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Our workshops and retreats often go beyond traditional classroom style teaching by creating a space where participants explore in a non-competitive, supportive, and hands-on learning environment.
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November 2024
Navigating Paths of Transition in Life’s Journeys with Jeannie Bowman – G24110301
This course is based on Jeannie Bowman’s personal history of transitioning as well as her being currently engaged in a professional practice which focuses on people who are facing transition and change. In her many years as trained educator and spiritual director, Jeannie’s work centers on the subject of major change – that of debilitating […] ...
Altered Books In the High Desert with Kay Holmes – G24110306
Do you love to cut pictures out of magazines? Do you check if there are new glitter pens onaisle 9? How about looking through that bright bold gift paper? Have you ordered the latestwashi tape? Or do you dream of an artful, yet simple journal organized to meet your needs?How about a travel journal that […] ...
Color and Composition with Sean Hudson – G24110305
Learn to use color and composition with ease, purpose, and confidence! In this three-day workshop, we will deep-dive into color and composition and learn how to transform the quality of light, space, and mood in your landscape paintings. Topics include technique, color theory, composition, the art of critique, perspective, and personal style. Demonstrations and personal instruction will […] ...
January 2025
Introduction to Southwest Silversmithing with Jamie Halpern and Cree LaRance – G25010101
Introduction to Southwest Silversmithing is a two-week hands-on course (with an optional third week) in the basics of making silver jewelry (including lapidary with stones and shell for beginners and experienced jewelry-makers). Course also includes an introduction to the history of Southwest jewelry-making and its role in the culture and economy of the Southwest. Jewelry-making […] ...
Connecting Eyes, Heart, Hand: Plein Air with Natasha Isenhour – G25010102
A three-week intensive painting session, practicing intuitive as well as artistic techniques. You will be combining what you observe with your emotional response and following up with expressing it with your hand. My anticipated goal for you is that you will be expanding your skills as a painter and 2-dimensional creator. I will be pushing […] ...
Traditional Micaceous Pottery With Martha Romero – G25010106
This 3-week course will cover traditional pueblo pottery clay processing, hand building, cutting, squaring, sanding, slip application, stone polishing and pit firing techniques. We will use Micaceous clay that was hand gathered and processed as well as commercial clay. We will review traditional pottery shapes and their uses by pueblo people. With this in mind […] ...
Weaving At Trail’s End with Lisa Trujillo – G25010107
Northern New Mexico lies at the end of three historic trade routes that connected its population to distant lands to the south, east, and west. Where New Mexico did not have supplies of mined or farmed resources or to offer, it was able to support a lot of sheep whose wool was made into blankets […] ...
High Desert Watercolor with Sean Hudson – G25010103
Join me to learn the fundamentals of painting the high desert landscape in watercolor. In this three-day course, I will guide you step-by-step in creating your own unique vision of the enchanted New Mexican landscape that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe. Using straightforward watercolor techniques, you’ll explore colorful skies, distant vistas, and the flora of the high desert. At the end of the […] ...
Winter Arts Through Papermaking with Chauncey Foster – G25010201
The Ghost Ranch Winter Residency is 10-Day Program focuses on the exploration of papermaking, fiber arts, and journal creation through a variety of hands-on workshops and collaborative projects. Participants will begin with foundational papermaking techniques and progress to advanced methods, including embossing and cyanotype printing. They’ll learn bookbinding and patch-making, integrating these skills into personal […] ...
Adult Service Corps – G25010202
Adult Service Corps offers an opportunity to help Ghost Ranch with our labor and work, and it offers a wonderful time for camaraderie and fun. Service Corps members volunteer a total of 22 hours of work to the ranch in exchange for reduced room and board. We’ll have work that might require special skills, but […] ...
Experience in Silversmithing Open Studio with Jamie Halpern & Patte Raney – G25010301
Experience in Silversmithing/Open Studio is both a one-week stand-alone class for experienced silversmiths wishing to have a week of studio time with Ghost Ranch instructors available in the studio as coaches, and, this class is also available to attendees of the Introduction to Southwest Silversmithing class who are interested in extending their silversmithing experience. This […] ...
Authentic Empowerment: A Woman’s Path to Wholeness with Ellen Petry Leanse – G25010303
Stories abound about who we women are and how we fit into the big picture of what it means to be human. Yet “stories,” we see again, are as much about the storytellers than they are about anything actually real, actually true. That’s where this workshop steps in. Using science-backed learning from archeology, biology, and […] ...
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