THE TAOS ART SCHOOL
    

"We learned not only
Navajo Weaving Techniques
but also experienced some
of the vibrant Navajo Culture
through ceremonies & stories.
Pearl is an engaging storyteller,
and shares personal accounts
of her life as well as
traditional tales
about Spider Woman"
NAVAJO WEAVING & CULTURE

Beginning/Intermediate:
July 10-17, 2010

Tuition: $565, Materials Extra
Limited to 12 Participants
Class Supplies | Our Instructor
Lodging


Pearl Sunrise assisting a student in a 1997 workshop
Photo by John H. Beck
  
YOUR CLASS EXPERIENCE

We begin with the all important warping for which Pearl supplies her own hand-spun yarn to ensure proper tension. Then the students are guided through the design stage. For beginning students this will be a block design, while advanced students will work with diagonals, or even a twill. The Navajo way is not to use a cartoon but rather to design right on the loom.

Class starts Sunday morning, and ends mid afternoon on Friday. Daily hours will be from 9 AM to 4 PM, with an hour off for lunch. Sunday is spent on the all-important warping. Students are divided up into pairs, together warping one loom in the morning and a second in the afternoon. This not only ensures each student has a properly warped loom to start work on Monday morning, but also means that the students' "hands" will retain the knowledge of how to do this important task.

Monday through Friday we weave. All techniques will be demonstrated first by Pearl, then done by each student under her encouraging supervision. All levels are welcome as each student is encouraged to work at his or her individual pace.

Feel free to Call us for more Information about this workshop.
We love to chat about our classes.

The weekend before our Beginners/Intermediate workshop the Taos Pueblo Pow Wow (7/9-11) event occurs. Please see if you can come a day early to attend this wonderful event. Housing for the extra night can be arranged directly. Click see more about the Taos Pueblo Pow Wow.

 

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CLASS SUPPLIES

All materials may either be brought by the student or purchased directly from Pearl during class (Materials are not purchased through the school). The following is a list of materials needed. Please bring a firm pillow to sit on.

  1. NAVAJO LOOM, SMALL - Bring your own, or:
    - 1 week rental of simple loom, without tools: $35.
    - 1 week rental of simple loom, with tools: $45.
    Includes warp set-up, shed stick and heddles
    - Make your own loom with directions from office.
  2. Warp set-up: $40 (includes : warp, edging cords (top & bottom ; 2 willow heddle sticks; 3 skeins of yarn; top & bottom beams to attach warps; & many yards of twine for binding.)
  3. YARN - Warp, $20. Yarn, 4 skeins of Navajo Handspun, $8 each, $32. A variety of colors will be set out on a table for students to use as needed. At the end of the week, you will be charged for only what you have used.
  4. You also may purchase hand made tools:
    Batten, wide, large - $18; small or narrow - $12
    Heddle sticks 1/8" diameter dowls, need 2, $1 each
    Weaving comb - $20

About Our Instructor
Pearl Sunrise is a gentle and knowledgeable teacher whose luminous spirit inspires all who meet her. As a 3rd generation Navajo weaver, she learned her craft from her mother and grandmother. She has been the unofficial Navajo ambassador to the world for years, receiving a Fulbright to teach in New Zealand, and a commission by the U.S. State department to visit Lesotho, South Africa, and Toronto, Canada as a Cultural Specialist. She’s on the advisory board of the New Indian Museum, in Wash, D.C., and is currently a professor at the School of American Indian Arts, in Santa Fe. Her work is collected worldwide.

 

LODGING:
To be announced.

Students are invited to stay together with your teacher for 7 nights. Full breakfast/lunch.
$850. Single occupancy.
$495. Each Double occupancy.
These housing arrangements are paid directly to the school and are included in your Iinvoice/Registration Form. (This is an approximate price only. Exact price to be listed upon assignment of the hotel.)

Beginning/Intermediate: Check-in 7/10 - Check-out 7/17.

The Taos Pueblo Pow Wow is Scheduled to take place after this workshop. We suggest that you stay the extra day to partake of this unique event. Contact the Lodge directly to make arrangements for this.
Please let us know if you will be staying with us and whether you want a single or double room. (Doubles are contingent upon finding a roommate for you within your class.)

 

 

Taos Art School | http://taosartschool.org

TAOS ART SCHOOL
P.O. BOX 2588, TAOS, NEW MEXICO, 87571
(575) 758-0350
http://taosartschool.org

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