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Painting Inner Voice Studio

Phone: 505.820.0603
Where: Studio at THE LOFTS
Intuitive Painting for the Soul
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






Awaken and free your creativity while you are experiencing Santa Fe. A unique city that stimulates and immerses you in brilliant color, pungent scents, savory tastes, luminous high desert light, and earthy textures.

Feel the creative urge rising – the urge to express! Now you can – even if you have never painted! Everyone is creative! Intuitive painting is a (+) expand

Teena Robinson-Shutter and Brush Fine Art

Phone: 505-983-6021
Where: Shutter and Brush Fine Art
Art that Waxes Poetic - Introduction to Encaustic Painting






Here is a chance to discover the mysteries of painting with hot wax. Encaustic is a process of using melted beeswax mixed with Damar resin (for hardening) and pigments to create a very versatile medium. The only restriction is that the ground for the wax must be porous. Unsealed plywood, bisque fired clay, 300# watercolor paper… all of these are good bases to work with.

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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

Ai Krasner

Phone: 267 269 8962
Where: 4441 Dancing Ground Road
Pre- College drawing workshop






Improve and advance your drawing abilities to empower your portfolio presentation for art schools! Start now to polish your skills. Pre-college workshop will focus on perspective, form and line as well as tonal studies.

Ai Krasner lived and worked in Rome, Italy and earned her Master’s of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art.

For Details
267 269 8962
aikrasner@yahoo.com




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: Call For Details
Time: Call For Details
Cost: Contact for details

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

Artists for Hire (C)

Phone: 505-795-8137
Where: Santa Fe, NM
SEIZE THE MOMENT WITH ART





New Mexico Artists for Hire teaches and entertains using art. We teach all groups, all ages, all kinds of art projects. Dip into the culture and landscape of New Mexico using a paintbrush, carving knife, kistka, or a glue stick! Call us and we will work with you to create just the right art experience for private or group experiences.

Artists for Hire listings are specialized (+) expand

Cathy Carey

Phone: 760-489-9109
Fax: 760-489-9149
Where: Artista Casita
Expressive Color Painting
This is a ONE TIME experience






Expressive Color Painting
5 days
July 26 - 30
Aug 9 - 13.
Class is 9AM - 5PM
Classes are in small groups - 4 to 6 participants

Private classes and group classes available please contact for details

In the tradition of the many artists who have found inspiration in Santa Fe, I want to share my enthusiasm for this place with other artists. I find (+) expand

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Daryl G. Colburn

Phone: 512-653-7117
Where: Artist Studio
Embracing Your Essence







Santa Fe! What a perfect place to "Embrace Your Essence"

In this two day Transformational Workshop you will be guided through a spiritual process of"Metanoia" - emptying the old to put in the new.

You will work with a hammer, a sheet of copper, an acetylene torch, and small hand tools. At the end of day 2 you will take home a sculpture; a piece of art that (+) expand

DC Arts

Phone: 575 -587-2721
Where: DC Arts Studio, 30 Plaza Rd. Chamisal NM 87521
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe








At the foot of Jicarita, the sacred mountain to the East for the Picuris Pueblo, lies the northern end of the "High Road" from Santa Fe to Taos. In Chamisal, one of the ancient Hispanic villages dating back to the original Spanish Land Grants, is DC Arts studio, owned by artist Donna Caulton. Donna's studio is an adobe outbuilding to her century old adobe home. (+) expand

Doro Tegnazian

Phone: 505 820-1636
Where: My Studio
Website: Tegnazian.net
ART TEACHER, Drawing, Watercolors, Pastels
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
I TEACH
DRAWING
WATERCOLORS
CHALK AND OIL PASTELS



Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.

