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.
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Workshop Schedule & Registration 2025
The weekend’s activities will include moderate hikes along Hambidge trails, lectures about the plants we see and their uses, sketching plants on the trail, and collecting specimens for printmaking. Studio activities will encompass bookmaking and printmaking techniques to create personal botanical journals.
This ceramic workshop retreat with Vernon Smith is mindful, playful, aesthetic-focused, process-oriented, and expressive. Attendees will focus on simple thrown forms—bowls, cups, and cylinders—as a canvas for exploring aesthetics, texture, and personal expression.
Create your own personal, ceramic mask during this workshop retreat with George Rodriguez. Attendees will develop work steeped in cultural history, narrative, and ritual for a finished product that is unlike any other work in your art collection.
A multi-disciplinary workshop exploring all things fungi.
This workshop retreat is a musical intensive that encourages an expansive look into the scope of sound, encouraging improvisation, reflection, and an appreciation for the other, less musical sounds naturally created by the elements and musical instruments.
This workshop retreat is a culinary deep dive into nixtamal techniques, uniquely designed to adapt regional corn through a 10,000-year-old-method to create the basis of Mexican and Mesoamerican commonly cuisine known as masa which now infamously is referred to tacos.
This workshop retreat offers a unique opportunity to hone your watercolor practice in breathtaking landscapes.
This culinary workshop is with Lamara Davidson. More information forthcoming.
This culinary workshop retreat with Chef Virginia Willis offers a multi-faceted approach to health and wellness.
This immersive workshop retreat will give attendees a wholistic introduction to plein air painting techniques that will help you render realistic landscapes full of atmosphere and light, using the alla prima method.
This retreat workshop will offer guided meditation opportunities throughout the day, immersive nature gatherings, journaling, and time for recuperation.