ARTREACH-KNMA TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS
December 2021 - April 2022
AASTHA MISHRA
with Rainbow Homes
JYOTHIDAS KV
with Karm Marg
Welcome to the exhibition of artworks by children and young people from
Karm Marg and Rainbow Homes!
These paintings, woodcut prints, mixed media paintings, mono prints, collagraph prints, paper puppets animations and paper sculptures were all made over workshops led by Teaching Fellows online and on-ground, between December 2021 and April 2022.
It was amazing to see participants painting with found objects, making zines, learning printing techniques of monoprint and collagraph, delving into visual storytelling and animation through these engaging workshop series. Aastha Mishra and Jyothidas KV created modules with interactive games, fun icebreakers and experimental techniques, bringing participants joy and confidence!
We hope you enjoy this exhibition and do leave us your feedback for the young creators -
Nargis, Alka, Pooja, Khushi, Raju, Vishal, Rihana, Simran, Geeta, Shama, Umresh, Khushi from Karm Marg
Nazrul, Irshad, Kundan, Sukar, Nargis, Asma, Jimadi, Ilima, Muskaan, Chandni, Tarannum, Shabeena, Anjali, Saraswati, Shaheen and Saddyak from Rainbow Homes
AASTHA MISHRA with RAINBOW HOMES
Students absolutely love to narrate their creations, they associate wonderful stories which they create while image-making. In the end when they present their artwork and explain it to us it fills them with joy.
Art doesn’t have to be a perfect picture, it is what we mold gradually with our thought, emotions, and imagination. This fellowship helps children in collecting these pieces and providing them routes to their art journey.
Aastha conducted ten workshops in a hybrid format with both on-ground and online workshops and with participants of three different centers of Rainbow Homes.
Her modules focused on exploration of different materials and learning diverse skills and techniques to empower participants with new tools for artmaking. She conducted workshops around building skills of drawing, painting, portraiture, paper puppets, charcoal drawing, collagraph and stencil printmaking.
One of the icebreaker activities that Aastha used to bring in focus and energy into the group was to draw using only shapes. For instance - to draw a building using only triangles or to draw an animal using only circles or to draw a human being using only squares and so on. The process forced the participants to draw with one rule but also helped them leave behind the inhibition to draw with lines.
JYOTHIDAS KV with KARM MARG
We played a warming up game where a sheet of paper was circulated among the children, each responding to the marks made by the person before them, with a mark, a line, a smudge, or a scribble. Then we moved to making layers of outlines of one’s own palms and responding to the layers by carefully choosing to highlight some forms made by crossing lines of the outlines.
By going step by step forward, a sense of anticipation and response made the session more of a dialogue rather than a one-way prompting of directions.
- Jyothidas KV
Jyothidas conducted workshops with a focus on drawing - as a way of engaging with the world around, exploring movement, working with found materials and various formats of printmaking.
Participants created prints with woodcut printmaking, pencil drawings, collage using found materials, collective scroll painting and more. Children from Karm Marg were also able to visit KNMA for an exhibition walk through and workshop as part of their programme.
One of the creative exercises that Jyothidas used in his workshops was to guide them to draw their own hands and to record the different movements of their hands. Using observation and slow processes of drawing to build confidence and make them learn how to draw human body correctly.
Teaching Fellows 2021-22 (Third Phase)
Aastha is a Delhi-NCR based visual artist and freelance art educator. She has a BFA and a MFA degree in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi. Her practice documents events from her life and surroundings through the use of mark-making.
Jyothidas is a visual artist and researcher based in New Delhi. He is a trained printmaker whose art practice varies from drawing-based installations, photographs, text, prints to performances and gatherings. He is a founding member of Mo’Halla, an art+culture+politics pop-up platform with a special focus on South Asia, based in Berlin and New Delhi.