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Is it time for a photography vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico?  “Art of Photography” Package with Dave Robinson / March 2012

Is it time for a photography vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico? “Art of Photography” Package with Dave Robinson / March 2012

Learn to photograph what you feel, rather than what you see. Santa Fe is one of the oldest cities in the United States. You can almost feel and hear sounds and feelings of days gone by. The light in Santa Fe is pure and direct. The colors are rich and saturated. The atmosphere is pristine, clear and dry.

What is pysanky? Find out in Santa Fe! Southwest Egg Decorating Package with Artists for Hire / March 2012

What is pysanky? Find out in Santa Fe! Southwest Egg Decorating Package with Artists for Hire / March 2012

Learn from one of the best egg painters in the country how to use those symbols to decorate a unique, Southwestern egg. With beeswax and candles, you will paint an egg using pysanky, a process that is 4,000 years old. In addition to having beautiful artwork you made, you will be educated about all the symbols you see in Santa Fe.

Book your hands-on pottery vacation! Stoneware Ceramics Package with Theo Helmstadter / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Book your hands-on pottery vacation! Stoneware Ceramics Package with Theo Helmstadter / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Theo Helmstadter teaches wheel-throwing, hand-building, glaze formulation & application, and firing techniques for cone 10 reduction. Want to learn to throw & assemble large pieces? Dig & process local clay? Explore new teapot designs? We’ll begin with a discussion of what you’d like to learn.

Spring Festival of the Arts at Ghost Ranch / March 12-25, 2012 in Abiquiu, New Mexico

Spring Festival of the Arts at Ghost Ranch / March 12-25, 2012 in Abiquiu, New Mexico

Creative juices are flowing at Ghost Ranch for two weeks in March at the annual Spring Festival of the Arts. Classes in silk painting, papermaking, building birdhouses, weaving, beading, writing, photography, jewelry making, painting, stone carving, landscape drawing and artistic welding are all offered on the land that inspired the art of Georgia O’Keeffe. Classes [...]

Book your creative vacation today! DIY Santa Fe March 2012 – Month long celebration of DIY and hands on learning.

Book your creative vacation today! DIY Santa Fe March 2012 – Month long celebration of DIY and hands on learning.

Experience the Land of Enchantment in a truly hands-on manner while getting to know the city’s art, culture, history, heritage and people. Santa Fe Creative Tourism and The Inn and Spa at Loretto have partnered to present our DIY Santa Fe – 2012 Spring Break Package, featuring fabulous workshops, classes and experiences taught by local [...]

Try your hand at glass art! Sushi on Glass Package with Glass Alliance New Mexico / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Try your hand at glass art! Sushi on Glass Package with Glass Alliance New Mexico / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Join us for an afternoon art experience where you will make your very own glass sushi plate and then partake in the culinary delight of delicious sushi exquisitely served on artisan-rendered glass. This art-culinary experience is fun and informal, leaving you with the opportunity to sample an array of sushi and your own treasured glass sushi plate to enjoy time and time again.

Santa Fe Light & Land / Weekend Photography Workshop Package with Craig Varjabedian

Santa Fe Light & Land / Weekend Photography Workshop Package with Craig Varjabedian

The land and light of New Mexico that has drawn poets, artists, painters, and photographers for over a century will be our focus for the weekend. In this semi-private workshop, you will walk this enchanted land with photographer Craig Varjabedian.This workshop is terrific for all digital photographers.

DIY Santa Fe Art Getaway Contest : What does the Spirit of Santa Fe mean to you? by Cathy Carey

DIY Santa Fe Art Getaway Contest : What does the Spirit of Santa Fe mean to you? by Cathy Carey

What does the Spirit of Santa Fe mean to you? The experience of the Santa Fe spirit is an organic, primal rejuvenation of my senses. As I approach Santa Fe, the first thing I encounter is the softly rolling hills of brush, rising into the mesas, tinted terra cotta and tangerine. Then I begin to [...]

Take a Safari in New Mexico! Santa Fe Safari with Glass Alliance – New Mexico / March 2012

Take a Safari in New Mexico! Santa Fe Safari with Glass Alliance – New Mexico / March 2012

Begin your excursion visiting an artist studio to watch a stimulating demonstration and then participate in a glass workshop. Continue with lunch and learn along with dealers, docents or curators who describe an exhibit or show, its genesis and particular details and material applications in selected works. Afternoon activities pick up the pace with studio visits…

Have a creative vacation in 2012. “The Series” Painting Package with Mickey Bond March 2012. Call Now!

Have a creative vacation in 2012. “The Series” Painting Package with Mickey Bond March 2012. Call Now!

Why do many artists enjoy working in series? Explore the benefits of creating an abstract series in a 2-day hands-on intensive workshop. We’ll use mixed media, acrylic paint, and non-traditional painting tools to liberate creativity & suspend negative judgement.

Art Workshops and Experiences at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico

Art Workshops and Experiences at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico

Ghost Ranch is a place where the elements of community, culture, light and dialog form the basis of a special learning process.Each year Ghost Ranch, sponsors dozens of exhibits, performances, lectures and other special events. Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu offers a Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour, hiking trails, two internationally  known Museums, the new Piedra Lumbre [...]

Start 2012 right with a Lampwork Glass Beadmaking Package with Donna Nova March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Book Today!

Start 2012 right with a Lampwork Glass Beadmaking Package with Donna Nova March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Book Today!

