Beginner workshop on adobe architectural construction, adobe arches and mud plastering

• Instructors: Joanna Keane Lopez & Helen Levine (Co-owner of NM Earth Industries, adobe manufacturers since 1972)

• Date: Saturday and Sunday, January 29 & 30

• Time: 12pm-4:30pm

• Focus: We will learn about soil composition, building with a foundation, how to make adobe bricks, laying adobes, how to mix and apply mortar, how to install an adobe arch, and how to mud plaster.

• Where: The workshop takes place at New Mexico Earth Adobes: an adobe brick manufacturing yard in the North Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

*We will be be observing the current NM Covid guidelines and will be enforcing wearing masks for the duration of the workshop.

Limit of 12 participants.

Photos by Alice Moir