WORKSHOPS
The 2025 workshops will provide opportunities for pigment hunting, paint making, plastering, hempcrete and natural building. I'll be adding more workshops in the near future, but for now there are a diversity of workshop opportunities that are available to sign up below. So please scroll down to learn more about these opportunities and send me an email if you have any questions.
NATURAL COLORS WORKSHOPNatural Colors two day weekend workshop on June 14th & 15th , 2025 will explore a variety of processes using natural minerals and plants for to make paints & inks with different binders. The first day will be spent out in the geological landscape pigment hunting for various colorful minerals and clays and the second day processing the materials for use as a pigment in paints or to be used in other mediums such as ceramics or plasters.
I'll be providing a diversity of minerals and plant materials from my personal collection that will be processed into a pigment with mortar and pestles as well as ball mills then sifted with a screen or levigated in water to further refine the materials for making paints and inks with. We will make paints using mineral and plant based pigments along with various mediums such as watercolor, egg tempera, and oil paint. The inks will also be composed of a variety of plant materials and modifiers to create a diversity of natural colors. Other mediums will be explored depending on the interests of the workshop participants and the binders that are used in their own artistic practices. Feel free to bring your own watercolor sketchbook to make swatches of color with the pigments and paints as well as to take notes about the places and geological layers from which the originate from. I will be offering three spots during each of the weekend workshops that can receive a scholarship. If your interested in the possibility of receiving a scholarship based on financial restrictions please send me an email with more details about you and your situation. |
NATURAL COLORSDATE : JUNE 14TH & 15TH, 2025 TIME : 10AM-5PM LOCATION : TAOS, NM The cost of the workshop will also be non-refundable. If you need to cancel for some reason then you can either receive credit for a future workshop date or allow someone else to fill your spot.
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ART OF PIGMENT HUNTINGThe Art of Pigment Hunting workshop during the Silver City Clay Festival which will be happening in 2025 from July 14th -19th. The Art of Pigment Hunting will occur on July 14th & 15th providing two days of exploring the geological landscape for various minerals and clays that can be used for pigments, paints, plasters, clay bodies, slips, and glazes. The Art of Pigment Hunting will occur prior to a three day Bench Sculpting workshop on July 16th - 18th by Athena Steen of the Canelo Project at Whiskey Creek Zocalo! If your interested in registering for both workshops then you will need to sign up for the Art of Pigment Hunting on this page and if you want to attend the Bench Sculpting workshop with Athena Steen then visit their website to learn more at www.caneloproject.com . I'll be teaching the Art of Pigment Hunting where we will spend time out in the geological landscape around Silver City. We will use maps of the surrounding geology to help us learn about the unique aspects of this beautiful place revealing the types and locations of minerals and their formations. The materials will be collected in an environmentally responsible manner and processed through the use of levigation, sifting, and milling to prepare for their use in the clay carving and painting workshop. The clay plasters and mineral pigments will be used to collaboratively create a work of art on an existing adobe wall at Whiskey Creek Zocalo where these workshops are being held. The Silver City Clay Festival will occur during the week of July 14th - 20th, 2025. Las year I taught a collaborative workshop with Canelo Project. It was an honor to collect and process materials that were used in the Clay Carving and Painting with Athena who created a work of art on an adobe wall located at Whiskey Creek Zocalo. The workshop participants pigment hunted in the surrounding geological landscape and the materials we collected were processed for use in the clay carving and painting on a wall at Zocalo creating a beautiful low relief mural! This year we will collect materials which will be available to be used for your own art or natural building projects along with being used in sculpting, plastering, and painting a bench with Athena Steen. To learn more about the amazing Whiskey Creek Zocalo and to get more details about the Silver City Clay Festival follow the links.. |
ART OF PIGMENT HUNTINGART OF PIGMENT HUNTINGDATE : JULY 14TH & 15TH, 2025 TIME : 10AM-5PM LOCATION : SILVER CITY, NM The cost of the workshop will also be non-refundable. If you need to cancel for some reason then you can either receive credit for a future workshop date or allow someone else to fill your spot.
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CUSTOM WORKSHOPS
If you would like to organize or host a workshop in a geological landscape where you call home at your art studio or at a community or educational space please send me an email to discuss the possibilities.