DIY Santa Fe – Santa Fe Creative Tourism

This hands-on workshop explores creative techniques of coiling, twining, and beginning knotting to create multi-dimensional shapes with practical guidance & encouragement of individual expression. Learn and create with Ferne Jacobs, one of this country’s renowned artists who has work in the Smithsonian & Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lectures, teaches and helps students develop their [...]

Thirty outstanding New Mexico artists will be participating in the Spring 2011 Contemporary Clay Fair in Santa Fe, NM. The bi-annual fair is sponsored by the New Mexico Potters and Clay Artists Association. A common interest amongst NMPCA members is their love of the clay medium and their ability to create original, hand-crafted works of [...]

Julie Rose is nationally-known for her expertise in teaching beginning students how to make lampwork beads. She is thorough, patient, and fun. You will come away with a set of solid foundation skills and understanding–able to make your own beads that use your creativity for their inspiration! More on Gia Rose Creative Studio – Glass [...]

  Cathy Carey cathy@artstudiosandiego.com When I am under time constraints, I like to under paint a few layers in acrylic to save some drying time. Then I finish the last few layers in oil. You can paint oil over acrylic, but not acrylic over oil, it would peel. Most canvases are prepared with gesso that [...]

Need a marketing tool that you control? Love to write? Need a quick and inexpensive website that you can update? Join a monthly Blogshop and have your blog/website up in a weekend. Combining the art of writing + the technology of the internet, Blogshop is an interactive, hands-on, weekend blogging workshop. You will purchase a [...]

SANTA FE, NM – ONGOING CLASSES Class Rates: Semi-private lesson $60/hour (shared between 2-3 students) Dance Attire: ●  A long, full skirt with leggings, shorts or yoga pants underneath. ●  Flamenco or character shoes* ●  A leotard or close fitting top allowing full rage of movement in the arms and torso. Flamenco shoes, skirts, and [...]

  Often artists will create a drawing or sketch on paper, and then want to adhere it to a  stretched canvas to create a stronger support, or continue adding subsequent layers of paint. Here below is a method I learned from painter/instructor David True, who taught a workshop I attended years ago at Anderson Ranch. [...]

“Creating one-of-a-kind furniture represents a unique blending of the beauty and elegance of the natural world and that created by the human imagination.“ Website:  http://www.cvstevens.com Workshop Description   I studied furnituremaking at the College of Redwoods in northern California, a program renowned for its excellence in craftsmanship and attention to detail. There, under the instruction [...]

June 11-14, 4-Day Intensive: Thematic Evolution/ Revolution, Diane Rolnick, (material list) Saturday thru Tuesday 9:30-4:30 $300 +materials/ student directed/choose medium Artists, students, come and spend 4 wonderful days focusing on a thematic project with artist, Diane Rolnick, who will give you direction, inspiration, and facilitate ideas and give technical advice. Using any combination of a [...]

On loan through June 30, 2011 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, north side, adjacent to Federal Place. loan courtesy of Frederick Prescott and Prescott Studios, Inc. “Free Range Longhorn” 114″ x 125″ x 116″ Steel Frederick Prescott Life and art join to reveal a dynamic partnership in the work of Fredrick Prescott. The [...]

  This outdoor landscape workshop welcomes painters in all media to experience magnificent red rock vistas in Abiquiu, New Mexico with brush (or palette/painting knife) in hand. This exciting spot, where Georgia O’Keeffe spent the second half of her career, is located fifty miles north of Santa Fe. Emphasis in this five-day class will be [...]

3-piece wall hanging. 3m x 1m © collingwood designs This class will examine straight twill, broken twill, and twill on opposites. Within these three structures, students will explore many two- and three-color sequences, each of which results in its own unique design. They will apply crossed wefts (parallel and contrary motion) and clasped wefts to [...]

This course aims to introduce the integrating of traditional analog mark making with digital media utilizing drawing, painting, imprinting, rubbings, collage, mono printing or any kind of mark making and or creating textures directly onto paper. These images are scanned and manipulated using programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. Hands on class sessions and demonstrations will [...]

  As the spring winds howl outside my studio, I am thankful for the fact that it is not a tornado or that we are not deluged with rain (altho’ some might be nice). Between the winds, there have been some nice warm sunny days here in Santa Fe and even some brave daffodils appearing [...]

Universities and colleges are not immune from the need to speak visually and verbally about their image and offerings with a clear and unified voice. Especially in light of reduced state support and the corresponding need to operate more entrepreneurially. A successful visual brand, authentically voicing institutional values, can do much to attract better faculty, [...]

  Opening Night Party – Friday, May 13, 2011, 5-7:30pm at La Tienda at Eldorado Preview Gallery – May 14-15, 2011, from 9am-5pm at La Tienda at Eldorado Open Studios – May 14-15, 2011, from 10am-5pm Open studios will show acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels, mixed media, encaustics, sumi-e, fiber arts, glass, jewelry, sculpture, print-making, photography, [...]

  Non-profits continually labor to cultivate and steward donors. In uncertain economic times, this challenge intensifies — forcing non-profits to think strategically about ways to retain and grow their slice of a finite economic pie. Faced with this stark reality, a compelling brand is a valuable ally. Successfully conceived and deployed, a powerful brand identity [...]

