In-Person Class: Autumnal Watercolor at the Audubon Center & Sanctuary 

Join us at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary (1800 Upper Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM) and immerse yourself in a morning of painting fall foliage in watercolor. 

Led by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta, this mini art retreat will include guidance and demonstrations for painting trees, botanicals, and landscapes in watercolor, as well as direction for creating watercolor studies of fall leaves. Equipped with these tools and techniques, along with inspiration from O’Keeffe’s paintings of leaves, workshop participants will be encouraged to explore their own expressive interpretations of nature in their hands-on projects.

Participants are welcome to bring their own snacks or lunch (refrigerator and microwave available on site). Please bring a water bottle; a water filling station will also be available.

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. 

Presented in collaboration with the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary (Santa Fe)

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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