Toscana Americana

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." Georgia O'Keeffe

Step into the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe! Caroline will lead a small group of students in a mixed media workshop inspired by the vibrant colors of New Mexico. Each lesson will be inspired by specific artworks and writings by Georgia O'Keeffe. Participants will return home with their own watercolor sketches, abstract collages, landscape paintings and a handmade book. 

Ghost Ranch

The landscape of Ghost Ranch—made famous by painter Georgia O’Keeffe—encompasses 21,000 acres of towering rock walls, vivid colors and vast skies. People from all over the world come to work together in creation care, to paint, write poetry, to hike, ride horseback, to research globally renowned archaeological and fossil quarries or simply to rest and renew their spirits.

There is much to explore starting through the landscape Georgia O"Keeffe painted during the fifty years the artist spent painting and living here.

Guests may tour the Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, which displays Native American tools, pottery, and ancient artifacts from Paleo Indian culture, 10,000 years ago through ancestral Puebloan times to present time pottery and weavings from local Pueblos.

The adjacent Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology displays the fossils of the Coelophysis (SEE-low-FY-sis), a dinosaur discovered at Ghost Ranch in 1947. Ghost Ranch is the site of one of the best known paleontological digs in the Northern Hemisphere.The Coelophysis Quarry is a National Natural Landmark as designated by the National Park Foundation.

We will also take a day-trip to Taos, site of the oldest coninuously-inhabited pueblo in America. Sight-seeing, shopping, a walking tour, and painting are on the menu!

We intend to also visit Georgia O'Keeffe's home and studio as well as the Santa Clara pueblo!

We return to Santa Fe where we will be able to visit the Georgia O'Keeffe museum and galleries at Canyon Road, as well as have time to shop!

July 9 Saturday  – Meet-up in Santa Fe and arrival to Ghost Ranch

-1:30p Escorted group travel from Santa Fe to Ghost Ranch (1 hour 30 mintes +/-)

-3:00p Arrival and Check-in at Ghost Ranch

-free time to unpack & wander

5:00 get together to talk about the class

-6:30p Welcome to Ghost Ranch reception

-7:30p Evening dinner

  

July 10 Sunday  - Ghost Ranch - 

-9:00a-12:30p Morning "Walking in the Footsteps of Georgia O"Keeffe" tour

-12:30p Lite Lunch

-2:00-5:30p Afternoon session 1

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

 

July 11 Monday  - Ghost Ranch

-9:00a-12:30p Morning Session 2

-12:30p Lite Lunch

-2:00-5:30p Afternoon Session 3

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

 

July 12 Tuesday  - Visit to Taos  

-9:00a Taos Pueblo visit

-Lite Lunch

-2:00-5:30p Afternoon Session 4

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

 

July 13 Wednesday  - Ghost Ranch

-9:00a-12:30p Morning Session 5

-12:30p Lite Lunch

-2:00-5:30p Afternoon Session 6

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

  

July 14 Thursday  -  Abiquiu & Santa Fe

-8:00a Check-out

-9:00a-11:30p Georgia OKeeffe Home and Studio tour in Abiquiu

-12:00p Lite Lunch

-1:00-2:00p Afternoon visit to Santa Clara pueblo (no painting)

-2:30p Departure for return to Santa Fe

-4:00p Check-in in Santa Fe, then free to shop/wander

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

 

July  15 Friday  - Santa Fe

-9:00a-10:30p Session 7 outside

-12:30p Lite Lunch

-2:00-5:30p Free afternoon to shop or visit to Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 

-6:30p aperitifs

-7:30p Evening dinner

 

July 16 Saturday – Departure

-Morning Check-out

-Independent departure to Santa Fe airport.

 

NOTE: Specific painting locations to be determined

 

Note: Toscana Americana reserves the right to alter this itinerary. All times are approximate.
Note: Transfers are provided only for programmed meals and activities away from the hotel.
Note: All guests are responsible for handling their own luggage/baggage....we suggest to pack light.
Note: No refunds are given for any unused aspects of the itinerary or for any activities outside the above itinerary.