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Drawing with Pens

Workshop Details:
Saturday, October 21st 
10am – 12pm 
Location: Cow Canyon Trading Post, Bluff UT

Cost: $20
Number of Participants: Up to 20

Participants must be at least 16 years old.

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Ed Kabotie Instructor

Learn the art of drawing with pens from renowned Tewa/Hopi Artist Ed Kabotie. An illustrator and musician, Kabotie is from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico and Second Mesa, Arizona and has been recognized for his outstanding work.

Kabotie will guide participants how to create unique works using only a pen and paper. Materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring a favorite drawing pad if they have one. 

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Writing Wilder: Adding to a Deep Map of Place

Workshop Details: 

Saturday, October 21st 
9am to 12pm

Location: River behind Recapture Lodge 

Cost: $20.00
Number of Participants: 12
Minimum Age: 18

SOLD OUT

Kathryn Wilder Instructor

In honor of Ellen Meloy, Writing Wilder will focus on place, the senses, and the Colorado Plateau, where Bluff sits at the heart. With the intention of adding to Ellen’s deep map of place as well as to the texture of your own home place, we’ll focus on our surroundings and memories. You need only bring a favorite journal, writing implements, your creative mind, and a camp chair. 

About Kathryn Wilder: Kathryn Wilder received the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers in 2023. Her memoir, Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West (Torrey House Press, 2021) won a Colorado Book Award, Nautilus Book Award, and others, and was a finalist for the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers in 2016. Wilder has an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives among mustangs and cows in southwestern Colorado. Her next book, The Last Cows, will out in 2025. 

Hand-Built Clay Wind Bells

Workshop Details: 

Friday, October 20th 
1:30pm – 3:30pm 

Location: Hamilton Home, 375 E Mulberry Ave. 
(Directly across from the community center) 

Cost: $25 
Number of Participants: 12
SOLD OUT

Tim Hamilton Instructor

Participants will learn to make clay wind bells using the slab method. Participants should come prepared to get dirty. 

Tim Hamilton is a husband, father, art educator and artist. He has lived on the Colorado Plateau for nearly 40 years. 

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Shape and Color Building in the Desert Southwest

Workshop Details: 

Saturday, October 19th
8am – 12pm

Location: Cow Canyon Trading Post (Intersection of 191 and 162, Bluff)
Cost: $50 
Number of Participants: Up to 10
Participants must be at least 18 years old. 
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Jacques Cazo Seronde Instructor

This workshop will be an exercise in observing and translating the desert Southwest landscape into shape and color with oil paint on canvas. 

What does it mean to see a landscape and then transpose that information to canvas. 

Be prepared for sun, wind, and weather and a chance to expand the way in which we take in the information of the natural world and relay it onto our canvas through paint. 

Materials are provided for this workshop. 

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Movable Sculpture

Workshop Details: 

Sunday, October 22nd 
9am – 11am 

Location: 16 W Cobble Lane, Bluff, UT

Cost: $45
Number of Participants: 4

Participants must be at least 12 years old.
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Ned Krutsky Instructor

Join instructor Ned Krutsky as you learn to attach metal to wire that will bend to create a movable sculpture. You will go home with your own movable sculpture, a ball peen hammer, and needle nose pliers for your next project. 

A carpenter by trade, Krutsky is a resident of Bluff. His work will be for sale at the Bluff Arts Festival Artist Market on Saturday, October 21st. 

The Art of Landscape Photography: Photographing the Desert

Workshop Details:

Saturday, October 21st
4pm – 6pm

Location: Meet At Community Center & Drive to Selected Location

Cost: $25.00
Number of Participants: 10

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MacNeal Crank Photographer

Join Photographer MacNeal Crank on a photographic journey as you learn the art of photographing the desert landscape. 

Bring your own equipment, camera, and tripod, as you join this well-known and talented photographer to learn techniques, including composition and camera settings, to capture the perfect photograph. 

