Past courses
Need inspiration?Take a look at some of our past leisure learning experiences. Interested in attending a course this year? Check out our Leisure Learning Courses and Virtual Lecture Series.
Past Leisure Learning Courses
Fall 2024
- The Art of Fused Glass
- Exploring New Mexico
- Taos in Color — Exploring the New Mexico Landscape through Watercolor
Summer 2024
- Monoprinting with the Taos Moderns
- The Nuclear Bomb and The Land of Enchantment
- Women Artists of the Southwest
- Folktales and Enchantment in New Mexico
- Contemporary New Mexico Cooking
- Beginning Fly Fishing
- Intermediate and Advanced Fly Fishing
Fall 2023
- Metal Art
- Golf and a Bit of Culture
- Pueblo Worlds: An Overview of Pueblo Indian History and Culture
Summer 2023
- Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstract Art
- Adventures in Native New Mexico
- Taos and the Western
- Art and Geology: Creating with the New Mexico Landscape
- From Saints to Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain
- New Mexico Cooking and Culture
- Beginning and Intermediate Flyfishing
Fall 2022
- Pueblo Worlds: An Overview of Pueblo Indian History and Culture
- Taos Contemporary Art & Culture
- Beginning Jewelry Making
- Flyfishing
- Golf and a Bit of Culture
Summer 2022
- Pueblo Worlds: An Overview of Pueblo Indian History and Culture
- Navajo Style Weaving
- The Art of Aquatint
- Doel Reed and his Contemporaries (1940s-1980s)
- Flyfishing
- New Mexico Cooking
Fall 2021
- The Adventurous Eye - Photography in New Mexico Landscape
- Plein Air Printmaking
- The Art of Metal Work
- Flyfishing
Summer 2021
- A Taste of Taos
- A Pueblo Pottery Journey
- Exploring Watermedia: Creating Art in the Taos Landscape
- Beginning and Intermediate Flyfishing
- The Presence of the Past: Public History in Taos and Northern New Mexico
Summer 2019
- The Nuclear Bomb & the Land of Enchantment
- Hollywood's Southwest
- New Mexico Native Plant Ecology
- Drawing Canyon, Sage & Sky
- Contemporary New Mexico Cooking
- Beginning & Intermediate Flyfishing
Fall 2019
- The Adventurous Eye - Photographing the New Mexico Landscape
- The Art of Metal Work
Summer 2018
- From Plant to Paper
- Pueblo & Spanish Cooking in New Mexico
- Art and Devotion in Spanish New Mexico
- Fantastic Visions of the Southwest
- Flyfishing - Beginning & Intermediate
- Geology in Taos
Fall 2018
- The Art of Fused Glass
Summer 2017
- New Mexico Food & Culture
- Ecology & Visual Landscape of Northern New Mexico
- Fashion Studies
- Flyfishing (Beginning & Intermediate)
- Taos Photography & Solar Printmaking Workshop
Fall 2017
- Color in the Taos Landscape: Monoprint & Painting Workshop
Previous Virtual Experiences
2023
- Art and Geology: Inspired by the New Mexico Landscape
- Saints to Santos: Celebrating Sanctity in the Spanish World
- Taos & the Western
- Georgia O’Keeffe, Abstraction, and the Southwest
2022
- Weaving: Spider Woman’s Gift to the Navajos
- Southwest Archaeoastronomy
- The Art of Aquatint
2021
- Eva Mirabal: Three Generations of Tradition and Modernity at Taos Pueblo
- Clay Beauty: the legacy and heritage of Pueblo Pottery
2020
- Bear & Coyote: Stories of Leslie Marmon Silko
- Floral Exploration: Botanical Drawing at Home
- Winter in Taos
- New Mexico Magical Realism: Bless Me, Ultima
- Drawing Real and Imagined Landscapes