Coming Up

The Akanksha Art Workshops

We ran the first weeklong workshop in collaboration with the Prince of Wales Museum in the summer of 2006, helping 30 children discover more about themselves through art.

The Idea is simple. Older Akanksha Art children teaching art to other children of the city. Art, we believe, sees no difference between the privileged and the less privileged and is something every child should be able to enjoy and grow from. We found that it was so much easier to pass on difficult messages to children through children, reinforcing our belief that we may have hit upon a very novel idea.
The Workshops are a medium through which we hope to empower our alumni, spread awareness about Akanksha and fill a gap within the city for truly creative outlets for children.

We plan to run week long batches of 20 - 25 children during vacations.
The workshop modules range from 'Me' (activities that will help a child discover himself) to 'My City' (around the environment and all that we as individuals can do) to 'Indian Art' (which centres around folk art like Ghond, Tanjore, Madhubani, etc) to 'Great Artists' (which cover Van Gogh, Dali, Picasso, Turner, Monet)…each activity designed keeping the child as the centre and art as the medium to explain a value.

We have also conducted 2 hour long specialised workshops for The Aditya Birla Group and Yes Bank.