In-Person Class: Nature-Sketching & Watercolor Painting at the Audubon Center

Immerse yourself in a morning of nature-centered artmaking at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary (1800 Upper Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM.)

Led by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta, this mini art-retreat will include technical demonstrations of nature-sketching tools as well as hands-on practice for on-location sketching. Later, the class will experiment with painting trees, botanicals, and landscapes using watercolors. Using these tools and methods, this workshop encourages participants to capture their own expressive interpretations of nature instead of simply copying objects. 

Supplies are provided by the Museum and must be returned at the end of class. Participants are also welcome to bring additional supplies of their own. Please bring a water bottle. 

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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:

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 the session.