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7000 BC

7000 BC — Northern New Mexico's Comics Creators Collective
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






7000 BC — Northern New Mexico's comics creators collective — holds monthly meetings in the Community Room at the Santa Fe Library Main Branch, 1:30–4:30, moving on to dinner after. This will be an opportunity for attendees to work on their projects, collaborate, and gather feedback; we welcome all those interested in creating and self-publishing comics. Contact for Date







Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
When: Check Websites For Information
Time: Monthly Meetings
Cost: Free

A Well-Born Guide/Have Ph.D., Will Travel

Phone: 505 988 8022
Where: Haagen Dazs (On Plaza)
Ghost Tours: The Dark Side of Santa Fe
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Come with the Travel Channel ghost tour guide and hear about the ever-present personalities behind the walls of both public and private buildings in Santa Fe including the two haunted houses she lived in. No gimmicks! Just good stories!

When: Sundays and Thursdays or by appointment.
Time: 5:30PM winter; 7:30 PM summer
Cost: $16/adults; $10/children. Minimum $40

Amy Stein Art

Phone: 505-983-2069
Where: 501 Rio Grande Ave., #G-3 Santa Fe, NM 87501
Healing the Self Through Self Portraits - A Workshop






Amy Stein is a professional artist, living and working in Santa Fe. She is internationally known for her inspiring art workshops--Healing the Self through Self Portraits-a journey in self-discovery. No previous art experience is required to participate in these workshops.

She is available to participate in any conference and to display her vibrant prize-winning (+) expand

Barbara Harrelson

Phone: 505.989.4561
Where: Meet in Plaza, near the obelisk
Literary Walking Tour, Downtown
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)



The literary landmarks of New Mexico’s storied capital are both familiar and unexpected. Santa Fe’s plaza and La Fonda Hotel have figured prominently in many books. However, one of the nineteenth century’s most enduring American novels, written in Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors, never mentions the place, or the American West at all!

Explore the history and culture of (+) expand

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Summer Rock Camp


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El Rancho de las Golondrinas Living History Museum

Phone: 505.471.2261
Where: Las Golondrinas is just south of Santa Fe, off of Interstate 25
Take a journey to the past at the Southwest’s premier outdoor living history museum!
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)



This historic Spanish colonial ranch served as a stopping place or paraje upon what was the longest, most important trade route in North America – El Camino Real – the Royal Road. Caravans of soldiers, traders and travelers of the past found warmth, welcome and rest among its adobe buildings with plentiful water and grass for their animals. Today Las Golondrinas beckons visitors (+) expand

Elise Gent

Phone: 505.982.3516
Where: In the Raillyard
African Dance Class
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Come experience the power and community of African Dance in Santa Fe. Using the focus and choreographic skills from her classical dance education, Elise Gent has for 23 years built an extraordinary following of dancers of all ages. It is not uncommon on Saturdays at 11am to find 70 dancers and a dozen musicians filling the Railyard Performance Center with energy, sound, and (+) expand

Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center

Phone: 505.757.3445
Where: Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center
Website: evfac.org
Fiber Arts Classes






We are a grassroots nonprofit community art center located in an old commercial building in the historic Main Street district of Española. We serve a unique tri-cultural area with deep fiber arts traditions and a wealth of talented artisans. Our gallery features the work of our members; one of a kind jewelry, vibrant scarves and other fashion items, and home accessories. (+) expand

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Phone: 505.946.1007
Where: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM EDUCATION PROGRAM
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)


The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum offers many educational opportunities for life-long learning. Programs include adult learning and lectures, Art and Leadership for Women, family, and youth.

Family Programs
Programs are for children age 4-12 accompanied by an adult and led by the education staff unless otherwise noted. Programs are offered monthly. Each program begins with a discussion (+) expand

Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe and Abiqui

Phone: 505.982.8539, ext. 218
Where: Santa Fe and Abiqui
Photography, Poetry, Calligraphy, & Art






Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe is a place where the elements of community, culture, light and dialog form the basis of a special learning process.
Each year Ghost Ranch, with locations in Abiquiu and in Santa Fe, sponsors dozens of exhibits, performances, lectures and other special events.

Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu offers a Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour, hiking trails, (+) expand

Harriette Tsosie,Sallyann Paschall,& Russell Thurston - The Santa Fe Community Gallery

Phone: 505-955-6705
Where: 201 W. Marcy (at Sheridan intersection)
“POLLINATION: ENCAUSTIC WORKS FROM NEW MEXICO”
This is a ONE TIME experience
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)



Harriette Tsosie

Saturday, June 26th, 1-4 pm
In the Community Gallery- 201 W. Marcy (at the Sheridan intersection)
Harriette Tsosie will give a short talk on the history of encaustic (pigmented wax) painting and demonstrate her encaustic process. Tsosie has been painting with wax for seven years. She is president of the Encaustic Art Institute and is represented by (+) expand

Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery

Phone: 505.988.2225
Where: Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery
Ceramics with Heidi






Heidi will demonstrate classical wheel thrown vessels of all sizes. She will make the clay “dance” in sensuous forms while in the squishy state. Students will experience what it is like to throw a bowl in the air and catch it – creating delightful, amorphic forms, unique as snowflakes. Heidi assures good fun.

Students may learn Heidi’s famous chattering and carving (+) expand

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Family Friendly / Children's Activities


Jane Shoenfeld's Art Adventures in the Southwest

Phone: 505.986.1108
Where: Santa Fe, Ghost Ranch
Sketching and Painting Santa Fe






Would you like to share memories and celebrate new experiences through art and creativity? Join us and give the gift of art to yourself and your friends and family. All levels of experience, from total beginner to professional artist, are welcome. We supply the materials, a jump start for first timers and added spark for those with experience. Acclaimed landscape painter (+) expand

Las Cosas Cooking School

Phone: 505.988.3394
Where: Las Cosas Kitchen Shoppe DeVargas Center
Hands-on Cooking Classes
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




"New Mexico Favorites"

Welcome to New Mexico and an exploration of our ancient and unique cuisine. Sit back and relax as we introduce you to the wonderful local ingredients that make up our Northern New Mexican Cuisine. You will be treated to a feast of flavors and information on chilies- both fresh and dried, spices, masa, corn and the techniques of cooking Southwest (+) expand

Life as Art

Phone: 505.954.4495
Where: Contact for details
Healing the Earth - Healing Ourselves






Throughout the history of the world people have found meaning in belonging to the larger Earth body. We must come back home to the Earth by joining with others and the Earth in a community of healing. People of the Earth…Unite!

Cob is a Celtic earth-building material (earth, clay, sand, straw) used traditionally for over a thousand years in the construction of affordable, (+) expand

Lorrie Bortner

Where: San Cristobal, NM
Painting for Adults, Youth and Families
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






Take a drive to the small village of San Cristobal, NM, north of Santa Fe, 5 miles from the DH Lawrence Ranch. The stomping ground of writers DH Lawrence, Audux Huxley and painter Lady Dorothy Brett, who had a big influence on the Santa Fe writer/artist scene. Join Lorrie in her hand built, adobe home and studio for an authentic, creative experience exploring your inner (+) expand

Magpie Pottery

Phone: 505.466.2894
Where: Eldorado subdivision, 8 miles outside of Santa Fe
Pottery Making Lessons
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)





Classes at Magpie Pottery operate year-round in a clean, sun-filled studio looking west towards the Jemez Mountains. Magpie pottery offers private and semi-private classes in wheel-throwing, hand-building, and tile-making. All ages are welcome and no experience is necessary. Maggie Mae assists the student in all phases of design and implementation. Clay is included in the (+) expand

Museum Hill

Phone: see below for options
Where: Museum Hill
Arts Alive!
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)


Museums on Museum Hill collaborate to produce Free, hands-on activities for all ages and skill levels! No advance registration, no materials fee!
Groups of 6 or more, please call host Museum to reserve a place and arrange free admission to the Museum exhibitions.

Aurelia Gomez, Director of Education, Museum of International Folk Art 505) 476-1200
aurelia.gomez@state.nm.us

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Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

Phone: 505.9822226 x122
Where: Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
Spanish Colonial Art
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)





The purpose of the Education Programs of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art are to promote, preserve, encourage, and educate the public about Spanish colonial art and to contribute to the revival and preservation of New Mexico's rich Spanish colonial traditions.

