Monoprint Workshop

Monoprinting is a printing process aided by ‘mark making,’ where surfaces are given impressions with the help of objects. Participants can learn this technique using materials available at home.

The workshop will be facilitated by Print Club Delhi and Rajshree Gupta (Art Educator, KNMA) on zoom.

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Workshop: Hear to be Here

This workshop unites the fields of music and art into an inseparable entity. Taking a cue from the music being played, this workshop will assist the participant to observe, resonant and visually respond to what they hear in the form of a painting.

Participants will require paint/crayons, paper and headphones/earphones to listen to the music being played.

The workshop will be facilitated by Siddharth Maskeri, Founder of Soulify on zoom.

Registration required (up to 20 seats)

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Science and Art Workshop with Udayan Care students

Theatre artists, researchers, and educators, Anuradha Shokhi and Ashok Shokhi, were invited by KNMA to conceive and conduct a workshop for the students of Udayan Care. After the informative tour of the museum and the exhibitions, the facilitators focused on artist Jeram Patel’s ‘Hospital Series’, inviting students to keenly look at the way diseased human body is depicted in his art. Taking forward the thematic and concern of the ongoing exhibition, the workshop elaborated on understanding and knowing the science of human body. Divided into teams, students imagined, drew and reconstructed the internal body parts.

Workshop with BlueJackal and artist Lokesh Khodke

Artist Lokesh Khodke concluded a 4-day Graphic Novel workshop at KNMA, which was organized around the exhibition 'Boxes in the Courtyard', with ArtReach India. On the first day, the kids from the NGO Salam Balak Trust read through different illustrated books brought by Khodke as examples, interacted with the ongoing exhibition and came up with creating their own poems, stories, performances and illustrations on second and the third day. This exercise encouraged kids to imagine sounds inside the museum and allow them to share and develop stories about these sounds. The outcome on the fourth day is each student creating a four-leafed book of illustrations and collages.

PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP - Inder Salim

Artist Inder Salim was invited to conduct the first performance art workshop at KNMA, Saket. The workshop was an experiment with live art, presented in the context of artworks displayed in the museum. Participants included students from Delhi College of Art, Delhi University, Kurukshetra University, advertising professionals and emerging artists.

The whole process of the workshop allowed artists / college students to improvise and inhabit the space in their own ways. Small yet vital changes occurred in the museum space in real time during the process of this workshop. Performances by the participants were unpredictable, often expressing rebellious acts and sudden disruptions to the museum-structure itself. All these acts can be read like a conquering of the space, producing moments of reflection, rupture and reckoning.

CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND MOVEMENT - Bharat Sharma And Tripura Kashyap (Bhoomika Dance Centre)

This experimental workshop produced a dialogue between two art forms: visual arts and contemporary dance, allowing exploration of the museum space differently. Twenty-five participants with training in different dance forms participated in the three day-long sessions.

Ground Rules - Sonia Khurana

Ground Rules was a day-long ‘repeat’ of a single small act. This performance event had participants from both arts and non-arts backgrounds.  Khurana invited people who can be comfortable with the experience of lying down in the public spaces. Bodies lying down in the context of a museum space allow a provocative counterpoint to the art objects in the museum, which in itself is a different kind of public space. The workshop also extended outdoors, exploring other public spaces, producing interlocking traces of images left on the ground.

It was the third workshop in the series that KNMA has been organizing with a strong pedagogic commitment to contemporary artistic practices.

ART WEEK AT KNMA - Jai Zharotia

Aspiring to make the museum an active and interactive space, KNMA constantly attempts to initiate newer programs. With the idea of involving children in their formative years, KNMA organized art workshops for kids in the age group of 6 to 12 years. The ART WEEK included four workshops that provided children with a fun learning environment where they learned to use material in different ways and present their ideas through their art pieces.

Session I: ART AS EXPLORATION
29th May 2012

Responding to a particular section of artworks on display in the Museum, children used their observations as inspiration to construct collages with a variety of materials. Jai Zharotia, the veteran artist demonstrated his ideas and techniques for collage making. The artist along with the KNMA team guided the children in creating their works.

Session II: ART AS COLLABORATION
30th May 2012

The workshop required the children to work in groups using the collage making skills that they had learnt on the first day. Each group was given a canvas with drawings made by artist Jai Zharotia to work on. The idea was to help them use the skills learned and to work in a group to collaborate ideas & sensibilities towards making a single work. The kids learned about constructing images and forms with bits and pieces through play and sharing.

Session III: ART AS NARRATION
31st May 2012

Children have a different way of looking at things and reading meanings into it.  The workshop aimed at encouraging children to spin stories around the works displayed, using art to break formal boundaries and have fun with inventing new ways to communicate. The children were allowed to choose from a number of topics given to them or on around the displayed art works. It was an interesting experience as children came up with some original stories on art works around them. The workshop ended with children narrating their stories to the rest of the group.

Session IV: ART AS TRANSFORMATION
1st June 2012

The workshop aimed at reinterpreting the ordinary and everyday into something quirky and new. Children learned about creativity, the magical power of human touch and how an ordinary object that they own, like or have found can be transformed into an art object. The result was a riot of colors and some fun objects that the kids created.

THE PLAY’S THE THING Writing around Space and Objects in Theatre - Neel Chaudhuri

This intensive playwriting workshop focused on writing dramatic performance texts based on selected artworks displayed inside the museum. Conducted by acclaimed theatre practitioner Neel Chaudhuri, the workshop began with writing exercises: experimenting with writing for a space, in a space and with space on the first day. On Day Two, participants after a selection of artworks developed initial concept ideas for writing creative fictions around artworks. It concluded with refinement, more discussion and sharing of performance scripts during the last session. The workshop allowed more narratives than the art-historical readings of artworks to emerge and open up imaginative extensions.

Lets Play With Herve Tullet - Herve Tulle

The event, organized in collaboration with the German Book office & Embassy of France in India, was an exhilarating experience for the two hundred plus children from diverse schools in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Herve emphasized the potential of a non-verbal expression, by making children play with gestures, sounds and finally through creative mark making, liberating their creative urges as they drew out circles, zigzags, scribbles and sprinkled paint from the brush on long scrolls of white paper. The process was indeed more important than the product.