Programs
Estudio Corazon Application
Estudio Corazón at Ghost Ranch is a two to four-week self-directed residency program for artists, writers and creative thinkers. For decades Ghost Ranch has provided sacred space and inspiration for artists of all types in many different mediums. Estudio Corazón, an artist residency program developed in 2020, is designed to give creative people an opportunity to […]
Youth Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
Teen Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
Drawing Meditation Workshop: Mindful Creativity
With Maureen O'Neill
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
Citizen Paleontology
An Introduction to Infrared Photography
With Kent Bowser
A Preacher’s Retreat with Leaders from Working Preacher and Sermon Brainwave
With Karoline Lewis, Matt Skinner and Cody Sanders
Your Invitation to a Blessed Life
With San Williams
Collage Intensive with Gelli-Plate Printing
With Carla Aurich
High Desert Watercolor
With Sean Hudson
Peace in the Eye of the Storm
With Lucia Vinograd and Judith Piazza
Writers Roundup
With Lesley Poling-Kempes and Robin McLean
Cyanotypes with the Sun: Creative Practice with Place & Presence
With Carol Schrader
Mirrors of Identity
With Jorge Luis Somarriba
Contemporary Southwest Silver
With Bill Derrevere
Flowers for Georgia: O’Keeffe Inspired Quilting
With Patsy Bailey
Chimayo Weaving
With Lisa Trujillo
Geology of New Mexico Landscapes
With Albert Shultz and Peter Barkmann,
The Poetry of Presence
With Raisa Tolchinsky
Ghost Ranch Nature Getaway
With Laurie Magoon
Self Discovery Through Memoir
With Deborah Taffa
Earth Body “Reciprocity with the Living World”
With Rulan Tangen
Southwest Native Traditions in Metalsmithing
With Steve LaRance and Cree LaRance
Healing Colonial Legacies: Reconnecting with Personal & Land-Based Histories
With Deana Dartt, Heron Brae and Nancy Morris-Judd
From Eco-Lament to Action
With Laura Paskus
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
With Robin Wall Kimmerer
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
Hiking and Mindfulness
With Erin Fisher and Jesse Fisher
Drawing with Stitches
With Robin Przybysz
Practically Painting with O’Keeffe
With Anna Koster
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, […]
Fly Fishing in Good Company
With David Kadlec
Join us and explore the New Mexico rivers near Ghost Ranch during this intensive fly fishing experience. We will hike into areas of unusual geology and beauty, while stalking elusive trout. Lose yourself in the perfect experience of blending Body & Soul with nature. Your instructors have fished these rivers for many years and will […]
Drawing From Nature: Bones and Blossoms
With Helen Byers
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
Women’s Intro to Fly Fishing
With Kelley Ruppert
Learn about trout and their habitat- what trout like to eat, where trout like to hang out…and how to catch them! We will discuss safe and ethical catch and release handling of trout. Students will learn basic roll casting, overhead casting (when to implement those casts), as well as drifting and mending. We will talk […]
Fire it Up! Art Welding
With Connie B Burkhart and David Kadlec
Mindful Birding & Nature Journaling
With Holly Thomas and Cheryl Fallstead
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 […]
Sobriety and the Deeper Life
With Zoë Pawlak
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 […]
Winds of Change: Yoga and the Vayus
With Edie Tsong
oin Edie Tsong/radiant animal for a magical week of yoga in the spectacular setting of Ghost Ranch. Our days will be framed by a dynamic morning class and a gentle class with music in the evening. You will have plenty of time to explore the region, relax, or whatever your heart desires. The classes are […]
Abstract Landscape Panting
With Zoë Pawlak
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
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, […]
Creative Retreat for Days of the Dead
With Helen Byers
New Mexico Mens Wellness
Hike the 'Ologies
With Connie B Burkhart
Explore the geology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology and history of Ghost Ranch and the surrounding area through easy to moderate hikes to places that tell the stories of the rocks, the people and the fossilized life of the past. Learn how these ‘ologies’ fit together bringing history to life as we set the stage with lectures […]
WFR (Wilderness First Responder)
A wilderness first responder is trained to deal with life threatening situations that may be encountered in the wilderness. A wilderness first responder is trained to deal with life threatening situations that may be encountered in the wilderness. The training is principally geared towards lay providers, with little to no actual medical experience, though they […]
Plein Air
With Natasha Isenhour
WFA (Wilderness First Aid)
A Wilderness First Aid or WFA certification is an introductory course to wilderness medicine. This 16-hour course is designed for interested people who have little or no experience in first aid or wilderness medicine. It is recommended for individuals who enjoy the backcountry, are responsible for others while in the backcountry, professional guides, etc. Please note: […]
Reconnect with Nature’s Rhythm
With Flossie O'Leary and Beth Roome
Life has separated us from the wild heart of nature, that steady pulse which keeps us rooted and whole. As we succumb to the lure of artificial light, technology, and other accelerating changes that distract us, we lose our own circadian rhythms and the seasonal timekeepers that allow us to hear the still voice deep […]
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 […]
Healing Through Land and Improvisation
With Delbert Anderson
Anderson shares experiences and Diné elder wisdom on land and improvisation. Anderson looks into historical New Mexico events such as the Long Walk and a New Mexico historical figure, Jacob C. Morgan, to understand how people survived in hard circumstances and systems. Anderson will conduct a fun improvisation activity highlighting Respect, Listen, Evaluate, Express and […]
Cultivating Authentic Intelligence (the Other AI)
With Dave Smith
High Desert Watercolor
With Sean Hudson
Supernatural Sutras: A Solstice Initiation
Supernatural Sutras™: A Solstice Initiation is a winter solstice immersion for seekers standing at thresholds of transition and transformation, attuned to mystery and magic, death and rebirth, and the quiet potentiality of the darkest nights of the year. Set in the high desert of Ghost Ranch, this immersive weekend invites you into a ceremonial descent, […]
The Power of Ritual - Co-Creating the Sacred
With Laurie Magoon
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” – Joseph Campbell Step into a more intentional relationship with yourself, others and the world around you. Integrate simple ritual with presence and the wisdom of the natural world. Rituals enhance wellbeing and increase focus with structure and meaning into daily life. Through […]