Connie Burkhart is an instructor of 'Fire It Up! - Metal Sculpture ' at Ghost Ranch,
NM for the
Festival of the Arts seminars every year for multiple weeks in July.
For over 13 years she has been teaching her techniques of metal work and design to beginers and experienced ' Wretched Welders' as they learn the art of turning junk into museum pieces.
She is always thrilled to see the designs her students create during the week and loves to place the pieces to share at the
Saturday evening Festival of the Arts Art Show.
For a listing of Connie's 2012 Fire It Up! Metal Design seminars and her 'High Desert Spiritual Quest' seminars, go to .
GHOSTRANCH.ORG.
for detailed
information and dates.
Learn more about all the opportunities and experiences available at this wonderful high desert conference center in New Mexico.
Search instructors under her last name to see a list of all the seminars she will be
leading at 2012.
Connie's 'partner in crime' at Ghost Ranch when instructing 'Fire It Up! - Metal Sculpture' is Tom Nichols.
Together they lead fun filled creative weeks in the field of metal art design.
If you want to laugh,
sing and burn some metal, come join us at the ranch!
Your torch is waiting! All levels are welcome
Register early for their classes and enjoy the pleasure of 'burning metal' in a breathtakingly beautiful place
where the red rocks glow in the evening sun.
Connie B Connie B Burkhart has been creating metal designs for over 17 years.
Her art is treasured by many, and sought after by many
art galleries throughout the Southwest.
At her Sunflower Canyon Studio in Lyons, CO,
she creates images for gardens, home interiors, businesses, restaurants and more.
After a successful, busy summer teaching Metal Design at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico and selling her work at the Magic Place sales at the ranch, she is back in her studio creating pieces that she looks forward to featuring in the Studio Tour in Lyons, CO in 2012!
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No two creations of Connie's are the same and each one has a story you'll love to learn.
She loves creating her art because it is inspired by rescued items of rusted metal, or
found objects she lovingly calls
'metal roadkill'!
Connie has taught hundreds of students the techiques of welding and brazing metal and invites you down to Ghost Ranch to have
an experience of a
lifetime in whatever seminar you may enjoy.
Our Ghost Ranch Logo ~ Compliments of Georgia O'Keeffe!
MORE OF CONNIE'S METAL DESIGNS AND IMAGES TO COME...CHECK BACK SOON!
Connie is also active as a Worship Leader for the contemporary music ministry at First Presbyterian Church in Boulder, CO.
She is also a free lance educator known as The Dinosaur Lady, doing programs for libraries, museums and school as well as offering unique Prehistoric Dinosaur Parties for children in the Denver/Boulder area.
You can find out more information about her paleontology presentations at thedinosaurlady.com
(yes, she digs up dinosaurs too!).
Connie B lives with her family in the red rocks of beautiful
Lyons, Colorado where she is currently collaborating with local artists in designs for Main Street art in town.
Keep checking back for more details
You have probably guessed by now that Connie loves to share the wonderful place called
'GHOST RANCH' (pictures below)
Connie B and her
family have spent the past 20 years enjoying it's beauty and magic.
This is the place that gave Connie B a re-birth
in music, science, art and love.
In the summer months she
lives in a tent, swims in the river,
and dances in the rain.
Check out this place at ghostranch.org. It is truly a Magic Place!
Connie is not only an instructor of 'Fire It Up - Metal Sculpture' seminars at Ghost Ranch, she is also a highly acclaimed metal design artist
with her work featured in galleries in Colorado and the 4-corners area.
In addition she was honored to be invited to produce sculptures for the
non-profit race horse rescue organization called
'Second Chance' based in Southern California.
Connie is also well loved as an instructor in sections of seminars in the fields of
Geology, Music,
High Desert Spirituality and Paleontology and Geology.
Enjoy the Ghost Ranch photos below,
and come visit this place of enchanted light and life!
Discover something new about yourself and find your wings
to fly!
"I never imagined I could feel so alive again after losing so much of myself in the
everyday toils of life.
This place is peace, discovery and life for my soul.
I am proud to be a part
of the legacy of Ghost Ranch, sharing it's gifts of time and space and beauty with others is a joy beyond measure for me".
~ Connie Burton Burkhart~
Connie Burton Burkhart is an artist, scientist, singer/songwrtier, fossil hunter, teacher, story teller and mom - a true renaissance women
Shown above is Padernal, the flat-topped mountain that Georgia O'Keefee claimed was hers.
Connie uses this well known mountain formation to create some designs in mixed metals.
Across from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, this mountain lends a spiritual grace to the land. Here we find ancient tools, weapons, shrines, fossils, bones and thousands of stories about those who called this place their home. This land draws out the treasures of the soul - it calls you to create, to learn, to stop and listen to the voice deep inside your heart reminding you of all you are and all you have yet to become.
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