Instructor: Milo Berezin
Create lively characters, patterns, and narratives on hand-built pottery! This workshop will introduce various soft slab building techniques including slab coils and press molds. Students will then explore illustrative decorating techniques on greenware using slip, underglaze, and customizable carving tools.
Instructor: Forrest Lesch Middelton
Uncover your artistic voice through tiles and wheel-thrown forms. With Forrest’s guidance, explore image transfer, silk screens, embossments, and reduction cooling to create richly decorative, functional wares with fresh surface approaches.
Instructor: Michelle Solorzano
Spend a week bringing a figure to life! Using slabs, templates, and reference images, you’ll build a hollow form in parts, assemble and refine it, and finish with patterned surface decoration to tell a story.
Instructor: Amelia Toelke
This workshop will focus on the creation of a sterling silver charm bracelet adorned with charms designed by participants. Learn precision soldering techniques that focus on chain making, sweat soldering, small-scale construction and fabrication with sheet and wire.
Melanie Tallmadge Sainz (Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin)
This workshop will present a unique approach to learning how to procure, process, and create art with porcupine quills. Utilizing methods and techniques unique to Ho-Chunk people, you will utilize porcupine quills to embellish a project of your choosing. This workshop is ideal for those eager to learn and employ a new form of crafted adornment.
Instructor: Rick Paulus
Enjoy an immersive calligraphy journey as you explore a broad range of tools, materials, and techniques, from historic to contemporary, with expert guidance throughout.
Instructors: Barbara Jean Teller Ornelas (Diné) and Lynda Teller Pete (Diné)
This beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop introduces you to the world of Navajo weaving as you create your own Navajo-inspired rug. Guided by two world-renowned Navajo women weavers, you will also gain insight into the cultural significance of this art form through their lived experiences.
Instructors: Ramson Lomatewama (Hopi) and Ayen Talashoma (Hopi)
Add some heat to your life in this exciting workshop that explores the fundamentals of glassblowing through the unique cultural lens of renowned Hopi glass artists. You will be introduced to the essentials of hot glass art along with the technical and philosophical elements that inspire creativity, all supported by expert one-on-one guidance.
Due to popular demand, we will also offer a second session. You may enroll in both weeks or just one. For returning students, the second session provides an opportunity to build on your newly established glassmaking skills and advance to creating larger works with greater detail.
Instructor: Tony Soares
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the history of pottery-making styles unique to Cahuilla communities in Southern California.
Instructor: Cat Orlando
In this two-day workshop, create your own mosaic using vibrant colored glass. Learn how to design, cut, and arrange your pieces on a chosen surface, resulting in a one-of-a-kind work of art.
Instructors: Barbara Jean Teller Ornelas (Diné) and Lynda Teller Pete (Diné)
Idyllwild Arts is honored to welcome renowned Navajo weavers and sisters Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete for their 29th year teaching in the summer program. This Level II workshop offers a more in-depth experience ideal for beginning to intermediate weaving students as well as more advanced students who have projects they may need troubleshooting with or completing.
Instructor: Rose Ann Hamilton (Cahuilla)
Learn to mindfully gather, process, and work with plant materials to create a Cahuilla Basket. Along the way, you will learn about Cahuilla Basketry’s cultural significance in Cahuilla communities.
Instructor: Jennifer Ben (Diné)
Come together with students of all levels at the round table to bead, connect, laugh, and learn. With step-by-step guidance and live demonstrations, you’ll design beautiful wearable art pieces using premium materials like Swarovski crystals and Czechoslovakian glass-cut beads.
Instructors: Ramson Lomatewama (Hopi) and Ayen Talashoma (Hopi)
Keep the heat going with the second session of this exciting workshop that continues exploration into the fundamentals of glassblowing through the unique cultural lens of renowned Hopi glass artists. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the fundamentals of hot glass art as well as the technical and philosophical elements to inspire your work with expert one-on-one guidance.
*You may enroll in both weeks or just one. For returning students, the second session will be an opportunity to dive deeper into your newly established glassmaking skills and advance to making larger objects with greater detail.
Instructor: John Brosio
A class in full color, alla prima painting with oils, from observation.
Instructor: Jacob Meders (Mechoopda/Maidu)
This workshop, led by master screen printer Jacob Meders, introduces the art of screen printing with a focus on cultural identity and altered perceptions of place. Participants will develop their own designs using 2-D principles, create a matrix for screen exposure, and experiment with techniques like Rubylith cutting. This hands-on experience includes printing on paper, fabric, and t-shirts, allowing for an interdisciplinary exploration of personal and cultural expression.
Instructors: Dorothy Ami (Hopi-Tewa) and Emerson Ami (Hopi-Tewa)
Dive into a truly transformative workshop as you learn the Hopi-Tewa method of creating polychrome pottery, utilizing traditional materials and techniques such as hand building, polishing, painting, and traditional firing utilizing dehydrated sheep dung.
Instructor: Richard Tsosie (Navajo)
Design patterns and create colorful collages in semi-precious stones as you learn how to operate lapidary equipment to cut, grind, and polish stones to set into the silver form of your choice, such as bracelets, pendants, belt buckles, and rings, which you will create!
*Due to popular demand, we are excited to offer two Navajo Inlay Jewelry sessions. You may enroll in both weeks or just one. For returning students, the second session provides the opportunity to dive deeper into your newly established jewelry making skills and work on additional projects or continue a larger project.
Instructor: Roy Talahaftewa (Hopi)
Explore Indigenous ingenuity and learn to cast jewelry utilizing a unique form of limestone called Tufa stone. This labor-intensive process involves many steps but will leave you with a lasting imprint and insight into a unique technique in silversmithing.
