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home lands conference

"Planting Seeds: Home, Horticulture, and Healing"
New Mexico History Museum
July 25-26, 2011
Fee: $25, includes all sessions. Purchase tickets from the Lensic.

Conference Agenda

Monday, July 25, 2011
9:30am - 11:00am
Beyond Four Walls: How Women Shape the Idea of `Home' in the West
Welcome by Renι Harris, DCA, Collections & Education Programs Manager, New Mexico History Museum
Moderator: Victoria Price (Designer, Art Historian, Author, Screenwriter)
Panel:
• Jan Hale Barbo, B.S., (Freelance Garden Columnist)
• Robin Gray (Architect, Rug Designer)
• Carol M. Olmstead, FSIA (Feng Shui Master Practitioner, Author)
• Beverley Spears, FAIA (Architect and Landscape Architect)

11:00 - 11:45
Writing the Patchwork of our Lives
Led by Elizabeth Raby (Poet)

12:00 - 1:45pm
Optional luncheon at Amavi Restaurant.
"The House of the Three Wise Women," presentation Presentation by Bunny Huffman, Director of Acequia Madre House
Tickets $35. Advance Reservations Required, Purchase at the Lensic.

2:00 - 4:30pm
Cultivating the Inner Garden
Moderator: Rosemary Zibart, B.A. (Playwright, Journalist, Author)
Panel:
• Robyn Benson, D.O.M., (Energy Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturist and Herbalist; Founder of Santa Fe Soul Health & Healing Center)
• Sandra Ingerman, M.A. (Author, Founder of Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Trainer)
• Naomi Lake, B.A., (Full Circle for Conscious Health)
• Janet Schreiber, Ph.D. (Program Director for the Grief, Loss, and Trauma Certificate Program at Southwestern College; author and researcher)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011
9:30 - 11:30am
Women Making Roots
Welcome by Frances Levine, DCA, Director of the New Mexico History Museum
Moderator: Sharon Niederman (Southwestern Author, Journalist, and Photographer)
Panel:
• Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. (Chef, Author, Teacher, Food Historian, Culinary Anthropologist, and Photographer)
• Anne Hillerman (Author, Journalist, Restaurant Reviewer)
• Agapita Judy Lopez (Director of Abiquiu Historic Properties; Rights & Reproductions Mgr, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
• Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D., (The Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Art Historian, Author)

12:00-1:45pm
Luncheon at the Inn of the Anasazi
Pay for your own lunch.

© Copyright 2011, Carol Olmstead