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. You will have the opportunity
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to tour her colorful and art-filled home as well as make some fresh new art using one of New Mexico's greatest gifts, that unfiltered high mountain sun.
In this workshop you will work with your own image, be it a photograph, drawing, or image painted directly onto a transparency. That image will be etched onto a metal plate, coated with a light-sensitive polymer. The process uses two completely non-toxic tools: exposure in the sun and development in water. In addition, this process will introduce you to some general printmaking skills. You will have use of the Thomas etching press, and have some unstructured time for working on additional prints.
Don't miss this opportunity to spend a day nestled in a high mountain valley of the famous Sangre de Christo mountain range. Donna's home is on land that was once the old plaza in Chamisal. Across the street is the tiny adobe church that appears on the New Mexico stamp, with a stained glass window that is the handiwork of a local artist. Also, within just a few miles are the Sugar Nymph's Bistro, a now famous cafe located in the old Penasco Theatre building, the
beautiful Picuris Pueblo with their buffalo herd, Santa Barbara wilderness with animals rarely seen such as big horn sheep, as well as the studios of many contemporary and traditional New Mexico artists.
Beginning this spring (2010) there will be two types of workshop offerings. An all day workshop is available to commuters. In addition, there will be extended workshops that include two nights’ lodging in Donna’s home, for people who wish to have a true New Mexico experience. The second day includes a visit to a cultural site, such as Native Pueblo dances or archeological sites. Dates are listed on the cultural tourism calendar, and much more detailed information is available on the blog: donnajcaulton.blogspot.com. If none of these choices fits your schedule, contact Donna to individualize your experience.
When: Frequent workshops May 2 though July14, 2010
Time: Contact For Details
Cost: $325, two days with lodging, $125 single day workshop, materials provided
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 from Visitor
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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
We perform and demonstrate flute building in New Mexico (Available state wide).
We provide traditional music for local,cultural,educational,spiritual events,tour groups and private gatherings in New Mexico.Paul and Grace Jones perform original native flute music.They also demonstrate traditional flute building, using
all hand tools. Files, chisels,saws,oil, sandpaper, to build flutes.
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Paul and Grace build, Sioux, Apache Cheyenne, and Cherokee flutes.
Grace Jones is a graduate of IAIA, and a descendent
of Isleta and Picuris Pueblo. The Jones family is
working and performing with Santa fe 400th Anniversary.
We are also members of the American Indian Chamber
of Commerce, and have been involved with Indian Education
in Northern California and New Mexico.
Kokopelli Music and Flutes, can provide traditional
music for large or small groups in New mexico.
Cost: Entertainment $200 hour small groups, additional $100 for demonstration,cost varies on group size
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, trading posts,
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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.
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 basics such
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as preparing the wax, pigmenting, painting and finishing and techniques such as embedding, collage and transfers.
Cost for a two-day session is $350 plus a $25 materials fee. Classes are limited to six artists. Special rates are available for alumni of prior workshops.
To register, e-mail Harriette at: hftsosie@earthlink.net or call her at: 575/779-7941. The $25 non-refundable materials fee is due upon registration. Directions to the studio will be sent upon receipt of the materials fee. Workshop participants should bring a sack lunch or be prepared to share costs of catered lunch or pizza.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Where the wild things are! Nothing represents the southwest like horses and cowboys. Nothing takes your breath away like photographing them in their environment. Running horses, real cowboys that make their life wrangling, and the imagery of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico as a backdrop, combine to make an outstanding photographic opportunity.
For those interested in New Mexico's
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wild horses, there are several opportunities within easy driving distance from Santa Fe. Safe within their sanctuary, yet free to roam in herds, they live their life as the wild horses they were meant to be. Please inquire regarding pricing and availability.
Amateurs are welcome. Digital and film cameras welcome. Workshops limited to 5 persons.
When: Spring, Summer, & Fall (Early morning thru late afternoon.)
Time: Day Trips
Cost: $300 per person - (Inquire re: Wild Horse option.)
