worlds of cliff dwellings and kivas and the primordial worlds of oceans, volcanoes, Coelophysis and Effigia.

Instructors: Martha Yates - Archaeology served as District Archaeologist for the Santa Fe National Forest for many years and has taught Classics at the University of California Santa Barbara, UCLA and the University of Vermont. She teaches and guides archaeological trips for Ghost Ranch, the Sierra Club, Road Scholar, UNM, University of Utah, and other colleges in New Mexico.

Kirt Kempter - Geology is a Ph.D. geologist from University of Texas and a Fulbright Fellow. He has conducted fieldwork on plate tectonics and volcanism around the world, leads education-al tours for the Smithsonian Institution and is an instructor in the NASA astronaut-training program, teaching geologic mapping techniques. He is the author of numerous maps and articles on the geology of the Southwest.

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Listen to the minerals in the cliff, mesa and canyon walls of Ghost Ranch. See the colors of land and its creatures shimmer with each slant of light. They are story. Let them infiltrate your own writings as you live in and explore for three weeks the heart of this high desert. Muskogee poet Joy Harjo said that we are “memory alive.” Explore memory in songs, ceremony and storiesevoked by the landscapes and cultures of northern New Mexico that have inspired the writings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo, Luci Tapahonso, Rudolfo Anaya, N. Scott Momaday, PaulaGunn Allen, Demetria Martinez, Sherwin Bitsui and others. This is a field-based, mixed-genre writing course that traverses the vibrant communities and lands of northern New Mexico alivewith spirits, history, ceremony and story.

Instructor: Pamela Uschuk joins the Jan Term faculty at the recommendation of acclaimed Mvskoke poet, Joy Harjo. Pam’s collection of poems, Crazy Love, received the American Book Award in 2009. Among her other literary prizes are the 2011 War Poetry Prize from Winning Writers, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 and the 2010 Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women. During her graduate work, she was the Poet-In-Schools on the Salish, Flathead, Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Sioux, Northern Cheyenne and Crow reservations in Montana supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches internationally and is currently in residence at the Poetry Center at University of Arizona.

ARRIVE: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 DEPART: Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Jan Term is an apprenticeship and a cultural immersion experi-ence. Some say its like leaving the country without a passport. It includes cultural lectures and field trips to Santa Fe and Bandelier National Monument, as well as Ghost Ranch tours and offerings, culminating in the ultimate New Mexico cultural experience, a trip to the San Ildefonso Pueblo Feast Day Dances. Jan Term is open to college and non-college students of all ages.

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The rich earth of this mysterious and sacred landscape is the starting point for the class—the brilliant geological formations, the earth’s clay, the yucca paintbrush. After thanking the earth and gathering the clay, you will learn how to prepare it and coil it into pots, then fire your pots in ways traditional to the Pueblo potter. Join in the rare opportunity to experience the potter’s relationship to the earth, which is rooted in respect and honoring, and carry the earth of northern New Mexico back to your homes as micaceous pots.

Instructor: Clarence Cruz is Tewa from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo and has received the Allan Houser Legacy Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring pueblo potters. Clarence has taught in China (Faculty Exhibition at Jingdezhen Ceramic Insti-tute) and been a Consultant Curator for the Alfonso Ortiz Center (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM). Clarence teaches at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Community College.

SILVERSMITHING IN THE SOUTHWEST TRADITION G18A112 – $200 Course Material Fee Silver jewelry making in the Southwest emerged among the Navajo in the 1860s and the Zuni in the 1870s. Atsidi Sani is credited as the first Navajo who learned to metalsmith and make silver jewelry in 1865. The Zuni fashioned early pieces from brass and copper salvaged from old cooking kettles. Today, the making, trading and selling of silver stoned jewelry continues to be a vital

part of Southwestern art and culture. This class is both a hands-on course in the basics of making silver jewelry and lapidary with stones and shell, and in the history of Southwest jewelry-making and its role in the culture and economy of local families and com-munities. In addition to time in the studio with a master teacher and guest artists, participants will interact with local artisans, tour museum collections and visit the historic Santa Fe plaza where native makers have been selling their creations for genera-tions. Participants will leave the class with wearable and sellable jewelry of their own making.

Jamie Halpern is a silversmith and lapidary artist living in Minnesota. He has taught silversmithing at Ghost Ranch and the Edina Art Center. His appreciation of southwestern arts and jewelry has been fueled by extensive travels throughout the southwest for many years.

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Prepare for the extraordinary possibilities of a Ghost Ranch pho-tographic adventure. Explore and experience the natural beauty of the Ranch and seldom seen places in northern New Mexico in a course for all who want to craft and hone their photography skills. This is both a field class and a studio class. Participants will hike to absorb many landscapes by day and capture the stars by night. Then make the most of your images apprenticing in the studio using state of the art techniques to edit and craft images that were coached in the field by the eye, intuition and perspec-tive of a master teacher and artist.

