Art
Estudio Corazon
Introduction to Silversmithing
With Sandy Binion and Kathy Shann
Traditional Yoruba Adire Eleko &Tie-Dye with Indigo
With Gasali Adeyemo
What Our Souls Long to Say
With Grace Ji-Sun Kim and William Mark Koenig
Drawing From Nature: Bones & Blossoms
With Helen Byers
Color & Composition with Sean Hudson
With Sean Hudson
Writing Ourselves Home
With Raisa Tolchinsky
Block Printing
With Nicki Stewart
Pilgrim’s Progress: My Story Too?
With Dr. Jim Miller
Centering: On and Off the Wheel
With Barbara Campbell
Watercolor I
With Patsy Welch
Fire it Up! Art Welding
With Connie B Burkhart
Intro to Southwest Silversmithing
With Jamie Halpern and Patte Ranney
Plein Air Oil Painting
With Juliana Crownover
Weave the Colors of Ghost Ranch
With Sarah Webster and Sarah Noggle
Weave dishtowels with the colors of cliffs and mesas, turquoise, sky, sun, sand, and rock. Pick your pattern of stripes or plaids, then select your colors: brilliant, muted, or the myriad hues you mix in-between to remind you of your visit to Ghost Ranch. All levels are welcome.
Coiling: Ancient Basketry Modern Twist
With Robin Przybysz
Eco Printmaking: Milk Carton Intaglio
Painting Strategies for Invention & Inspiration
With KB Jones
Finding Joy with Watercolor
With Sean Hudson
Fire it Up! Art Welding
With Connie B Burkhart
Stained Glass: A Glass Act
With Paul Bareis-Golumb
Plein Air Pastel Sketching
With Juliana Crownover
Tactile Text Textile
With Sarah Noggle and Sarah Webster
Quilting: Easy as 1, 2, 3
With Ronnie Ashford
Ranch Clay
With Barbara Campbell
Printed, Stitched & Bound
Beginning Silversmithing & Open Studio
With Patte Ranney
Students will learn the basic skills of Southwest-style silversmithing in the well-equipped Ghost Ranch silver studio. Hands-on instruction covers safe use of basic smithing tools, sawing, soldering, stone-setting, and finishing. Experienced students who already have basic silversmithing skills may work independently, with optional coaching. All students will leave with multiple pieces of functional or wearable […]
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
With Julie Shelton Snyder
Watercolor II: Beyond the Basics
With Patsy Welch
Fire it Up! Art Welding
With Connie B Burkhart
Advanced Silversmithing: Lapidary and Inlay
With Jamie Halpern and Susie Sawin
Visual Journaling: Creativity & Resilience
With Kelly Finnerty and Edie Scott Hoffman
Abstracted landscapes - Cold Wax & Mixed Media
With Juliana Crownover
Quilting: Georgia’s Heavenly Stars!
With Ronnie Ashford
Georgia O'Keeffe loved the red and gray hills of Ghost Ranch, and the glorious night skies. She would climb onto the top of her house and lay on the roof and watch the night skies. So, let’s join Georgia in creating a few quilted stars. All skill levels of quilters are welcome, even those "brand […]
The Art of Making Children’s Books
With Colter Jackson
Welding for Women
With Connie B Burkhart
Intro to Southwest Silversmithing & Open Studio
With Jamie Halpern and Patte Ranney
Architectural Illustrations & Home Portraits
With Rick Bartholomew
Traditional Yoruba Batik: Focus on Multiple Colors
With Gasali Adeyemo
Sew Happy Service Corps
With Ronnie Ashford
Fused Glass Landscapes
With Katrina Jameson
An Introduction to Infrared Photography
With Kent Bowser
Collage Intensive with Gelli-Plate Printing
With Carla Aurich
High Desert Watercolor
With Sean Hudson
Ghost Ranch ASL Weekend
With Joi Holsapple and ShaShonie Reins
Interlaced: Paper Weaving in the High Desert
With Mandy Hansen
Writers Roundup
With Lesley Poling-Kempes and Robin McLean
Cyanotypes with the Sun: Creative Practice with Place & Presence
With Carol Schrader
Animated Stained Glass
With Joseph Cavalieri
Contemporary Southwest Silver
With Bill Derrevere
Flowers for Georgia: O’Keeffe Inspired Quilting
With Patsy Bailey
Chimayo Weaving
With Lisa Trujillo
The Poetry of Presence
With Raisa Tolchinsky
Self Discovery Through Memoir
With Deborah Taffa
Southwest Native Traditions in Metalsmithing
With Steve LaRance
Join award winning artists Steve Wikviya LaRance (Hopi) and Cree LaRance (Hopi – Tewa) for a journey into the history and metal-smithing techniques of Southwestern Jewelry. This class will incorporate the techniques of Tufa Casting as well as stamp work as you create pieces of jewelry with timeless appeal. Items can be created with silver, […]
