IN-PERSON CLASSES:

$Free Basic Residential Wiring, Hands-On Course
June 30- July 11, 2025 • 9:00am-3:00pm
NNMC El Rito Campus • See details below!

• We will cover the fundamentals of Residential Wiring from the main electrical service panel to branch circuits that are used for lighting, receptacles, and appliance circuits.
• Whether you're exploring a new trade or tackling DIY home projects, this course is a great place to start.
  
  

Carpentry Camp
July 9-10, 2025 • 9:00am -1:00pm • El Rito Campus • $189
Students will be covering door installation and drywall repairs. Hands on door and hardware installation, drywall patching, and drywall taping will be demonstrated.

Summer Welding courses
Intro to Welding 
June 16 - August 6, 2025 • Monday & Wednesday • 5:30-8:30 pm 
Fee: $325 • Española campus, Arts Annex-Metal Trades 
Beginning welding, safety, welding history, intro to oxygen acetylene cutting and welding, intro to arc welding, Intro to MIG welding, and intro to Plasma cutting. With Dean Moya 

Intermediate Welding 
June 17 - August 7, 2025 • Tuesday & Thursday • 5:30-8:30 pm 
Fee: $325 • Española campus, Arts Annex-Metal Trades 
Arc welding and MIG in different positions, (flat, vertical, horizontal and overhead) introduction to fabrication, blueprint reading, measuring and plasma cutting. With Dean Moya

2 Tai Chi classes to choose from at Northern's El Rito campus!
Introduction to Tai Chi
June 11- July 18, 2025 • Wednesday & Friday • 10-11 am
El Rito Campus, Alumni Hall• 6 week class, $40 • See details below!

• The Chinese art of Tai Chi is a moving meditation and whole-body exercise for maintaining and building the health of mind and body. This class will introduce the long-form Tai Chi set as taught by Master May Lin-Sin, with a focus on basic principles.
• Intended for people who are new to Tai Chi; no experience is required. It is also appropriate for those who have completed this course before and wish further practice.
• Instructor Chris Ng is certified by the non-profit American Tai Chi Academy with more than 30 years of teaching Tai Chi.
  
  

Ongoing Tai Chi Practice
June 11- July 18, 2025 • Wednesday & Friday • 11 am-12 pm
El Rito Campus, Alumni Hall• 6 week class, $40 • See details below!

• The Chinese art of Tai Chi is a moving meditation and whole-body exercise for maintaining and building the health of mind and body. This class will introduce the long-form Tai Chi set as taught by Master May Lin-Sin, with a focus on basic principles.
• Intended for people who are new to Tai Chi; no experience is required. It is also appropriate for those who have completed this course before and wish further practice.
• Instructor Chris Ng is certified by the non-profit American Tai Chi Academy with more than 30 years of teaching Tai Chi.

Heritage Arts Woodworking
August 6- December 17, 2025 • Wednesdays • 8am- 12pm & 12pm -4pm
$100 • Espanola Campus • See details below!
By Philip Sanchez
This class explores the tradition of woodworking, honoring techniques passed down through generations.The program is led by instruction that is deeply rooted in historic methods, committed to preserving and evolving the unique artistic and cultural expressions of Northern New Mexico. Projects include: retablos,wooden crosses, bultos, tables, benches, and more. 

Spanish Colonial Woodworking
August 4- December 16, 2025 • Mondays & Tuesdays • 8am-5pm
$150- one day session per week • $299- two day session per week 
Espanola Campus • See details below!
By Tony Gallegos
An introductory course in the art of Spanish Colonial Woodworking where students will learn the basic carving techniques, as used for centuries in Northern New Mexico and throughout Latin America and Spain.

Rio Grande Weaving
August 19- October 14 and October 14-December 9 • Mondays & Tuesdays • 8am-2pm
$179 • Espanola Campus • See details below!
By Karen Martinez 
Students will learn the 4 basic shuttle techniques used in Rio Grande Weaving.  Students will learn shuttle placement, balancing a pattern, and keeping edges straight.  Students will create samples of each technique with instructions to create a weaving portfolio.

