The O’Keeffe Welcome Center in Abiquiú will be closing early today, December 16, at 1 PM.

Questions? Contact our Abiquiú team at 575-467-2001 or abiquiutours@gokm.org during business hours.

Online Class: Selective Sketching

  • Wednesday, September 4
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT
  • Online

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

In this class, learn to change how you sketch by emphasizing selection and omission. Throughout the session, instructor Morgan Jones will help you train your eye to identify and focus on the most important aspects of a subject, which will lead to creating more dynamic designs. Use this lesson to enhance your artistic expression in ways that infuse your work with strength and mystique. 

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

Space is limited, reservations required.

This program will take place via the video conferencing app – ZOOM. Details for accessing the Zoom meeting will be with your receipt upon registering and again sent via email the day prior. Please register in advance in order to access the program. Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

Online classes are not recorded. Online classes are offered only as a live and interactive experience.

Supplies needed for this class:

  • Sketching Pencils 
  • Sketching Paper
  • Eraser (Kneaded recommended) 
  • Optional: Charcoal 

About the Instructor:

A passionate artist and experienced educator, Morgan Jones has spent the last 9 years developing these crafts. She seeks to explore how art can serve as a medium to move us both individually and communally. Her time teaching in public schools, juvenile detention, and community centers has deepened her belief that art is a fundamental means of knowing, connecting, and transforming. In addition to Fine Arts, Morgan studied Art Education at Texas State University as well as Criminal and Social Justice at the College of the Rockies in BC, Canada. Morgan’s professional painting practice focuses on plein-air landscape assemblage and multiple exposure oil paintings that call into question ideas of impermanence, memory and conservation. After spending a year living on the road, developing her art from her mobile travel trailer studio, she has settled in Santa Fe to split her time between teaching and creating. 

This class is being offered on a sliding scale.

$10 minimal fee.

$20 covers the cost of the class.

$30 covers the cost of the class, plus a contribution to support educational programs

Upcoming Events

Painting of the church from the rear, a vantage point that allowed O'Keeffe to explore the blocky, geometric qualities of its adobe walls. Enlarging and exaggerating these forms, she portrayed the church as if it were an organic growth emerging from the earth.

Past Event Classes

Online Class: Exploring the Historic “Ranchos Church” in Soft Pastels (Part 2)

Online

Tuesday, December 16

5:00pm

Close-up of a young person's hands as they mould clay on a table covered with paint and other art materials.

Event Community Events

Create with O'Keeffe: Glass Magnets

SOUTHSIDE LIBRARY | 6599 JAGUAR DR, SANTA FE, NM 87507

Thursday, December 18

3:30pm

Photograph of three small landscape paintings on a white table. A hand hovers above holding a paintbrush. Nearby are a colorful paint palette and more small paint brushes.

Event Classes

Online Class: Practice for Plein Air in Gouache

Online

Monday, December 29

11:00am