explore a variety of Shakespeare's plays. Students will learn about character development, blocking, fight choreography, and more!

This semester, you will have a chance to make your own books in the class, Handmade Books meeting on Thursdays from 8:00-9:00. Led by Emily Leiserson, a Ball State University graduate student, this class will teach students a variety of bookmaking techniques. Students will leave class with sketchbooks, scrapbooks, journals, and artists' books.

This past semester, Youth Tap was a popular class and we are pleased to offer it again this semester on Thursdays from 5:00-6:00. Shanna Corner, who has over 30 years of dance training and many years teaching experience, will lead children in grades kindergarten to 6th in various tap steps. The students will perform in our end of semester Celebration on April 27th.

We also had a lot of interest in forming an Adult Tap class for the spring semester. This class will be led by Abby Drumm, who has been dancing since she was two years old, will lead the class. Students will meet on Mondays from 6:30-7:30 and will learn a variety of steps including scuffle, riffle, shuffle, spank, dig, irish, and shim sham.

We are pleased to be able to offer Swing dancing this semester. This class will meet on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:00. Butch Starkey and Debbie Roberts will lead this class, having over twenty years teaching experience and many more years dancing experience between the two of them. Students will learn a variety of swing steps, building new steps on every week. This is a fun and easy dance that can be done to almost any type of music!

Register today to reserve your spot in one of our many exciting classes! Click here to read more class descriptions and to register online.

Calendar of Events

January 28 - 31
First week of classes

February 29 - March 1
Choose Your Move

March 24 - 28
Spring Break - No Classes

March 31 - April 4
Art Show Submission Week

April 16
Cornerstone Art Show

April 20
A Taste of Muncie

April 21 - 24
Last week of classes

April 27
Celebration Open House

June 16
Summer Session Begins

Supporting Cornerstone

Cornerstone Center for the Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that needs community support to succeed in its mission. If you feel that Cornerstone has benefited you and this community, please consider donating funds, materials, or time to help maintain this organization.

One way to support Cornerstone Center for the Arts is to donate your used ink cartridges. We can use Dell, HP, and Lexmark cartridges. We turn these cartridges into Staples for $3.00 coupons which cuts down on what we have to spend on office supplies. If you have any you would like to donate, please bring them to the Education Office at the Cornerstone building.

Donations can be made to Cornerstone by check or credit card. Check out our website for more details, or call 765.281.9503 and speak with Lori to make a contribution over the phone.

Some items that we currently need include a video camera, arts related books and DVDs for our library, computers with Pentium 4 or higher processors, computer monitors and quality visual art supplies.

Thank you for considering making a donation to Cornerstone!