This workshop will show you how to start with an original photograph, line drawing or painting and create a departure from its reality. We will do 6+ different exercises to explore the abstract and non-representational designs, these include, shape, line, blind painting, cubing, zooming, abstract still life. Composition, color schemes and a well thought out plan will be emphasized. A quilt design will be fully realized. Many different techniques will be discussed to help you create your quilt such as applique, piecing, fusing, collage, and painting and stamping on the surface.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Katie Pasquini Masopust, www.katiepm.com
Cost: $870 + Materials: $20
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

When you have outgrown the basics and the old ‘should’ and 'should nots’ of painting, then you are ready for Skip’s Not-So-Basic Basics. With fifty years of experience in guiding artists to their most authentic, personal expression, Skip Lawrence knows exactly how to get you there, too. These tools give you the creative confidence to break the old rules and make art decisions that truly express you! This workshop is the perfect way to become familiar with Skip’s fresh look at design language and art philosophy. Each day we will focus on a general concept of art that is applicable to every student no matter his or her level of experience, or preference for style or media.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Skip Lawrence, skiplawrence.com
Cost: $700
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

Join Sue for six days of folk art bliss. You will spend your first day getting acquainted with the beautiful ambiance and culture of Santa Fe, and spend the afternoon at the Museum of International Folk Art. The Museum is home to over 130,000 folk art inspired objects from over 100 countries. While there, you will gather ideas and become inspired to continue on the journey to creating a one-of-a-kind piece of art. For the next five days, Sue will guide you through the design process, specifically on how to choose color, and techniques of layering and embellishing. At the end of the six days you will have the confidence to finish your folk art original.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sue Spargo
Cost: $970
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

Spend five days in the beautiful southwest with world renowned watercolor artist Sterling Edwards. In this workshop you will learn a multitude of creative watercolor techniques and how to apply them when painting a floral, landscape, seascape, or buildings. Sterling's style of teaching is laid back, fun, and inspirational. All skill levels are invited to this creative and informative class.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sterling Edwards CSPWC / TWSA / WPA
Cost: $700
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

Design and construct your own landscape quilt, learning the key elements of design and experimenting with colour. The first project, a colour exercise, will be a small scene where the pattern will be provided. Focal point, perspective and other basic design principles will be discussed then you will begin to design your own wall hanging working from a photo, sketch or picture. Your design can be abstract or as realistic or anywhere in between. Consider piecing, stripping and mosaic options for different areas then using an overlay technique, construct your quilt. Fabric painting, fusing, invisible machine appliqué, free motion stitching and quilting techniques will be included.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Gloria Loughman
Cost: $770
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

This 5-day plein air painting retreat and workshop will focus on immersing yourself in painting and studying light and color in the New Mexico landscape. The week will include a day excursion to visit the Taos Art Museum and paint on the grounds of the Fechin House. There will be plenty of time each day to paint, with group critiques and demonstrations. During the demos you can chose to watch Kami paint, or paint beside her. Kami will share her unique painting perspective, knowledge and experience, and encourage you to develop as an artist. Evening dinners will include discussion of your painting goals with ideas on how to achieve them. Sunset paint outs will be a highlight of the week.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Kami Mendlik
Cost: $750
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

This workshop gives you exclusive access to Master Artist Michael Chesley Johnson in beautiful northern New Mexico where you will paint the high desert. Besides guided trips to his favorite painting locations, you'll work side-by-side with him in his studio, taking your art to the next level in this custom workshop. What's more, all your needs will be taken care of with private bed and bath and three meals a day. For only $1400, you get five days with Michael plus six nights' lodging and all meals. Plus, you'll be in a quiet home near some of the best plein air painting spots that include lakes, mountains and more. Two hours from Albuquerque Sunport, one hour from Gallup.
 
