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Utah
National Parks
PLEIN AIR
PAINTING with Barbara Danser
Zion is noted for its huge monolithic White Cliffs and wind-sculpted mounds of Navajo Sandstone formed over 200 million years and carved out by ancient seas and rivers. Numerous trails climb to the high ridges above; others follow the Virgin River’s edge, surrounded by rock faces nearly 1,800 feet high filled with hanging water gardens; additional trails start at the Narrows and explore a series of slot canyons extending for miles. Entrance to the Park is through the spectacular Pine Creek tunnel built 5,607 feet through solid rock with view windows along route.
Capitol Reef, ablaze with
red, gold and white formations of rock dating back in geologic history 800
million years, has an unusual Waterpocket Fold, a wrinkle in the earth’s c Includes: For more information and to make a reservation, send an e-mail to Barbara Danser at bd@danserart.com with your name, address and phone number.
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Barbara Danser October 2010
Artists with painting experience are welcome to join this art workshop retreat, to establish and pursue their individual goals and to have fun. At Ghost Ranch following breakfast, we will gather to share a Native American ritual, welcoming the new day, after which we will depart to a location to paint and sketch. Topics will include all aspects of painting in the landscape, colors and light of the Southwest and Nature painted from within.
Evenings will be a time of sharing and relaxation. At Ghost Ranch each of us will have the opportunity to introduce a topic of choice to the group. Participants in past workshops initiated the following discussions and exercises: the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe, poetry, discussions of favorite passages in a book, Native American philosophy and way of life, alternative methods of healing, spontaneous writing to music, Nature’s simplicity in art, Yoga, other interesting topics and a twelve-circuit labyrinth walk under the stars. Video equipment, a slide projector and screen, and an audio cassette player will be available for our use.
Spirit
Within. Spirit
Within.
Includes: For more information and to make a reservation, send an e-mail to Barbara Danser at bd@danserart.com with your name, address and phone number.
PLEIN AIR with Barbara Danser
October 2010
The historic town of Taos, nestled at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico, will be the central location for this seven-day art workshop, featuring in-town adobe and garden sites as well as excursions into the surrounding landscape.
In Taos we will be staying at a spacious and charming adobe Bed & Breakfast Inn, the Mabel Dodge Luhan House (pictured right), where Georgia O’Keeffe, Willa Cather, John Marin, D. H. Lawrence, Thornton Wilder, Spud Johnson and other avant-garde artists and writers lived starting in the 1920’s. We will occupy their charming rooms and have as well the Gatehouse, all with fireplaces, sitting areas and a kitchen.
. . . All true artists are thus engaged in filling themselves out, and what they produce in doing so we call art. Real art has the man in it, the spirit, the wish, and the courage that spin out of himself those qualities he needs to satisfy the discontent in him, and the artist is the greatest of us all in these divine athletics of self-creation.
SONG OF
THE LARK . . . What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
For more information and
to make a reservation, send an E-mail to Barbara Danser at
bd@danserart.com with your name,
address and phone number.
PLEIN AIR with Barbara Danser Tuscany
The first week will be spent in Tuscany with daily trips to Pienza, Montepulciano, San Gimignano and Siena in Tuscany and Todi in Umbria. We will be staying in a magnificent fifteenth century villa with formal gardens and a pool near Cortona. Transportation to selected painting sites will be by car, and all participants will have the daily option of choosing to travel or to remain and paint on the grounds of the villa. In the evening we will have dinner in town or cooked for us at the villa.
An optional four-night trip to
Venice is offered to all who wish to extend their Italy experience and to paint
the canals and night scenes of this historic and romantic city. travel will be
by public vaporetti along central canals and to islands, such as charming
Murano where Venetian glass is made. Evenings will be spent in local restaurants
and on Piazza San Marco sipping a cappuccino and listening to late-night
orchestras play in competition with each other.
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UTAH 
Participants
at all levels of artistic experience are welcome to join this workshop, to
pursue the arts through painting (all media), photography and writing and to
interact spontaneously with nature using individual style and expression. Every
morning, each person will freely choose how they wish to explore southern Utah's
beauty, painting and sketching at selected sites, accessible by car or walking
the numerous trails with camera and sketchbook in tow. 
Bryce
Canyon country is a verdant land of high-plateau Pine forests filled with Aspen
groves, capping a vast wonderland of soft coral-colored rock sculptures reaching
white spires to the sky and balancing-rock columns, castles and temples of red
and gold. Trails meander down 500 feet through the formations, passing through
slot canyons into cool hidden places and sunny open spaces or along a river to a
waterfall and Mossy Cave. Sunrise and sunset at the rim overlooks are
breath-taking.
rust
extending the length of the Park. An 1896 one-room school house and the Behunin
house, both built by early Mormon settlers, and petroglyphs of the Freemont
Indians, dating back to 700 A. D., tell of man’s shorter history in the park.
and to interact freely with nature or subject, using individual expression and
style. This is Georgia O’Keeffe country: cottonwood trees ablaze in gold, blue
Sage and yellow Tamarisk flowering beneath towering red, gold, white and violet
rock formations, canyons with gently flowing rivers, Georgia’s flat-topped
mountain in the distance and no noise but that of Mother Nature. This palette of
vibrant colors and the simplicity of nature’s song will set the tone for our
work. 
Scheduled
trips include Taos, a tour of Georgia O’Keeffe’s house, a visit to the nearby
Dar al Islam Mosque, the White Place, a full day excursion into the canyons of
the Rio Chama and the secluded Monastery of Christ In the Desert, and the "High
Road" to Taos.
SPIRIT
WINGING
Artists
with intermediate and advanced
levels of experience are welcome to
join this creative adventure, to pursue the arts and interact freely with nature
and subject, using individual style and expression and to immerse themselves in
New Mexico culture.
E
very
morning we will depart to an in-town or landscape site, where we will paint and
sketch. Topics will be discussed on location: fitting the landscape into a
painting, colors and lights of the Southwest and Nature painted from within. We
will visit museums, galleries and artists' studios to view and appreciate the
work of others. 
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