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.
2025 retreats
Technique and Image: Finding the Match: January 16-22, 2025
11-16-24: This retreat is currently full but I have no one on the waiting list. If you’d like to be the first on the waiting list, please let me know. It is a rare retreat where there isn’t at least one cancellation.
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.
Vermont/New Hampshire students: Attention!
I will not be teaching my usual classes in Vermont and New Hampshire in 2025. Stay tuned for potential dates in 2026.
Spinning for Tapestry: Jillian Moreno and Rebecca Mezoff: OCtober 2025 TBA
Jillian and I plan to teach this retreat in October 2025. We are waiting final confirmation from venues and will announce where and when it will be in December of 2024.
Taos Design Retreat, November 2025
I will be holding this retreat again in November of 2025 at Mabel Dodge Luhan House. This retreat is for alumni of this retreat first, but I anticipate some spots will be open in 2025, so let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. Registration will be in August and September of 2025.
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.
Designing Palettes for Tapestry Weaving: Vermont 2024, June 5-10, 2024. The information page for this retreat is HERE and my blog post about it is HERE.
Technique and Image: Finding the Match, November 18-24, 2024; Taos, NM. The information for this retreat is HERE.
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
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
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.