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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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January 2025
Earth Body: Movement for All with Rulan Tangen – G24120501
Earth Body is a winter retreat of slow and gentle eco-somatic movement to reconnect your body to a sense of place through imagination, intuition, memory and multi-sensory listening. We will experience renewal with creative practices inspired by nature and the underground seeds breathing dreams into life. Reconnect with yourself through the spiral of branches against […] ...
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 […] ...
Adult Service Corps – G25010304
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 […] ...
February 2025
Earth Body: Midwinter Movement for All with Rulan Tangen – G25020101
EARTH BODY: Movement for All offers a midwinter retreat of “ Somatic Spirals of Sensuous “ : slow and gentle movement and practices that reconnects body to a sense of place through imagination and intuition, memory and full-bodied observation and listening. Movements for morning awakening, midday vitality, and night rest, will ignite full bodied sensations […] ...
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