Create with O’Keeffe: Slice of Life

  • Thursday, March 28
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM MT
  • MAIN LIBRARY | 145 WASHINGTON AVE, SANTA FE, NM, 87501

Learn how to look closely at nature and draw your own tree trunk slice!

How do we know the age of a tree? By counting its rings, of course! Join experienced artist Christina Kortz at Main Branch Library to create your own tree slice! By drawing circles within circles, kids and families can learn about how to count the rings of a tree while also flexing their creative muscles.

Christina Kortz has been with the O’Keeffe Museum since the year 2000. She began as an Education Coordinator and Family Programs Manager and now works as a Museum Educator and Gallery Guide. Christina is an experienced arts educator, illustrator, fashion stylist, and dancer. 

For more information, please contact learning@okeeffemuseum.org.

Upcoming Events

Photograph of an exterior gazebo at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden with green trees, flowers, cacti, and shrubs. In the background are green mountains and a blue sky filled with white clouds. At the bottom of the photograph in some stones are green grasses and a yuca plant.

Event Classes

Nature Sketching at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Saturday, May 10

9:30am

Photograph of a young child making an art piece on a table that is covered in art supplies and flowers.

Event Family Day

Family Day: Flower Power —Celebrating "Pink Tulip, 1925"

217 JOHNSON STREET, SANTA FE, NM

Sunday, May 11

10:30am

A person with long dark hair pulled up in small red bows looking at an abstract painting of a pink tulip. The painting is a vertical narrow canvas of an abstract section of a pink tulip. The upper quadrant of the picture plane encapsulates a large rounded draping petal shape in gradient shades of pink with an arc of yellow at the bottom of the form.

Event Member Exclusives

Member Monday Mornings | "Pink Tulip"

217 JOHNSON ST, SANTA FE, NM

Monday, May 12

9:00am