Estudio Corazon
Ghost Ranch Colour from Earth
With Nicki Heenan
The Art of Illumination
With Behnaz Karjoo
Women in Silver
With Sandy Binion and Kathy Shann
Making Friends with Your DSLR
With Sandy Kaplan
Welding for Women
With Connie B Burkhart
Drawing with Stitches
With Robin Przybysz
Practically Painting with O’Keeffe
With Anna Koster
Experience an unparalleled adventure in the landscape that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe, As we walk in her footsteps — literally and figuratively- the instructor will explain the philosophy that guided O’Keeffe’s painting and lead you through steps that she used to “fill a space in a beautiful way.” We will focus on the compositional elements of […]
Sketchbook: Art Form and Legacy
With Laura Hunt
Through this workshop, I invite you to see your sketchbook not as a preparatory tool, but as a complete and meaningful body of work. Each sketchbook becomes a visual record of your experiences—unified by a personal theme, shaped by observation, reflection, and memory. Over time, this practice can transform how you build skills, capture moments, […]
Estudio Corazon
Drawing From Nature: Bones and Blossoms
With Helen Byers
At Ghost Ranch, Georgia O’Keeffe found inspiration in the desert around her. Flowers and animal bones were among her favorite subjects. Here is your chance to explore how the same subjects inspire YOU. Refine your realistic drawing skills with 5 days & 6 nights in residence at historic Casa del Sol, amid the spectacular landscape […]
Writing and Taiji for Balance
With Mónica Gómez
Writing and Taiji for Balance merges two uniquely effective methods for quieting the mind, connecting with the environment, and inviting valuable mental, emotional, physical and spiritual insights. Writing topics will engage the senses with the remarkable surroundings of Ghost Ranch, while basic principles of the ancient martial art of taiji will open new ways to […]
Color & Composition with Sean Hudson
With Sean Hudson
Fire it Up! Art Welding
With Connie B Burkhart
Slow Stitch: Textile Collage
With Robin Przybysz
Textile collage uses layered fabrics and mixed materials to symbolize themes of memory, identity, and social commentary, often embracing imperfections to highlight the value of personal narratives or reclaimed materials. Techniques like stitching and patchwork convey themes of healing, cultural history, and resistance, with artists transforming discarded fragments into new, meaningful compositions. Common techniques often […]
The View Camera
With Kent Bowser and Daniel Mainzer
Step into the world of large-format photography with this hands-on, immersive workshop centered on the 4×5 view camera. Discover the magic of working with large negatives as you learn essential camera movements, master sheet film processing, and craft beautiful prints from your own work in the Ghost Ranch darkroom. You’ll also gain insight into location […]
Collage and Painting
With Suzanne Sbarge
Collage has a rich history and is used by contemporary artists around the world today. It can be a liberating and adventurous way of working that is full of surprises, guided by intuition and the unconscious. Collage is often associated with the Dada movement (born in Europe during World War I), which is known for […]
Abstract Landscape Panting
With Zoë Pawlak
Set within the expansive high desert of Ghost Ranch, this three-day immersive workshop invites painters to engage landscape as both subject and source. The land becomes a catalyst for observation, abstraction, and intuitive response. Come and be inspired by the very land that inspired Georgia O’Keefe. Join Canadian painter, Zoë Pawlak, for an intensive studio […]
Somatic Writing: Accessing the Wisdom of Our Bodies
With Carrie Nassif
Reading Poets, Writing Poems
With Anita Skeen
Theodore Roethke wrote in his poem, “The Waking,” “I learn by going where I have to go.” As poets, in order to perfect our craft and become more accomplished writers, we need to go to the work of other poets. We need to study how poets we admire address themes and subjects important to us. […]
Building A Writing Life at Midlife
Building A Writing Life at Midlife (and Beyond!) is all about making the commitment to write as the first and most important step in transforming your dream into reality. It’s never too late to find your voice. The class will focus on the craft and discipline of writing — the practice itself. Like any creative, […]
