For fourteen years I was invited to teach at the famous Ghost Ranch Conference Center, Abiquiu Campus, in beautiful Northern New Mexico, “Georgia O’Keeffe country.”

In October 2009 I decided to “retire” from this venue, but continue to be in local arts organizations.

For information on current crafts courses at Ghost Ranch please visit
www.ghostranch.org

Here is a list of classes that I offered there in past years:

Silk Painting/Rozome "As You Like It"

This unique class covered basic silk painting techniques as well as providing the opportunity to learn the more meditative Japanese “Rozome” process.

Dyeing to Quilt (click here for more photos)

Invitation to quilters who wanted to dye their own fabric and to dyers seeking direction in using their fabric. Participants dyed 4 yards of cotton, using low immersion dyes and finished a wall piece by the end of the week. Instructors: Bunny Bowen and Karena Koeberle-Wells.

Batik on Cotton

Low immersion and direct application of fiber reactive dyes to cotton. This works well with soy wax.

Silk Painting

Beginning and intermediate silk painting using acid dyes with a soy wax resist option.

Rozome

Introduction to the ancient Japanese art of wax resist, this included beeswax/paraffin, beeswax/soy wax, and pure soy wax resist on silk with acid dyes.