A walk through the boulevard of Art

Seeing the unseen, hearing the silence, reading between the lines and thinking out of the box are the traits of those who make a difference. Creativity, Imagination and aesthetic sense are essential ingredients to excel in every career stream. GrainEd presents this course, consisting of eight streams, being delivered by eight seasoned artists. This is an attempt to introduce few of these different streams of Art practices to students. Drawing and painting skills are not mandatory to attend but the intent to understand Art and engage in hands on work are mandatory. The eight streams of the course and the mentors are described below:   Nitin Kulkarni - Art, Science and Philosophy What is the source of any human creation? Is artistic creation different? Our senses and perception – Are we aware? Art as action for knowing   Omkar Kadu –Conserving Art: Process and Methods   Materials involved in making of Art objects, how they behave with influence of natural factors like temperature, relative humidity and light, and microorganisms, and challenges to preserve our heritage objects. Session I : Material Technology - Participants to choose one old and favorite object from their house. It can be anything. Ex. Pen, Watch, Lantern, Book, Sculpture, Painting, Etc. Session II - How they behave with influence of natural factors like temperature, relative humidity and light, and microorganisms, - Other deterioration factors - Challenges to preserve our heritage objects. - One case study will be shown to the participants.                            Prajakta Palav – Exploring Colour, shape/form and texture 1) Discuss materials having multiple uses at homes. Discuss about habits or actions which are repetitive, with bit of difference every time they do. Collect 5 black coloured objects. Look at them closely. 2) Express any of them. Explore it through any medium... Display of own cerulean blue coloured works.                     Nikhil Purohit – Exhibiting Art: Methods, People and Viewership Session 1 - How to see an art exhibition? An introduction to exhibition idea and formats Activity - No Right, No Wrong – online adaptation from Art Mediation Toolkit. Objectives – To orient students the efforts and vision of displaying art. To convey how interpretation of art is subjective and contextual.  Session 2 - What is Art world like? - An introduction to different members of visual arts field. Activity - Collin Maillard - online adaptation from Art Mediation Toolkit. Objectives – To orient about how people with different skillset come together to form the art-world. To enhance audio/description-based visualisation.                       Shivani shah - Body and Space ‘The body is capable of knowing things that the mind is ignorant of’ (Lecoq, 1997). The body is inherent to space and vice versa. In this workshop, we will reflect upon the body as a site of knowledge to see, read, perform and understand space. As we move through a series of movement exercises the edges between the body and space begin to blur and we develop an alternative reading, seeing and being of the domestic spaces within which we perform our everyday actions. Thus, the aim of this workshop is to Introduce students to reading the spaces through their body. To become conscious of everyday movements which certain domestic objects impose upon our bodies. To understand the links between body movement and the spaces which they inhabit. To understand how body constructs the space around it and vice versa.  To develop a rhythmic, nuanced and non-material reading of their spaces. To document, express and embody the spaces. To use the body as a research tool. A tool for knowing that object and transforming.                        Shakuntala Kulkarni – Moving spaces   Participating children will be seeing a short animation film with hand painted cutouts before the session, just to get an idea on how hand-made objects can be used, how one can create movement through holding objects, moving them with hand or with sticks. How paintings and drawings can be included. How a story line can be created. And narrated through visuals, sound and voice. Ways of story telling stories and subjects Writing/Sketching story line Materials that can be used – Papers, colours, pastels, cardboards, scissors, fevicol, pencil, marker pens and any other material participants can think of.   Madhav Imartey – Linear expression   Focus on line, one of the most important elements in visual Art as it’s most easy and immediate way of expression. Various types of lines, their tools and how it's been used for expression. Relationship between line and form. Showcasing some drawings of mundane objects.   Mahendra Damle – Course over view and sharing about art  Exploration of learning from different sessions through dialogue. Discoveries about art activities and our idea about what we call as art.