Are you interested in spending a week immersed in tapestry in a beautiful environment with like-minded people? These are the retreats I have scheduled currently.
2024 retreat upcoming
Vermont 2024, June 5-10, 2024
This retreat will be at Good Commons in Plymouth, VT. This will be a retreat focused on color use in tapestry. It is not for beginners. We’ll discuss color theory in a practical way by using weft bundling with Gist Array yarn (or whatever yarn you want to bring and use) and play with effects possible just by shifting colors. I’ll encourage participants to bring some design ideas to shape how you’re practicing with color. For example if you’re interested in shading effects, we’ll use that focus as we’re sampling colors so that you can then use that information in a tapestry you’ll go home to weave. We will have time to do some sampling of your ideas during the class. Registration will open in late February.
CANCELLED: Foundations in tapestry weaving, July 29-August 3, 2024
I have cancelled this retreat. I apologize to those of you who were looking forward to this CSU Mountain Campus experience. I’ll be running online and in-person foundations classes soon so stay tuned for an alternative location and date.
Technique and Image: Finding the Match, November 18-24, 2024
Rebecca consulting with Jon at the November 2023 tapestry retreat in Taos, NM
This retreat is at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM. We’ll focus on design skills for tapestry weaving. Learning how to think like a tapestry weaver as we translate image and design ideas into woven form takes practice. This 6-night retreat will provide plenty of time to explore design concepts and focus on individual tapestry problems that students will bring with them to class.
This retreat is for alumni of my previous retreats. If you have not been to one of my retreats in the past, please look at the retreat I’m holding in January 2025.
2025 retreats
Technique and Image: Finding the Match
Class as described above. Dates are the third week of January with final dates coming once a contract is signed.
Spinning for Tapestry
We’ll do it again sometime this year! Jillian Moreno and Rebecca Mezoff. This retreat will be about color in spinning for tapestry weaving.
Other 2025 retreats TBA in fall of 2024
“Your smart, kind critique helped me with a break through. . . . After all these years weaving I guess straight forward and outside perspective helps focus on what the issue or next step is.”
“Once again, a spectacular week in every way. Even the weather!! Advice to all — if you get a chance to attend one of Rebecca’s retreats, do it! Just save one space for me. Thank you, Rebecca, for another unforgettable week.”
Links to past retreat pages
If you want to get a sense for my retreats and which one might be best for you, browse these links.
2024
Spinning for Tapestry with Jillian Moreno and Rebecca Mezoff in Taos, NM, January 18-24, 2024. The information page for the retreat is HERE and my blog post about it is HERE.
2023
Teaching technique with loom projected at a Taos retreat in 2023.
Taos 2023: January 19-25, 2023 at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM. Website page is HERE. Blog post about the retreat is HERE.
May 21-26, 2023: Sketch Tapestry. Colorado State University Mountain Campus outside of Fort Collins, CO. The retreat description is here: https://rebeccamezoff.com/colorado-2023-tapestry-retreat. My blog post about this retreat is HERE.
November 13-19, 2024 at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM. Website page is HERE. Blog post about the retreat is HERE.
2022
Taos 2022: November 14-20, 2022 at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM.
Some images from the retreat are HERE and HERE. It was a beautiful week in Taos!
2021
All retreats were cancelled due to COVID-19.
2020
Taos 2020: January 23-27 at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM
Some images from the retreat are HERE.
Vermont 2020: May 28-June 1, 2020: Design for tapestry: Learn to love it!
This retreat was cancelled due to COVID-19. It will be rescheduled.
This retreat has been cancelled due to COVID-19. It will be rescheduled.
Colorado 2020: June 22-26, 2020: Spinning and Tapestry
This retreat has been cancelled due to COVID-19. It will be rescheduled in 2021 with Jillian Moreno.
