VISION STATEMENT
VISION
To create a forum of experienced voices for art education, art appreciation and pedagogy in India.We wish to address critical issues concerning teaching methodology, content and contemporary art practice.
MISSION
- To review the fine art syllabi and recommend suggestions by an expert committee. These changes need not be prescriptive but make suggestions.
- To create an all Indian network of art colleges to facilitate interaction, intervention and dissemination of knowledge.
- To share regional art historical contexts and visual languages.
- To retain local context of teaching and specialization and raise questions about traditional art education and its dissemination.
- To be perceptive to changes in the art scene, to be aware of new modes of knowledge production and alternative ways of art practice that may not be part of the syllabi.
- To encourage and support experimentation and process rather than product. Collaboration, public art, new media, material and the idea of “social sculpture” - an outreach program that connects the arts with the communities.
- To explore conversations with living traditions of art and look at local craft languages in the contemporary context .
- To constantly upgrade teacher skills, knowledge and pedagogy. And support them with information and archival materials to upgrade their visual references from local, national and international examples of art history.
- To formulate issue based content that will address social, political and educational issues with examples from the contemporary art world and provide a critical framework for its practice.
- To organize art appreciation sessions and lectures on visual art by eminent personalities from India at schools and colleges.
- To be a catalyst for change from within to accommodate the new cutting edge art practices and innovations.
- To develop skills and make art history relevant to art practice and make students aware of their environment, material and social and cultural context.
- To create opportunities to have senior artists in residence in art institutions.
- To create opportunities to explore and experiment with new media and material through art camps and workshops.
- To encourage and experiment with new material, concepts and ideas. To nurture creativity and experimentation in the arts and share.
OUTCOME
- To help create a democratic art education pedagogy that is inclusive of contemporary art practice.
- To nurture dialog, debate and to address issues of art students and help upgrade the art syllabi.
- To work with art teachers and assist them with creating an inclusive and critical evaluation of art education.
- To create a network of individuals and institutions that can support each other in the process of upgrading content and teaching methodology.
