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 […]
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
Claiming Your Heart Story
With Richard Diamond
Writing Ourselves Home
With Raisa Tolchinsky
Block Printing
With Nicki Stewart
Pilgrim’s Progress: My Story Too?
With Dr. Jim Miller
Family Week
With Jamie Halpern
Family Week is a beloved annual tradition where your family comes together to explore, create, and connect amidst the breathtaking beauty of Ghost Ranch. More than just a getaway, it is a chance to unplug from everyday distractions and find your meaning with the people who matter the most. Whether you're seeking relaxation, adventure or […]
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.
Youth Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Youth Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their youth, ages 4–14, set off on unforgettable journeys across the Ranch, guided […]
Teen Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
Coiling: Ancient Basketry Modern Twist
With Robin Przybysz
Eco Printmaking: Milk Carton Intaglio
Ghost Ranch Chorale
With Adam Waite, Leena Waite and Barbara Hulac
Painting Strategies for Invention & Inspiration
With KB Jones
Adult Service Corps
With Juergen Zirnstein and Laura McGee
We are excited that you are considering Adult Service Corps for Summer 2026! ASC is an opportunity to help Ghost Ranch with both our labor and spirit. If this is your first time in the Corps, please know that you have a great week ahead of you; for the old-timers, the summer offers a time […]
Youth Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Youth Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their youth, ages 4–14, set off on unforgettable journeys across the Ranch, guided […]
Teen Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Teen Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their teens, ages 15 - 18, set off on unforgettable journeys across the […]
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
Singer Songwriter Collective
With Timothy Gibbs Zehnder and Brett Perkins
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 […]
Adult Service Corps
With Juergen Zirnstein and Laura McGee
We are excited that you are considering Adult Service Corps for Summer 2026! ASC is an opportunity to help Ghost Ranch with both our labor and spirit. If this is your first time in the Corps, please know that you have a great week ahead of you; for the old-timers, the summer offers a time […]
Youth Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Youth Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their youth, ages 4–14, set off on unforgettable journeys across the Ranch, guided […]
Teen Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Teen Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their teens, ages 15 - 18, set off on unforgettable journeys across the […]
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking
With Julie Shelton Snyder
Watercolor II: Beyond the Basics
With Patsy Welch
Drawing Meditation Workshop: Mindful Creativity
With Maureen O'Neill
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 […]
Drawing Meditation Workshop: Mindful Creativity
With Maureen O'Neill
Ghost Ranch Gospel, Ghost Ranch Joy
With Todd O'Neal and Nathaniel Best
The Art of Making Children’s Books
With Colter Jackson
Adult Service Corps
With Juergen Zirnstein and Laura McGee
We are excited that you are considering Adult Service Corps for Summer 2026! ASC is an opportunity to help Ghost Ranch with both our labor and spirit. If this is your first time in the Corps, please know that you have a great week ahead of you; for the old-timers, the summer offers a time […]
Youth Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Youth Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their youth, ages 4–14, set off on unforgettable journeys across the Ranch, guided […]
Teen Summer Adventure
With Isabel Chavez
During Teen Summer Adventure, every day bursts with possibility—a place where curiosity leads the way and adventure waits around every corner. Parents and guardians are invited to enjoy Ghost Ranch themselves, enrolling in engaging workshops or unwinding on a personal retreat, while their teens, ages 15 - 18, set off on unforgettable journeys across the […]
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
Raise Your Vibration
With Laurie Magoon
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
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
Animated Stained Glass
With Joseph Cavalieri
Recovering Our Public Voice
With Jeff Cover
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
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, […]
Healing Colonial Legacies: Reconnecting with Personal & Land-Based Histories
With Deana Dartt, Heron Brae and Nancy Morris-Judd
How can we build authentic relationships with ourselves, our communities, and the earth? This five-day workshop invites participants to reflect on past experiences and foster empathy, forgiveness, generosity, and balance in the present. Activities include cultural mapping, mindfulness, intention setting, an empathy journal, arts integration, and discussions rooted in applied decolonization.
From Eco-Lament to Action
For people who live and work close to the land and/or seek solace with nature, it’s heartbreaking to witness the impacts of climate change on our lands, rivers, communities, and the more-than-human world. In this workshop, we’ll talk about useful ways to channel grief into prayers, poems, essays, and letters. As an environmental reporter and […]
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
Hiking and Mindfulness
With Erin Fisher and Jesse Fisher
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
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
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
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
Mindful Birding & Nature Journaling
With Holly Thomas and Cheryl Fallstead
Please call Pauline Davis at 505-685-1019 to register for this program. Mindful birding and nature journaling are perfect partners for creating a deeper connection to the natural world. Over the course of our time together at Ghost Ranch, you’ll be invited to slow down, notice, and give shape to moments of wonder. Mindful Birding When […]
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
Led by Canadian facilitator and sober lady Zoë Pawlak, this two-day immersive workshop explores the intimate relationship between sobriety and spirituality. Created for individuals with at least three months of sobriety, this course supports participants to embark on a journey toward living a richer, more vibrant life after substances. Together, we will reframe sobriety not […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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: […]
Mindfulness and Recovery Retreat
With Dave Smith
This weekend program offers a fresh approach to understanding and overcoming addiction. Together, we’ll create a framework for how addiction and recovery can be defined using insights from psychology, spirituality, and science. We’ll draw from a range of perspectives, including cognitive science, emotional intelligence, Buddhist psychology and philosophy, and the 12 Steps. Mindfulness has become […]
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
In an age of algorithmic certainty and digital noise, we have entered a "crisis of meaning" where purpose feels like a relic of a forgotten world. While Artificial Intelligence processes information, Authentic Intelligence cultivates meaning. This multi-day program is designed to help you get "untrapped." It is a move away from the artificial and toward […]
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 […]