Ellen Koment

Phone: 505-501-4620
Where: West Alameda St Studio; call for directions
New Mexico Encaustic Workshops






Art is one of the cornerstones of Santa Fe Culture, both contemporary and historic. The ancient technique of wax encaustic has had a renaissance, and many of the new encaustic artists are here in Santa Fe. Ellen Koment was among the first to work in this medium in the Santa Fe area. Encaustic has roots 3000 years old, the earliest surviving pieces being the Fayum Paintings (+) 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

Ginny Hogan

Phone: 505-984-8941
Where: My Santa Fe Studio
Learn To Make Handmade Paper




This one day, 5 hour workshop, will teach you the following:

• How to make your own paper
• Learn 7 techniques for creating images
• Use recycled paper and plants
• Make your own papermaking screens

When: Weekdays in summer; Weekends added in winter months
Time: 10 pm- 4 pm
Cost: $125 for a one day, five hour workshop, including supplies

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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

High Road Artisans

Phone: 1-866-343-5381
Where: High Road to Taos Scenic Byway, from Chimayo to Vadito
High Road Art Tour
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)





Come to beautiful northern New Mexico this fall for the 13th annual High Road Art Tour. On a lovely day trip from Santa Fe, meet the artists and learn about traditional, contemporary, and fine arts. Visit ten historic communities and sixty plus artists. Work includes sculpture, painting, photography, pottery, weaving, jewelry, crafts, and more. Tour brochures are available (+) expand

Jakki Kouffman

Phone: (505) 466-1800
Where: Santa Fe, Eldorado and surrounding scenic locations
Acrylic, Pastel and Mixed Media Workshops; All Styles






The natural beauty of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico has long attracted artists and students of art. The clarity of the light, grandeur of the views, and cultural amenities of the region all serve as magnets for the romantic and aesthetic at heart.

Jakki Kouffman specializes in acrylic and pastel painting, and she will share her painting technique and ideas with (+) expand

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

Jennie Cooley Gallery/Studio

Phone: 505.490.1155
Where: Jennie Cooley Gallery/Studio - Parking available
Create a Monotype




Make art on historic Canyon Rd.! You’ll be surrounded and inspired by some of the finest art and galleries in the United State. It’s art made easy, but more important… FUN! Enjoy the spontaneous pleasures of monotype on a vintage etching press with gallery owner Jennie Cooley. Jennie is a lifelong artist and her work in a variety of media has been shown in galleries and shows (+) expand

John Sherrill Houser, Painter/Sculptor

Phone: 505-982-9077
THE PULSE OF CLAY, Sculpture Workshop






Become one with Santa Fe's great artistic tradition and make clay come alive with internationally recognized sculptor/painter, John Sherrill Houser!

John received his early training from his father, Ivan Houser, who was Assistant Sculptor to Gutzon Borglum in the early years of carving Mt. Rushmore.

Completing his studies in Europe he lived and worked among (+) expand

LANRE BURAIMOH

Where: Contact for details
AFRICAN BEADWORKD PAINTING






African bead painting workshop with glass beads from the source.

Contact @ info@lanreburaimohart.com



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: Contact for details
Time: Contact for details
Cost: Contact for details

Laura Orchard

Phone: 505-438-4330
Where: Orchard Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Drawing is for Everyone!
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Are you passionate about drawing? Whether your imagination has been captured by the human figure or by the stunning New Mexico landscape, being able to express yourself artistically begins with the pencil.

Enhance your drawing skills by working privately or with a small class.

We can work in the studio from a live model (additional fee), from a still life, or we can (+) expand

Lisa de St. Croix

Phone: 505. 995 9909
Where: At my studio or on location.
Visual Travel Journaling
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






Would you like to deepen your experience of Santa Fe, taking home with you the beginning of a wonderful way to savor this and other travels? If so my workshop is a rich and fun way to enjoy our unique and beautiful city. We begin with a blank journal and a array of different mediums to explore - watercolors, pastels, markers, colored inks, rubber stamps as well as collage (+) 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

Marguerite Wilson Fiber Artist

Phone: 505-992-8206
Fax: 505 992-8206
Where: 9 Fido Lane, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508
Finding Order In Times of Chaos
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)





Santa Fe has long been a destination for Fiber Artists. Maybe it is the beauty of the landscape, the dazzling color of the sky, the mixture of the historic and the innovative in architecture, the wiggly streets in the center of town, and the exceptional museums and galleries that attract the people who come here. Or maybe it is the world famous restaurants with cuisines (+) expand

Mathew Rhodes

Phone: 505 983-2769
Where: Upper Canyon Road
Flower Painting
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Flower Painting by the calm Santa Fe River on Upper Canyon Road.

