We're all over the map now ! 

“We learnt how to make a movie by taking pictures (stop motion), shading with charcoal and clay modelling. Before the programme started, I thought it would be boring but now it seems very interesting to me. I feel like 8 hours of time is also less!”
 
Sameer, Participant Teaching Fellowship 2019-20                           

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​SOME TESTIMONIALS:

"My experience with Artreach India has been wonderful. We have completed our third years of Artreach and the fourth year is currently going.  In the first year we learnt the basics of drawing like making our portrait, object drawing, drawing free hand lines, playing with colours etc.  It was like I really did not have an interest in drawing but after joining this programme I have started to have confidence in me that yes I can also do painting.  In the second year we used to go to the Sanskriti Kendra and there we learnt different types of art like making objects out of mud, making mandalas, drawing a painting out of graph sheet and marker, and many more.  We have learnt so many new things in Artreach that we didn't even know the names of before.  Artreach has truly widened our knowledge about different types of art and we have made lots of new friends as well and the teachers are amazing.  They are so co-operative that if we have not understood something they are ready and very sweetly make us understand it.  And currently this year we are learning how to connect art with different professions, like they have taught us techniques of photography, graphic designing, how to make digital electric music, dance and many more. It is really fun learning a lot of new things and i really enjoy going there. Thank you so much for giving me and my sisters and brothers this opportunity to join with Artreach foundation."
Sonal, Udayan Care 

​"I had the chance to meet the kids after the session with Saba Hasan. What stood out most  was a sense of pride the children felt at creating something. I feel academics and scholastic learning squeezes the fun out of a sense of true achievement because in a way the lesson has been thrashed a hundred times before a result is issued. Art is fresh, it is immediate and instant and I saw its impact on the children. They had a very 'live and fresh' sense of creating something. Secondly, the art itself was so beautiful that I could sense the effect this beauty had on them. The peeling walls and dilapidated look was completely and utterly transformed in the few, simple images they painted. I feel as human beings we are programmed to react to beauty, to absorb it and draw from it. It might be hyperbolic to say it gives them hope, but not really - maybe the level of hope doesn't shoot from 0 to 100 immediately, but being surrounded by beauty helps in feeling less despondent. " 
Mansi Chaturvedi Sharma,
​State Programme Coordinator, Aman Biradari - Rainbow Homes

"They loved it! They were showing their flip books to everyone in school. Some of them even taught their friends how its made. Before this workshop we didn't know they were so creative . Now they create such beautiful things on their own. Earlier they were in a bubble. We tell them what to do and they do it. Now they do things on their own. They don't want to just do beautiful painting. Earlier we used to tell them exactly what to do and they did it. But now they think on their own. Usually they don’t want to talk about themselves but now are expressing their vulnerable side through all these different mediums."
Khan Hasina Ahmed 
Programme Manager, TARA Girls and TARA Boys

"I loved wall painting. That time doing mural with you was a very good time of my life. I felt very good and was very happy with you. I want you to teach me more. Thank you for coming to Jamghat and spending so much time with us."  
​Faruq, Participant (15 years)

"I was apprehensive when I started the first project with Artreach. I thought a group of boys with a wide age range of 6-18 would be a hard demographic to manage. I needn't have worried.  They were the most wonderful children to work with.  Not only did they have bundles of enthusiasm but they were also warm, polite and amazingly helpful not only with the fun jobs but also the boring ones such as washing brushes and clearing up.  Working with Artreach and the Salaam Baalak Trust was a fantastic and rewarding experience. In a week we transformed a depressing and claustrophobic room into a bright and uplifting space for the children to live in. By the end of the week I was exhausted but so happy, and when Artreach contacted me to see if I would be interested to help with a second project I jumped at the chance."
Lettie Blackett, Artist
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Sanjay K Roy, Trustee, Salaam Balak Trust

Gagan Singh, Trustee, Salaam Balak Trust