http://www.adobecollege.com Fri, 14 May 2010 03:24:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Northern New Mexico College's summer 2010 semester begins on Monday, June 7, 2010. Online summer registration opened on April 12th and will remain open until June 3rd, 2010. We are trying something a little different this summer  - our first annual SUMMER ADOBE ACADEMY. The idea is to offer a series ... http://www.adobecollege.com/1st-annual-summer-adobe-academy-announced Below is a shortened version of the film The Adobe Mystique which is currently in post production. The film covers the history and mystique of adobe as a building material in New Mexico and around the world and is based around an interview with NNMC Adobe Department director Quentin Wilson. ... http://www.adobecollege.com/the-adobe-mystique-upcoming-classes NNMC's Spring 2010 Schedule for Adobe Construction classes is now online! Please visit our Spring 2010 semester page for detailed information about viewing the online schedule and obtaining class registration numbers, course dates and times. Registration is open right now and can be completed directly online by following these instructions. As ... http://www.adobecollege.com/spring-2010-schedule In conjunction with the upcoming AdobeUSA 2009 earthbuilding conference in mid-May 2009, NNMC'S Adobe Construction department is proud to announce a series of pre-conference adobe workshops which will run from Monday to Thursday before the conference officially opens on Friday, May 15th. This will be a great opportunity for anyone ... http://www.adobecollege.com/special-spring-2009-adobe-workshops-announced In October, Quentin Wilson and Kurt Gardella will be attending this year's LEHM2008 earthbuilding conference in Koblenz, Germany. Quentin will be presenting a paper on adobe brickmaking practices in New Mexico and Kurt will be organizing a poster session on the adobe construction program at Northern New Mexico College including ... http://www.adobecollege.com/news-nnmc-adobe-department-to-visit-lehm2008-conference-in-koblenz-germany Quentin Wilson, our department chair, recently shared his thoughts on the power of adobe in a video interview for New Mexico Ecopedia. Choose the "Adobe Power" film clip from the top menu to see the clip. The other clips are also worth viewing. Link: New Mexico Ecopedia http://www.adobecollege.com/news-new-adobe-video We have finally found the time to add some images to our department photo gallery to give you a better idea of how "hands-on" most of the instruction is. Northern New Mexico is full of ongoing adobe projects and our classes participate in as many of those projects as possible. ... http://www.adobecollege.com/news-department-photo-gallery-online To give you a taste of how adobe instruction can be taught through the internet, Kurt Gardella has made one of his "Horno Design and Construction" course videos available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR1aniPtP5Y The video is step 6 in the process of building an horno and deals with adding insulation layers to the ... http://www.adobecollege.com/sample-horno-video-on-youtube