Municipalities large and small have discovered the need to market their brand to key audiences: businesses, developers and individuals considering relocation. These interconnected groups are vital to a municipality’s success and those cities and towns whose brand message successfully spans this spectrum enjoy robust tax bases, public-private amenity development and an engaged citizenry. At the [...]

(Intermediate) Why do successful artists work in series? Learn the benefits of creating a series in a 3-day hands-on intensive workshop. We will use a variety of mixed media, acrylic paint, and non-traditional painting tools to liberate creativity and suspend critical judgement. Participants will create three paintings or more a day. Other topics will include [...]

New Mexico Artists for Hire teaches and entertains using art. We teach all groups, all ages, and all kinds of art projects. Dip into the culture and landscape of New Mexico using a paintbrush, carving knife, kistka, or a glue stick! Call us and we will work with you to create just the right art [...]

I like to paint a color underneath that will show through and be a contrast to the top color. I find this gives a more complex look to my layers. Some of the contrasts you can try: contrasts of temperature; warm and cool, contrasts of value; light and dark, contrasts of saturation; dull versus brilliant, [...]

There are two ways to apply a transparent layer of acrylic color: decreasing the power of the color by using water or by using medium. The first way, using water, is accomplished with a “wash” or “stain” made by using a mixture of water to colored paint in a ratio of about 8:2 (this isn’t an [...]

Ruth is offering an introduction to her improvisation physical theater practice, Action Theater, to the Santa Fe Community College. Through action the practitioner learns about the present moment, how to be HERE, unveiling themselves to themselves, one moment at a time, one moment leading to the next. Ruth’s exercises, physical, vocal and verbal, invite the [...]

On loan through June 30, 2011 at City Hall, corner of Marcy Street and Lincoln Avenue   Courtesy of the artist and the William & Joseph Gallery “Fat Happy on Stairs” 86″ x 56″ Powder coated steel Barrett Debusk Barrett DeBusk has been creating and showing art since his college days at North Texas State [...]

Photo © Jennifer Esperanza Starting on Monday, June 6, 2011, Santa Fe Children’s Museum will offer summer camp for the first time in five years. We are so excited to bring you an incredible line-up, including space camp, dinosaur camp, cooking camp and more. Please click here for details about the camps and for registration [...]

Bluegrass musicians will fine tune their ensemble playing and harmony singing while enjoying the magnificent scenery at Ghost Ranch. The Camp begins at 3:00 May 18 and ends with an open air concert and jam session on May 22. Instruments include guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, clawhammer banjo, and bass. Vocal instructions will include how to [...]

The working studio and gallery of Dave and Teena Robinson. Open by appointment and during the Santa Fe Studio Tour. We offer the opportunity to see a working fine art digital photographer and an Enaustic artist who is happy to explain and demonstrate the techniques of the hot wax medium. /there is always new work [...]

Free Preview Party Friday, June 17 Free Studio Tours, Saturday & Sunday, June 18-19 Santa Fe Studio Tours 2011 Free Preview Party (June 17) Santa Fe Studio Tours 2011 (June 18-19) An exciting opportunity for tourists and locals to meet the people who make Santa Fe a creative and “different” city as well as “one [...]

Engage your passion for photography with a SCHOLARSHIP! Santa Fe Photographic Workshops offers six $1,000 scholarships— two awarded by Nikon and four by the Workshops*—for workshops running between June and December 2011. There are also two unique, $825 scholarships offered for the Summer/Fall 2011 season—the Rick Allred Scholarship for Young Photographers.(*Special Note: Workshops scholarships are [...]

  “I feel that my life and vision for my work has been incredibly enriched and deepened both through the classes and the people I met. I wish I’d known about this and done it ten years ago; but I guess better late than never! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!” Cary Ellis Pagosa Springs, [...]

This intensive, in-depth 5 day course will cover the history, techniques and reasons for making monotype prints.  Each all-day session will be divided between demonstrations and supervised work time.  Updated methods for a wide variety of traditional techniques will be presented along with new experimental directions.  The purpose of the class is not to produce [...]

An experienced teacher and full-time potter, Theo Helmstadter teaches wheel-throwing, hand-building, glaze formulation & application, and firing techniques for cone 10 reduction.Workshops are individualized and best suited to students with some experience and a specific goal in mind: want to learn to throw & assemble large pieces? More on Green River Pottery Workshops in Santa [...]

“Santa Fe Current” – 2% for Public Art City of Santa Fe Permanent Collection  Located at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, south plaza, Marcy Street at Sheridan Drive   Artist Statement “Santa Fe Current” utilizes multiple forms of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout to stimulate flowing water.  This site-specific composition of twenty-seven carved granite fish [...]

Amateur entomologist Ollie Greer partners with Santa Fe Children’s Museum to present the return exhibition of 2,300 tropical and local insects of every size, shape, pattern, and color imaginable. Visitors will find on display the world’s biggest, smallest, creepiest, the most dangerous, the most beautiful, the ugliest, the most notorious, and the most exotic insects [...]

Located in one of the most beautiful and inspiring site in New Mexico; Abiquiu – Located one hour from Santa Fe – at the Stardance Lodge…Where the Earth Touches You Immerse yourself in the Spirit of this sacred site and learn to find Inner Peace. If you are interested and would like to reserve your [...]