TEACHING RESIDENCIES
Artreach supports artists to lead groups of children and young people through an engaging and meaningful programme of planned workshops and field trips. Teaching Residencies offer a comprehensive experience of art education, introducing participants to a variety of mediums, methods and techniques, and to a selection of artists and styles. Beyond the teaching of technical skills and insight into art history and aesthetics, artists will encourage participants to use art as a tool for critical exploration of the world, to cultivate their imaginative, creative and reflective skills and to find an individual expressive voice.
Artreach supports artists to lead groups of children and young people through an engaging and meaningful programme of planned workshops and field trips. Teaching Residencies offer a comprehensive experience of art education, introducing participants to a variety of mediums, methods and techniques, and to a selection of artists and styles. Beyond the teaching of technical skills and insight into art history and aesthetics, artists will encourage participants to use art as a tool for critical exploration of the world, to cultivate their imaginative, creative and reflective skills and to find an individual expressive voice.
NARI GUNJAN, Bihar
In 2017 we initiated a collaboration with Nari Gunjan to work with the girls of the Musahar Dalit community in Bihar. Twice a year we facilitate intensive teaching residencies led by artists for the girls' homes in Patna and Bodhgaya. The objectives are similar to our Fellowship programme - to expose young people to a variety of mediums, techniques, art histories, institutions and guide them through a path of artistic exploration and self-expression.
A team of five students from the Prerna School in Patna were part of the three day Artreach Festival 2017 at Bikaner House. This was their first time in Delhi. They saw their artworks on display, performed on stage during the Festival, took part in the workshops and also got a chance to site-see. In their words:
"We felt like we were in a dream to be in Delhi!'
In 2017 we initiated a collaboration with Nari Gunjan to work with the girls of the Musahar Dalit community in Bihar. Twice a year we facilitate intensive teaching residencies led by artists for the girls' homes in Patna and Bodhgaya. The objectives are similar to our Fellowship programme - to expose young people to a variety of mediums, techniques, art histories, institutions and guide them through a path of artistic exploration and self-expression.
A team of five students from the Prerna School in Patna were part of the three day Artreach Festival 2017 at Bikaner House. This was their first time in Delhi. They saw their artworks on display, performed on stage during the Festival, took part in the workshops and also got a chance to site-see. In their words:
"We felt like we were in a dream to be in Delhi!'
Ongoing Teaching Residency with artist Aditi Raman :
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Teaching Artists :
June - November 2019: Aditi Raman Karn (India) March 2019: Anarya (India) December 2018: Shivangi Singh (India) February 2018: Selma Salman, (Bosnia/USA) October 2017: Ita Mehrotra (India) March-April 2017: Tyga Helme (UK) and Anni Kumari (India) |
BOSCO CENTRES, Khirkee Village, Delhi
Since 2017 Artreach has run three successful art education modules at the UNHCR BOSCO centre, Khirkee Village. Participants of these workshops are children and young adults of refugee and asylum seeking families, primarily from Afghanistan, within the neighbourhood of Khirkee Village, Delhi. These modules playfully introduce participants to art, with visual games, movement exercises, short animations and a variety of art media such as clay, mask making, collage and basics in drawing and painting. For the young adults, workshops focus on visual explorations of dreams, ambitions, relationships and ideas of 'home' and 'belonging'.
Since 2017 Artreach has run three successful art education modules at the UNHCR BOSCO centre, Khirkee Village. Participants of these workshops are children and young adults of refugee and asylum seeking families, primarily from Afghanistan, within the neighbourhood of Khirkee Village, Delhi. These modules playfully introduce participants to art, with visual games, movement exercises, short animations and a variety of art media such as clay, mask making, collage and basics in drawing and painting. For the young adults, workshops focus on visual explorations of dreams, ambitions, relationships and ideas of 'home' and 'belonging'.
