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Forest and Life
We conduct Let's Start Art sessions to create a holistic and inclusive approach towards education through art-integrated learning in Government Primary Schools. Art-integrated learning follows the experiential education approach, which emphasizes 'learning by doing.'The second set of Let's Start Art sessions were conducted on the theme "Jungle aur Jeevan", derived from a chapter in the Environmental Studies syllabus of children from Government Primary Schools of Varanasi. Approximately 700 students from 20 schools attended these art sessions. -
What I love about My School
Children are innately curious beings. They tend to ask a lot of questions! But as adults, we lose sight of this innate curiosity as we get swamped with our work and responsibilities. -
Water is Life: Mural at Government Primary School, Sonarpura
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Day of a Sincere Student: A Mural at a Government Primary School
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Happy New Year 2020
Some of us relate vacations with staying at home and resting whereas others travel to different places to explore. In the first set of Let's Start Art sessions, we asked the students to recall their last holiday trips and how they travelled there. The theme was intended to make the students aware of means of transportation.In the second set of Let's Start Art sessions, the students made New Year greeting cards for their loved ones. Some of them made cards for their teachers and art instructors too. -
The Dussehra Fair
Festivals and holidays approached as soon as the month of October started. We conducted Let's Start Art workshops after Dussehra and asked the students to draw their experience of the holidays. We also asked then to read a chapter named "The Fair" from their English book and try to relate it with the Fair they visited. -
Let's Play and Learn the Story of Garbage
Most of the things that we vividly remember from our school education either had a picture related to the text in the book, or the words painted a pretty picture in our minds. There are countless studies that have confirmed the power of visual imagery in learning. For instance, one study asked students to remember many groups of three words each, such as dog, bike, and street. Students who tried to remember the words by repeating them over and over again did poorly on recall. In comparison, students who made the effort to make visual associations with the three words, such as imagining a dog riding a bike down the street, had significantly better recall.
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LET'S START ART: JULY 2019
Wouldn't you love to watch your favorite movie with a nice cup of tea? This is what our theme was for the Let's Start Art sessions this month- Chai (tea) and Favourite movie. Schools reopened after long summer vacation, so the students were more excited than usual for the art class and Chai seemed to be a popular thing among children.
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LET'S START ART: MAY 2019
In the Let's Start Art sessions, students often make paintings that can easily help us figure out their relationship with their parents/siblings, the surroundings they are living in, the things they love or hate and many such factors. In this session, we asked the students to make a paper mask of their favorite person, thing or fictional character. -
Let's Start Art: January 2019
The 15th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas Convention was held on 21-23 January 2019 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Before the convention, all the primary schools of Varanasi were assigned with different countries and the students were supposed to learn about the country and present a rally during the commencement of the event. We conducted the Let's Start Art sessions around the same theme.
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LET START ART: DECEMBER 2018
Let's Start Art sessions this month were conducted under the theme of The Winter Season and Family Pictures. The first set of workshops started in the first week of the month and we asked the students to draw their family photo.
A number of 162 students from 10 schools attended these workshops.
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FROM THE WALLS OF SARAI MOHANA
Sarai Mohana is a village in Varanasi. It’s not very far from the main city, yet the stark contrast between the urban and the rural is quite evident. Rajkumar, a professional artist from Sarai Mohana is trying to paint his village on the world map. The small bridge that connects Sarai Mohana to the city of Varanasi is very symbolic of Rajkumar’s efforts. The walls of Sarai Mohana are covered by some world-class murals. And though Rajkumar is the one who comes up with the concept, the surprising element is that the murals are made by the locals.
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