DIY Santa Fe – 2012 Spring Break Package features exclusive lodging savings of 20% on the Inn’s accommodations during the entire month of March, 2012. Guests book their hotel accommodations directly with the Inn and Spa at Loretto at our Reservations Toll Free phone number: 866-582-1646 or online. Guests reserve all DIY workshops and classes [...]

Begin your 2012 with a 5-Day Painting Package with Cathy Carey March 19th, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Book Now!

Begin your 2012 with a 5-Day Painting Package with Cathy Carey March 19th, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Book Now!

Make your work more personal by controlling the language of color, creating focal points, and discovering your unique creative voice. Students will work on location, do studio work, and paint from photos to create a truly unique process of putting paint on paper. Students can work in medium(s) of their choice.

Start Painting! Painting with Paper: Abstracting the Landscape Package with Mickey Bond / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Start Painting! Painting with Paper: Abstracting the Landscape Package with Mickey Bond / March 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

All landscapes, even highly realistic ones, capture only a tiny portion of nature’s panorama of detail. One form of abstraction is to focus attention on only two or three details. We’ll investigate simple under-painting techniques & mapping strategies that capture nature’s essential forms.

Choose a creative vacation ! Painting with Paper: Abstract Still Life Package with Mickey Bond in Santa Fe, New Mexico / March 2012

Choose a creative vacation ! Painting with Paper: Abstract Still Life Package with Mickey Bond in Santa Fe, New Mexico / March 2012

Explore the world of abstract still life through beautiful patterns found in local Native American pottery while learning the layering capabilities of banana, mango and mulberry fiber paper. Participants make their own small painting. No previous experience needed.

Plan your experiential vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico today! Experimental Drawing and Mixed-Media Package with Diane G. Rolnick / March 2012

Plan your experiential vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico today! Experimental Drawing and Mixed-Media Package with Diane G. Rolnick / March 2012

Create rich dimensional surfaces as layers are built up with the mediums and media. Any theme or subject matter can be explored or developed on paper or other surfaces such as canvas or wood. The goal of the class is to experiment with ideas through layers of information that will lead to discovery and surprise.

Valentine’s Day Glass Workshops with Dobbins Studios

Valentine’s Day Glass Workshops with Dobbins Studios

Glass etching is the abrading or roughening of a piece of glass in selected areas in order to produce a design. It is a way to produce a “frosted” design on the surface of a piece of glass, but it is much more than that! It can also be used to carve a design deep into the glass or to produce a shaded design that looks like delicate airbrushing but is permanently etched in the glass.

Participate in the rich textile heritage of Northern New Mexico with a Color Mixing Package with Robin Pascal / March 2012

We will learn about mixing colors with the eye, iridescence, which and how colors “vibrate” against each other, how light and dark affect the “look” of colors. This will be a lot of experimenting and learning how to create the colors one wishes. No previous experience necessary.

Try fiber art in New Mexico ! Microwave Dyeing Yarn and Roving Package with Robin Pascal / March 2012

Try fiber art in New Mexico ! Microwave Dyeing Yarn and Roving Package with Robin Pascal / March 2012

Participants will learn how common household chemicals are used to prepare all fibers (except polyester) to accept and retain the desired colors. Participants will take away knowledge of how to hand paint their own yarn, roving and warps for any future dye project.

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

Santa Fe Artists on YouTube : Color Mixing with Robin Pascal

  Want to know how to make the colors you want for dyeing or painting?  Learn about the basic primary colors used to create any color in the spectrum.  Create a color wheel.  We will use liquid fabric dye and watercolor paper to create color wheels, mix bright colors, mix subdued colors.  We will learn [...]

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

Intention & Manifestation: Work the Energy of Your Goals & Desires / Feb. 1st , 2012 at The Center for Inner Truth

Using visualizations and meditation, and other fun exercises, tap into what you want and clear away any mental or emotional obstacles in the way. Taught by Lisa Pelletier at The Center for Inner Truth. When: Feb. 1st , 2012 (Wednesday) Where: 826 Camino de Monte Rey, #A1 Santa Fe 87505 Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm Phone: (505) 927-5407 [...]

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

Intro to Self Healing - The Magic of Being Self-Aware / Starts Jan. 26th, 2012 at The Center for Inner Truth

As life keeps changing and shining the light on our shadow aspects to heal individually and collectively, it’s an excellent time to have some tools to handle the energy. Become practiced in releasing the heavy stuff so you can have some amusement while riding the waves of change. Learn a form of meditation using psychic [...]

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

Santa Fe Artists on YouTube / Spinning Wool with Liane Brown

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 [...]

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

2 day Winter Encaustic Workshop with Russell Thurston / February 11th & 12th, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico

This workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn the ancient art of encaustic painting from a master (for beginning & advanced). Day One: A thorough introduction to the basics of encaustic techniques, including formulas for medium, applying, fusing, scraping and blending the medium. Various tools and methods will be shown allowing the students [...]

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Sax Stonecarving Workshops with Southwest Stoneworks and Embudo Vally Arts Association

Artist Update: Sandra Duran Wilson / 2012 Workshop Schedule / Santa Fe, New Mexico and beyond!

2012 Workshops Only one spot left!  Spring Break Escape  March 15-16 Santa Fe, NM This is a two day class in my Santa Fe Studio where we will cover textures, backgrounds and transfers. You may also register by emailing me. Register Soon- filling up fast March 30-April 1 Austin, TX Dragonfly Gallery I love going [...]

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