This Enchanted Land / Photography Weekend Workshop / Starts July 26th, 2012

Discover the uniqueness of New Mexico — the high desert land and light, the different cultures, mountains and missions. For this weekend you can explore the Land of Enchantment, a place of wonderful and beautiful diversity of culture, architecture and landscape.The land and light of New Mexico, which have drawn poets, artists, painters, and photographers for [...]

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“Facebook ain’t the only one with a Timeline” with Shari Adkisson / August 9th, 2012

Facebook has recently come up with a “new” timeline. You would think that no one had ever used a timeline before. Well, timelines have been around for a long time, and can be used in many ways. A timeline can lead you to insights that you really never thought were within you, and you see [...]

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Inspiring Resists and Mixed Media Workshop with Mickey Bond / Starts August 20th, 2012

Harness the power of negative space and the absence of color by masking areas of your work with a variety of media and acrylic. Rubber cement, marbles, acrylic polymers, plastic wrap, string, and tin foil are just some of the materials we’ll use to create unexpected marks, zones and shapes.  Whatever your artistic style or media, [...]

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Basic Welding & Metal Sculpture with Laird Hovland / Starts November 10th, 2012

  This will be a introductory class for welding and plasma cutting. In addition we will learn metal shop safety, procedures, how to design a project and lay out of materials for cutting. Please bring a note book. About Laird: I’ve been an active member of the Santa Fe, New Mexico art community for many [...]

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Ancient Pottery with Bob Casias / Starts September 1st, 2012 (two weekends)

  Students will learn to make a coiled pot, apply white clay to exterior, polish exterior, paint a design with organic paint and fire the final piece in a traditional trench Kiln. About the Pottery and Contemporary Potters such as Bob Casias: All the pottery produced today by Bob Casias follows the tradition of the [...]

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Recycled Metal Art Sculptures: Welding, Plasma Cutting & Metal Sculpture with Gilbert Candelaria / Starts August 13th, 2012

As a self taught Recycled artist I’m offering a week long course of teaching those who have always wanted to know and learn something about welding and using metal working tools and techniques. Now keeping in mind that I’m a recycle artist, this class is designed to help that person who has a project or [...]

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Metal Shop: Beginners to Advanced with Brad Gray / Starts August 1st, 2012

This will be a introductory class for welding and plasma cutting. In addition we will learn metal shop safety, procedures, how to design a project and lay out of materials for cutting. Please bring a note book. About Brad: I graduated from Sacramento State University’s fine art program. My metal shop experience started when I [...]

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Basic Welding & Metal Sculpture with Gilbert Candelaria / Starts September 8th, 2012

This will be a introductory class for welding and plasma cutting. In addition we will learn metal shop safety, procedures, how to design a project and lay out of materials for cutting. Please bring a note book. About Gilbert: Gilbert’s business card explains that his art comes from “Converting Mundane Objects Into Art.” Every conceivable [...]

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Basic Welding & Metal Sculpture with Laird Hovland / Starts October 13th, 2012

  This will be a introductory class for welding and plasma cutting. In addition we will learn metal shop safety, procedures, how to design a project and lay out of materials for cutting. Please bring a note book. About Laird: I’ve been an active member of the Santa Fe, New Mexico art community for many [...]

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Sacred Geometry: Welding, Plasma Cutting & Metal Sculpture with Laird Hovland / Starts August 27th, 2012 (4 days)

Sacred Geometry: Welding, Plasma Cutting & Metal Sculpture with Laird Hovland / Starts August 27th, 2012 (4 days)

Welding Sacred Geometry Four Day Workshop @ Tarnoff Art Center. This workshop is designed to give students a basic understanding of the concepts of sacred geometry, and the hands-on ability to create several geometric solids in paper. The students will be taught basic welding, safety, and metal finishing methods, and will leave the workshop with [...]

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The Landscape of New Mexico / Starts June 17th, 2012 (5 days)

The light and land of New Mexico that have drawn poets, artists, painters, and photographers for over a century will be our focus for the week. In this workshop, you will walk this enchanted land with award-winning photographer Craig Varjabedian, photographing a unique environment in an atmosphere of adventure, exploration, and discovery. Craig has explored and photographed [...]

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Basic Welding & Metal Sculpture with Laird Hovland / Starts July 14th, 2012

  This will be a introductory class for welding and plasma cutting. In addition we will learn metal shop safety, procedures, how to design a project and lay out of materials for cutting. Please bring a note book. About Laird: I’ve been an active member of the Santa Fe, New Mexico art community for many [...]

