Oaxaca Day of the the Dead Photos + Videos by Nick Eckert
We had the pleasure of having accomplished Washington, D.C. photographer Nick Eckert with us on the 2011 Day of the Dead Photo Expedition. [We are now planning the 2012 expedition. Send me an email if you want to get on the notification list.] Here are Nick’s Flickr shots of sand sculptures. These installations are painstakingly […]
Oaxaca Essay Conveys Women’s Writing Retreat Experience
Sue Spirit, a participant in our Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat 2011, had this essay about her experience published in “All About Women,” a High Country of North Carolina magazine. It beautifully expresses our week together and I want to share it with you. Published here with Sue’s permission! Oaxaca: Bright Riches on My […]
Art Book Binding. What Is It and Why in Oaxaca?
When I talked with Lisa Gilbert about teaching an art book binding workshop in Oaxaca, I had a smattering of an idea about how beautifully elegant and simple the process can be. Lisa follows the path of all the great book binding artists who have gone before her. And, she is an expert in her own […]
New: Silver Jewelry Making Workshop, November 2011
If you are in Oaxaca in November, don’t miss this! On November 11, 12, and 13, we are holding a sterling silver jewelry making workshop in Oaxaca with instructors Brigitte Huet and Ivan Campant. They are teaching lost wax carving, sling casting, and classical jewelry making. You will make your own silver element — either […]
Novelist, Poet and English Professor Robin Greene Leads Creative Writing Workshop
Robin Greene, novelist, poet, English professor, yoga practitioner, parent and wife, is a native New Yorker who is a “Southerner by choice.” She came to Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1989, and joined the faculty at Methodist University where she is now Professor of English and Writing, the Director of the Writing Center, and Literary Editor […]
Pinatas Galore Plus Great Shopping at Mexican Market “La Cumplidora” in Sanford, NC
Drive by window-shopping is my weakness. I was on my way to meet professor Robin Greene, who leads our Oaxaca Women’s Creative Writing and Yoga Retreat: Lifting Your Creative Voice, at our mid-way breakfast diner in Sanford, NC. Almost there, and I noticed some pretty remarkable, huge pinatas hanging in a store front on the […]
Art Book Binding Workshop: Capture Your Travel Adventures
Make a Handmade Box within a Book: August 1-7, 2012 Using handmade local papers, and found objects and materials, you will learn to make a travel book with a self-contained box to hold your collected artifacts. Each participant will design a book, prepare the papers and artifacts, stitch the binding, and make the box enclosure. […]
Make Mexican Sterling Silver Jewelry: Workshop in Oaxaca
Learn to make sterling silver jewelry — rings, pendants, earrings — using the ancient lost-wax process. This is an excellent introduction to wax carving and sling casting techniques, plus the finish work needed to laminate, stretch, cut, file, solder, polish and buff your piece. Comprehensive 3-Day Silver Jewelry Workshop: $325 […]
Photojournalism Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico–Las Cuevitas and Day of the Three Kings
Like a writer, a photojournalist captures and tells a story through the still photographs s/he takes that is accompanied by a short written narrative. Oaxaca, Mexico, during the extraordinary and magical Christmas season will be our workshop laboratory to discover and record the scenes of the season– Las Cuevitas and Day of the Three Kings […]