Georgia O’Keeffe’s Clouds & Skies

  • Wednesday, October 2
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MT
  • Online

This event is free to attend. Please register in advance. Please email contact@gokm.org or call 505. 946. 1000 for assistance with event registration.

Throughout her life, Georgia O’Keeffe explored the theme of clouds and skies in her work, often using the subject as a platform for compositional and conceptional innovation. Join Grace Almanza, School and Tour Programs Manager at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, for a deep dive into the Museum’s collection and a selection of O’Keeffe’s paintings that feature clouds and skies. Throughout the talk, Almanza will show how clouds and skies were represented variously throughout O’Keeffe’s career and why this theme is an excellent way to jump into the study of O’Keeffe’s iconic abstractions of the natural world. 

From left to right: 1. Horizontal abstract representation of gray matter in bottom 3/4 with strong yellow band which lightens surmounted at very top by blue band. 2. Loose watercolor with bands of horizontal colors: a strip of muddy brown along the bottom, layered above with a bleeding line of reddish to yellow in the middle. Above it turns to purplish-blue dotted with scattered orange areas as if small clouds. 3. View from interior of Abiquiu patio with upper 2/3 of painting devoted to a vast blue sky dotted with a pattern of white clouds. The adobe wall in the lower center has one small turquoise window, and a strong angular shadow crosses the patio from left to right, creating one dark and one light triangle within the rectangle of the building's space.

This event is free to attend. Please register in advance. For assistance with event registration, email contact@gokm.org or call 505-496-1000. Can’t make the talk? This program will be recorded and posted on our website and YouTube Channel.

About the Speaker:

Grace Almanza

Grace Almanza is an educator and visual artist from Miami, Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from Florida International University. She continued her arts education by immersing herself in the world of contemporary art at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami. She has been working with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum since May 2021 and has loved every single minute of it. During her time at the O’Keeffe, Grace has made it her mission to help children and families realize their full creative potential through art activities that inspire self-expression, self-confidence, and imagination. She believes that it is through fostering creativity that we preserve the art and legacy of Georgia O’Keeffe.   

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