Need to reignite your creative soul? Explore watercolor and mixed media collage, make earthy paints with natural pigments, assemble handmade brushes – all while taking a deep dive into the art, culture, and real ancestral traditions of Oaxaca. Field trips include a Zapotec Sunday market, intimate studio visits with a master weaver family, a papermaker, a women’s red clay collective, and a gorgeous art center housed in a renovated textile factory. The art classes feature watercolor painting with Pedro – who incorporates personal symbols, talismans, Oaxacan culture, and the natural world into his work. With Corrie, experiment with mark making with India ink to develop your unique visual voice, and dive into mixed media collage for visual storytelling.
 
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Instructor: Pedro Cruz Pacheco + Corrie McCluskey
Cost: $3075 (lodging included)
Sponsor: Talismán Oaxaca
Website, email, 707-529-9050

Experience an unforgettable celebration of Día de Muertos in magical, traditional Oaxaca, with stunningly decorated altars, street parades with vibrant music, costumed revelers, all-night vigils in local cemeteries, marigold flowers, copal incense, pan de Muertos, and dazzling murals throughout the city. We will spend our days watercolor painting imagery and symbolic representations of our loved ones, assemble a beautiful group altar, and construct and decorate a sand tapestry. We'll go to a traditional market to collect altar decorations and offerings, make visits to two cemeteries where Oaxaqueños lovingly decorate the graves of their ancestors and bring offerings to share with their spirits. Additional field trips include master weaving family, alebrije (carved wooden objects) artisans, and women’s red clay collective.
 
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Instructor: Pedro Cruz Pacheco + Corrie McCluskey
Cost: $3150 (lodging included)
Sponsor: Talismán Oaxaca
Website, email, 707-529-9050

Join me for a five day long workshop in the vibrant town of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This immersive five-day workshop explores the dynamic possibilities of cold wax and oil through composition, structure, and surface. Working from intuition and observation, we will investigate the tension between geometric and organic forms, large and small shape relationships, edge, line, and spatial movement. Through demonstrations, individual feedback, and daily studio practice, participants will develop paintings that feel both intentional and alive. The following materials are provided: Cold Wax Medium, acrylic gel, newsprint, tissue paper, a variety of tools, paper towels and vegetable oil for cleaning tools. This class is open to beginners and/or advanced artists. All are welcome!
 
Location: Todos Santos, Baj Sur, Mexico
Instructor: Anne Hebebrand
Cost: $900 (early registration $800)
Sponsor: Anne Hebebrand
Website, email, 857-930-9849

Join me for workshops in the vibrant town of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. In this week-long cold wax and oil workshop, participants will explore painting as a process of discovery. Through layering, scraping, drawing, and reworking, we will develop richly surfaced paintings that balance spontaneity with depth and resonance. Emphasis will be placed on intuition, risk-taking, and cultivating an authentic visual language within abstraction. The following materials are provided: Cold Wax Medium, acrylic gel, newsprint, tissue paper, a variety of tools, paper towels and vegetable oil for cleaning tools. This class is open to beginners and/or advanced artists. All are welcome!
 
Location: Todos Santos, Baja Sur, Mexico
Instructor: Anne Hebebrand
Cost: $900 (early registration $800)
Sponsor: Anne Hebebrand
Website, email, 857-930-9849