This is summer art camp for adults. We create art, friendships and learn exciting new processes and techniques. A lot of action happens in these days. It’s like a semester of art school but even more fun. All supplies are provided, and the class size is limited to 8 participants. We can take impromptu side journeys because whatever we may need is at hand. The small class size makes for a lot of individual attention. I will be incorporating some of the exercises from my book, Awakening Your Creative Soul, into the experience.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sandra Duran Wilson
Cost: $600
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In this Intuitive monochromatic approach we will use ink, graphite, charcoal, carbon, oil pastels and encaustic sticks to create simple yet bold marks. The emphasis will be on working looser, but also focus on the use of line, form, shape, patterns, texture and edges within a composition. Mark-making expressions (gestural marks) help direct the artist to focus on process-oriented abstraction using patterns and emotions as a source of inspiration. Artists will create numerous 12 x 18 paintings as well scrolls. Finally, we will look and discuss composition and how this colorless painting approach, helps us create a totally unique and unplanned image that can communicate meaning and message. At registration mention code: MoEA for a $25 discount.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $225.00
Sponsor: Encaustic Art Institute
Website, email, 505-989-3283

Discover the power of the panel in this mini class. You will discover a multitude of mixed media methods using panels from Ampersand. Learn how to make acrylic behave like watercolor on Aquabord, more mixed media with Pastelbord and the anything goes Gessobord.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sandra Duran Wilson
Cost: $10
Sponsor: Artisans Art Supply
Website, email, 505-954-4179

This class is full of informative and fun exercises designed to help you create outside of your habitual ways of working. It provides the opportunity through lectures and demonstrations for artistic growth and personal advancement. Subject, form and content is discussed as a group and on an individual basis allowing each artist to find their own voice. To begin, we explore the line, contour line, negative space, through a series of directed exercises using ink, graphite, charcoal, and carbon. Then we will look and discuss the power of color and how it can add value to your composition and or artwork. Open to artists at all levels. At registration mention code: MoEA for a $25 discount.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $225.00
Sponsor: Encaustic Art Institute
Website, email, 505-989-3283

Neutrals enhance your paintings, edges provide sensuality, color adds excitement and value hold the painting together. Successfully combing these elements guarantees a painting will be dynamic. Held at Gwen Fox's private Art Sanctuary in Taos, New Mexico. Her 100-year-old adobe home is the perfect environment t inspire and renew your creativity. There will be private critiques that empower glorious breakthroughs while basking in a safe environment in which to grow as an artist. Limited to 10 artists. This workshop will fill fast. Each artist will have their own table.
 
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Instructor: Gwen Fox
Cost: $975
Sponsor: Fox Studio
Website, email, 575-751-0183

Discover the power of the panel in this mini class. You will discover a multitude of mixed media methods using panels from Ampersand. Learn how to make acrylic behave like watercolor on Aquabord, more mixed media with Pastelbord and the anything goes Gessobord.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Sandra Duran Wilson
Cost: $10
Sponsor: Artisans Art Supply
Website, email, 505-954-4179

Have you ever wanted to take the essence of the figure and present it in a way that is ssensual and thought provoking? When you are abstracting the figure you don't have to worry about anatomy but are more concerned with shape, value and color. Held at Gwen Fox's private Art Sanctuary in Taos, New Mexico. Her 100-year-old adobe home is the perfect environment to inspire and renew your creativity. There will be private critiques that empower, glorious breakthroughs while basking in a safe environment in which to grow as an artist. This workshop will fill fast. Limited to 10 artists. Each artist will have their own table.
 
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Instructor: Gwen Fox
Cost: $975
Sponsor: Fox Studio
Website, email, 575-751-0183

Melissa Harris, internationally published artist, author (99 Keys to a Creative Life) is known for her loose, expressive style. She holds an MFA in Painting and a Fulbright Grant in painting. With over 30 years teaching experience, Melissa helps you to bring soul into your watercolors. She will help you build a solid foundation including color, composition and paint handling - or help you refine existing skills. Daily demos individual instruction. No previous experience necessary. You may simply sketch in watercolor in your journal. Experience the beauty of Taos, New Mexico in its best season. Meditate and paint plein air at sacred sites to connect with the spirit of the land and encourage your creative visions to emerge.
 
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Instructor: Melissa Harris
Cost: $1,800 - $2,100
Sponsor: melissa harris art enterprises
Website, email, 845-389-5250

Translating everyday images into stunning abstract designs. Never be without a design from which to create an abstract painting. Taking images you see on your daily walks or in your home...dissecting them into shapes and value to produce abstract paintings that sell. Held at Gwen Fox's private Art Sanctuary in Taos, New Mexico. Her 100-year-old adobe home is the perfect environment to inspire and renew your creativity. There will be private critiques that empower, glorious breakthroughs while basking in a safe environment in which to grow as an artist. This workshop will fill fast. Limited to 10 artists. Each artist will have their own table.
 
Location: Taos, New Mexico
Instructor: Gwen Fox
Cost: $975
Sponsor: Fox Studio
Website, email, 575-751-0183

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

From tiny pebbles to mighty mountains, from smooth and round to sharp, faceted and jagged, rocks surround our world and make up much of the raw material of our planet. In this class we will look at images and actual stones to discover the rich variety of this extraordinary element, and using these as a basic design source, you will build a richly colored and patterned quilt top. Your design may be based on small multiple pebbles, soaring monoliths, ancient symbolic monoliths, or exquisite gemstones. Emphasis will be on shape, color, texture and line. You may choose to piece, applique, fuse and stitch in a variety of fabrics of your choice to create an individual quilt top.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Rosalie Dace, www.rosaliedace.net
Cost: $875
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

Each day starts with a different exercise in color and composition. You will work mostly in a 12 inch square format. These exercises can then be a start of a larger piece, if desired. Composition with Line and shape will be explored as well as addressing negative space, soft and hard edges, abstraction of realistic inspirations, etc. Critiques of work will be held each evening.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Katie Pasquini Masopust, www.katiepm.com
Cost: $825
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

Learn Susan’s innovative layering/collage method using your own photo as inspiration to make a quilt that pops! Patterns and templates will not be used. This five-day format is ideal for expanding on each student’s unique design. Susan will introduce different aspects of the quilt collage approach each day, using her own quilts as examples. Fabric selection and how it relates to the subject matter, construction, backgrounds and borders, quilting and finishing for display will be discussed.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Susan Carlson, www.susancarlson.com
Cost: $1,170
Sponsor: Madeline Island School of the Arts
Website, email, (715) 747-2054