How Georgia O’Keefe’s landscapes create a sense of perspective was the kind of question Wendy Chapin had for almost 25 years used to spark a curiosity in students in a city full of world-class art offerings.

 “They'll go ‘color.’ Or they might say ‘lines,’ " she said. “They're learning by asking questions."

It’s one of a myriad Chapin had asked as she took “generations” of youth from Santa Fe Public Schools around museums and galleries as visual arts and theater teaching artist in the local Artworks program since it began in 2001.

And it’s a question she won’t get to ask this school year.

She and all but one of the program’s roughly dozen educators working at the beginning of this year have departed the nonprofit-run program, citing instructional changes, significant pay cuts and mistr

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