Summer 1, 2026

Chelenzo FarmS & ecoartspace

Monday June 15

9am Depart TTU SOA Parking & Murray Hall

3pm Los Cerrillos or Santa Fe

5pm Arrive Chelenzo Farms

6pm Dinner

7pm Welcome Introductions & Presentations (3-5 minutes)

Tuesday June 16

8am Breakfast

10am Farm Tour / Garden Learning 1.5 hours

12pm Lunch

1pm Sketching with Carol 1.5 hours

6pm Dinner

7pm Patricia Watts Readings & Discussions & Individual Meetings

Wednesday June 17

8am Breakfast

10am Sketching with Carol 1.5 hours

12pm Lunch

2pm Farm Tour Gardening, Animal Husbandry, Goats, Holistic Medicine, Cheese

6pm Dinner

7pm Patricia Watts Reading & Discussions & Individual Meetings

Thursday June 18

8am Breakfast & Depart for Santa Fe

12pm Georgia O’Keefe Museum

2pm Depart for Lubbock (late arrival 10pm ish)

Readings

Basia Irland: Repositories by Patricia Watts

Mapping Eco-Art Education, Hilary Inwood

Connective Aesthetics, Suzi Gablick

ecoartspace web-site

https://ecoartspace.org/

Chelenzo Farms web-site

https://www.haciendadominguez.com/

Prepare for Trip

-Bring Sketchbook

-Be prepared to introduce yourself on the first night. Have a few sketches to show and thoughts or questions about ecoart/food/regenerative farming/the readings that you can share within 3-5 minutes. 

-Study the resources and come up with two questions for Patricia Watts and two questions for Lorenzo of Chelenzo Farms.

-Chelenzo Farms will provide meals for our group. BYOB or alcohol. Bring snacks and drinks you may need for between meals. We are remote, pack ahead.

-Bring Flashlight

-Bring Raincoat / check weather

-Hiking / rattle snake season, please use caution

-There is a Pool

New Mexico is on mountain time

Chelenzo Farms ADDress

48 Horny Toad Rd, Los Cerrillos, NM 87010

5 hours 7 minute drive from Lubbock, TX

TTU Students

Mia Deleon

Jennifer Eskew

Leigh Harrison

Mikala Haynie

Courtney Lamb

Elizabeth Perez

Montana Santistevan (staying in Santa Fe)

Chelenzo Farms

At Chelenzo Farms we have three operating pillars: research, education, and community. Our efforts focus on promoting regenerative agriculture by applying permaculture, soil health, agroecology and agroforestry principles, as well as innovative and indigenous practices to achieve our goals. Our organic research farm serves to educate the community and offer training in the areas of permaculture farming, land conservation, Indigenous agricultural and sustainability practices, and the realm of sciences that look to understand the relationship (past, current and future) that humans have with nature and the land. We also aspire to contribute to knowledge about agricultural practices and drought-resistant crop cultivation that will contribute to improve soil health in an arid environment, amidst a 23-year megadrought in the U.S. Southwest. Our unique contribution in this area includes our pioneering efforts to introduce and cultivate agave and other succulents to northern New Mexico.

Ecoartspace

Patricia Watts is curator and founder of ecoartspace. She will be leading three short writing sessions daily, with prompts to integrate artists' current practice with the concepts and knowledge learned in the course from a place-based perspective.

Ecoartspace has served as a platform for artists addressing environmental issues since 1999. In 2020, they transitioned to a membership model. Members include artists, scientists, professionals, students and advocates sharing resources and supporting each other’s work. They promote an inclusive, non-competitive collaborative environment where we can all imagine and make real a healthy, equitable, resilient future. 

TTU School of Art / Art, Environment, Sustainability

Carol Flueckiger leads the Art, Environment, Sustainability programming for Texas Tech School of Art. This program offers year round field trips to support classroom learning for all degree programs. This course entails reading, writing, sketching and field trips that bring sustainable minded content to the imagination of the art classroom.  Students study EcoArt and Solar Punk movements while practicing drawing and mixed media technqiues. Past partnerships include Ogallala Commons, Flower Power Energy Meets Art, Elsewhere Studios and Western Slope Conservation Center.