"Imagination is a great value in quickening the spirit of invention"
-Leonardo da Vinci                  

AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE

Faculty: American Indian elders and teachers.
Curriculum: Tracking, Herbal Studies, Indian Ways of Horseback Riding, Story Telling, Moccasin Making, Drum Making, Traditional Dance, Music, Navajo Sand Painting, Fine Line Pottery, Sweat lodge, Ancient Sustainable Living, Horno Oven Building and Baking.
Focus: Integration of mind, body, heart, and spirit; insight into man's relationship with the earth and other living things.
Materials: traditional materials appropriate to each activity.

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children"
-American Indian proverb                  

SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Faculty: Experts in renewable energy and sustainable development.
Curriculum: hands on workshops, ancient to modern sustainable building; eco systems; hands-on workshops, renewable energies (solar, wind, water, and bio fuels); waste management.
Focus: Use of artistic imagination and creativity; integrating world-wide, cross-cultural knowledge; and applying expanded thought processes and new-found information to develop new and more conscious ways of living on the earth.
Materials: Ancient to modern building materials, case studies comparing energy and economic efficiencies, case studies on status of water, air, land fill, and design/construction systems.

"Humanity is taking a quantum leap forward in its evolutionary development. The crowning glory of human development rests not in our intellect, intellect is merely a point along the way. Our ultimate destiny is to re-connect with our essential Being and express from that place in the world".
-Russell E. Dicarlo                  

"Our vision is to take the Art Ranch to different areas in the country, promoting the collaboration of the Arts, environmental awareness, and preservation of American Indian culture."
-Laurie Pettigrew                  
laurie@theartranch.net