Studio Artists
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Erika Harding
I first learned to do mosaics at Ghost Ranch with Kathy Thaden more than 10 years ago. I love the meditative nature of the work, but also really enjoy it as a group activity, drinking wine and chatting with friends as we glue and learn together.
I have gravitated toward using stained glass in my work, and specialize in glass-on-glass mosaic pieces and tables. I collect beads, fused glass pieces, stones and other elements that I can build into my work. I also love mosaicking objects (like a deer skill and an old-fashioned porcelain cast-iron sink!) and building sculptures with glass and mosaic elements incorporated.
One of my favorite things about doing mosaic art is the ongoing learning – from my peers, books, master instructors and my mosaic students. There is so much lovely sharing of ideas and helpful tips among mosaic artists. I am learning to fuse glass and create innovative elements for my mosaics as well!
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Alison Robbenhaar
Alison Robbenhaar is a colorist and landscape oil painter. She tries to capture the unique beauty of New Mexico. She specializes in plein air painting and leads painting excursions around Taos and across New Mexico.
She has lived here since 2004, and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
She will be teaching folks how to make a portrait of their pets at our “date night”events, for students of all ages and abilities.
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Sarah McIntyre
Sarah is an award-winning photographer, focused on telling the stories of New Mexico’s people and places.
A lifelong New Mexican, with familial roots in the state spanning generations, her approach to photographic storytelling is informed by her experiences in a place that is truly unlike any other.
Though her photographs engage a variety of themes from the sacred to the secular, Sarah is New Mexico’s premier photographer of historic churches, having long ago lost track of time spent traveling across the state to search out and photograph even the tiniest capillas in the remotest areas.
In addition to Sarah’s work documenting New Mexico’s churches, she leads private photography workshops and classes, and wows her portrait photography clients by freezing time with her camera, capturing special moments for a lifetime.
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Lise Watkins
I have worked in design and advertising for approximately 1 billion years. After attending the Academy of Art University in San Francisco to study photography and graphic design I moved to New Mexico in 2009. I've worked as a creative director, art director, graphic designer, and photographer. I live with my husband, 2 kids, and a couple of dogs. When I'm not making art I'm knee-deep in some crazy DIY home improvement project I'm clearly not qualified for, and my family wishes I would stop.
My personal and professional goals are to be kinder, and weirder, and to never have a job that expects me to wear high heels ever again.
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Max Sorenson
Max Sorenson is an interdisciplinary artist focused on the holistic and care-full expansion of our notions of human stewardship of the land. In 2023, he was aVisiting Artist at the Aldo Leopold Foundation, hosting workshops and celebrating the communality of ecological restoration. He has shown work throughout the Midwest and has been a resident artist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Cedar Point Biological Station and Tranquilo Bay Eco-Adventure Lodge in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Max holds a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Biology from Grinnell College in rural Iowa.