Learn Art and Craft Techniques through KNMA Artists Workshops

1. Learn Art and Craft Techniques through KNMA Artists Workshops Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) seeks to generate spaces where children and their families can explore art and craft techniques together through hands-on activities, gallery trails, and storytelling sessions. The Museum aspires to become a locus for such activities where parents can bring their children on weekends or after school for an educational yet fun-filled excursion through an interesting art and craft workshop. For example, recently KNMA conducted artist's workshops with Udayan Care students. Theatre artists, researchers, and educators, Anuradha Shokhi and Ashok Shokhi were invited by KNMA to conceive and conduct a workshop for the students of Udayan Care. After the informative tour of the museum and the exhibitions, the facilitators focused on artist Jeram Patel’s ‘Hospital Series’, inviting students to keenly look at the way the diseased human body is depicted in his art. Taking forward the thematic and concern of the ongoing exhibition, the artist's workshops elaborated on understanding and knowing the science of the human body. Divided into teams, students imagined, drew and reconstructed the internal body parts. These art and craft workshops include interactive programs for kids of all ages to participate. Children are encouraged through the sessions to get an initiation into the world of art through stimulating conversations, performances, art- making, and demonstrations. Kids encounter and get introduced to the world through stories on art history and by seeing varied artworks ranging from historical to modern and contemporary art. Programs include various ways of looking at the artwork, through a sensorial inquiry where they are asked to describe the work of art and the effect that the works create. Another way of contemplating is through the imagination by making up characters, themes, and stories. Children engage in dialogues and sharing their views among their peers while learning new art and craft techniques. For the original version on Weebly.com visit at: https://knmadelhi.weebly.com/blog/learn-art-and-craft-techniques- through-knma-artists-workshops