Pulp Painting – A Papermaking Workshop

Workshop Details: 

Sunday, October 22nd 
 10am – 12pm 

 Location: Cow Canyon Trading Post 

Cost: $35
Number of Participants: Up to 10 

Participants must be at least 5 years old.
SOLD OUT

Kate Aitchison Instructor

Participants in this workshop will use pulp paint made from abaca and other plant based fibers to create sheets of paper that contain imagery embedded into the paper with colored pulps.  Each sheet of paper will be unique and can stand alone as an image or be used to create other works. 

Every participant will leave with multiple sheets of paper. 

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Building a Community Garden: Winter Gardening in the Desert Southwest

Workshop Details: 
Saturday, October 21st 
1pm – 3pm

Location: Bluff Community Garden, St. Christopher’s Episcopal Mission

Cost: $10.00
Number of Participants: 12

Must be at least 8 years old to participate.
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Eirene Hamilton Instructor 

What is a community garden? Eirene Hamilton will lead a discussion in regard to community garden experiences and evaluate, trouble-shoot obstacles, and plan for a sustainable future.

The workshop will end with preparation for a winter garden. Come dressed for gardening tasks. Bring work gloves and hat. 

Fun with Alcohol Inks and Brusho

Workshop Details: 
 Saturday, October 21st 
1pm – 3pm 
 Location: The Turquoise, Bluff UT 
(Old Gas Station & Garage Across from Recapture Lodge)

Cost: $25 
Number of Participants: Up to 20 
Participants must be at least 10 years of age.
SOLD OUT

Cynthia Shelton Instructor

Students will learn how to combine two art mediums to create unusual, fun, and creative works of art. 

Alcohol inks are very colorful and activated with rubbing alcohol. Brusho crystals are intensely pigmented powder watercolors activated by water! 

You will create two pieces to take home to enjoy. This class is beginner friendly and suitable for ages 10 and up.

Cynthia’s studio is nestled in southwestern Colorado. Surrounded by the majestic La Plata Mountains to the north and east and the colorful high desert to the west and south. There is never a shortage of art inspiration! The whole area is steeped in western culture, mining, and Native American and Puebloan history. All of it tugs at her creative heartstrings. 

Cythina likes to say, “My work tells a story, be it real or imagined.” She considers herself and eclectic artist often combining different mediums and techniques within her watercolor paintings. She shares her creativity with others teaching classes on a regular basis at local galleries, public library programs, and in private group settings.

 
Contact info:
Cynthiasheltonart.com
cynthiasheltonart@gmail.com

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Creative Tufa and Cuttlebone Casting


Workshop Details: 
TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Friday, October 18, 2024
9am – 4pm (Break for lunch) 

Saturday, October 19, 2024 
9am – 4pm (Break for Lunch)

Location: Cedar Hall
Design Build Bluff Campus, Bluff UT

Cost: $150
Number of Participants: 10

Participants must be at least 16 years old.
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Jonah Hill Instructor 

Explore the wonderfully creative process of using tufa stone and cuttlebone to create a unique piece of jewelry or ornament! Tufa stone is a volcanic material used by Native peoples of the Southwest to create jewelry since the 1800s, and cuttlebone is the float devise found inside the Cuttlefish. It has been used in the pet industry as a supplant for birds to eat but has been used as a material in jewelry making since the 5th century B.C. in Ancient Greece. 

Participants will learn how to safely carve the molds and learn basic silversmithing techniques such as piercing, sawing, forging, and polishing techniques to finish their casting. 

Please read information below; participants must order their own silver prior to the workshop.
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Techniques learned: carving, sawing, piercing of metal, hammering and forming as well as basic silversmithing techniques
 
Materials: Basic tools, kiln, tufa stone, cuttlebone and consumables to be provided by instructor. 

*Each participant will be provided with a piece of tufa and cuttlebone and additional pieces may be purchased from instructor. 
*Participants will be responsible for providing their own silver material and any personal metal smithing tools they may have. 5-10 troy ounces of sterling or fine silver are required for individual projects. See the links below to order silver. 

Resources; (silver, tools, consumables)