2025 Plein Air Painting Workshop Retreat
Workshops at Hambidge are nurturing, creative experiences that facilitate deep learning, a reconnection with nature and a rejuvenation of spirit.
We offer workshops of three, five, and twelve days in a wide range of disciplines: from visual arts, crafts, and writing, to music, movement, and the culinary arts. No matter which topic you choose, you can look forward to an inspiring and restorative experience! Our workshop leaders are accomplished artists who offer in-depth lessons as well as thoughtful insights about their craft and practice.
Designed as immersive experiences, our workshops are kept small—8–10 attendees—in order to give you more time with your instructor, and also to encourage the creation of community through shared learning and conversations around the dinner table.
Attendees stay at the Antinori Village, our beautiful workshop facility, and take meals together in the gorgeous natural setting of the Bunnen Commons. The Hambidge campus is located on 600 forested acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. During free time, attendees can take advantage of our hiking trails, or simply sit and soak up some nature vibes.
Read more about the Antinori Village and guest rooms on our Room & Board page.
Find our Cancellation Policy and more in the Frequently Asked Questions.
If you have an idea for a workshop at Hambidge, please submit it to our Suggestion Box.
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Upcoming 2026 Workshop Retreat: Indigo Dying with Keisha Cameron
2027 Workshop Retreat Schedule
We’re excited to share our 2027 workshop offerings at The Hambidge Center—an evolving series of immersive, retreat-style experiences that invite deep engagement with process, material, and place. If there is a workshop that interests you that doesn’t yet have registration open and you’d like to reserve your seat, email ddavid@hambidge.org.
March 18-12: Figurative Sculpture with Basil Watson
April 8-11: Study Jay Hambidge’s Dynamic Symetry with Vandorn Hinnart
May 13-16: Earth Pigment Painting with Heather “Bird” Harris
June 10-13: Memoir Writing with Latria Graham
July 21-Aug 1: Ceramics: Anagama and Wheel with Ben Owen III
Aug 19-22: Relief Carving with Jamaal Barber
Aug 29-Sept 3: Ceramic Tile Making with Shae Bishop
Oct 17-22: Large Ceramics, Wheel Throwing with Sondra Elder
Nov 4-7: Wild Basket Weaving with Angela Eastman
2025 Workshop Retreat: Soups and Stews with LaMara Davidson
2026 Workshop Retreats
In 2026, we presented seven dynamic workshop retreats by world-class instructors in ceramics (thrown and handbuilding), botanical illustration and journaling, indigo dying, and Raku. These workshop retreats were hosted in our beautiful Antinori Village where attendees enjoyed cozy weekend accommodations and hand-crafted communal meals.
2025 Workshop Retreats
In 2025, we presented seven dynamic workshop retreats by world-class instructors in ceramics, plein air painting, audio field recording, culinary, meditation, botanical illustration, and printmaking. 2024 Workshop Retreats
2024 WORKSHOP RETREATS
In 2024, the inaugural year of workshop retreats in our Antinori Village, we hosted courses led by skilled artists, musicians, and chefs that covered topics from charcoal line drawing, improvisational music, and gourmet cooking, to basket weaving.