In-Person Class: Watercolor Greeting Cards & Bookmarks

  • Friday, December 12
  • 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM MT
  • O'KEEFFE MUSEUM CREATIVITY STUDIO | CORNER OF W MARCY ST AND SHERIDAN ST, SANTA FE, NM

Registration required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505-946-1000 for assistance with registration.

Join us at the O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio to paint your own greeting cards and bookmarks to give as one-of-a-kind gifts this season.

In this class, make mini watercolors inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s winter landscapes, featuring trees, built environments, and silhouettes against New Mexico skies, perfect for giftable greeting cards or bookmarks. Through hands-on demonstrations on watercolor techniques and compositional concepts, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will show how to plan and design watercolor greeting cards and bookmarks so you can leave the workshop with a set of small paintings to share.

All supplies are included.

This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

This class will meet at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio, located on the corner of Marcy Street and Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. Registrants will be notified 24 hours in advance if the lesson is to be canceled.

About the Instructor:

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Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

Registration

All supplies are included: Members $35 | Non-members $45

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