The Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico will host a two-week writer’s residency in Lois Palken Rudnick’s memory in January 2024. Lois’ association with the MDL house began not long after the publication of her biography Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman New Worlds and resulted in her second book on Mabel, Utopian Vistas, […]

Mabel Dodge Luhan was not easily-defined (thank goodness!) but I would describe her as a Spirit Guide. Following her own internal compass, she relocated to the Southwest and then began a campaign of persuasion, luring other friends and colleagues to follow. Many of them succumbed to Mabel’s invitation, resulting in life-changing shifts and awakenings; the stuff of legends.

Over a couple decades, I have frequently stayed at Mabel’s House and have always suspected that the molecules of those past souls are present… woven into the threads of the colorful carpets underfoot, and baked into the warm adobe walls. And that row of roosters atop the parapet? – They seem to look down at us with knowing grins. Imagine the stories they could tell?

We are very excited to host the 20th anniversary offerings of Michele Cassou’s Creativity Rediscovered: Zero Point Painting in May and September 2018. This has been one of the most popular workshops ever offered at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House. Although an injury to her both of her hands in 2016 and rehabilitation after subsequent surgeries have prevented Michele from traveling to Taos to teach the workshop in person, her students continue to learn and grow from her teachings via remote connections to Michele and support through her co-facilitators, Cherie Ray, Anna Billings, and other support staff.