Time: 2 to 5 hours of painting

Member of the: "Santa Fe Society of Artists"



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: Monday through Friday
Time: Call for time
Cost: $45 an hour (plus cost of supplies... Canvas and Paint)

Medina's Gallery

Phone: (505)720-7076
Where: Chimayo New Mexico at Medina's Gallery in the Plaza of El Santuario
Traditional Tin Smithing
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






Greetings from Chimayo New Mexico! Spend the day with a family of artists, at the beautiful and tranquil village of Chimayo at Medina's Chile Shop * Cafe* Gallery. Enjoy the sound of music, the smell of home cooking, and the inspiration of traditional art! Meet the artists, and discover the hidden treasures that for centuries has made this village a scared & historic (+) 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

Nancy Reyner

Phone: 505-424-4128
Fax: 505-473-3752
Where: Nancy Reyner's Art studio
Private or Group painting workshops







Santa Fe is known for its artists and art community. Learn painting techniques and unique southwestern styles from the expert. Custom workshops can be designed to include painting trips and visits to beautiful vistas in and around Santa Fe, or work in the artist's spacious studio, exploring a vast array of styles from O'Keeffe's still lifes, through the Taos school (+) expand

New Mexico Wax

Phone: 575-779-7941
Where: South Valley Studio
Painting with Encaustic
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe






Encaustic is....HOT... Learn why. Learn how.

Painter Harriette Tsosie offers two-day encaustic(pigmented wax) painting workshops at her South Valley Studio in Albuquerque. Tsosie is founder of New
Mexico Wax, a statewide organization for encaustic artitsts, and has been painting in encaustic for six years

Participants:
will learn about safety issues, encaustic (+) expand

Painting Inner Voice Studio

Phone: (505) 660-3435
Accessing Inner Wisdom Retreat
This is a ONE TIME experience


When: October 4 – 7th, 2010
Cost: $575. Deposit: $100 non-refundable to reserve your spot . Double occupancy- Private room available at additional cost.Includes: Room- 5 nights, all meals, sessions w/Molly (group and individual), painting workshop w/all art materials.

Paula Roland's Encaustic Workshops

Phone: 505-577-6184
Where: Paula's studio and IHM Conference Center, Santa Fe, NM; Ghost Ranch NM; US and Europe
Encaustic Monotype, Painting, Collage Beginning through Advanced Levels






The beauty and light of Santa Fe has attracted artists for ages. Santa Fe, with world-class galleries and museums, is a mecca for contemporary artists. Paula Roland is renowned for her encaustic works and workshops which have attracted artists from four continents and all across the US. Santa Fe galleries and land are a great resource for Paula's innovative encaustic (+) expand

Pojoaque River Art Tour

Phone: 505-455-3496
Where: Nambe and Pojoaque, Pojoaque Pueblo to San Ildefonso Pueblo
Pojoaque River Art Tour
This is a ONE TIME experience
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)




Sixteen miles north of Santa Fe, The Pojoaque River Art Tour, known for its tri-cultural nature, professionalism and the quality, freshness, and variety of its exhibitors, is a terrific small tour of the artists and artisans of the Pojoaque Valley, doable in a day, by car or bicycle. The route includes homes and studios and vineyards from Pojoaque Pueblo to San Ildefonso Pueblo, (+) expand

Sabra Sowell-Lovejoy

Phone: 505-689-2362
Where: Ojo Sarco, NM. or I travel within a 60 mile radius.
Learn or Improve art skills, any medium.







