In-Person Class: Autumnal Greeting and Gratitude Cards in Watercolor

  • Saturday, November 22
  • 10:00 AM - 1:30 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.

Send love and gratitude to friends and family this season with handmade watercolor greeting cards.

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of autumn leaves and natural forms, join us at the O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio to paint your own mini, nature-themed watercolors that will make perfect one-of-a-kind cards for friends and family. 

Through hands-on demonstrations of watercolor techniques and compositional concepts, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will show you how to plan and design your watercolor greeting cards into a set or series. All supplies are included.

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

Space is limited, reservations required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505.946.1000 for assistance with event registration.

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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