# Event Details - **Event Name**: 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 am – Sat, 08 Aug, 2026 at 04:30 pm - **Event Description**: Registration opens at 9:00 AM on May 16, 2026.About this EventThis year, join us in Cleveland for the 5th annual Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit! This year's summit will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, an inspiring creative campus surrounded by architecture, public art and countless sketch-worthy views.Cleveland offers endless inspiration—from iconic buildings and industrial character to vibrant street life along the lakefront. In addition to the ticketed workshops, we’re planning free public sketching meetups during the weekend, including: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Patio dinner with fellow sketchers!Artists and sketchers from across the Great Lakes region are invited to gather, learn and celebrate drawing together.Morning Workshop InformationEach Summit participant receives access to (1) of the following workshops. These are only available during the morning session (9:30 AM-12:00 PM).➤For information regarding workshop supplies, please check ➤Important: Every participant also receives ( 1 ) FREE Lunch. While selecting your workshop, please select ( 1 ) from the available options!Jenny Jing Zhang "Fractured City: Drawing Reality Through Reflection"Workshop Description: Set outside the reflective facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, this workshop invites participants to draw the city as it bends, fractures, and reassembles itself. Instead of aiming for perfect perspective, we’ll embrace distortion, overlap, and surprise. Street life, passing figures, traffic, and architecture become layered and reimagined through reflection.Through playful, guided exercises, participants will sketch directly from real street views while capturing their warped reflections at the same time. We’ll explore how reflection disrupts scale, flips space, and creates unexpected compositions that feel both abstract and deeply urban. This workshop encourages letting go of “drawing correctly” and leaning into observation, intuition, and experimentation—resulting in energetic sketches that blur reality and reflection into a contemporary urban narrative."Jeff Suntala "Designing the Montage"Workshop Description: You will learn to approach sketching a montage (various sketch subjects placed throughout the page) through solid design principles.Nancy Lick "Creating Value and Impact with Ink"Workshop Description: Get acquainted with inking techniques that will build dramatic contrast and stunning, layered textures in your drawings. We will use ink markers, traditional ink wash, and tonal markers to explore quick, gestural sketching as well as develop more rendered pieces using line and crosshatching techniques. Tips on perspective, negative space, and focal points will also be covered to strengthen your compositions.John Hancock "Sketching on Toned Paper with Watercolor and Ink"Workshop Description: This workshop will focus on building a sketch that combines richness and simplicity using colors and inks on toned (color) watercolor or mixed media paper. For our first sketch, we will start with a simple rough line sketch (pencil or permanent ink), then add our first large areas of color over a large part of the sketch’s surface area. You will then complete the sketch with smaller applications of ink and color. For the second sketch, we will start in much the same way: with a rough sketch line and/or color first. But then, we will cover the finished sketch with more restricted/fewer areas of color and/or line, leaving some of the paper completely or nearly blank.Jeff A. Evans "Creating Clarity from ChaosWorkshop Description: In this workshop, you’ll learn practical drawing and painting tools for simplifying complex scenes. Street and urban environments are endlessly engaging subjects, but they can quickly become overwhelming without a clear approach to editing and composition.Through examples of successful work, we’ll explore what makes these compositions effective, how I simplify visual information, set up drawings and compositions, and how to apply these strategies to your own urban sketches.Brent Eligado" Controlled Chaos: Expressive Line, Wash & Splatter"This workshop is designed for sketchers of all levels and focuses on practical strategies for observation, simplification, and expressive mark-making. Participants will leave with a finished sketch and a clearer understanding of how to balance control and chaos in their urban sketching practice.Every city holds more movement, contrast, and visual noise than we can capture in a single sketch. Rather than trying to record everything, we'll focus on a single point of clarity—a roofline cutting into the sky, a building corner, or an architectural detail that can carry the story of the scene.From there, we'll simplify what we see by deciding what to keep and what to leave out, turning complexity into a clear, intentional composition. We'll begin with confident ink lines to establish structure, then loosen up with expressive watercolor washes and controlled splatter techniques that add atmosphere, energy, and spontaneity without losing clarity.Control the structure. Release the chaos.Hotel InformationThe Courtyard by Marriott Cleveland University Circle is offering a special group rate to Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit participants.Address: 2021 Cornell Road, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106. The hotel is 0.4 mile (about an8-minute walk) from the Summit venue, the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA).Rate: $179 per night plus tax. Reserve your room by Friday, July 17 to receive this rate.Reservation Link: Group rate for Urban Sketchers Summit. If you are a Marriott Bonvoy member, you can earn points for your stay.Note: If the room block is full when you try to reserve a room, contact us via email (ohiousksummit@gmail.com) by or before July 17. The Summit organizers will work with the hotel to get additional rooms released whenever possible.Important hotel parking note: The Marriott only offers valet parking ($27 per day with unlimited in-and-out privileges; no self-parking option is available). . The Marriott also offers a shuttle that goes to CIA regularly.Parking InformationSummit participants can park for free in the CIA’s Annex and rear parking lots from Friday, Aug. 7 at 12:00 PM until Sunday, Aug. 9 at 6:00 PM, including overnight.Access both lots from E 117th Street. Click here for a CIA downloadable map and driving directions.Addtional InformationFor all additional information regarding this year's summit, including additional free events on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Sketchwalks,Work Shops, and Supplies please refer to the Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit homepage!Agenda?: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AMCheck-In at Cleveland Institute of Art?: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AMOpening Remarks?: 09:30 AM - 12:00 PMMorning Workshops?: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PMLunch and Keynote?: 01:15 PM - 01:30 PMThrowdown?: 01:45 PM - 04:00 PMSketch Walks?: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PMClosing Throwdown - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cleveland/2026-ohio-regional-urban-sketchers-summit/100001987383073271 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, business, fine-arts, meetups - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 8 hours - Location: Cleveland Institute of Art - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 81.88, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Cleveland - **state**: OH - **country**: United States - **location**: Cleveland Institute of Art - **lat**: 41.5103335 - **long**: -81.6022976 - **full address**: Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/ad90ac32df480911634df5b2b16038ed784b7dde689272777d036c82dac4824b-rimg-w840-h472-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1778934444 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit being held? - **A:** 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit takes place on Sat, 08 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 am to Sat, 08 Aug, 2026 at 04:30 pm at Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit? - **A:** 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit is organized by Ohio Urban Sketchers. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** 2026 Ohio Regional Urban Sketchers Summit is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cleveland, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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