Families with children of all ages will find educational tools in the museum to make their visit fun as well (+) expand

Pomegranate Studios

Phone: 505.986.6164
Where: Corner of Cerrillos and Paseo de Peralta)
Belly Dancing for Girls and Women
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Pomegranate Studios is an educational and presenting organization established in 1996 by Founder/Director Myra Krien. We present high quality programs from the rich artistic heritage of the Middle East as expressed through music, dance, poetry, visual and other art forms as they relate to American culture. Pomegranate Studios and Pomegranate SEEDs (Self-esteem, Empowerment, (+) expand

Prairie Dog Glass

Phone: 505.920.5241
Where: Jackalope
Website: pdogglass.com
Glass Blowing







Are you interested in trying glassblowing? Come get a hands-on experience in the art of glass blowing. These experiences are quick introductions to glassblowing. They are fun, and are wonderful gifts for loved ones, and friends. The pieces you create will be ready for pick-up two days after your event or can be shipped to you. You will be able to make, with the help (+) expand

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

Phone: 505.471.9103
Where: I-25 frontage road south of Santa Fe near the racetrack
Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)



Located south of Santa Fe, this beautiful 35-acre nature preserve hosts a bountiful diversity of plants and wildlife, a shaded nature trail leading to a pond, trails abounding in cactus and gorgeous views, and docents who love to answer questions. The preserve is also home to a number of towering cottonwoods. Leonora Curtin is open May through October, every Saturday morning (+) expand

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Phone: 505.989.8359
Where: Santa Fe Children’s Museum
Discovering the Joys of Learning, Play and Community
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Adults aren’t the only ones who enjoy the pulsing innovation of one of the world’s most creative cities. The Santa Fe Children’s Museum is one of America’s top-rated children’s museums, and is consistently voted as a don’t-miss for kids in Santa Fe. One vision underlies everything the Museum does: children learn by creating! The Museum’s indoor exhibit space offers unlimited (+) expand

Santa Fe Clay

Phone: 505.984.1122
Where: In the Raillyard
Experiences in Ceramics









Santa Fe Clay occupies a 10,000 square-foot warehouse in the historic Railyard District in downtown Santa Fe. Our facility includes a complete retail supply business, gallery, and fully equipped studio. It is also home to twenty resident ceramic artists. Our year-round classes and workshops provide an inspirational and creative environment for students ranging (+) expand

Santa Fe Complex

Phone: 505.216.7562
Where: Santa Fe Complex
Frito Fridays




Frito Friday is less than one year old and it's already a tradition at the Complex. It's an informal networking opportunity with Santa Fe's famous Frito pies and occasional programs in music, complexity science or a talk by a visiting scholar. Like much of what happens at the Complex, Frito Friday is quirky, unusual and the place to be on Friday nights from 5:30 on, depending (+) expand

Santa Fe Convention and Visitor's Bureau

Phone: 1-800-777-2489

Santa Fe Creative Tourism

Phone: 505-955-6215
Where: Santa Fe, NM Local Santa Fe Book Stores / Amazon
Creative Tourism: A Global Conversation






This book tells how to provide unique creative experiences for travelers worldwide. But what is Creative Tourism, how is it different from other types of tourism, why is it needed, and how do you go about developing it? You'll find answers to these questions and more in this book which is based on and draws from the proceedings of the 2008 Santa Fe & UNESCO International (+) expand

Santa Fe Mountain Adventures

Phone: 505.988.4000
Where: Santa Fe Outdoors
Outdoor Adventures





Santa Fe Mountain Adventures offers exceptional destination management and customized vacation experiences for groups and families.