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Encaustic Painting Beyond Beginning: Going Large with Ellen Koment / Starts September 24th, 2012 (Five Days)

Five Days: This is my most advanced workshop, and a unique opportunity for artists who are already working in encaustic to experience the joy of seeing there work on a larger scale, or to attempt any other expansion of their vision which they might like to pursue. We will address the special design and technical [...]

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Ceramics Studio: Pottery for Beginners to Advanced with Brad Gray / Starts October 6th, 2012

This will be a class on hand building and wheel throwing techniques with clay. There will be additional emphasis on decoration with underglazes as well as other ways of finishing your artwork. Please have some ideas of what you would like to create. I will assist you in finishing your creation. Please bring a note [...]

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Studio Arts: Instinctive Explorations / 4 Projects on Masonite Panels with Issa Nyaphaga / Starts October 6th, 2012

Studio Arts: Instinctive Explorations / 4 Projects on Masonite Panels with Issa Nyaphaga October 6-7, 2012 Sat-Sun Participants will work on projects on Masonite panels with Issa’s guidance. Issa Nyaphaga is a politically-committed artist and poet from Cameroon. His unique, political and artistic career has fostered multi facetted work: humorous drawings, caricatures which have landed [...]

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Poetry and the Earth with Robert Francis “Mudman” Johnson / June 23rd, 2012

Many traditional peoples believe memory is contained in the Earth.{as I do} Their myths and stories are nature based. Our culture has by and large lost this connection. In a playful collaborative atmosphere we will play in the earth and explore our creativity with the earth included in our process. I have a special idea which [...]

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The Ethics of Nature with Jane Shoenfeld’s Art Adventures in the Southwest / Saturday June 16th, 2012

Content will focus on processes and cycles in nature and the environment, which illuminate the processes in the therapeutic relationship and other important relationships. Using expressive writing, mixed media art and collage, We will explore ethical dilemmas, right action and personal and professional ethics through expressive art and writing. Jane is a licensed art therapist [...]

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Healing the Earth Healing Ourselves with Robert Francis “Mudman” Johnson / June 9th, 2012

In this workshop we will use {wet adobe} to experiment to explore questions concerning community,purpose, collaboration and healing. At this time of great environmental destruction,we can ask Mother-Earth to help us find ways to help heal the world we live in. We will mix earth together and play together to create individual and collaborative sacred [...]

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The Santa Fe Art and History Race with Artist for Hire / Saturday May 26th, 2012

Adventure abounds when you take part in this educational expedition! Hop all over Santa Fe and receive points as you mine for what makes Santa Fe special, and culturally different. Participants are given tasks to complete with points assigned. The participant who gets the most points will receive a special Santa Fe prize! This is [...]

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Creativity Play (wet-adobe) and Courage with Robert Francis “Mudman” Johnson / May 26th, 2012

We all come from the earth! In a playful supportive atmosphere we will explore our own creativity.This is a hands on fun workshop using wet-adobe to make individual and collaborative art.This is a learning of a fun process for artists and new artists and to learn about art as a process and not necessarily as [...]

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Intro to Encaustic and More with Ellen Koment / Starts August 6th, 2012 (four days)

This four day workshop will be an introduction, if you haven’t done encaustic before, or you need a refresher on basic techniques, For more advanced encaustic painters, it will be an opportunity to enhance your work with a variety of new techniques, including working up to 24″ X 24″. Individual instruction and criticism will help [...]

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Solstice Cleanse / Cleansing program with vegetarian foods, yoga and facilitation / Starts June 5th, 2012

The Cleanse of Santa Fe™ is an innovative, life-changing program that includes a vegan detox program combining Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs, nutritional supplements and raw living foods. The program has been scientifically formulated to give you the tools to restore, and then maintain a state of optimal health and vitality to start the New Year! [...]

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Studio Arts: Instinctive Explorations / 4 Projects on Masonite Panels with Issa Nyaphaga / Starts November 12th, 2012 (5 Days)

Studio Arts: Instinctive Explorations / 4 Projects on Masonite Panels with Issa Nyaphaga November 12-16, 2012 M-F, 5 Days In this workshop,  participants will work on 4 projects on Masonite panels with Issa’s guidance. On day one we will be working with an approach that Issa calls “Prehistoric Drawing” and another called “Touch Painting”,  on [...]

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Studio Arts: Drawing, Beginners to Advanced with Maureen O’Brien / Starts September 1st, 2012

Studio Arts: Drawing, Beginners to Advanced with Maureen O’Brien Sept 1-2, 2012 Sat & Sun This intensive workshop will follow the form and spirit of The New Studio School, based on the teachings of Hans Hoffman. We will focus on the nature of space, picture plane, tension, and movement. Students will learn to “see” form [...]