Location: One hour from Gallup, New Mexico
Instructor: Michael Chesley Johnson AIS PSA MPAC
Cost: $1400
Sponsor: Michael Chesley Johnson
Website, email, 505-303-0702

David creates highly detailed images for his award winning quilts by using simple shapes, and by letting the fabric create texture to achieve a ‘painted’ effect. During this workshop, David will show you how to adapt a photograph into a wall quilt, using hand-appliqué and piecing techniques. A simple subject with a nice detail works best for his method. A great deal of time is spent on tracing and pattern drawing, along with fabric selection - which is key to his process. David will also show you his appliqué technique for invisible stitching, and will finish up with quilting and binding options. This retreat is for quilters at an intermediate level, who have a basic understanding of appliqué techniques.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: David Taylor, www.davidtaylorquilts.com
Cost: $870
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

If you have worked with a gel plate* you probably have loads of pretty papers and are wondering what to do with them. Or maybe you have tried monoprints with the gel plate, but are not sure how to get beyond the cool techniques. How do you make the leap from pretty papers to strong visual statements? We will begin with a technique refresher by layering colors, patterns, and texture, creating a spectrum of collage material. Then we will move on to combine our printed papers with painting, drawing, and overprinting to build images. This class is open to those with some experience with gel plate printing.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jane Davies
Cost: $770
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

This workshop will be a combination of two of Carol's most popular workshops. First, you will learn how to turn photos of ordinary sidewalk cracks into beautifully textured, geologic abstract compositions. Please bring your printed photos of sidewalk cracks to class - Carol will also have photos for you to look at. The second part of the workshop will be devoted to making a landscape collage from papers created by you, the artist. You will learn to make a variety of papers to use in your landscape, including Tyvek, marbled paper, squeegee paper, multi layer monoprints, textured paper, embossed foils, and more. Let Carol show you how her "sandwich technique" makes composition easy.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Carol Nelson, www.carolnelsonfineart.com
Cost: $620 + $20 Materials fee
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

An art quilter’s most valuable asset is his or her creativity. In this workshop you’ll find creative thinking exercises. Beginning with an exercise related to the seven principles of design --work instinctively with color – explore creativity through experimentation. All works are small, enabling you to develop ideas quickly and freely. You will create paper map-like collage compositions through a series of quick "hands-on" exercises and subsequently make fabric constructions. The goal of this class is to allow you to create little spontaneous works that can become the basis for a final small quilted art map. You will develop these pieces using freehand scissor cutting, layering of varied fabrics, and other techniques to create an interesting work of art.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Valerie Goodwin
Cost: $870 + $10 materials
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

Join me in Santa Fe for six days of Folk-art bliss. We will spend our first day getting acquainted with the beautiful surroundings and culture of Santa Fe and spend the afternoon at the Museum of International Folk-Art, home to over 130,000 folk-art inspired objects from over 100 countries. During our visit to the Folk-Art museum we will gather ideas and become inspired to continue on the journey to creating a one-of-a-kind piece of art. For the next five days, I will guide you through the design process, specifically, how to choose color, layering and embellishing so you learn how to make an idea come to life, so you will have the confidence to finish your folk-art original.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sue Spargo, www.suespargo.com
Cost: $1,170
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

The basis of this 5-day workshop will be sketching and painting on location around Santa Fe. Basic drawing and quick, intuitive watercolor will be taught, and will become the heart of our Santa Fe journals. (And yes, Jane CAN teach you to draw, even if you haven't drawn since third grade.) Using the city’s Mexican, Indian and Spanish influences, we’ll draw flowers, buildings, farmers market treasures, and in Santa Fe’s museums to imbue our special journal with a sense of place. We’ll also carve original stamps, and collage in our journals. Our handmade sketchbooks will be filled to the brim with color, images and memories of our week in historic Santa Fe.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jane LaFazio, JaneLaFazio.com
Cost: $850, Materials: $30
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054

The basis of this 5-day workshop will be sketching and painting on location around Santa Fe. Basic drawing and quick, intuitive watercolor will be taught, and will become the heart of our Santa Fe journals. (And yes, Jane CAN teach you to draw, even if you haven't drawn since third grade.) Using the city’s Mexican, Indian and Spanish influences, we’ll draw flowers, buildings, farmers market treasures, and in Santa Fe’s museums to imbue our special journal with a sense of place. We’ll also carve original stamps, and collage in our journals. Our handmade sketchbooks will be filled to the brim with color, images and memories of our week in historic Santa Fe.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jane LaFazio, JaneLaFazio.com
Cost: $850, Materials: $30
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054