Oaxaca Cultural Navigator

Oaxaca Weaving Workshops: Dancing on the Loom and Glorious Color: Natural Dyeing Workshops are scheduled throughout the year at the Chavez Santiago Family studio and home in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca. We also schedule customized workshops for individuals or small groups according to your travel plans and the Chavez Santiago Family’s availability. We can teach from 1-6 people at a time. For example, in August a group of 6 will come together for a combined weaving and natural dyeing workshop over 4 days. The dates had not been part of our published schedule. Participants’ skill levels vary from novice to experienced, and we are able to give personalized attention because the group is small. Master weaver Federico Chavez Sosa and his daughter Janet Chavez Santiago, a fluent English speaker, are both instructors at the workshop. For a complete description of the program content, fees, and related information, see http://oaxacaculture.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/dancing-on-the-loom-4-day-weaving-workshop/ After that, if you have any questions, please contact me directly by phone (919) 274-6194 or by email normahawthorne@mac.com

We are scheduling North Carolina workshops and demonstrations now for October 2008.

• On October 2, Eric Chavez Santiago and his sister Janet will be at Cloth Fiber Workshop in Asheville.

• They will be giving a 6-hour weaving and dyeing workshop at the Arts Incubator in Siler City, Chatham County, NC, dated TBD, and a lecture/demonstration and exhibition at the Third Friday Art Walk on October 17 at the same location.

If you are associated with a weaver’s guild, knitting circle, museum, gallery, university, or arts organization, and would like to arrange a NC lecture and demonstration during early to mid-October, 2008, please let me know.