October 3-7 | Starting at $500
Where We Gather
Santa Fe Art Institute · Ogáa Po'ogéh · Unceded Tewa Lands
The Santa Fe Art Institute sits in the heart of Santa Fe — a landmark of bold color, open space, and living art. Designed by celebrated Mexican modernist architect Ricardo Legorreta, the campus is unmistakable: deep red stucco walls, crisply geometric forms, sky-lit studios, and interior courtyards that invite gathering, reflection, and exchange. Legorreta designed the building not as a monument but as a living space — horizontal, human-scaled, and deeply responsive to the high desert light and landscape that surround it.
The campus includes private rooms, studios, communal kitchen and dining spaces, a courtyard for outdoor gathering and art, a contemporary art library, and open outdoor yard space. It is surrounded by sculpture, open sky, and the particular golden light of Santa Fe in late June — a city built at 7,000 feet, near the living waters of the Santa Fe River, approaching solstice.
This is not a conference center. It is a place made for artists, by artists — where the architecture itself is a teacher.
What's Included
Private room for the duration of your program
Access to studios, courtyards, common spaces, and outdoor grounds
All programming — movement, land practice, master classes, cultural exchange
Ground transport during the program
Meals as specified per phase
Getting Here Santa Fe is served by the Santa Fe Municipal Airport (SAF) and Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ), approximately one hour away. Ground transport from ABQ can be arranged. Write to us and we'll help coordinate.
These movement experiences will be in unceded Tewa homelands, to learn more about some of Indigenous community leaders in the lands where Dancing Earth is honored to offer our work, and to support the powerful initiatives of matriarchs , please view links of
Tewa Women United https://tewawomenunited.org/
Indigenous Women Led Sovereign Energy : https://www.sovereignenergy.org/
Amigas Bravas, Because Water Matters : https://www.amigosbravos.org/