Instructor: Kent Bowser lives in Santa Fe, NM and holds a BA in history of art; BS and MA, photography from Ohio State University; and has 26 years of experience in landscape photogra-phy. Humility, passion and craft are the driving qualities of Kent who began teaching at Ghost Ranch in 1991. A master of tradi-tional black and white photography, Kent teaches composition, camera skills and the dispositions of photography in the digital age. 2018 will mark Kent’s 20th January Term as an instructor.

ROCKS, RUINS & DINOSAUR BONES FOR EXPLORERS G18SW111

An outdoor adventure to hike first-hand the geology, paleontol-ogy and archaeology of northern New Mexico, all of which the Ghost Ranch area is internationally known. The class includes field trips to the spectacular geology of the Colorado Plateau, Rio Grande Rift and Jemez volcanic field (the first week), the dinosaur quarries of Ghost Ranch (paleontology, the second week), and ancient village ruins of the Southwest (archaeology, the third week). This is an opportunity to explore the ancient

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The art of loom beading beautifully captures designs that are created on paper and then strung on a loom. Let your mind design what you would like to see in your piece. Your beadwork attaches to soft deerskin and is fitted and molded to brass to cre-ate jewelry, tapestry and other treasures. This course will include hands on instruction from beginning to end and class time will require your creativity. Rooted in the context of Pueblo culture and craft, we will learn stitches such as the ladder, brick and peyote to create loomed art that will capture your inner spirit.

Instructor: Marvin Gabaldon is a bead work artist from the pueblos of Acoma, Taos and Ohkay Owingeh–where he grew up. He was introduced to the art of bead work from his mother when he was 10 years old; he has been beading for over 35 years. He enjoys sewing in applique, peyote stitch and especially loom-ing. In recent years, he has taught elementary school students in the Santa Fe Public Schools to loom bead.

Jan Term 2018 Dean: Layne Kalbfleisch is the Education Director at Ghost Ranch. She also leads the Group Brain Dynam-ics in Learning Network in the department of Pediatrics at TheGeorge Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. As a teacher and a scientist her goal is to un-derstand how learning happens from the “outside in and from theinside out.” Using tools from neuroscience, she illustrates how our physical, emotional and social environments influence problem solving and ingenuity across life and the relationship between talent and disability. She is the recipient of the 2010 in-augural “Scientist Idol” award for messaging science to the public from the National Science Foundation and contributor to the 2007 international OECD-CERI publication, Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science. She has been featured on CNN with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, SiriusXM Doctor Radio, The CoffeeKlatch–Special Needs Radio and Rhode Island PBS “School Talk.” She gives workshops and retreats on brain plasticity called “Heart of the Brain.” An Ojibway from Northern Michigan, she is at home in the high desert of Northern New Mexico and describes Jan Term as “one month of perfect education.”

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PRICES:Student Rate (for College Participants): $3,100 (includes dorm style lodging, meals, tuition, course materials, entrance to museums, venues and hot springs, and shuttle).

Non Student Rates: TBD. Please call our Registrars for more information on these rates as they become available. INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: For those seeking college credit, please go through your school’s Jan Term office. For persons not seeking college credit (which includes non-college participants of all ages), please contact the Ghost Ranch Registrar at 505.685.1001.

For general information and to answer any further questions, contact Layne Kalbfleisch, M.Ed., Ph.D., Jan Term Dean and Education Director at 505-322-7470 (laynek@GhostRanch.org).

Please note that class sizes are limited, so early regis-tration is advised especially for students who want to secure space in a particular class.

• Field Trips to Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Taos

• Cultural Presentations - Northern New Mexico

Cooking & Dancing

• Guided Hikes

• Wellness & Yoga

• Full Moon Hike

• Ghost Ranch Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour

• Coffee House & Open Mic

• Ojo Caliente Hot Springs soak

• Fireside Chat Speaker Series

• Team Building at Ropes Challenge Course

• Horseback Riding

EDUCATION & RETREAT CENTER

GENERAL INFORMATION OTHER ACTIVITIES

Ghost Ranch is a place of magnificent natural beauty, compris-ing deep multicolored canyons and bluffs, plains, grasslands and streams. Its rocks span 130 million years of ancient geological history, representing lakes, floodplains and desert.

Its fossils illuminate the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs in North America and provide a new paradigm in the world of paleontology. Its archaeological record predates adobe walls and kivas; its hearths and other sites date to 8,000 years ago. Its history includes Native Americans and Spanish, Mexican, French and Anglo immigrations, a rough and tumble ranching era, a dude ranch, visitors and residents such as Ansel Adams, Arthur Pack, Georgia O’Keeffe and Robert Oppenheimer. Today it is an education and retreat center owned by the Presyterian Church (USA) and operated by the National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Inc. All are welcome.

The landscape attracted first an ancient people, for its resources, and later colonizers from other lands, including adventurers, artists and entrepreneurs who were lured by the stunning beauty. Like O’Keeffe, they were at first oblivious to the geological and paleontological contents of the sediments, and to the Spirit of the Creator, and were simply amazed by the stunning beauty. So many who come into contact with Ghost Ranch come to appreciate its myriad dimensions of beauty and spirituality.

GHOST RANCHYOUR TRUE NATURE

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