Introducing Luminaria Art Studio
Luminaria Art Studio teaches painting the way New Mexico has always taught it — through the land itself. Our sessions are built on the convictions that the landscape is the best teacher and that cultural context transforms technique into meaning.
Upcoming Experiences
(1 hr): 6-7pm
Catch the last hour of light at a place where people have been gathering for 400 years. Inspired by the natural pigments used by santeros and Pueblo painters for centuries. Mix color from earth-tone palettes — ochres, siennas, umbers, terra cotta, indigo — learning to see the landscape through the colors that have defined New Mexico art since the 1600s. Connects directly to the pigments found in the surrounding soil and rock.
*Includes all acrylic painting supplies.
(1 hr): 6–7pm
Honor your favorite saint or other divinities of your choosing on a traditional piñon wood tablet. An introduction to the Spanish colonial retablo tradition with gesso grounds, earth pigments, and piñon sap varnish. Create small devotional-style panels inspired by New Mexico's santero tradition, using locally-derived materials and the bold, flat style of colonial New Mexican religious art.
*All acrylic paints and painting supplies are provided for your work.
(1 hr): 6–7pm
Builds on the watercolor and flat-paint style from San Ildefonso Pueblo and the Santa Fe Indian School, popularized by Awa Tsireh and Pablita Velarde. Students use flat, opaque color areas, bold outlines, and simplified shapes to make paintings focused on storytelling rather than photographic realism.