The Land of Enchantment
The Sunday Paper #565
July 27, 2025
This is a quick post – I just got home from the first annual Taos Paper Retreat, and it is already Saturday evening. I had a great week with 12 amazing women from around the country. Here are a few highlights featuring almost everything except paper weaving. I plan to create a more complete blog post or video soon that highlights what we created.
On Sunday my assistant, Sandie, and I set up the classroom, and then the Adams family, who run Paper for Water, drove over from Ghost Ranch to have lunch with me at Earth Oven Kitchen in Taos.
I stayed in the historic building at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.
Our classroom for the week.
My artist friend Jaime Knight (whom I met at Penland in 2006) lives in Taos and had me and Sandie over for dinner one night.
The food at the facility was amazing!
I invited Madeleine Durham, who lives in Santa Fe, to do a trunk show for us on Tuesday evening.
This was Day 1, and I was talking about our group project, a weaving in which each participant added a strip each day.
My godmother, Carolyn Lake, who lives in Santa Fe and sells her photographic cards at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House and Cid’s Food Market in Taos, took me to dinner at Medley’s one evening.
Sandie & I (along with about half of the group) did restorative yoga with Sonja Luz on M/W/F.
The Taos Paper Retreat gang.
On our last evening, several of us drove out to the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge to watch the sunset.
On my way back to Colorado, I stopped by Priscilla Robinson’s Taos studio for a short visit. We share a passion for working with abaca.
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2 Comments
This was especially inspiring to read and see the photographs you posted. I visited Ghost Ranch with my mother in the early 90’s and this brought back memories of this very special place – a perfect location for your workshop. Thank you so much for doing the Sunday Paper each week! I always look forward to it!
It is such a special place, and I guess that’s why they call it the Land of Enchantment. Thanks for your kind words, June!