Having conducted various art workshops in 2010 The Children’s Fine Art Gallery (CFAG) is now set to do something funky, fun yet create some experiential art. This Summer of 2011, CFAG brings you five fascinating packages of resourceful ideas to execute:
Folk Art: Pitching into the rich and deep-rooted Indian Visual Culture, this programme introduces the participant to the legendry Folk Art of the Adilabad region of Andhra Pradesh. Sharing its borders with Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Orissa, this region is a rich cultural belt of art which has evolved a unique visual language of its own.
Project: The participant will be introduced visually and guided in a simplified manner to adopt this style and create their individual expressions.
Duration: One week
Date: May 1 to 7, 2011
Timing: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: Rs. 1500/-
Clay Modeling: Like the invention of the wheel, clay modeling has a long legacy of utilising the element of earth for functional purposes. Beginning with the coil method to the potter’s wheel the entire aspect of clay modeling has adopted an artistic aura.
Project: The participant will be introduces to the two basic methods of simple clay modeling to the more challenging yet exciting rotations of cutting clay from the potter’s wheel.
Duration: One week
Date: May 8 to 14, 2011
Timing: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: Rs. 1500/-
Picture Book Creation: Pictures provide tangibility to words. Therefore, the marriage of words and picture is the basis of so much art and information.
Project: The participant will be given short stories to develop a picture book. Giving a miss to technical correctness, the emphasis in this project will be more on original thinking and evolving a style of art.
Duration: One week
Date: May 15 to 22, 2011
Timing: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: Rs. 1500/-
Animal Kingdom in Papier-mâché: Learning the Papier-mâché technique to create sculptures is yet another age old method. Applying this sure technique to create animals could be a very satisfying experience.
Project: Introducing or maybe reintroducing the participant to the method of Papier-mâché, the project is visualised as a collaborative effort where individually created animals will be assembled to create a fantasy kingdom of animals (keep Avtar in mind).
Duration: One week
Date: May 23 to 29, 2011
Timing: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: Rs. 1500/-
Assemblage: Installations and assemblages in art is a contemporary form of art that has unsettled many lay viewers of art. Therefore, to understand this prevailing art form of our times it is important to utilise opportunities created for such art.
Project: The participant will be introduced to this art form by slide shows of previous work done in this area followed by guiding them to create their own assemblage for a better understanding of this art form. This project will be an eco exercise which can be recreated in different spaces of schools, corporate houses, institutions and organizations or a mere collaboration of a group of people.
Duration: Three days
Date: 30th May to June 1, 2011
Timing: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Fee: Rs.1,000/-
For Further information contact
Project Manager
Daira Centre for Arts and Culture
100A, Banjara Petals
Road No. 5, Banjara Hills
Hyderabad – 500 034
Phone: 040-666 18628, 9666889189, 9849987187
Email: cfagindia@gmail.com,
website: dairagallery.com