2024 Oaxaca art workshops + cultural immersion
Perhaps you’ve always wanted to visit Oaxaca. Or you’re looking for an art retreat that will fuel your creative self and feel your soul. You want an authentic experience, to be immersed in art, culture, and not go it alone. Treat yourself to an art + culture adventure in Oaxaca with us and take home art, memories and experiences that will last a lifetime.
~ Hands-on, deep dive into the art and authentic culture of Oaxaca
~ Replenish your artistic toolkit with fresh inspiration and newfound creativity (you too, beginners!)
~ Unlock your creative potential with Pedro’s art instruction, rooted in indigenous Oaxacan culture
~ Creative time with likeminded travelers in an intimate setting
Oaxaca Art + Culture Workshop: A Deep Dive
watercolor, journaling, mixed media, collage – only 1 space left
Do you love the magic of watercolor painting, or want to learn the basics? Are you hooked on art journals and want to play with mixed media and collage while experiencing Mexico? This workshop is for lifelong learners and intrepid travelers who enjoy expressing themselves visually. Immerse yourself into the art and authentic culture of Oaxaca, with its soulful art scene, indigenous culture & customs, and rich culinary and artisanal traditions. The REAL Oaxaca is found in the villages, and our field trips include a Sunday market, studio visits in a weaving village, a women’s red clay collective, a papermaking studio, a gorgeous ecological art center housed in an old textile factory, and archaeological ruins – all mixed in with art instruction and creative play time. Come join our tribe on a creative adventure…We welcome all levels, you too beginners!
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Make Your Mark, Oaxaca Art + Culture Workshop hunt: mixed media, collage, art journaling – for art makers & art lovers
Do you love to create visual texture and imagery using paper scraps, old magazines, maps & newspaper, bits and pieces of ephemera? Are you hooked on art journals and want to play with mixed media and collage while experiencing Mexico? Want to discover your own personal repertoire of marks in your artmaking? This workshop is for lifelong learners and intrepid travelers who enjoy expressing themselves visually. Immerse yourself in the art and authentic culture of Oaxaca, with its soulful art scene, indigenous culture & customs, and rich culinary and artisanal traditions.
The REAL Oaxaca is found in the villages and private workspaces, and our field trips include a Sunday market, studio visits with two accomplished Oaxacan painters & printmakers, a master weaving family that works only in natural pigments, a papermaking studio that utilizes a multitude of fibers from local vegetation, a gorgeous ecological art center housed in a renovated textile factory, and a guided street art walk – all mixed in with art instruction and creative play time. This workshop is for art makers and art lovers. Come join our tribe on a Oaxacan adventure…
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Día de Muertos Workshop: watercolor, group altar, sand tapestry
Dive into the color and pageantry of Día de Muertos in Oaxaca ~ Day of the Dead! First, a trip to a mercado to shop for altar decorations and offerings (cempasuchil flowers, papel picado, long candles, copal incense, chocolate, special breads, sugar skulls, fruit and mezcal). We’ll visit two cemeteries where Oaxaqueños lovingly decorate the graves of their ancestors and bring offerings to share with their spirits. Join a comparsa – the traditional Muertos parade – along the pedestrian street. We’ll paint imagery and symbolic representations of our loved ones to honor their memories – adding natural pigments made locally (cochineal, indigo, marigold). We’ll assemble a beautiful group altar and construct and decorate a tapete de arena (sand tapestry). Additional group field trips include artisan villages for tapetes (woven wool rugs), alebrijes (carved wooden objects), and the Mujeres del Barro Rojo (Women of the Red Clay) who are “guardians of the identity & pottery tradition of their community” (where they will have their own gorgeous Día de Muertos altar).
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