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March 14-18, 2019: "Beginners: Find Your Inner O’Keeffe and Find Yourself" 

Georgia O’Keeffe was once a beginner herself. This workshop at Ghost Ranch — for beginners, amateurs, and those looking for a new start for their work — uses O’Keeffe’s dictum to "fill a space in a beautiful way." Experience lessons that O’Keeffe got from her most influential teacher and the lessons she assigned novices. This class opens up the making of art with a view toward O’Keeffe’s own perspective and practices. Get started — or get further guidance — from an instructor who worked for O’Keeffe in 1976 and went on to study art and enjoy a long museum career (yes, that's me!). Open to all skill levels. Learn more about the workshop. Read testimonials below; see more at www.annakoster.com/testimonials.html.

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"My week with Anna was transformative. I took the class because of her background and credentials, however what I received was so much more. Her sincere interest in us as artists, coupled with the majesty of landscape transported me to a place of grounding, confidence and passion for the power of creativity." — Susan Thompson, High School Principal  

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"It was a pleasure to be in Anna’s class. I greatly enjoyed learning the basics of landscape art from a teacher who was patient, nonjudgmental, and encouraging. I also appreciate the consideration and time she took to point me in the right direction. Her help was invaluable, and I found that I could easily incorporate the lessons into my work." 
​— Francisco Spaulding-Astudillo, student, University of Chicago

"The week at Ghost Ranch was, for me, an extraordinary experience with a truly spiritual dimension; quite unique: the setting, the company, the artistic endeavor all came together to make it very special." -- Alice Godfrey, retired physician, Aptos, California

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O'Keeffe's Contemporaries: Women Painters Born in the Same Decade
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Henrietta Shore, who attended the Art Students League in New York with Georgia O'Keeffe, lived most of her life in the United States. Shore and was drawn to Carmel, California, where she lived for decades.
Born: 1880, Toronto, Canada
Died: 1963, San Jose, California​
Above: "Life," circa 1921, by Shore  SEE MORE ART BY SHORE
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Agnes Pelton studied with Athur Wesley Dow, as did O'Keeffe, as well as in Europe and at the Pratt Institute in New York. She visited Mable Dodge Luhan in Taos, N.M., in 1919, a decade before O'Keeffe got there.
Born: 1881, Stuttgart, Germany
Died: 1961, Cathedral City, California
Above: "Winter," 1933, by Pelton  SEE MORE ART BY PELTON
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Helen Torr, known as "Reds," worked alongside other artists, most notably her husband Arthur Dove and their friend Georgia O'Keeffe, to develop an American style of Modernism in the 1920s. 
Born: 1886, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
​Died: 1967, Long Island, New York
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Shell, 1928, by Torr  SEE MORE ART BY TORR_
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Georgia O’Keeffe is the most famous women artist of her generation. Through her association with Alfred Stieglitz and his promotion of her work, she gained early acclaim and notoriety. 
Born: 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Died: 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Series I, No. 4," 1918,  by O'Keeffe
​"Music, Pink and Blue No. 2," 1918,  by O'Keeffe
"Tan Clam Shell with Seaweed," 1926,  by O'Keeffe

Photo at top: Anna Koster in Minneapolis for the annual Association of American Museums conference
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