Traditional Spanish Retablo Painting
September 10- October 22, 2025 • Wednesdays • 9am-12pm
$160 Supplies Included • Espanola Campus • See details below!
By Rose Price, Espanola Campus
Retablos are devotional paintings of religious figures on wood panels. This course, taught by Rose Price, will include:

• Researching the history and the study of traditional retablos and artists.
• Drawing religious figures (saints)
• Practice using watercolors to paint figures
• Learning the use of gesso (commercial or homemade)
• The study of natural pigments (organic and Inorganic)
• Preparing wood panels for painting
• Painting a retablo with natural pigments
• Varnishing a completed painted panel with (commercial or homemade varnishes)

Entry-Level Driver Training, CDL Permit Prep
September 2-12, 2025 and October 20-31, 2025 • Monday-Friday • 5:30pm-8:30pm
$500 • Espanola Campus • See details below!
By Donald Griego

• Federally mandated ELDT training in accordance with FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association)
• 35 ELDT chapters will be taught, and as well as general knowledge, air brakes, and combination vehicles, in accordance with the NM CDL Manual
• Guidance on meeting all requirements to obtain ELDT training and a CDL permit
  
  

Micaceous Pottery I (Community)
October TBA • Tuesdays & Thursdays • 9am-10:30am
$180 • Espanola Campus
By Ruben Olguin

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ONLINE CLASSES:

Instant Piano or Instant Guitar! Both for hopelessly busy people
In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment! 
Classes are online over Zoom and are partly hands-on instruction and partly lecture / demonstration. For ages 13+. Fees include the online book, online recorded follow-up lessons, a recording of the class, and also an optional live periodic Q&A session.

Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People
Monday, July 14, 2025
6:30pm- 9:30pm | Fee: $69 | Online Class
Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes.

Instant Guitar for Hopelessly Busy People
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
6:30pm- 9:00pm | Fee: $69 | Online Class
You won't have to take private lessons! This crash course will teach you some basic chords and get you playing along with your favorite songs right away.


How to Grow Your Small Business
August 20th 2025 • 5pm- 6pm • Fee: $35
By Preethi Fernando
Whether you want to sell home baked muffins, start a bicycle repair shop, or sell products online, my class is for you. From customer service to marketing, to creating compelling social media posts, my class is ideal for those thinking about starting a small business, struggling with an existing small business, or wanting to expand a small business. It's also useful for the curious individual, the Senior, the single parent, the in-between jobs person, wondering how they can make an income with a small business.

Tools for Working, Living with a Difficult, Toxic Person
August 20th 2025 • 6pm- 7pm • Fee: $35
By Preethi Fernando
Working, living with a toxic person can be emotionally, physically, and financially demanding. From being controlling, belligerent, verbally abusive, to being manipulative, demeaning, and sneaky, toxic people can derail our plans, dreams, and hopes – if we allow them to. In my class you will learn simple, effective emotional tools to maintain your cool, calmness, and sanity, when you are affected by a toxic person, day in, day out. I am the author of "I Never Said It Was Easy. I Said You Got This: Emotional Intelligent Tools to Deal With Difficult Toxic People and Lead Through Change."

RECURRING CLASSES - Stay tuned for new dates!

• Horno Construction - El Rito campus
• 3 Days to Better Golf Essentials - Black Mesa Golf Course
• 3 days to a Better Short Game - Black Mesa Golf Course
• Rio Grande Weaving - Española campus
• Spanish Colonial Wood Working - Española campus
• Introduction to Tai Chi - with instructor Chris Ng • El Rito campus
• Basic Wildland Fire Training - Española Campus
• Entry-Level Driver Training, CDL Permit Prep - Española campus
• Free Carpentry Camp – Job readiness for the Carpentry trades! See details here.
• Free Welding Camp – With job placement assistance. See details here.
  
  

PREVIOUSLY OFFERED

• Business as Artists: FREE Workshop Series
  
• FREE Lineman Boot Camp - El Rito campus. See details here.
• Kernel to Tortilla: A Workshop on Nixtamalization and Masa
• Traditional Brush Technique Based on European Folk Painting
• Publish Your Own Book
  
• How to Use Chat GPT - An Intro to AI
• Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
• Pueblo Style Loom Beading
• Residential Wiring
• Traditional Spanish Retablo Painting
• New Mexico Boating Safety Education, with instructor Scott Chalmers
• Understanding the Fundamentals of Business Management & Administration, with instructor Ocelot Lopez
• Growing & Marketing Multiple Crops from Hemp
• Intro to Permacuture: A Look into Regenerative Living