Active Military & Veterans Arts workshop series 2023
METAL / FIBER / WOOD / STONE
INtro to knitting with justin amero (US NAVY VETERAN)
Learn the basics of knitting and start your own potholder or washcloth or continue it into a scarf! All levels welcome. All materials provided.
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Taos County active military and veteran community are welcome to participate in a new series of learning-based arts projects consisting of four workshops. The series, “METAL / FIBER / WOOD / STONE” features four half-day workshops with Taos County artisans and craftspeople, providing hands-on experience in the mediums of metal, fiber, wood and stone.
Key project artists and community partners:
The Paseo Project: The Paseo Project works to transform art through community and community through art. Since 2014, the Paseo Project has brought projection, performance, and installation art to the streets of Taos with free, community events.
Veterans Off-Grid is a 501c3 non-profit organization restoring a sense of purpose, community, sustainability, and peace to veterans in need since 2017. We offer veterans a place to heal holistically in a sustainable, eco-friendly environment, so they may reintegrate with society from a place of strength and community.
Together With Veterans Taos (TWV) is a data-driven and peer-based, veterans-helping-veterans project that draws on community engagement to help address rural veteran suicide in Taos County, with members from the Town of Taos, Taos Pueblo, and Taos County. The program is funded by the Dept of Veterans Affairs with a three-year grant to support outreach and strategic planning.
Not Forgotten Outreach is a nonprofit organization in Taos serving veterans through comprehensive agricultural training and other programs such as weekly therapeutic art classes. NFO also serves on the TWV Board and will help with outreach to veterans in the community to bring them into this arts program.
New Mexico Arts: New Mexico Arts is the state arts agency and a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. The 15-member governor-appointed New Mexico Arts Commission serves as their advisory body. Their primary function is to provide financial support for arts services and programs to non-profit organizations statewide and to administer the 1% public art program for the state of New Mexico.
Tapping local talent in the arts and crafts of diverse mediums, this new workshop series creates new opportunities for military audiences, with the potential to build capacity for arts programs for active duty and veteran communities in the future.