Artreach Teaching Fellowship 

 

Artreach has enabled a first time opportunity for young people in Shelter Homes. Through our Teaching Fellowship Programme an artist will teach an intensive foundation program to a group of older children (aged 14 to 18)  from an NGO who have an interest in art.  The artist offers the children a comprehensive experience of art education encompassing diverse mediums, techniques, styles and histories. The children visit museums and higher learning centres and the program culminates in an exhibition, which is accompanied with a catalogue. 

Beyond the teaching of technical skills and insight into art history and aesthetics, the artist encourages the children to use art as a tool for the critical exploration of the world, and seeks to cultivate their imaginative, creative and reflective skills, and encourage each of them to find an individual expressive voice.

Second Teaching Fellowship 2016-17

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Artreach India launched its second Teaching Fellowship Programme in partnership with Udayan Care in August 2016.

Artist Vandana Kothari (pictured) is our Teaching Fellow. She is advised by a panel comprising: Atul Bhalla, Susanta Mandal, Kristine Michael, Anni K. Sharan, Akansha Rastogi and Kiran Modi. 
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​The Fellowship is supported by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. 

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First Teaching Fellowship 2015-16
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From September 2015 to April 2016, Artreach India's first Teaching Fellowship was in partnership with
Aman Biradari - Rainbow Homes. The Teaching Fellow was Anni K. Sharan (photographed). 
Features of this Programme were:
  • 12 Workshops: Twenty boys and girls from three shelter homes met artist Anni Kumari twice a month for intensive workshops.
  • 3 Field Trips: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, the Visual Arts Department of the Shiv Nadar University and the IB Art Display at the British School.
  • 5 Day Intensive: Mural painting with artist Susanta Mandal at the Ummeed Ghar.
  • Open Day on 23rd May, 2016 with an accompanying film and catalogue.

The programme was guided by an Advisory Panel comprising artists, curators and educators:
Atul Bhalla, Gauri Gill, Kristine Michael, Susanta Mandal, Bhooma Padmanabhan, Dr. Bindu Prasad and Mansi Chaturvedi-Sharma




​Meet the young artists from our first Teaching Fellowship
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Testimonials

The benefits of the Teaching Fellowship would be hard to minimise in a few words, because it seemed to me that reaching within themselves and fetching those ideas and that talent from inside gave them [...the participants] an anchor that could very well persist for the better part of their lives. It was the first time that such attention and programmatic investment was focused on them; maybe more children could have made more drawings if the course was generalised, but that would've defeated the point. I don't think it matters much how many of these children will choose art as a career, though it'd be great if they did. To me, what mattered most via this idea was that creative attention be 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! Also, most children from mainstream family backgrounds are used to appreciation and discovering/showcasing all that is best about them. It isn't as straightforward with our kids in Aman Biradari. I think this programme gave them that chance - appreciation, attention, discovery and showcasing, all in one.

Mansi Chaturvedi-Sharma
TState Programme Coordinator, Dil Se Homes, Aman Biradari
My understanding is that art brings forth a persons bhavna (emotions/ sentiment).  Also that which we cannot share with anyone, we can express through art.

Sadyyak, 14
 
I enjoyed the workshops. It [the programme] taught me to draw and paint and also how to bring my own creativity into my work.

​Shabana, 16