Musings
Stephen and I are breathing a little easier now that the Chavez Family North Carolina artist residency is behind us. For two weeks, we juggled cars, trucks and schedules so that Eric and Janet could be in Asheville, Pittsboro, Chapel Hill and Siler City for weaving and dyeing demonstrations, exhibitions, lectures, and gallery openings. The residency […]
Film Making Workshop: Visual Storytelling — February 19-26, 2010
Consider Oaxaca Digital Photography Expedition: Market Towns and Artisan Villages, June 29-July 5, 2011. It’s not likely we will have a film making workshop in 2011. For seven days, from Friday evening, February 19, to Friday, morning, February 26, you will immerse yourself in the art and craft of documentary film making in the indigenous […]
Documentary Filmmaking Workshop in Oaxaca Planned for Mid-January 2009
The Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, 17 miles southwest of Oaxaca in the Tlacolula valley, becomes your learning laboratory for documentary filmmaking. In this village of 7,000 people there are 2,000 looms, a multitude of weavers using natural dyes from plant materials — a 6,000 year old tradition, a 16th century Catholic church built […]