Attention Alumni and Friends: Announcing Eight Summer Leisure Learning Classes
From July 24-28, 2023 the OSU Doel Reed Center in Taos will welcome a large contingent of alumni and friends for a week of fun, adventure, learning and a lot of Cowboy fellowship. You are encouraged to choose your class and mark your calendar for December 15, 2022 (Hint: A great christmas gift idea!) when enrollment opens. Class sizes are limited to help ensure adequate interaction with highly qualified instructors during workshop times.
Why not plan a visit to culturally rich Taos, New Mexico this summer and while there, enjoy a Leisure Learning Class designed specifically for the lifelong learner? There’s plenty of time to arrange for a reunion with fellow alums and friends to share your old memories during several fun and casual social events.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstract Art
Instructor: Amy Von Lintel, PhD
What is natural and what is abstract? Discover ways of understanding abstract art through direct encounters with original objects. We will focus on O’Keeffe’s nature based abstractions, placing her work in comparisons of Emil Bisttram, to the minimal grids of Agnes Martin. We will explore the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Research Center in Santa Fe, the Harwood Museum in Taos, and the O’Keeffe home in Abiquiu, NM. Our visit will include hidden treasures only discoverable with behind-the-scenes access.
New Mexico Cooking and Culture
Instructor: Carol Moder, PhD
What makes the food of New Mexico distinctive? The blending of the traditional food of the Pueblos with the later influences of the Spanish. Learn about these historical influences on New Mexico food. Cook contemporary New Mexico recipes with Norma Naranjo at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo and contemporary Native American Cuisine with Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa) and Walter (Dine).
Music of the Santa Fe Trail
Instructors: Walter Kelly and Chris Mann
Love multicultural folk music? Immerse yourself in the traditional and contemporary music of Northern New Mexico. Learn the history and current practices of drum and flute making. And enjoy performances by well-known local musicians. View seldom seen historical instruments from the Millicent Rogers Museum collection. Cap your musical experience with a discussion and demonstration with award-winning ethnomusicologist, guitar maker, and performer Cipriano Vigil.
Art and Geology: Creating with the New Mexico Landscape
Instructor: Sara Schneckloth, MFA
This creative arts workshop puts the geological landscape of the greater Southwest at your fingertips, combining easy hikes, stone collecting and gallery visits. Our studio work will combine drawing, watercolors, wire work, simple sculpture and cyanotypes, as we create diverse images and objects based on mineral samples. No previous experience required.
Adventures in New Mexico
Instructor: Jennifer Lynch, MFA
Explore the landscape and indigenous culture of Northern New Mexico. You will take short morning hikes and walking tours visiting culturally significant sites including petroglyphs and cliff dwellings. You’ll take a scenic and relaxing raft trip and enjoy a wine tasting at La Chiripada, New Mexico’s oldest winery.
Taos and the Western
Instructor: Ryan Slesinger, Ph.D
Enjoy a good western story? Come explore New Mexico culture through the literature of the western. Understand the cultural interactions and confrontations that have shaped the region’s unforgettable culture and history. Get acquainted with figures like Kit Carson, Billy the Kid, and the fictional characters of authors Tony Hillerman, Rudolfo Anaya, and Leslie Marmo Silko and visit related historical sites and museums.
From Saints to Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain
Instructor: Cristina Cruz González, Ph.D.
How did early Spanish residents express their faith through the celebration of old and new saints? What role did visual images of these santos play? An in-depth exploration of how the regions selected particular saints to venerate and actively shape how the holy was seen and performed. Get an insider's view of the upcoming 2023 exhibition “Saints and Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain.”
Beginning and Intermediate Fly Fishing
Instructor: Nick Streit, Owner Taos Fly Shop
Learn the beautiful and graceful art of fly fishing. Beginners learn the basics of the fly rod and reel, casting, ecology, knot tying, ethics, safety and rules and regulations. Intermediates will have a review of skills. Both groups will get the chance to put their skills to use on gorgeous Northern New Mexico waters. Course fee inclues a $100 equipment voucher.