with Award-Winning Weaver Cari Sample-Malver

Whether you are a first-time beginner or an experienced weaver, learn various weaving techniques and styles in a one-on-one experience with Cari.  You can choose to weave on a traditional Rio Grande style floor loom or a table top Mirrix loom.  From stripes to geometric patterns, abstract curves to landscape tapestries, the sky is the limit.  

Available anytime upon request.

With Dayna Fisk-Williams

Making garments and accessories with your own beautifully woven fabric can be fulfiling and fun. Learn to create original designs and follow patterns and diagrams.  Discover techniques that will make cutting your woven fabric less stressful and sewing more enjoyable.

Don't have enough of your own woven fabric on hand? We will have looms available if you need to weave extra on site as well as woven yardage you can purchase.

This workshop will consist of 4 designing/sewing/creating days, 1 day on the road in northern New Mexico to experience fiber traditions unique to the area and 1 free day to tour Santa Fe on your own with a complimentary Culture Pass for entrance to museums and other sites.  

November 13 - 20, 2019

with Angel Wynn

Encaustic Artist and Photographer of the Southwest

Whether you use a smart phone or professional camera to take photos, this workshop is for you. Enjoy learning the ancient encaustic wax process to enhance your photographs. In this hands-on class, your instructor, Angel Wynn, will teach a variety of techniques to turn your images into creative works of art.  Click here for details...

October 4 - 11, 2019

with Award Winning Weavers Cari Sample Malver and Ginger Snip

Join us for a unique fiber getaway in the legendary artist mecca of the Southwest. Weaving on your choice of a Mirrix or walking loom, we will learn various weaving techniques including curves, geometric designs and landscapes creating various shapes and color blending.  Learning these techniques enables the weaver to create many styles of tapestry including pictorials, abstract or traditional design.   You will come away with a completed tapestry, not just a sampler.  This very personalized class is suitable for all levels of weaving experience, even beginners.  

November 6 - 13, 2019

December 4 - 11, 2019

with Master Weaver Felipe Hernandez from Oaxaca

Whether you are a first-time beginner or an experienced weaver, learn various weaving techniques and styles in a one-on-one experience with Cari.  From stripes to geometric patterns, abstract curves to landscape tapestries, the sky is the limit.  Available anytime upon request.

June 10 - 15, 2020

With Lorna McMaster of Prince Edward Island

Lorna McMaster has been breeding fiber sheep, working in wool, and teaching fiber art since 1997.  She is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsman and the PEI Craft Council, and has received several awards for her felt work.  Her felted dolls have appeared in several galleries in New England and PEI, and her business, Lorna’s Wool Needle Felting Kits, have taught thousands of people to needlefelt since 2006.  Lorna is the author of several instructional books including Woolworks: Teaching to the National Standardswith Fiber Arts;  Nature Notebook: The Art of Learning to See; and Dancing with Sheepdogs:  A Beginner’s Guide to Herding.   She currently owns and operates a 

working organic sheep farm in Pembroke, Prince Edward Island.