METAL / FIBER / WOOD / STONE
Active Military & Veterans Workshop Series
Spring 2023
In collaboration with Veterans Off-Grid & New Mexico Arts
Taos County active military and veteran community were welcomed to participate in a new series of learning-based arts projects consisting of four workshops.
“METAL / FIBER / WOOD / STONE”
featured four, half-day workshops, with Taos County artisans and craftspeople, providing hands-on experience in the mediums of metal, fiber, wood and stone.
Our Sponsors
METAL
Saturday, April 15. 12pm - 3pm
Intro to Blacksmithing
Facilitated by Travis Webb
Location: Taos - address provided to attendees
Max 6 attendees
forging basic shapes to making gear racks, fire pokers or railroad spike knives or spoons
FIBER
Sunday, May 7 10am
Intro to Knitting
Facilitated by Justin Amero
Location: Carson Markets- address provided to attendees
Max 15 attendees
Open to all skill levels. Learn the basics of knitting or expand your skills. Materials provided.
WOOD
Saturday, May 27. 9 am - 1pm
Intro to Woodworking
Facilitated by Bobbi Heidbreder
Location: Carson - address provided to attendees
Max 6 attendees
Participants will be building a three-tier wooden shelf using traditional joinery techniques
STONE
Sunday, June 11. 1 - 4pm.
Intro to Stone Carving
Facilitated by Mark Saxe
Location: Rinconada - address provided to attendees
Max 5 attendees
Introduction to materials and tools with hands-on letter carving project.
The workshops take place in Taos County and sessions are located at the artist studios in or near the Town of Taos. Workshops are open to all ages and skill levels. Transportation is also available for those seeking assistance in attending.
Key project artists and community partners:
The Paseo Project: The Paseo Project works to transform art through community and community through art. Since 2014, the Paseo Project has brought projection, performance, and installation art to the streets of Taos with free, community events.
Veterans Off-Grid is a 501c3 non-profit organization restoring a sense of purpose, community, sustainability, and peace to veterans in need since 2017. We offer veterans a place to heal holistically in a sustainable, eco-friendly environment, so they may reintegrate with society from a place of strength and community.
Together With Veterans Taos (TWV) is a data driven and peer based, veterans-helping-veterans project that draws on community engagement to help address rural veteran suicide in Taos County, with members from the Town of Taos, Taos Pueblo, and Taos County. The program is funded by the Dept of Veterans Affairs with a three-year grant to support outreach and strategic planning.
Not Forgotten Outreach is a nonprofit organization in Taos serving veterans through comprehensive agricultural training and other programs such as weekly therapeutic art classes. NFO also serves on the TWV Board and will help with outreach to veterans in the community to bring them into this arts program.
New Mexico Arts: New Mexico Arts is the state arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. The 15-member governor-appointed New Mexico Arts Commission serves as their advisory body. Their primary function is to provide financial support for arts services and programs to non-profit organizations statewide and to administer the 1% public art program for the state of New Mexico.