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Pottery for Beginners to Advanced: Hand Building, Wheel Throwing & Surface Design with Lynda Feman / Starts August 4th, 2012

This workshop will be held at the Tarnoff Art Center located in Rowe New Mexico. Students will have full access to the studio facility while attending the workshop. Suggestions can be made for reasonable lodging; Santa Fe has plenty of rooms available although the city is about 20 minutes away. The daily schedule will consist [...]

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Santa Fe Artists on YouTube: Healing the Self through Self Portraits – A Workshop with Amy Stein

This innovative class helps you find your inner artist/healer, with an exciting and eye-opening step-by-step approach to drawing portraits. Overcome the “I can’t draw” syndrome. No previous art experience is necessary. Through a combination of drawing skills, visualization, and guided imagery, we reach deep parts of ourselves previously unavailable. Together we create striking and meaningful [...]

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PERSONA: Self Discovery Through Self Portrait with Pablo Perea / Starts July 6th, 2012 (2days)

PERONA: Self Discovery Through Self Portrait with Pablo Perea July 6-7, 2012 Like snowflakes, each of us has a unique existence that cannot be repeated. Who are we? Art is one of the roads that takes us to those answers. This workshop intends that students learn about the history and different approaches of the self-portrait. [...]

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Pottery for Beginners to Advanced: Hand Building, Wheel Throwing & Surface Design with Lynda Feman / Starts October 15th, 2012

Pottery for Beginners to Advanced: Hand Building, Wheel Throwing & Surface Design with Lynda Feman October 15-19, M-F, 5 Days 2012 Explore working in rich red earthenware clay!  This intensive workshop will focus on hand building techniques and low-fire surface design.  You “choose your own adventure” by focusing on coil building, slab formations, pinch pot [...]

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Ceramics: Creating a Personal Ceremonial Vessel With Lia Rosen / Starts August 20th, 2012 (5 Days)

Ceramics: Creating a Personal Ceremonial Vessel With Lia Rosen August 20-24, 2012, Mon-Fri, 5 Days Create a personal pottery vessel using basic clay skills and influences from pottery of the Southwest. Guest artist Lia Rosen will guide you through decorative processes she uses in her own work in New Mexico. She will be mixing mica [...]

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Studio Arts: Painting & Drawing in the manner of The NY Studio School With Maureen O’Brien / Starts September 17th, 2012 (5 Days)

Studio Arts: Painting & Drawing in the manner of The NY Studio School With Maureen O’Brien Sept 17-21, 2012, Mon-Fri, 5 Days This intensive workshop will follow the form and spirit of The New Studio School, based on the teachings of Hans Hoffman. This class will be using a live model in the afternoons. We [...]

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Weekend Workshop: Woven Copper Sculpture with Rita Ross / Starts July 28th, 2012

Metal Shop: Woven Copper Sculpture with Rita Ross July 28-29 • Sat & Sun • 2012 $285 includes all materials This is a beginner’s workshop. You will be taught how use recycled copper cable wire and through simple weaving techniques make your own unique metal cloth by weaving and brazing the copper wire together. We will [...]

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Metal Shop: Silver Soldering & Stone Setting with Rita Ross / Starts July 21st, 2012

Metal Shop: Silver Soldering & Stone Setting with Rita Ross July 21-22 • Sat & Sun • 2012 $265 + $45 Materials Fee Call us at 505-757-3502 or 505-919-8888 to reserve your space today!! This is a fast pace class that gives you an opportunity to learn basic skills in silver soldering and stone setting [...]

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One Day Workshop at TAC: Metal Shop: Riveting Jewelry with Rita Ross / July 23rd, 2012

Metal Shop: Riveting Jewelry with Rita Ross July 23rd • Monday • 2012 $165 includes all materials This is a cold connection workshop that explores using rivets to join metals and/or non metal pieces together. This simple technique can be used to make jewelry with elevated areas, moving parts or multi-layered work without the use [...]

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Life with the Muse: A Model for the Creative Life / Starts July 23rd, 2012 ( 5 Days)

Join us as we examine the nature of inspiration, the eleven traits that contribute to creativity, visualization techniques and goal-setting. Why does the artist paint, sing or write? What inspires passion? How does creativity take possession of the soul, causing other fascinations to fade? And how do you sustain a creative life while living in [...]

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The Encaustic Art Institute / Free hands on encaustic demonstration for kids / available every weekend in May

Free hands on encaustic demonstration for kids every weekend in May Where: 18 County Road, 55A (18 General Goodwin Road) Cerrillos, New Mexico 87010 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 pm Cost: Free Phone: 505-424-6487 Website/Blog Address: www.eainm.com http://www.facebook.com/SFcreativetourism Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a [...]

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