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Teaching Artists:
October 2018 - June 2019: Varnita Mahajan March- June 2018: Anarya September-December 2017: Abhinav Yagnik Programme supported by: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
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GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMME 2019
In partnership with Vidya, Delhi
Over the year, Artreach team has led a pilot programme integrating NCERT course curriculum with our creative learning methods, at Sarvopriya Vihar Municipal Primary School, Delhi. Ita and Anarya have led intensive weekly half day sessions with 30 students of grade three, taking off from their English and Science text books and opening up their imaginations through bringing in engaging illustrated stories, maps, visuals, videos and art making activities that build on each child's ability to think creatively and express originally. This process has also meant working along with teachers, understanding problem areas of the children and tackling those head on, while making the process deeply engaging and fun filled through colour, drawing, painting and visual storytelling.
This programme is in collaboration with Vidya NGO. We are so grateful to Victoria for her support of this programme.
In partnership with Vidya, Delhi
Over the year, Artreach team has led a pilot programme integrating NCERT course curriculum with our creative learning methods, at Sarvopriya Vihar Municipal Primary School, Delhi. Ita and Anarya have led intensive weekly half day sessions with 30 students of grade three, taking off from their English and Science text books and opening up their imaginations through bringing in engaging illustrated stories, maps, visuals, videos and art making activities that build on each child's ability to think creatively and express originally. This process has also meant working along with teachers, understanding problem areas of the children and tackling those head on, while making the process deeply engaging and fun filled through colour, drawing, painting and visual storytelling.
This programme is in collaboration with Vidya NGO. We are so grateful to Victoria for her support of this programme.
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Teaching Artist :
April - December 2019: Ita Mehrotra Programme supported by: Victoria
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BAWANA COMMUNITY CENTER, Delhi -
In partnership with India Vision Foundation
Visual artist Prasoon Poddar has led 20 young adults and children of India Vision Founation's Community Centre at Bawana, through an inspiring series of workshops this year. Over six months, the students and Prasoon have met regularly for full day weekend workshops. They have drawn from life, their surroundings, discovered abstraction, perspective, patterns and monochrome. They have created fun paper mâché sculptures and delved into the world of Madhubani art - which Prasoon is very familiar with, being from Bihar and having practiced this form over years.
Bawana is a relocation site for residents of slums raised across Delhi over the past decades and is a highly crime and drug affected area. India Vision Foundation aspires to contribute towards a crime free society by initiating reformation programs for prison inmates and reintegration opportunities to release inmates for the reduction in recidivism also facilitate welfare programs for their children to save them from becoming victims of their parental incarceration.
In partnership with India Vision Foundation
Visual artist Prasoon Poddar has led 20 young adults and children of India Vision Founation's Community Centre at Bawana, through an inspiring series of workshops this year. Over six months, the students and Prasoon have met regularly for full day weekend workshops. They have drawn from life, their surroundings, discovered abstraction, perspective, patterns and monochrome. They have created fun paper mâché sculptures and delved into the world of Madhubani art - which Prasoon is very familiar with, being from Bihar and having practiced this form over years.
Bawana is a relocation site for residents of slums raised across Delhi over the past decades and is a highly crime and drug affected area. India Vision Foundation aspires to contribute towards a crime free society by initiating reformation programs for prison inmates and reintegration opportunities to release inmates for the reduction in recidivism also facilitate welfare programs for their children to save them from becoming victims of their parental incarceration.
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Teaching Artist :
June - December 2019: Prasoon Poddar Programme supported by: https://indiavisionfoundation.org/
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TARANG CENTRES, Jaunapur, Delhi
Artreach has collaborated with Vaish Associates Public Welfare Trust to facilitate a Teaching Residency for twenty teenage girls at their Tarang Centres near Jaunapur Village, Delhi. With similar objectives to the Teaching Fellowship this residency will expose participants to a variety of mediums, techniques, art histories and guide them through a path of artistic exploration and self-expression. This new partnership comes on the heel of a series of successful Volunteer Residencies with Tarang's young children in comics and puppet making.
Artreach has collaborated with Vaish Associates Public Welfare Trust to facilitate a Teaching Residency for twenty teenage girls at their Tarang Centres near Jaunapur Village, Delhi. With similar objectives to the Teaching Fellowship this residency will expose participants to a variety of mediums, techniques, art histories and guide them through a path of artistic exploration and self-expression. This new partnership comes on the heel of a series of successful Volunteer Residencies with Tarang's young children in comics and puppet making.
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Teaching Artist : September - December 2018: Srishti Rana Menon Programme supported by: www.vaishwelfaretrust.org
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