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Folk Art Traditions and Beyond
Travel with SchoolArts to Santa Fe, New Mexico in July 2008.

The best folk art and artists from around the world together in one place, Georgia O’Keeffe’s museum and Abiquiu home, green chiles and blue cornbread—what else could anyone ask for in art teacher heaven?

Join SchoolArts editor Nancy Walkup in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 8– 14, 2008, for Folk Art Traditions and Beyond. This summer seminar will focus on the fifth annual Folk Art Festival at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, with additional emphasis on Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and art in New Mexico, and Hispanic and Native American cultural traditions.

Folk Art Market The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market is a unique open-air gathering of master folk artists from over forty countries in celebration of creativity and humanity, promoting international cooperation and understanding through art and culture. The event, which helps artists and craftspeople achieve economic sustainability and preserve their heritage, provides an opportunity to meet artists and buy their high-quality, authentic work. Attending this gathering is like seeing the world in a weekend. Last summer over 113 booths represented more than 150 artists from forty-one countries and 12,000 attendees.

Activities include museum visits, field trips, invited speakers, hands-on experiences, and attendance at the International Folk Art Festival at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Highlights include visits to Georgia O’Keeffe’s home, Ghost Ranch in Albiquiu, and a sister conference center to Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe for photography, sketching, or painting. We’ll have the opportunity to do photography, sketching, and painting, as well as learn about Pueblo cultural traditions from Taos native John Reyna.

The $775 fee includes six nights of accommodations at Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe, most meals, field trips, transportation for field trips, admission fees, and seminar materials. Commuters may also attend; the cost without lodging is $450. Participants are responsible for transportation to and from Santa Fe. There are shuttles available from the Albuquerque airport to Santa Fe (www. sandiashuttle.com, www.shuttlesan-tafe.com).

The seminar will be led by two folk art collectors and educators: Nancy Walkup, art teacher and editor of SchoolArts magazine; and Myra Walker, art professor at the University of North Texas. For more information, contact Sue Rund-strom at (800) 821-5145, ext. 23, or Nancy Walkup at (940) 382-8274 or nwalkup@verizon.net. Space is limited to twenty participants. To

secure a place, send a $250 deposit made out to Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe to Sue Rundstrum, 401 Old Taos Hwy, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

www.folkartmarket.org www.ghostranch.org www.moifa.org

See a lesson plan on Papel Picado, one of the hands-on activities from the seminar at www.schoolartsonline.com

A Participant Speaks

“Every day was an adventure. Just enough information and hands-on activity for take-home examples. Loved the personal shrine making and glad we could add and work on it during the week. John Reyna [from Taos Pueblo] was fantastic—such an interesting person who shared a piece of his soul and heart with us. The Folk Art Festival was amazing! This has been one of the very best workshops I have ever taken! I will hold the memories close to my heart!”