Newsletter: Upcoming workshops: 2018-2020

Ghost Ranch Landscape

I have just finished this year of teaching with the exuberance and gratitude that comes from having remarkable students and being in beautiful places. I return home now, replenished and full of ideas for the coming months in my studio.

At Ghost Ranch Barbara Griek and I taught together, evoking imagery from the landscape, and from working with the Tarot cards. We combine lettering for calligraphers and non-calligraphers with painting and bookmaking.

Below are examples of work from our class that just ended at Ghost Ranch:

Happy Price (left) and Marcia Hocevar (right)

Below is the impossible blue of the New Mexico sky against golden leaves– the road to our workshop space:

The road to our workshop space at Ghost Ranch

We went on silent walks and gathered something from the natural world:

Blind contour drawing of Four wing saltbush, Romy Colonius

Blind contour drawing of desert grass, Katie Barnes

Here are some pictures from the students' books:

Handmade books: Lisa Cancro (top) and Nancy Orr (bottom)

Summer Rodman working in the courtyard of our classroom (left) Summer's book cover (right)

Book covers: Sharleen Chesledon (above) and Dianne Grob (below)

Book cover: Roz Schneider Barhaugh

Book page, Gloria Stafford

Book covers: Linda Lanza (above) and Lynn Rogers (below)

2018 Classes: (Theme: Absence & Presence)

Preston Arts (local to Louisville, KY):             Jan 13-14

Spirited Hands Studio, St Louis, MO             Mar 3-5 & Mar 9-11

Mabel Dodge Luhan Reteat, Taos, NM          Mar 25-30 

St Meinrad Abbey, St Meinrad, IN                  Apr 8-14

Mabel Dodge Luhan Reteat, Taos, NM          Jun 4-9

Big Sky Scribes, Bozeman, MT                        Sept 22-23   

ArtBase, Basalt, CO                                         Sept 26-28  

2019 Classes:   

Mabel Dodge Luhan Reteat, Taos, NM           Mar 24-29  (with Sabine Danielzig)  

St Meinrad Abbey, St Meinrad, IN                   Apr 7-13

Mabel Dodge Luhan Reteat, Taos, NM           Jun 3-8 

Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM                               Oct (date to be scheduled) 

2020 Classes: 

St Meinrad Abbey, St Meinrad, IN                    Apr 12-19

EUROPEAN TOUR                                               

Basel, Switzerland                                           Sept 18-20

Dresden, Germany                                           Sept 23-27 (with Mari Bohley)

Solingen, Germany                                           Oct 1-5

Come join us, I'd love to hear from you.