Explore the fascinating process of making color with plants! Before the late 1800’s, all dyes were derived from natural materials, and New Mexicans gathered local plants and used imported materials, such as indigo and cochineal, to dye wool for their beautiful blankets.
At Earth Arts, you can spend an afternoon or a day learning about the rainbow of colors that
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are available through the natural world. Anyone who works with natural fiber or yarn can benefit from learning how to produce the amazing colors available through natural dyes.
Samples of everything that we dye are included; if you’d like to dye full skeins of yarn for yourself, you can bring your own material or purchase white yarn at Earth Arts.
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: Anytime; during the winter, we can work indoors with ancient natural dyes, and during the summer, we can explore the plants that grow locally and in Liesel’s dye garden.
Time: Half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
Cost: $75 for a half day private class, or $160 for a full day that includes lunch.
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.
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We have a well-stocked retail store featuring yarns, equipment and books, a lively fiber arts school, and a working studio where weavers and their works in progress can be observed. We offer a wide variety of fiber arts classes, workshops and other hands-on fiber experiences year round. We teach New Mexico traditions like Rio Grande weaving, Colcha embroidery, natural dyeing, as well as many other weaving classes, knitting, felting, basketry, quilting, silk painting and more. We schedule learning experiences for children on request. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff can tell you about the artists, traditions and fiber arts techniques of our area.
Many of our classes are taught by nationally known master fiber artists.
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
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from Visitor Information Centers, local hotels, and tour sites.
For more information about the tour, bed and breakfasts, cafes and restaurants, and other tourist resources check www.HighRoadNewMexico.com or call 1-866-343-5381.
The tour is conducted by High Road Artisans, a non-profit organization promoting arts and culture as positive, integral elements of communities along the High Road to Taos. Partial funding is provided by New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Tourism Department (visit www.newmexico.org), Rio Arriba County and Taos County Lodger's Tax Boards. You, too, can help support our artists with an online contribution at www.HighRoadNewMexico.com
Located on the South side of the city different, Jan's studio is open and light like the beautiful southwest landscape all around us. She will be teaching very non-traditional quilting techniques, applique, embroidery and beadwork to make a small wall hanging. There will be some sewing involved but a lot of hands on. Come and have some tactile fun with fabrics, yarns and
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beads and make a one of a kind wall hanging. A material list will be provided. Come experience a different & fun approach to fiber in the land of enchantment.
When: June-August-please contact artist to set up a workshop
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
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too numerous to mention, the shops with an array of cloth, fiber, beads, jewelry, and folk art as well as the Native American and Spanish art and craft. We who live here know that this is just the surface of what Santa Fe is about.
I am offering two workshops in my studio built according to Vaastu principles.
The first workshop is called “Finding Order In Times of Chaos”. In it we will explore principles of Sacred Geometry using the square, the octagon, and the circle. Through primarily working with cloth, we will discover what it means to create order and harmony. This workshop is for anyone who can use a sewing machine or is willing to learn as well as for the already accomplished fiber artist wanting to try something new. Materials list will be provided upon registration.
The second workshop is called “Building a Vaastu House in the Twenty First Century.” By using principles of Sacred Geometry that are 10,000 years old and have been used all over the world, Builders throughout the ages have been able to create vibrant structures that resonate with the inhabitants and enhance their health and well being. You will get to experience first hand an actual building complex constructed in this way. This workshop is for anyone who loves sacred geometry and has wondered about how buildings can affect us both positively and negatively. It is also for anyone considering at some time building in the future, or for anyone who has been putting up structures for many years.
Workshops are ongoing, and will be either two days, three days, or five days. Please call to find out details. Special requests will be given high priority when possible. A catered lunch as well as chai and mexican hot chocolate can be included in the price of the workshop.
When: Ongoing (9:30 - 4:00)
Cost: $60 - $75 per day. The latter includes lunch
Support creativity at its source! The New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails are your guide to experiencing the creativity of more than 250 rural fiber artists and fiber arts enterprises. The free 64-page New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails: A Guide to Rural Fiber Arts Destinations and handy pocket brochure offer a rich tapestry of more than 60 rural New Mexico artist studios, galleries,
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trading posts, cottage enterprises, training programs and creative communities. Farms, growers, processors and suppliers connect travelers with the vital agricultural base of New Mexico's fiber arts industry. Three rural loop trails inspire self-guided explorations along the enchanting back roads of north central, northwest and southern New Mexico, where each site has a banner indicating its inclusion in the guide. ‘Fiber network sites’ provide visitors with updated Trails information in northern New Mexico, at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in Española, and in southern New Mexico, at The Common Thread in Silver City,
The guide’s evocative photos, site descriptions, maps and essays shepherd travelers through an integrated cycle - from raw materials, through a medley of techniques, styles, materials and creative processes, to hand-crafted works of art. Travelers can learn about rich and age-old cultural traditions unique to New Mexico, such as Navajo or Rio Grande weaving, and Hispanic colcha embroidery. Innovative contemporary fiber arts may be found, as well as unexpected forms that cross artistic media. The trails feature wearable art, tapestries, art quilts, baskets, felted items, fiber-based sculptures, handmade books, silk painting and more. The guide's calendar of major fiber events, glossary and reading list take the visitor deeper into a historically significant New Mexico creative industry. Many sites offer classes, workshops and/or supplies. Wheelchair-accessible sites are noted.