Making Moments into Memoir
With Colleen Anderson
“Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.” — Eudora Welty, from One Writer’s Beginnings Eudora Welty was right. But it’s not only children whose memories are fragmentary, like snapshots. For many or most of us, the significant times of our lives appear as […]
Contemporary Southwest Jewelry
With Bill Derrevere
This course is designed to develop skills related to making silver jewelry. We will introduce jewelry tools and how to use them. We will explain silver soldering and discuss the torch. Surface embellishment (stamping, hammer techniques and hand engraving) will be demonstrated. Looking forward to your designing and problem solving. I am excited to share […]
Powerful Storytelling: Words & Images
With Beverly Army Williams and Gale Zucker
How does place affect the story we tell? The way we tell the story? With Ghost Ranch and the high desert as our playground, we will explore the connections of place to story, and of words to images. Participants will use their phone cameras in sophisticated and artful ways, creating narrative imagery about their Ghost […]
Don’t Work Too Hard! An Advanced Fiction Workshop
With Beth Morgan
The number one thing I hear from my writing students is that they want “accountability”—in other words, they want to be forced to get writing done. And yet, while writing workshops provide helpful deadlines, they can also paralyze creativity. Workshops are often where fiction can start to feel like “work.” Once it’s time to listen to and incorporate feedback, the next stage of writing can feel daunting, and the excitement that led you to produce a piece of work might feel unavailable, or worse, crushed. This class takes as its starting point the idea that writing should never be a […]
A LIttle Lighting: Writing Flash Nonfiction
With Marin Sardy
In this generative writing course, we’ll delve into the pleasure and potency of flash nonfiction. Defined as stand-alone nonfiction prose of less than 1000 words, flash nonfiction is an emerging form that seeks to capture life’s richness in a small space. It aligns in some ways with flash fiction and prose poetry, but it is […]
Writing a 10-Minute Play
With Kate Snodgrass
The ten-minute play is the ode/short story of the Theatre, and it’s a true community-builder. Like a box of crackerjacks—we can’t “eat” just one. If you’re a Teacher or a Church Program Director or just a lover of Theatre, in this safe place we may explore family connections, we might bring historical events and Bible […]
The Art and Craft of the Personal Essay
With Beth Kelley and Susan Dwyer
This is an innovative workshop in “essaying” – the practice of discovering what we think about ourselves, others, and the world through writing and creative artistic practices. Together, we’ll explore various approaches to the written essay. In daily craft sessions we’ll cover the fundamentals including voice, perspective, and connecting the personal to the universal. Throughout the week, […]
Estudio Corazon
Creative Retreat for Days of the Dead
With Helen Byers
Days of the Dead (Días de los Muertos) is the Latin American holiday coinciding with Halloween, All Souls’ Day, and All Saints’ Day. It is both a shared acknowledgment of death’s reality and a celebration of lives of deceased loved ones. Come explore the creative whimsy and dark humor, cultural history and creative arts of […]
Plein Air
With Natasha Isenhour
What better place than Ghost Ranch to hone your plein air chops with the grand vistas and beautiful, endlessly interesting skies? Prepare to spend a week learning how to capture the essence of your view through demonstration and one on one guidance. Composition, value and temperature (color) are at the core of all my classes […]
Elemental Shield Work
With Elizabeth Warson
Elemental Shield Work is a land-based, mixed media workshop that integrates embodied awareness, ecological belonging, and creative response to collective strain. At Ghost Ranch—where the land is not metaphor but presence—participants are invited into a process shaped by terrain, time, and attention. We are living in a period marked by climate crisis, social fracture, and […]