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Have you ever wanted to set the beautiful piece of turquoise or other stones you couldn't resist buying? Here is your chance to wear your rock and learn the art of silver smithing for jewelry making. You do not have to be of Indian Blood to appreciate and love their work. The Navajo Indians inspired me to become a jeweler years ago!
This is a fast pace class that gives you an opportunity
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to learn basic skills in silver soldering and stone setting while creating your own original work. You will have the hands on experience of using a torch, jewelers saw, shop equipment, hand tools and more. I work with
"Natural Stones"in Santa Fe if you need a stone!
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 all of
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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.
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 2
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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
Our two summer stonecarving workshop sessions are both 7 DAY intensive courses. Both Sessions are open to participants of all levels of experience, from beginner to professional. Director of the workshops, MARK SAXE, makes certain that participants of all levels enjoy one-on-one instruction in a supportive atmosphere and an unequalled opportunity to study with the best instructors in the
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field. For more information, please contact Mark Saxe at (505) 579-9179.
We are an easy commute from Santa Fe (about 50 minutes), and attract students from all over the world. In 2010, we will hold our 10th annual summer series.
When: July 12-18, 2010 & August 7-13, 2010
Time: Check Websites For Information
Cost: $850 for seven days including 2 cubic feet of limestone and homemade lunch each day
The New Mexico Potters Trail is a group of emerging and professional potters living and working in the Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico area. The Potters Trail is divided into 4 loops; the southern loop (from santa fe south to Galisteo and Eldorado), a downtown/ Santa Fe area loop, the Northern loop ( Dixon, Rinconada, and Ojo Sarco), and the Taos loop. We encourage visitors to enjoy
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the entire trail or to concentrate their time on one area as time allows. The Potters Trail guides visitors through some of New Mexico's most beautiful and historic rural areas as well as to the studios of some of the area's best contemporary ceramic artists and sculptors. We invite you for the weekend or just an afternoon, as our studios beckon you to experience the love of our craft, the opportunity to meet us, and the chance to take home a piece of New Mexico. For a full color copy of the entire New Mexico Potters Trail Brochure and map, contact us at; info@newmexicopotterstrail.org, or go to our website; newmexicopotterstrail.org
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 red rock formations
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of Ghost Ranch on the north. It is home to Christ In The Desert Monastery, the Chama River Wilderness, the Pueblo of Abiquiu, the great prehistoric Anasazi ruins of Tsiping, and the strange rock formations of Copper Canyon and the White Place. It is a mysterious and magical environment.
Nationally renowned working artists will offer workshops in Photography, Writing, Painting and Sculpture. Six five-day workshops will be offered this first year, beginning in June 2010.
Missions Of Northern NM-June 7-11
Honoring The Stone-June 21-25
The Abiquiu Landscape
The Personal Shrine-August 23-27
Exploring New Mexico's Ancient Ruins and Indigenous Culture-September 6-10
Heart Interpreter in Nature-September 20-24
The Writer's Vision September 27-October 1
The Personal Shrine by sculptor and photographer, Walter W. Nelson / writer Douglas J. Preston at the base of Pedernal Peak, beloved mountain to Georgia O'Keeffe.
“As we return to our origins, as we contemplate the dust from which we came from and the dust to which we will return, as we seek an understanding with nature of our place in the universe, we create a shrine in the landscape
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to honor a loved one we have lost.
“Using only natural materials – rocks, grasses, branches, flowers, leaves, colored sands, and perhaps ashes, we will each create our own personal shrine in the natural landscape in a place so remote it will not be known to anyone but you and the other participants in this workshop. The shrine will be created from nature, to return to nature; only your photographs, writings, and drawings will travel away with you.
Walter W. Nelson
Comments: This workshop is a combination sculpture, drawing, writing and photography workshop, by the same two fellows that retraced Coronado Journey in 1989 traveling 1000 miles / 70 days. "Cities Of Gold, Retracing Coronado" by Dougals J. Preston
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 Arts, Song Writing), HISTORY,
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ENVIRONMENT, NATIVE CULTURE, SELF IMPROVEMENT, SACRED and HEALING ARTS, ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES (EarthShip and Straw Bale Houses, Grow Your Own Food, Solar Power).
