In-Person Class: Santa Fe Urban Sketching

  • Friday, July 25
  • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM MT
  • Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | 217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, NM

Registration required. Space is limited. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505-946-1000 for assistance with registration.

Join us for a morning of urban sketching around the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to capture the iconic beauty of Santa Fe’s Pueblo Revival-style architecture. Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s observational studies of built environment, especially the adobe buildings of New Mexico, this workshop is designed to become a summer favorite for Museum visitors and locals alike.

Participants will first meet in front of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and will walk as a group to a nearby street where the class will take place. To begin the lesson, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will demonstrate a variety of drawing styles and techniques using watercolor pencils, graphite pencils, sketch pens, and other tools. Participants will then gather supplies and set up their on-location drawing stations to work on their urban sketches while Sudeshna offers individualized guidance and feedback.

Supplies are included in the sketching kit provided by the museum. Participants are welcome to bring any additional supplies of their own, such as watercolors or folding easels. Drinking water will be provided by the museum. Participants are encouraged to bring their own snacks.

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 (217 Johnson St, Santa Fe, NM). 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

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