In-Person Class: Color-Palette Studies at the O’Keeffe Museum

  • Friday, April 18
  • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM MT
  • Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, NM

Space is limited, registration required. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505-946-1000 for assistance with event registration. All supplies included.

Join us in person to study Georgia O’Keeffe’s color choices directly from her iconic paintings.

The class will start with a tour through the galleries by teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta, a longtime educator in the field of color theory for artists. During this portion of class, Sudeshna will help students analyze the colors within O’Keeffe’s paintings while providing instruction on how to create color swatches for mood boards in colored pencils. Students will then work independently in the galleries on their colored-pencil swatches before finally moving to the patio to dive deeper into color-palette analysis, locating color harmonies on a color wheel, and understanding why O’Keeffe’s color choices work well together.

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.

This class will meet at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Registrants will be notified 24 hours in advance if the lesson is to be canceled.

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 the session.

Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

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