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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.

If you are unable to attend otherwise and would like to request a scholarship to assist in covering tuition costs for your program, please apply at least a month in advance by filling out this form. If you have received a scholarship in the past, you are not eligible to receive one again.

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November 2024

Wilderness First Responder with Teal Harbin – G24110304

A wilderness first responder is trained to deal with life threatening situations that may be encountered in the wilderness. The training is principally geared towards lay providers, with little to no actual medical experience, though they are often already professionals in other aspects of the outdoors industry, like park rangers, climbing instructors, and guides. Wilderness first […] ...
18 - 22 Nov
All Day

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 […] ...
22 - 24 Nov
All Day

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 […] ...
22 - 24 Nov
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 […] ...
05 - 18 Jan
All Day

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 […] ...
05 - 25 Jan

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 […] ...
05 - 25 Jan
All Day

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 […] ...
05 - 25 Jan
All Day

Adult Service Corps – G25010105

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 […] ...
05 - 10 Jan

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 […] ...
10 - 12 Jan

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 […] ...
12 - 25 Jan
All Day
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