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'Geeli Mitti' Teaching Fellowship 2017-18 Exhibition
Venue: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Ojas Art, Delhi Supported by KNMA, Teaching Fellow: Sonam Chaturvedi
For queries and applications write to Artreach's Programmes Head, Ita Mehrotra: ita.artreach@gmail.com
Artists apply though an Open Call and are selected through an interview and trial workshop. They are supported through the year by a distinguished panel of art educators. |
TEACHING FELLOWSHIP YEAR
A foundation course in visual art for young people in care Every year we give a grant to one artist to work with one care home in Delhi. The artist teaches a foundation course in the visual arts to about 20 students (aged 14 to 18) from the care home with a passion for art. Through twelve intensive workshops she/he leads the students through a comprehensive experience of art education, exploring techniques, media, art history and aesthetics. The artist takes them on field visits to art colleges, exhibitions and the art fairs. The artist encourages participants to use art as a tool for the critical exploration of the world, to cultivate their imaginative, creative and reflective skills and to find an individual expressive voice. At the end of the year the students put up an exhibition of their work at KNMA, which is accompanied by a catalogue. Works are for sale and typically sell very well– the proceeds go to the care home. Past teaching fellows and care homes: 2015-16: Anni Kumari at Aman Biradari - Rainbow Homes 2016-17: Vandana Kothari at Udayan Care 2017-18: Artist Sonam Chaturvedi at Salaam Baalak Trust |
In 2019 we are hoping to institute a Teaching Fellowship programme with an NGO in Mumbai.
Help us raise funds to make this possible! To support a Teaching Fellowship programme write to Director, Development: lavanya.artreach@gmail.com
Help us raise funds to make this possible! To support a Teaching Fellowship programme write to Director, Development: lavanya.artreach@gmail.com
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Reflections:
"The benefits are hard to describe in a few words, because it seemed to me that reaching within themselves and fetching those ideas and that talent from inside gave them an anchor that could very well persist for the better part of their lives. I don’t think it matters how many of these girls will choose art as a career, though it'd be great if they did. To me, what mattered was that attention was paid to their latent talent, possibly to nurture it further, but mostly to help them familiarise themselves with that shining, unique spot of talent they have. It’s never easy to 'tell' a child to see this bright shining spot, whereas to have them reveal it to themselves is priceless and long-lasting!"
Mansi Chaturvedi-Sharma, Co-ordinator, Aman Biradari, New Delhi
"The benefits are hard to describe in a few words, because it seemed to me that reaching within themselves and fetching those ideas and that talent from inside gave them an anchor that could very well persist for the better part of their lives. I don’t think it matters how many of these girls will choose art as a career, though it'd be great if they did. To me, what mattered was that attention was paid to their latent talent, possibly to nurture it further, but mostly to help them familiarise themselves with that shining, unique spot of talent they have. It’s never easy to 'tell' a child to see this bright shining spot, whereas to have them reveal it to themselves is priceless and long-lasting!"
Mansi Chaturvedi-Sharma, Co-ordinator, Aman Biradari, New Delhi
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We are grateful to the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art for their continued support of this program.
We are grateful to Anubhav Nath of Ojas Art for hosting the TF 2017-18 Exhibition at the gallery. |
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