If two heads are better than one, then surely this summer’s O’Keeffe Museum collaborations with premier creative organizations will build an array of exciting, not-to-miss activities. For families and young adults, from the Read­ers’ Club to painting workshops, there are many opportunities to expand your under­standing of the Museum’s exhibitions, have fun, and engage with art more deeply. To learn about all of the Museum’s education programs that are happening this summer, go online at okeeffemuseum.org/learn.

The Museum inaugurates a partnership with the Santa Fe School of Cooking by presenting Georgia O’Keeffe and the Art of Eating Well on Monday, June 20, Monday, July 18, and Friday, July 29, from 10 am to 1 pm. The program offers the opportunity to discover and explore some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s ideas about food and cooking. Chef Michelle Roetzer will guide attendees through a number of the recipes featured in the book A Painter’s Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Margaret Wood. O’Keeffe had a unique perspective on food for her time, appreciating simple foods that were in season and that were grown and handled with care. Ms. Wood, O’Keeffe’s assistant and companion for five years, will also be on hand to share personal stories as well as insights into O’Keeffe’s artful way of liv­ing and her views on food. This class will illuminate the recipes in context, to create the spirit of dining with Georgia O’Keeffe. The demonstration-style class includes recipes and a full meal. To register for the class call the Santa Fe School of Cooking at 505.983.4511 or go online at santafeschoolofcooking.com.

Also new for this summer, the Museum teams with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale to present several talks by Robert Kyr, the Chorale’s new Composer-in-Residence, on the text of Walt Whitman that influenced the creation of his new work to be performed during the 2011 summer season, which runs from July 7 to August 12. Join us at the Museum on Monday, July 11, or Wednesday, July 20, from 8:30 to 10 am for Genesis of a New Work: Tides of Peace. Music director Joshua Haberman will join Kyr on Monday, July 18, and Wednesday, July 27, to present Walt Whitman, Robert Kyr, and the Music of War and Peace. Both lectures are free to Museum members and Business Partners and open to the public with the price of Museum admission. Reservations are suggested: call 505.946.1039 or go online at okeeffemu­seum.org.

The Santa Fe Opera and the Museum will offer Shared Inspiration/Personal Interpretation on Tuesday, July 12, from 9 am to noon and 6:30 pm to midnight. This co-presented event, an annual favorite, highlights a theme found in one of the Museum’s exhibitions and one of the Opera’s productions. Throughout history artists have drawn ideas from literary, visual, and performance works and recast them through the lens of their chosen medium. You can explore this rich interaction as we look at the Museum’s exhibition Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photo­graph. Opera lecturer Karen Klett and art historian Sharyn Udall will discuss historic references, and digital media artist Deborah Fort will lead a workshop that uses family photographs as avenues for participants to develop their own written or visual work. The program continues in the evening at the Florence Dapples cantina, where there will be dinner and a dialogue with GRONK, the artist and set designer for Vivaldi’s Griselda. GRONK will talk about his and director Peter Sellars’s inspiration for and interpretation of this Santa Fe Opera production. The evening concludes with a dress rehearsal of Griselda. Reserve your space by July 8 to participate in this rich experience: call 505.946.1039 or go to okeeffemuseum.org.

Bostick & Sullivan, the world’s leading authority on handcrafted alternative photographic processes, is offering The Handmade Photograph–Platinum/Palladium Workshop on Thursday, August 11, from 9 am to 5 pm. After viewing the works of artists in the Shared Intelligence exhibi­tion (who favor the rich tones of the platinum print for their photographs), participants will head to the Bostick & Sullivan studios, where they will learn the basic techniques for making photographs per the historic nineteenth-century platinum/palladium process. Bring a large-format negative, up to 8 x 10 in size, or a digital file of 360 PPI and 16 bits for the desired negative dimensions; all printing materials will be provided. Class size is very limited, so reserve your space by August 8 and try your hand with this historic printing technique. For more information, go to bostick-sullivan.com.