DIANE ERICSON
Design Outside the Lines - Taos, NM June 22-27 2025
Design Outside the Lines - Taos, NM June 22-27 2025
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Location: Mabel Dodge Luhan House • Taos, New Mexico
Dates: June 22-27, 2025 (sun -fri)
Cost: $3,685.
Commuter rate: $2,375.
Experience the magic of Northern New Mexico! Situated at the end of a quiet road not far from the center of town, The Mabel Dodge Luhan House, a historic adobe, looks out across Taos pueblo property with a view of the sacred Taos Mountain.
Guest Teacher: Karin Graves
"I use a fluid approach to paint linen and fashion it into garments. Using a projector in a dark room, I cast forms from nature and symbols from math and script onto linen and paint them with black textile paint. I draw on images that evoke the energy of murmuration and the intricacies of nature. I’m inspired by the murmuration of birds because it reflects my creative process. My ideas and images dip, turn, expand and contract in my imagination and flow through my thread and paint into artistic forms. I’ve also invented a stitching style I call swarming, which involves swirling stitch lines along the landscape of garment contours. I have drawn, painted, quilted, spun and woven fabric most of my adult life. I grew up in a small town on the Puget Sound surrounded by forces of water and nature that have shaped my work.
I studied art at Tacoma Community College, where I earned my associate’s degree, and at the Oregon College for Art and Craft in Portland. For the past 33 years, I have lived with my husband in Beaverton, Ore., where we raised three children and I taught preschool and summer art classes for children. I previously spent many years in Washington, Idaho, North Carolina and Massachusetts". Karin Graves
Join Diane Ericson and Karin Graves, for dynamic week of inspiration, lectures and one-on-one instruction in our adobe conference center studio. Deepen your design experience, and focus on aspects of your work in new ways. We'll be on 'Taos time' as they say, with plenty of opportunity to explore your ideas, and work in small, informal groups in our adobe studio and afternoons sitting with handwork in the stone courtyards.
"Returning to New Mexico always inspires new work and vision influenced by its breath-taking landscapes. Karin and I will be exploring and sharing our work printing and brushwork on textiles. Held by thread, the world calls us to collaborate and celebrate new relationships in community and the materials we are drawn to....join us to grow your work and bring in the new. I'll be working in fabric, adding surface design and stitching to my making in our Taos Studio. Color, form and story find their way into my imagery and textile work and garments. There in Taos, where the high desert air and views are a reminder to breath, join us and settle in to celebrate MAKING and the magic that takes form in the studio there".
Diane Ericson
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Retreat Price includes: 5-day workshop with lodging and most meals. All Rooms are single occupancy with private bath). Two meals a day are included at Mabel’s: breakfasts and lunches. *2 Dinners are included on the first nite and our last evening together at Mabels. Downtown Taos is an easy 15-minute walk from Mabel's with many wonderful and diverse eating opportunities enroute. Studio time includes surface design tools and paints.
The Commuter Rate: includes workshop, studio time and surface design tools and paints, daily breakfasts & lunches and first and last nights group dinner.
RETREAT PAYMENT POLICY-
Send your full amount or $600. deposit to hold your place. Full payment is due 45 days prior to your retreat.
Cancellation policy: Your deposit is non-refundable or transferable. Cancellation up to 30 days prior to the retreat, your payments (less deposit) are refundable. For cancellations within 15 days of the retreat, there is no refund.
"This is more than a sewing workshop, it is a life changing experience." Workshop Participant 2022
A Materials List, arrival information & teaching notes will be e-mailed 6 weeks out from the retreat.
TRAVEL-
There may or may not be rooms available before and after the retreat. If you want to come early, please contact Julie or Vanessa at Mabel Dodge Luhan directly, 800-846-2235.
GETTING TO TAOS: Fly into Albuquerque or Santa Fe, then rent a car and drive to Taos or take a shuttle. The drive takes you past/through Santa Fe, then north, and is a magnificent BIG view ride. Allow 3 hours driving time from Albuquerque. If you possibly can, allow more time for stops and vistas. Shuttle services to contact are: Mountain View Shuttle or Taos Ski Valley Shuttle Call ahead to reserve and check times and verify the price before making plane reservations.
To visit the Mabel Dodge Luhan House online: www.mabeldodgeluhan.com
