Santa Fe Creative Tourism
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CITY CONTINUES DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE TOURISM INITIATIVE The City of Santa Fe is continuing to work with artists and arts businesses to further develop the organization and promotion of workshops that allow visitors to experience Santa Fe in a handson fashion. Collaborations with the hospitality industry are also being explored. This initiative was created as a result of the City of Santa Fe’s 2005 appointment to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and builds upon the successful 2008 International Conference on Creative Tourism held in Santa Fe. Fortyone artists attended a sixhour training on the development and marketing of creative experience workshops for tourists held January 16 and 30 at the College of Santa Fe campus. This training was offered as another step in the development of the City’s Creative Tourism Initiative. Organized by the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, with Bette Bradbury of WESST, the purpose of the training was to assist northern New Mexico artists interested in the business of offering creative tourism workshops. WESST is a statewide nonprofit economic development organization that provides training, technical assistance and loan funds to entrepreneurs. Bradbury educated artists on the organization and marketing of handson workshops with the assistance of local artist Nancy Judd. Creative Tourism is travel directed toward an engaged and authentic experience, with participative learning in the arts, heritage or special character of a place. Continued…
Spring Break Conversations and Demonstrations March 15th – April 9th 2010 Monday – Friday / 10 am / Hotel Plaza Real Week 1 March 15 March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19
Flute Building Etched Glass Fiber Arts Pastel Black Etched Tin
Week 2 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26
Photography Encaustic Painting Watercolors Sculpture Camera Obscura
Week 3 March 29 March 30 March 31 April 1 April 2
Mixed Media Porcelain Collage Monotype Glass
Week 4 April 5 April 6 April 7 April 8 April 9
Acrylic Painting Glass Mixed Media Fiber Arts Flute Building
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Excerpt From Creative Tourism: A Global Conversation By Alex Pattakos, PhD Crispin Raymond, a Creative Tourism consultant from New Zealand, discusses the origins of the term, Creative Tourism, from his own, very unique, personal experience. Indeed, he describes how the name “popped up in his head” after reading emails from his elder daughter who had been traveling through Southeast Asia and Australia. In this regard, he learned that his daughter had experienced connections with people in ways that most visitors never get to do. Continue Here
An Adventure in Pinhole Photography by Jackie Mathey www.campobscura.com Camp Obscura is a workshop exploring the adventures of pinhole photography and the camera obscura. We build our cameras, expose film, and develop our own images. As a group we create a camera obscura (Latin for darkened chamber) paring photography down to its essence. Our week ends printing with the Cyanotype and Van Dyke processes. Through this historic path we discover the beauty that light and silver have to offer. Participants gain a more intimate understanding of photography technically and artistically, while exploring unique locations around the Santa Fe area. Although each workshop follows a similar process, they each possess their own personality. The participants, time of year and the different types of shoots we go on aid in creating the flavor and individuality of each experience. However, there is one workshop in particular that stands out as unique to all others. In May of 2009 New Mexico’s Children Youth & Family Division along with C.A.S.A., a local non profit, sponsored a oneday Camp Obscura workshop for older teens in the foster care system Continue here
“Enchantment” By Sandra Richardson, AKA Zandi www.zandidesigns.com Now I understand why they call New Mexico, “The Land of Enchantment.” It’s because the land itself enchants you, casting a spell upon you which can never be undone. The land makes only one request, before bequeathing this blessing spell: first, you must open your heart.
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You must open your heart to the swish of brown feathers of the hawk, as he floats by. You must open your heart to the hum of the lightningfast beat of hummingbird wings. You must open your heart to the lightning that scratches bright messages of “Be Here Now” across the charcoal slate of the sky. You must open your heart to the rainbow, sometimes twins, that fill the space in the skies scratched open by the lightning, Continue here
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7000 BC Creators Collective — will hold its March meeting Saturday, March 20 in the Community Room at the Santa Fe Library Main Branch, 1:30–4:30, moving on to dinner after. This will be an opportunity for attendees to work on their projects, collaborate, and gather feedback; we welcome all those interested in creating and self publishing comics. Website
Make Art on Canyon Road David Wong a Chemical Engineer from North Dakota creates a piece with Jenny Cooley on Canyon Road for info.
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201 West Marcy Street Santa Fe, NM Saturday, March 13, 2010 Making Books Using the Traditional Brazilian Literary Zoe Bird 12-4 pm FREE to the public “Cordel is a popular low-budget form for pamphlets of advertising, and poetry and other literary forms. Participants will produce hand-made books that reference the art on display in the Gallery to create collaged calland-response cordel books/poems that dialogue directly with the gallery exhibition. Books will be made using visual and textual elements from recycled materials provided by the instructor.”
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LINES AND CIRCLES A Celebration of Santa Fe Families by Valerie Martínez Thru March 19th 2010
Sundance Photography Workshops For questions email info@santafecreativetourism.org Brent Hanifl 5059556215