The Wilderness Studio Schedule

Wilderness Studio Schedule

Monday May 15:
Class in Mattox Sculpture, 9:00 am

Get to know Wilderness Studio/proposals

Beau art talk

Building field easels

Lunch break

Building pochade boxes

Film: The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

Homework: reading for Tuesday: Go Take a Hike!

Tuesday May 16:

Meet at 8:00 am

Travel day Chaco

Set up camp/lunch 11-1

Ranger led tour around 1:30 / 2

Dinner 6

Night sky event at Sunset

Reading to discuss Wednesday: Wilderness

Suggested additional reading: House of Rain

Wednesday May 17:

First day of plein-air work- getting started

9 am Alto house hike (moderate/easy)

12-5 flex time

Dinner 6

Discussion: Wilderness reading

Thursday May 18:

8 am Beau Demo

Plein-air oil painting

*Work day

Suggested reading: Marsden Hartley: Aesthetic Sincerity and America as Landscape

Possible tracks:

working in and around camp

Fajada butte overlook

Check out houses

Alto trail canyon overlook

Penasco Blanco hike (longer)

***Fire night***

Night painting

Friday May 19:

Travel day

Clean camp/pack up/ gone by 9:30

Shop in Cuba 11

Ponderosa 1-2

Set up camp

Draw/get settled

**Discuss work made/critique***

Reading for Saturday:

Poem: Richard Siken: Landscape with a blur of conquerors

suggested reading: Walking with the ancient ones

Saturday May 20:

Main hike Bandelier- arrive at 8

Alcove house

***Fire night

Discuss Siken poem

Telephone Haiku night

Sunday May 21:

Work day

Possible tracks:

Stay in camp

Head back into Bandelier visitor center area: Frijoles falls hike

Backcountry hike from Ponderosa into Bandelier wilderness

Monday May 22:

Valle Caldera day

Tuesday May 23:

Pack up/thoroughly clean camp and all supplies

Jemez stop?

Back to ABQ between 1 and 4 (depending)

Tuesday-Monday, May 23- 29

Choose your own Adventure:

Choose a place to visit with your newly developed ideas, skills, supplies, and interests, and go there and make work. You can use ABQ as a jumping off point for a few visits to a local area- such as Sandia or Manzano Wilderness/ trails, Petroglyphs/Volcanos, Tent Rocks, Santa Fe, Pecos, Rio Grande State Park/Bosque, or even parks or botanical gardens in the city or in another city, or you may even want to go on another camping trip.  Respond to your chosen location as directly or indirectly as you’d like. Spend at least 2 full days or 3-4 partial days out working, and/or creating source material to go back to the studio to use. Make at least 4-6 smaller works, (up to 14 x 17 or so of any varied dimensions) 2-4 Medium (up to 18 x 24 or so of varied )  or 1-2 large works (at least 30 x 22 or larger varied ) Use any materials you want to and as many as you want. Bring the work plus all of the other work you made ( including all failures!) to class on Tuesday.

Tuesday May 30^th:

Class meets at UNM / Sommers gallery 9 am – 1 hour lunch break – 4 pm (or earlier if we complete the hang early)

Discuss work/ curate show / hang show

** may also require meeting Wednesday May 31st***

Closing reception June 9^th 5-8 pm

Do you need more structure for this experience?

You could start with this:

Wednesday: focus on structure: Rocks/cut rocks/buildings/tents/shelters etc.

Or focus on cosmology, or focus on “wandering”

Thursday: oil paint with Beau: Focus on Landscape ( macro) and plant life (micro)

Remainder of the day: focus on camp life; small to large – and/or animal life
Friday: find some things distinctly “ponderosa” and make a drawn inventory of those things
Saturday: find something distinctly “Bandelier” and make 3 painting/drawings

Sunday: Focus deeper on any of your previous drawings and expand on those

Monday: explore Valle Caldera- how is it different from Chaco and Bandelier?

Tuesday: Plan your “choose your own adventure”