Open For Limited Spring Day Visits, Literally Letters Kicks Off the 2021 Summer Season at Ghost Ranch

We Really Miss You - WRMY Open for Day Visits Starting Wednesday, March 24

We are ready to welcome folks back in stages. We are starting a slow reopen with advanced reservations for day visitors starting March 24. Book an advanced purchase Day Pass for visits to the museums and your choice of two hiking trails. O'Keeffe Trail Rides and Tours are also available. $10 per adult, youth are free. Rio Arriba County Residents are always free of charge but everyone needs to pre-register and most of the ranch remains off-limits. We will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, fully closed Mondays and Tuesdays except to trail riders. Visit our website for more information, social distance policy and to reserve your day visit pass. We will be checking reservations - help us avoid a difficult moment by reserving ahead of time. Guests without reservations will be turned away.

Book Your Tour, Trail Ride or Museum/Hike Day Pass

Estudio Corazón Artist Residency May 16-29th

Ghost Ranch is excited to introduce Estudio Corazón (Studies of the Heart), a residency program for fine artists. Piloted in the fall of 2020, we are now ready to share this unique opportunity with the expanded artist community. Housed in the Casitas near the Arts Building, each resident will have individual living quarters and a studio. We are currently booking Sunday, May 16-Saturday, May 29th, which is a half residency of 13-nights at a special early bird rate of $1750. There are still some openings for two other residencies of 26-nights in June and August, at a cost of $3750. An application process is required.

Learn More About This Unique Program

SUMMER 2021 Is On Its Way

Yes, Literally Letters and other on-ranch workshops are slated to happen this year. We'll start the summer with the week of Sunday, June 6 to Saturday, June 12 (6 nights) at Ghost Ranch, along with a few other in-person workshops. More workshops coming soon. Celebrating the 40th+ years of this calligraphy festival, we are looking forward to the synergy that comes from focused creativity happening in community.

Literally Letters Calligraphy Festival & More June 6 to June 12

Monoline Alphabets & Creating Small Treasures with Carol Pallesen Make your writing small, smaller or smallest as we work with various tools conducive to unique lettering: microns, crowquills, and sharpened edged pens. Register Now

Alphabets Inspired by Nature with Julie Wildman This is a class for anyone interested in bringing a fresh and creative approach to making beautiful letters using natural, found objects and landscape as inspiration. Register Now

Paste Papers That Sing with Elizabeth McKee Many of us were first introduced to paste paper in primary school where it is known as finger painting. More recently calligraphers realized that paste makes an excellent surface on which to letter. Use this unique process to fuse the creativity of letter and texture in an old new way. Register Now

The Painted Word with Annie Cicale The Ghost Ranch experience is unique to each visitor, and this workshop is a chance for you to respond to that through word and image. The landscape will influence our paintings, whether you work abstractly or realistically; whether your focus is large or small. Register Now

Basic Black & White Photography at Ghost Ranch (Darkroom Emphasis) with Kent Bowser Experience photography from taking a picture to the final print. If you are interested in developing and printing film in a darkroom, seeing how the old family camera works, or need to brush-up on forgotten skills, this class is for you. Register Now

Oil Painting: Finding Your Voice Through Color and Technique with Natasha Isenhour Enhance your understanding of recording what you see in your own voice using oil paint as the medium. Learn about atmosphere, big shapes and composition and how these things come together to make a beautiful painting in studio and en plein air. Register Now

Bones & Blossoms: O'Keeffe and You with Helen Byers Make your writing small, smaller or smallest as we work with various tools conducive to unique lettering: microns, crowquills, and sharpened edged pens. This June offering has been filled by guests who were scheduled to come in 2020. Place your name on a waitlist or register for the September 19-25 version. Learn More

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