In-Person Class: Santa Fe Doors & Adobe Walls in Watercolor

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe and the bold and beautiful medium of watercolor, join us to celebrate the jubilant sunshine, the earth-toned adobe, and the rustic wooden doors that define the scenes of a quintessential Santa Fe summer! 

If you have always admired fresh and fluid watercolors, enjoy the opportunity to paint with teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta and learn how to utilize the immediacy of the medium, especially for this topic. You will be guided through professional color mixing and texturing techniques along with compositional tips to capture the vibrant interplay of light, colors, and textures associated with the architecture of Santa Fe and New Mexico.

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

This class will meet at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Creativity Studio, which is located on the corner of W Marcy Street and Sheridan Avenue, Santa Fe, NM. Registrants will be notified 24 hours in advance if the lesson is to be canceled.

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