In-Person Class: Creative Reset with Intuitive Watercolors

Join us for an exploration of watercolor and watercolor pencils that focuses on allowing colors and compositions to evolve intuitively with intention. In this class, participants will experience the joy of watching paints blend, mingle, and merge into each other in ways that hint at landscapes, abstract, or semi-abstract forms. 

Through hands-on painting demonstrations, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will offer an opportunity to discover fresh new directions with their watercolor painting that embraces mindful spontaneity, freshness, and fluidity. This class will be a perfect way to let go of the old while making room for the new in a stimulating, welcoming, and relaxed setting that invites ideas and inspirations.

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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, located on the corner of Marcy Street and Grant 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 $35 | Non-members $45