Our innovative adventure programs are designed for parties of four or more seeking any—or all!—of these ingredients in a vacation or meeting:

* Experiences that foster group bonding or teambuilding experiences
* An exhilarating (+) expand

Santa Fe Mountain Adventures

Phone: 505-988-4000
SANTA FE GEOCACHING ADVENTURE
This is a ONE TIME experience
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)

MOUNTAIN GEOCACHING ADVENTURE - August 14th and September 4th

SANTA FE GEOCACHING ADVENTURE - August 6th to September 3rd

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Santa Fe School of Cooking

Phone: 505.983.4511
Where: Santa Fe School of Cooking
Cooking Classes






Santa Fe's unique cuisine is as much a part of the city's soul as its 17-century architecture. Warm, spicy tastes and enticing aromas evoke rich cultural traditions while contemporary chefs meld native ingredients with new ideas to create a contemporary style of Southwestern fare. At the Santa Fe School of Cooking, you can experience this delicious cuisine in depth, including (+) expand

Sunrise Springs Resort Spa

Phone: 505.428.3615
Fax: 505.471.7365
Where: Sunrise Springs
Ikebana, Pottery, Tea Ceremony






Weekly classes take place at the Sages Arts Center and are open to the public. No previous experience is necessary. Our classes are available year round and everyone is welcome. Class times and offerings subject to change. Visit is on the web at www.sunrisesprings.com for our complete schedule. The Sages Arts Center also offers special customized classes for private (+) expand

Tatenda Music Center

Phone: 505.474.6088
Where: 645 Webber St. in Santa Fe, and also on our land in Cerrillos
Marimba!





We offer marimba classes in all levels for ages 8 to adult. The marimba music we teach is traditional and contemporary from Zimbabwe and South Africa. We also teach mbira (traditional thumb piano), song and guitar. We need 6-10 people; group will learn a song on the marimba with or without singing, depending on the group’s desires. Email: beautifulonenow@yahoo.com for (+) expand

Tumbledown Studios

Phone: 473-0926
Where: 3214 Calle Marie, Suite A Santa Fe, NM 87507
Gymnastics for Kids
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




1 Year
Classes focus on interaction between the child and the parent. Instruction emphasizes building the strength, coordination, and range of motion of the child through body positioning and exploration.

2 Years
Classes focus on interaction between the children and the coach with the assistance of the parents. Instruction emphasizes acquiring new skills through following (+) expand

W21

Phone: 505.989.4423
Where: W21 on the Railyard
Santa Fe Teen Arts Center
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)



Digital MEDIA ARTS
Warehouse 21’s Digital Media Arts Program (DMAP 2.1) provides a "digital map" to the future digital-based art forms in an 868 sq ft upper level space. DMAP 2.1 will consist of a computer lab, a 400 sq ft recording studio, work force training in computer graphics, design, animation, 3D modeling, computer programming, web and video game development, online radio, (+) expand

WILD VISTAS ADVENTURES

Phone: 505.474.3452
Where: Northern New Mexico
Cowboy/Cowgirl Adventures; Dutch Oven cooking classes



Here at WILD VISTAS ADVENTURES LLC we know everyone deserves an adventure. Hearken back to a simpler time and enjoy the supreme beauty of rugged New Mexico with us.

Choose a one-day trail ride that ends with a Dutch oven dinner or a three day overnight back-country excursion and return happy and fulfilled.

Let us treat you, your family and friends to a truly wonderful (+) expand

WildMaker Art and Music School

Phone: 505.795.7331
Where: WildMaker Art and Music School
Art and Music classes for Children and Adults





Kid’s, Teens and Elders will delight in the ultra creative Santa Fe experience of cross cultural art and music adventures at WildMaker Art & Music School. Introducing this summer, THE SCHOOL OF ROCK, ages 11 to teen, private lessons by leading musicians in Santa Fe, performance and learning new exciting skills on an assortment of instruments. The large music room accommodates (+) expand

Wise Fool New Mexico

Phone: 505.992.2588
Where: Wise Fool Studio
Circus Arts






Have you ever dreamed of running away to the circus? Wise Fool offers the opportunity to ignite your imagination; not to mention stretch and strengthen your body in a fun and safe atmosphere! We offer hands on experiences in circus arts for adults and kids, puppetry, mask making and more…



Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
When: Ongoing classes and workshops run fall to spring – Women’s circus arts intensive runs May through June and Kid’s summer circus camps run in July
Time: Ranges from “circus in 60 minutes” to six week intensives and ongoing classes
Cost: Varies by class
 
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