The New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails were developed by New Mexico Arts, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with fiber artisans statewide. They were born out of New Mexico Arts’ commitment to creative economic development as an essential element of a sustainable rural future. We invite you to celebrate New Mexico’s diverse communities, lifestyles and landscapes through the rich textures of fiber arts. Happy Trails!
Visit www.nmfiberarts.org to download the free New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails brochure or 64-page guide, and for useful information on traveling the Trails. Or call 505-827-6490, or instate 1-800-879-4278, to request a brochure or guide by mail.
At this colorful fiber haven, you’ll find Robin Pascal weaving, painting roving or yarn, or creating one-of-a-kind fused glass buttons (Perfect Buttons) in her working studio. She offers classes in hand-painting yarn, weaving, knitting and glass work. Pascal makes her own mixed warp yardage that she sews into garments which are offered for sale in her studio. She hand-paints
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all of her wool, silk, mohair, cotton, rayon or blend yarns and rovings. Robin moved to New Mexico in 2003 where she relishes being surrounded and inspired by other fiber fanatics.
Handpainting yarn, any fiber except polyester, using fiber reactive dyes and the microwave. Participants bring their own fiber up to 4 oz, or may purchase fiber at class time.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
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,
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hand printing on fabrics and more in a relaxed country location not far from Santa Fe.
Enjoying the feel, touch and colors we create on silk is a joy and I hope you can join me for an afternoon of creativity and art our community of Santa Fe is well know for locally and nationwide.
Dress up in Santa Fe style with beautiful colorful silks. Learn a quick and easy way to paint glowing colors on silk (and other fabrics). No steaming or toxic materials. We will learn several techniques that produce beautiful colorfast fabrics. We will introduce pattern making with stencils. Materials fee covers a dyes and materials as well as
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2 pieces of silk fabric and a silk scarf!
When: Contact for details
Time: 3 hour classes
Cost: Cost: $65.00 per 3 hour class plus $15. materials fee includes fabric & silk scarf
This workshop will teach participants how to prepare and spin raw wool into warm, delightful and beautiful skeins of yarn, ready to knit or weave. History of handspinning and use of different fibers will be discussed. Emphasis will be on the history and use of Navajo-Churro wool, which was brought here by Don Juan de Onate in 1598. Learning in the traditional way of
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spinning, participants will also hear special stories and songs connected to the materials and seasons of this ancient craft. First we start off by carding the wool with hand cards..then carefully learning how to twist and turn the spindle to make the yarn longer and longer yet. How to wash the final product will be discussed as will dyeing and the various plants, flowers and roots used in history to create the palette of colors that are so loved. The workshop will be taught by Liane Brown a native Santa Fean who has turned her life-long love of spinning and weaving into creatively designed products that are "!
softer than imagined".
By learning how to spin a yarn that can be used later in a special handmade project or gift, takes a person beyond the magic of the Southwest and creates a memory forever. truly a lasting memory of Santa Fe
So come join us in beautiful downtown Santa Fe for an afternoon of history, spinning,and fun. Come and learn a Heritage Craft--Spinning Yarn!
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
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Conference on Creative Tourism. Held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from September 28 to October 2, 2008, this first-of-a-kind conference brought together delegates from 16 countries around the world to engage in a global conversation about how best to leverage the tourism sector for community and economic development. In other words, how can tourism be best organized and practiced to enhance economic benefits to cities, provinces, and countries globally?
* Paperback: 226 pages
* Publisher: Sunstone Press; Full-color First Edition edition (August 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0865347247
* ISBN-13: 978-0865347243
* Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Santa Fe School Of Weaving-Miriam's Well is an Oasis of Creativity in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, which offers instruction in weaving, spinning and knitting, and an incredible selection of yarns, tools and books for anyone interested in Fiber Arts and textiles.
Nurture your creative being: Learn color, form and texture in a relaxing and inspiring environment.
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Our small class sizes guarantee that instructors are available to guide you on your creative path through the fiber arts.
Founder and owner Miriam Leth-Espensen established this center 20 years ago after a 25 year career in weaving and design.
Originally from Denmark, she received her formal design education from Bezalel School Of Art in Jerusalem.
Classes are taught in the morning, and the store is open to the public Mon.-Sat. from noon to 6pm, when advice and help is freely provided.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Santa Fe’s unique aesthetic tradition and concentration of arts offer the ideal environment to visitors who come to be inspired. Once in Santa Fe one may want to acquire a taste of the rich culture of the oldest capital in the United States and, often, has the desire to get involved in something one is passionate about or has a special curiosity for. Our CreativeJourneys offer
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“learning” experiences, by visiting culturally rich places and by meeting the people who has a creative story to disclose, and “hands-on” experiences that present the opportunity of expressing oneself by working with artists who will share their skills and traditions. It will always be a mutually enriching and exciting experience.
After seeing and learning from the best examples of a particular art form through the unique Santa Fe museums, galleries or at artists’ studios our guests can immerse themselves in a personal creative and engaging experience in one of the following workshops: pottery making, weaving, Native cuisine preparation&savoring, jewelry creation, native herbs picking&mixing, photography, and retablo painting. Another way to become part of the Santa Fe scene is to go out in the desert and enjoy yoga with a professional teacher followed by a full cocooning experience!
Our tours, from a few hours to 2 days long, include a personal guide, lunches, entrance fees, hotels (when applicable) and tax. Cancellation is required 48 hours prior to the scheduled tour departure time. Transportation is provided upon request.
For more information please go to www.sevendirections.net , then click on All Seven Directions Tours where you will find Santa Fe Creative Journeys. Enjoy!
Awaken your creative self and become a “Creative Traveler”!
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
