THE 2025 WORKSHOP REGISTRATION INFORMATION IS NOW AVAILABLE

 

DARLA'S COVID RESTRICTIONS: We have our own room/building. Masks optional. It's a great idea to administer your own covid test within 24 hours of arrival at the Ranch.We want to be safe and enjoy our week! The Ranch is remote.

 

2025 is my 20th workshop at Ghost Ranch! Where does the time go?  Tabs at the left have general information, supplies, schedule, field trips, comments from artists, sponsors AND your registration materials!

 

For a quick reference to the cost, go to the registration tab to the left.

 

YOUR FIRST STEP IS TO SEND YOUR REGISTRATION FORM AND DEPOSIT!

 

 

The tab at the left has the registration form, dates, cost, field trips, etc!

 

 

The 2025 fall workshop is watermedia with a twist!

2025: Saturday, 1 Nov-Friday, 7 Nov:

This workshop is my Un-traditional watermedia workshop (with new techniques and materials tossed in using acrylics, inks and watercolor).

 

The workshop offers two optional field trips. We visit Georgia O'Keeffe's home and studio in Abiquiu as well as the Landscape Tour on the Ranch property to see where she lived and what she painted. Early registration is a must!

It is not a country of light on things, it is a country of things in light.” Georgia O’Keeffe

 

From Ghost Ranch (printed with permission)

October 22, 2012

"If you ask ten people why they came to Ghost Ranch you might get ten different answers. We are painters, fighters for social justice, writers, potters, fossil finders and just everyday people looking for a safe place to spend meaningful time with our families. We might first come for a specific event but we may come back for an entirely different reason or to try something totally new. So what happens at Ghost Ranch that changes people's lives and calls us back?

Looking around the dining hall you can't tell the occupations, class or status of the people here. In our hats and layers of sunscreen, and sturdy walking shoes, who among us is a potter, a lawyer, a pastor, a writer?

We come to Ghost Ranch to follow our passions whether it is to find ways to strike back at climate change or to sing in a choir or to study poetry. While on the way, we find ourselves going somewhere else, somewhere deeper and more meaningful.

On the trail at Chimney Rock overlooking the Piedra Lumbre basin we allow our imaginations to fill the valley below with dinosaurs. We see over 210 million years ago when Coelophysis lived in a wet forest on this land near the equator. The planet shifts and we find ourselves in a different time where tribes of Native American Indians traversed the Rio Chama corridor, clashing cultures with Spanish settlers. The planet shifts again and we behold Georgia O'Keeffe walking amid the red hills carrying bones she found scattered across the high desert. Many who visit are touched by all that came before on the very spot they are standing. A chord is struck and something within us rings true.

We find ourselves getting in touch with things that were hidden before. A woman who came to study watercolor found herself processing the grief she had stored after the death of her mother. She thought she had come for the painting but realized she had come for the healing.

Year after year, people return to reconnect, reaffirm, grow and evolve. We absorb the lessons offered not only by the outstanding programs but by the soul enriching siren song of this place. Here we become a part of the place as the place becomes a part of us."

 

WHILE YOU ARE AT THE RANCH IN 2024:

 

The Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology at Ghost Ranch is proud to announce the opening of "Cara Romero: The Gathering," an extraordinary exhibition by renowned Chemehuevi fine art photographer, Cara Romero. The exhibition is scheduled to open on January 13, 2024, and will run
through December 2024.
- Location: Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, Ghost Ranch