Come experience the magnificent High Road to Taos while learning a new art form or improving upon one you already know. The rich artistic heritage and the spectacular landscape of the Santa Fe area have prompted many artist to move there. Be one of those artist for a day and learn traditional or contemporary jewelry, drawing, painting, pastel, mixed-media or watercolor. (+) expand

Sacred artist Mavis Gewant at Transcendence Design

Phone: 505.984.0108
Where: Transcendence Design
Goddesses Yantra Painting Workshop: Lakshmi, Saraswati, Durga, Kali






Visual arts and meditative world spirituality traditions have been vital factors in northern NM in the 20th-21st centuries. Students in this sacred art painting workshop will explore 4 different energies of the Goddess or Divine Mother: Durga, Saraswati, Kali and Lakshmi, our strength, creativity, knowledge, transformation and prosperity. By constructing her yantra and (+) expand

Sande Anderson

Phone: 505 466 4688
Where: My home in Eldorado, Santa Fe
Silk Painting
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)






Santa Fe has a rich tradition of fiber and textile arts. Silk painting is another extension of working with textiles and organic fabrics.

We will create, design and complete two scarves. We practice safe ways of dyeing fabric for quilting, clothing and wall hangings.

When making the scarves we will learn about resist techniques on silk, shibori techniques, (+) expand

Sandra Duran Wilson

Phone: 505.438.3775
Where: Santa Fe in private studio, email or call for directions
Mixed Media Collage Workshops







Mixed Media Collage is the art of incorporating paint, pastel, drawing, textures and found materials by gluing and layering onto canvas or paper. You will also learn transfer techniques using your own photographs or found imagery. We work with color and composition to assist you in the creative process. Capture and translate your Santa Fe experience visually.

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Santa Fe Community College

Phone: 505.428.1253
Workshops, Classes and Experiences in Santa Fe, New Mexico




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

Tony O'Brien, Candyce Garrett, Alexandra Morosco, Walter W. Nelson, Jerry Courvoisier, Ciel Bergman, Douglas Preston

Phone: 505-685-0921
Where: The Abiquiu Inn, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Abiquiu Workshops
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe







This year, 2010, marks the beginning of THE ABIQUIU WORKSHOPS headquartered in Abiquiu, New Mexico, on the Chama River, 45 miles north west of Santa Fe, N.M. This is the area where Georgia O’Keeffe lived and worked, where the Jemez Mountains meet the Chama River where the vast expanses of the Piedra Lumbre Valley are bounded by Pedernal Peak on the south and the (+) expand

Valdes Art School

Phone: 505.982.0017
Where: Valdes Art School
Valdes Art Workshops







The Valdes Corporation opened a frame shop and art supply store in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1979. Daily art classes were started in 1980. In 1983, the summer workshops began and a new art studio was built.
Beginning the last day of March, 2009, Valdes' spring art classes will be in full swing, featuring experienced instructors who are working artists. Please check (+) 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

William Preston

Phone: (505)455-3496
Where: Preston/Hornbuckle Fine Art
Sumi-e Dojo (Intensive)
This is for ADULTS ONLY




A life-long professional artist, 30 years of it in NM, William Preston now interprets the familiar landscape of New Mexico in sumi-e and Chinese watercolor on rice paper.

Enjoy a day learning to use sumi ink and brush on rice paper, exploring basic techniques and how Mr. Preston interprets Southwest Flora and the landscape with an ancient Oriental traditional art form. (+) expand

Xperience Taos

Phone: 575-770-6798
Where: Taos, New Mexico
Workshops in Taos, New Mexico
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe








Taos....clean air, blue sky, creative interesting people, scenic vistas, beautiful rainbows and sunsets.Taos has more creative and cultural activities per capita than any place in the world.

Check out our workshop schedule at www.XperienceTaos.com.

Workshop categories include: VISUAL ART (Fiber art, Fine Art, Photography), CREATIVITY (Culinary, Literary (+) expand
 
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