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

Join the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary for a relaxing morning of on-location nature sketching.

Led by Georgia O’Keeffe Museum teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta, this mini art retreat starts with an introduction on how to create drawings using nature-sketching tools and techniques with the option to include watercolor washes. Inspired by the hands-on demonstration and the beautiful surroundings at the Audubon, participants will then develop their own expressive interpretations of nature through observational sketches, followed by individualized guidance and feedback from the instructor.

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.

Professional-grade 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. 

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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 $40 | Non-members $50