Upcoming Workshops
Fall 2012 Adobe Workshop!
Earth plasters + brick making + adobe roof building by hand + mixing mortar + harvesting cactus juice + much more
October 19 to November 2nd, 2012, all former students and new friends involved in design and earth masonry are enthusiastically invited to enroll in learning sessions focussed on slinging mud, mixing the soquete, or mortar, under instruction and watchful eyes and lively collaboration. We will learn to close the Nubian vault begun last year with final courses of small adobebricks , then apply the water-resistant plasters developed by Stevan de la Rosa and Pat Taylor, made of clay and sand, cactus juice harvested in situ, and lime. Adobero elder Santos Chavez, across the river, will teach adobe brick-making in wood moulds.
All this, and more, in the superb Big Bend country on the Rio Grande, facing the sierras of northern Chihuahua state, Mexico.
Tuition fees: A 3-day weekend $300. One week $600. Two weeks $1,050. For tuition grants or internships we need your volunteer fund-raising help well in advance.
Please enroll early: $100 deposit before September 1st sent to Adobe Alliance, Inc, account # 0032628301, attention Linda Smith, V.P., Los Alamos National Bank, 301 Griffin Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501. After September 1st, fees increase each by $100.
Details are on web, and questions go to Simone Swan, swan@adobealliance.org. Welcome.