Art-away:
Santa Fe
July 18 – 24, 2020 – Light, Line and Lens
$1600, includes transportation, house stay, meals and entrance fees.
Explore Santa Fe with cameras, sketchbooks and paint! Visit art studios, artists and exhibits selected to inspire your own creative vision. Spend a day in nature, an evening under the stars, an afternoon in an old adobe village making photographs and sketches to expand into a larger painting, collage or drawing at our home base studio! Learn more at an information session where you can ask questions, meet past participants. and see a slideshow from past Art Away:Santa Fe trips.
Information sessions:
Friday, February 28, 5:30-6:30pm
Register for Feb 28 Info Session
Wednesday, March 11, 5:30-6:30pm
Register for March 11 Info Session
Highlights for 2020 Art Away: Santa Fe – Light, Line and Lens
- private tours of current exhibit and collections at art and photography galleries
- a day sketching and photographing in the adobe village of Galisteo, NM
- studio visit with local artist
- Time to explore, sketch and photograph in and around Santa Fe’s historic plaza
- An afternoon at the Santa Fe Art Fair
- time daily to make art on site or at our home studio
- stay in an airbnb surrounded by gardens and views to photograph, draw and paint
Highlights from 2019 Art Away: Santa Fe – focus on landscape:
- a day in Abiquiu touring Georgia O’Keefe’s studio and plein-air painting in the New Mexico landscape
- private tour of Judy Tuwaletstiwa exhibit at Center for Contemporary Arts
- studio visit with local artist, Dawn Chandler
- Time to explore Santa Fe’s historic plaza
- A private tour at Nedra Matteucci Gallery with lunch and time to draw in the sculpture garden
- an afternoon at Meow Wolf
Art-Away trips are limited to 8 students. In Santa Fe we immerse ourselves in the rich art world of this special, historic city. We stay in a spacious airbnb that is accommodating to groups our size with plenty of space both indoors and out for creating art. Most evenings are spent at home with home cooked meals and time for fun and relaxation.
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Payment Details + Cancellation Policy
Art Away: Santa Fe July 18-24, 2020
- $500 deposit is required to reserve a space
- Payment in full due by Friday, June 26
Cancellation Policy:
- more than 90 days – 100%
- 61-90 days – 100%, less $500 deposit
- 31-60 days – 50% of total cost
- 30 days or less – no refunds. 50% of trip cost may be applied for credit for a future trip.
art-away itinerary
from Santa Fe 2018
Paired museum/gallery experiences emphasize connections between traditional and contemporary art:
- Two New Mexican Painters: O’Keefe and Bergman (O’Keefe Museum and Center for Contemporary Art)
- Native American Art (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts)
- Crafts: (Folk Art Museum and Tansey Contemporary Gallery)
- Installation Art: (Site Santa Fe and Meow Wolf)
- Meet 9am in Boulder and drive to Santa Fe. Arrive by 5:00 pm. Settle in and have dinner in our new Santa Fe home-away-from-home.
- The Center for Contemporary Art (Ciel Berman exhibit)
- Explore Indian market at Santa Fe Square home early
- Studio time, dinner at home and board games
- O’Keefe Museum and visit Loretto Chapel
- Lunch at home and down time
- Late afternoon go to Meow Wolf and have dinner out at Tortilla Flats
- Morning at home with guided and open studio time
- Afternoon visit Folk Art Museum
- Return to Meow Wolf to meet and talk with one of the artists
- Home for dinner, video on Frank Buffalo Hyde
- Artist talk and tour of IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts)
- Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (Frank Buffalo Hyde)
- Dinner at home and movie
- Morning studio time
- Afternoon explore galleries on and around Canyon Road
- Dinner at home, free time to read, work in sketchbooks, play board games
- Site Santa Fe – private tour of “Brave New World” Installation
- Studio visit: Deeda Hull, book artist
- Dinner at home
- Drive back to Boulder. Home by 4:30pm