Event Description
About the Educator Camp
NMWA’s virtual Educator Summer Camp is designed for all educators: schoolteachers, home school instructors, scout leaders, and more. We just ask that you come with your learners in mind and a playful spirit!
We will offer 1.5-hour sessions daily, Monday, July 21, through Friday, July 25. Sessions, inspired by the Art, Books, and Creativity (ABC) Institutes and NMWA’s collection, are hands-on, participatory, and fun. Sessions will explore NMWA’s collection and resources, introduce historical and contemporary women artists, and engage participants in experimental making and close looking.
Guest instructors include artists and educators from around the country. You will receive a recommended supply list, applicable digital resources, and a Zoom meeting link in advance of each session.
Register for one session or many depending on your interest and commitments.
Session participants can request certificates of completion reflecting total earned participation hours.
About the Program
Learn an artist book format from Skye Tafoya, whose dynamic, woven work is on view in the current exhibition A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making.
About the Artist Instructor
Rhiannon ‘Skye’ Tafoya (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes. She earned a BFA in printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM., and an MFA in print media from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. She employs printmaking, digital design, and basketry techniques in creating her artist’s books, prints, and paper weavings. Both of her Tribal heritages, cultures, and lineages are manifested in her two- and three-dimensional artworks that range in size from a few inches to a few feet. She is inspired by her family history of basketry and observing her father and maternal grandmother weave baskets from red willow, honeysuckle vine, and white oak. While her inspiration comes, in part, from Cherokee traditions, her artworks are decidedly contemporary, featuring sharp lines and bold colors. Skye creates to preserve, archive, and share personal and familial stories, cultural knowledge, and the Cherokee language.
Questions? Reach out to education@nmwa.org.
Accessibility
CART Captioning
CART Captioning
This event will have Communication Access Real-time Transcription (CART), in which a professional transcribes the speech and non-speech audio information to text. The text will be displayed in the event video window, and attendees can turn captioning on or off throughout the program.
Accessibility Inquiries
Accessibility Inquiries
If you are unable to register online or would like to request additional accessibility services, please email education@nmwa.org. Two weeks’ notice to request accessibility services is appreciated but not required. We will make every attempt to accommodate requests.