Meet the Teaching Artists

Morgan Jones

A passionate artist and experienced educator, Morgan Jones seeks to explore how art can serve as a medium to move us both individually and communally. Her time teaching in public schools, juvenile detention, and community centers has deepened her belief that art is a fundamental means of knowing, connecting, and transforming. In addition to Fine Arts, Morgan studied Art Education at Texas State University as well as Criminal and Social Justice at the College of the Rockies, Canada. Morgan’s professional painting practice focuses on plein-air landscape assemblages and multiple-exposure oil paintings that call into question ideas of impermanence, memory, and conservation. Creating her art from her mobile travel trailer studio, she explores the land through her nomadic living style.

Find more about her work on her website or on Instagram at @painting.nomad

Amber Paz-Csibi

Nice to meet you! I’m Amber Paz-Csibi, an art educator and artist in Santa Fe with over 15 years of teaching experience in public schools in New Mexico. I am from San Antonio, Texas. I studied visual arts, science, and education at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and New Mexico Highlands University. I truly enjoy teaching others about the amazing world of art and am inspired by my students’ appreciation for the creative process. Currently, I teach ceramics and fused glass workshops at the O’Keeffe’s Adult Program and Art & Leadership Summer Program. 

As an artist, I create art exploring a variety of media. My personal artworks are visual explorations of my journey in life and the magical landscapes of New Mexico. My creative process embraces the simplicity of form, color and function. I would describe my artistic style as an eclectic mix of contemporary and rustic designs. I create a range of ceramic and fused glass artworks such as: tableware, decorative and functional pieces. On a personal note, when I am not teaching or creating art, I am a wife and mom of two young children. 

Gal Senderowitsch

Gal Senderowitsch is a fine artist and art therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for her thoughtful approach to works on paper and her passion for teaching and sharing her knowledge. She earned her MA in Art Therapy and Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe and holds a BFA with a concentration in printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Gal’s practice focuses on watercolors, woodcuts, and monotypes, while maintaining expertise across various print media. Her artistic inspiration draws from nature, the human condition, her dreams, and a deep connection to Mother Earth. Her Mediterranean and South American heritage also informs her work, adding cultural richness and depth.

Recognized with awards and honors, Gal has exhibited her work in Philadelphia, New York, and Santa Fe. She works at a community-based therapy practice outside of Santa Fe, helping individuals through creative expression. She also meets individually with clients, emphasizing the healing and transformative power of art.

In addition to her therapy work, Gal enjoys instructing watercolor and printmaking at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and offers private instruction. 

Sudeshna Sengupta

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

Deborah Shea

Deborah Shea was born into a family of artists and grew up in San Francisco. At the age of 14, she attended a summer arts program with Ruth Asawa and created images for the Hyatt Fountain and UCSF Mural. Deborah received a BA in Studio Art & Design at UC Davis. She had a career for over 20 years as a creative director, designer, and illustrator before becoming a full-time fine artist in 2017. She has won numerous awards in juried and solo exhibitions, and has taught pastel classes at Filoli, the Pacific Art League, the Atherton Art Foundation, and in her studio at Art Bias. In 2023, she was selected as one of seven San Mateo County artists for a yearlong exhibition in the Chan Zuckerberg Community Center in Redwood City. Deborah is currently pursuing her MFA at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She resides in Redwood City, California.

For more information about Deborah, please see her website or her Instagram page @debdsheastudios