2019
Vermont 2019: September 5-9 at Good Commons in Plymouth, VT
You can see what happened at this retreat in this blog post:
Tapestry Retreat: Vermont 2019
Colorado 2019: June 16-21 at CSU Mountain Campus outside Fort Collins, CO
Blog posts about this retreat:
Learning the Basics of Tapestry Weaving
Tapestry diary: The cabin that burned
Colorado retreat: Moose from the start
New Mexico 2019: Color use in the Land of Enchantment
Blog posts about this retreat:
Molly Elkind: Enchanting Color with Rebecca Mezoff in Taos
My blog post: Color in the Land of Enchantment, Taos 2019
“Thank you for being such an inspiration to all of us wanna-be weavers! The retreat at the CSU Mountain Campus was a highlight of my summer.”
“Thank you Rebecca for a wonderful and inspiring experience. Thanks also to my co-participants—you are the best and I hope our paths cross again. This workshop was terrific and really reignited my desire to weave. My workplace and virtually all of Chicago has been closed since I returned home (cited as one of the coldest places on the planet last night), so I have had plenty of time to keep weaving.”
2018
Vermont 2018: Foundations Retreat
2017
Vermont 2017: Line it up!
Colorado 2017: Building a new practice of creating: drawing inspiration from your surroundings.
2016
Vermont 2016: A masterclass in color and design.
Blog posts from participants in tapestry retreats
Beth Emmott: Tapestry camp
Donna Wynn: Tapestry camp: How I spent my summer vacation
“ Thank YOU for a delightful retreat experience. The setting was perfect, the food delicious, and even the massage was top notch.
The best part was learning from you and the other participants. You really have found your calling. You are a gifted teacher, always positive, always constructive, always patient (at least on the outside). In another life I want to be your apprentice.
I look forward to future opportunities.”
“the retreat was wonderful. it’s a very nice location, fantastic food, a fun group, and to top it off, there was you. i like the idea that good commons is out-of-the-way. much easier to concentrate on what i’m learning. and who wouldn’t want to stick around for the next meal or snack! olga is a keeper as far as i’m concerned. don’t have anything to compare her massage with but i’m sold!
that leaves you.....you are an accomplished instructor. you carefully consider each student’s abilities and guide them along. you are approachable, encouraging, and enthusiastic. who couldn’t learn in that environment? ”
“I felt so validated in my design skills. With more skill learned from you, I trust my decision making enough that when I’m alone in my studio I will be able to design to my liking, with a lot of hard work! . . .
A wonderful workshop full of creativity, ideas, learning. You are a generous teacher, not holding back. It was an absolute pleasure being in your workshop.”
“It was an experience I will never forget. From the moment my plane arrived till I left down the mountain, I was so thrilled to be there! Thank you Rebecca for fulfilling a “bucket list experience” for me. I came home a changed Tapestry Weaver and learned so much from you and all that gathered together. There was a passion there for learning this extraordinary art form and I was so grateful to be a part of it! Your spirit for teaching others and friendship will always be a gift to me! It was an incredible five day journey for me and I know for those who were able to attend.”
“The retreat was such a special amazing time. I go back and look at my photos and the yarn... and my sketchbook .. Trying to keep that warm creative colorful space inside me.”
COVID statement
Anyone participating in in-person events with me will have to abide by these rules. I am requiring for all my students and any spouses that come to my retreats a full course of the COVID vaccine and any CDC or physician recommended boosters. If COVID numbers are high when the retreat is happening, it is possible that masks will be required by me at all times indoors. I have an autoimmune disease and will only hold retreats if I can be reasonably sure I won’t get sick. I may also require some form of testing before the retreat.
I will not argue about this and there is only one exception: people who have autoimmune diseases bad enough they cannot have the vaccine (in which case I really hope you aren’t going to be going to workshops right now). The health of myself, the whole class, and the community surrounding us depends on us not spreading this virus and vaccines are the best way to do that. If you are not vaccinated, I respectfully ask you to wait to attend one of my retreats until the pandemic is over. That may be a few more years. I have some fantastic online courses that might be the perfect thing for you.