Inspiring young people towards greater awareness through art, community and the earth Back  Arts Component Native American Component Sustainable Living ComponentMusic
Circus Arts
Theatre
Pottery
Visual
MUSIC PROGRAM Director, FreeboTeacher, David Roth
We will work on the craft of songwriting:
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The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization CIRCUS ARTS Director, Amy Christian, Wise Fool New Mexico
Their circus arts program at The Art Ranch is a collaboration of crafts – trapeze, stilt walking, and puppetry. These crafts are designed to further students’ expectations of themselves and inspire them to reach new levels in their physical and emotional strength. For the festival weekend at the camp, students create a show from start to finish – they storyboard the show, build their puppets, and exhibit their acquired theater, movement and performance skills.
PUPPETRY 
As an introduction to puppetry, students learn mass theatrics and basic visual image concepts.
They create their elaborate puppets from newspaper and other recycled
materials, while practicing movement and improv techniques to express
themselves through their constructed characters.
STILT WALKING
TRAPEZE Trapeze begins with exercises using a low bar, to familiarize students with being suspended. They learn the basic knee hang, splits, and whip, before moving up to their first swing and catch on the higher swings. Along the way, they learn strengthening exercises, while also increasing their self-awareness and trust.
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The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization THEATRE PROGRAM “Stepping Into the Unknown” Director and teachers to be announced. This is an adventurous program with many different elements. Students will explore the art of story telling through acting, music and dance. They will create plays based on various Native American stories and poems. Through modern and classic plays they will learn all aspects of scene study with an emphasis on character development. We work with the whole person enabling the student to connect to their own truth and express it through their craft. Our focus is to inspire a deep, fluid, spontaneous actor that is in the moment, takes risks, and is always exploring. All the teachers in this course believe the sky is the limit and that anything is possible. We expand through “stepping into the unknown” It is a highly disciplined course so students have to be willing to be present, work hard and stretch. “Our intention is to keep surprising ourselves.”
Course outline: Circle sharing - each class begins with a circle. This is to keep things in the open and create and maintain intimacy Journaling - each student will have their own private journal for their own personal thoughts and feelings. Scene study - students will learn how to break down a scene, create characters, rehearse with a scene partner, and perform a play. Improvisation - students will learn how to step out of their own way and allow creativity to flow moment to moment through various exercises. They will learn how to create their own situations/scenes on the spot. Improvs will also be used as a tool to help explore and develop characters. Creating characters - students will learn tools and exercises in order to create deep, rich characters and embody them.
Storytelling - students will tell stories through acting, music and dance. They will write and perform short plays based on various Native American stories and classical literature/poems. Some pieces will be choreographed. We will have dance/movement in this course.
All students will perform in one group project. Also, they will create their own individual piece or scene or short play using not more than two class members to be performed at the Festival weekend.
Group 3 will create and perform the Ganma Project along with performing an individual piece, scene or a short play at the festival weekend.
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The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization POTTERY Teacher, Bernie Track
This program is a combination hands-on examination of the process of pueblo pottery making, and
an exploration into the artistic traditions of the Native Americans who create
pottery as an integral part of their lives. Students create traditional coil
pots from materials collected, literally, from the ground up, using local clay.
The coils are assembled into the shape of the piece and then smoothed together,
to blend and strengthen the pot. Instead of enclosed kilns, Native Americans fire
their pots in shallow pits that are dug in the earth, then covered with brush
and wood and lit on fire. These in-earth kilns heat the pottery to 1400
degrees, after which they are removed and rubbed with special stones to become
polished. Students craft and fire their own pieces over the course of the
program, learning pottery techniques that have existed for thousands of years.
An in-earth kiln
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The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization VISUAL ARTS SketchingWood Sculpture Painting 
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The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization |
At The Art Ranch, my focus will be giving close personal attention to the individual, as well as
working with small groups and teaching them how to collaborate with one
another.
In establishing a close personal and musical
relationship with each student, I hope to motivate them to make the most of his
or her talents, but always with the focus on having fun. We will foster an
atmosphere that nurtures and encourages freedom of expression, both in the
individual and in group performances, while helping young musicians to confront
their doubts and fears, taking them to a deeper level of musicality, intimacy,
and connection.
Wise Fool New Mexico is a non-profit theatre
arts project that creates hands-on workshops in the folk traditions of
storytelling, puppetry, circus arts and public spectacle.
Students begin with low stilts, learning to walk on their “new feet”, with a secured rope line
under each arm. As they become more confident, students walk independently,
moving to higher and higher stilts. They engage in group walks and exercises,
as well as one-on-one training with their teacher. 
