This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore the creative process by transforming personal dreams into tangible art. Through guided conversations, participants will reflect on the emotional layers of their dreams—whether rooted in fear, hope, or joy—and express these emotions by crafting soft sculptures using fabric. The session encourages a journey from conceptualization to creation, allowing participants to move organically from paper sketches to three-dimensional forms. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a experience with needle and thread, how to organically move from paper (ideation) to sculpture (execution), an intensive process to visualize a dream in a physical form.

Artist Bio-

Snigdha Tiwari (b. 1994) is a visual artist rooted in New Delhi, India. Her prominence in the art world is evident through her participation in group exhibitions such as ‘Lateral Blinds’ IAF parallel (2024), 'Immerse' with Carpe Arte and Young art support (2022), 'The Cadence of Free Fall' showcased by Gallery Onkaf in New Delhi (2019), and her contribution at Art Asia in South Korea (2018). Snigdha's commitment to her craft is further highlighted by her involvement in artist residencies, including the Next Step with 1Shanthi road in Bengaluru (2021), a virtual stint with Space 118 (2021), and her time at the Cona Foundation in Mumbai (2019). Further cementing her growing reputation, she's been shortlisted as one of fifteen artists for the Emerging Artist Award South Asia 2022 by The Arts Family, London.

Please note: The first 15 minutes of the workshop are dedicated to important instructions, after which the session will promptly begin. To ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for everyone, we kindly ask that you arrive on time. As the workshop is designed to be completed within the scheduled time, we regret that late arrivals beyond 30 minutes will not be accommodated. Thank you for your cooperation!

The ancient Indian art of sculpture, rooted in the principles of Shilpa Shastra, was developed using precise criteria of measurement and proportion. This intricate system of iconography, known as Tālamānam, involves measuring using the palm (from the tip of the middle finger to the wrist) and is essential in creating temple icons and images.

This workshop is led by Sudhir, a passionate calligrapher and portrait artist, currently serving as a Museum Assistant at The National Museum, New Delhi. The measurement of idols, often depicted in supernatural forms, varies across cultures, each with its unique sculpting methods honed over thousands of years. Different methods of measuring idols are identified by distinct symbols. In this workshop, Sudhir will guide participants in understanding hand mudras, body postures, Kesh Vinyas (hair arrangement), and the measurement of sculptures, using the 'Taal' from the KNMA Collection.

Image Credits: Parvati, Bronze, Collection: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

What to expect -

The workshop invites participants to explore the intuitive process of making motifs on graph papers. This art practice is inspired by a domestic embroidery tradition, called Dusuti, exercised by women in parts of Uttar Pradesh. The name "Dusuti" comes from the native language, where 'Du' means two and 'Suti' means cotton yarn, referring to the cloth's structure, which is formed by meticulously knitting cotton warp and weft to create small, evenly divided blocks.

In this embroidery practice, women used to perform on each block carefully, using clear demarcation of cross-like embroidery to create beautiful flora and fauna motifs from their everyday lives. The patterns often fall into three categories: geometric, floral, and animal.

Expanding on this local form of practice, participants in this workshop would be encouraged to draw/create their own motif from their observation of everyday surroundings. The graph paper will be used as an imitating surface in this workshop.

Exchange of communication: Hindi language

Who Can Join?

This workshop is open to interested and committed participants aged 18+. Limited seats, so register soon!

Do You Need to Bring Anything?

No! All other art materials and refreshments will be provided by the museum.

Artist Bio -

Surabhi Barnwal is a visual practitioner and art educator/facilitator. Her practice revolves around interdisciplinary approaches, particularly challenging conventional learning methods. With a keen interest in questioning normalised pedagogical practices, she delves into her identity as a woman within patriarchal cultural norms. She investigates spaces and objects as shapers of women's identities as well as examines domestic environments as intersecting point for love, care, and self-erasure in her artistic practice.

What to Expect

The workshop will introduce the participants to hologram as a medium, which has caused a significant change in how we perceive our material world.

Through this workshop, participants will learn about the history of hologram and its predecessors, its making and its applications in the contemporary time. The attendees will make their own miniature hologram apparatus, and then use open source 3-d archives and AI image generators to construct a small narrative through

Do You Need to Bring Anything?

Participants need to bring their smartphones to access content shared by the artist. All other art materials and refreshments will be provided by the museum.

Who Can Join?

This workshop is open to interested and committed participants aged 15+. Limited seats, so register soon!

Facilitator

Rahul Juneja is a multiform artist based between Karnal and New Delhi in India. He completed his BFA (Painting) from College of Art, New Delhi and MFA from Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence. He was an online resident at Foreign Objekt (2024) and the recipient of Khoj Peers Share (Triangle Network) in 2023.

Rahul’s work has been shown at Underground art and design (UAAD) New York, Goethe Institut, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Indian Art Fair, and Anant Art Gallery in New Delhi, H.9 Gallery in Hong Kong and site specific projects with Kala Chaupal and Think culture foundation.

Rahul’s work and writings have been published by Underground Art and Design (UAAD), Alternate South Asian Photography (ASAP), and Foreign Objekt. He has also given lectures and artist talks at Jindal Global University, and College of Art, New Delhi.

Dive into the world of comics with our interactive and collaborative workshop, where creativity and storytelling come to life. Participants will work in pairs to craft their very own comics, learning the essentials of comic narrative development, character design, and interactive storytelling.

Workshop Highlights:

• Collaborative Exercise: Partner up to brainstorm and create engaging comic strips.
• Developing Narratives: Learn the art of building compelling comic narratives that captivate readers.
• Character Design: Discover techniques for designing memorable and dynamic characters.
• Interactive Storytelling: Explore innovative ways to make your stories interactive and immersive.

Interested and committed participants (18 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket. 

Artist Bio:

Anand is a cartoonist and visual artist based in Delhi. He works primarily with comics and self publishing. He currently serialises and self publishes his one person anthology 'Zoo'.

Join us for an engaging and intensive workshop on woodcut printmaking with a unique approach led by printmaker artist Soghra Khurasani. Learn the intricacies of this printing technique and create your own unlimitable art pieces.

Woodcut is among the oldest relief printmaking techniques. This workshop will introduce you to the tools and methods needed to allow you to carve and print from your own relief woodblocks. You will explore carving techniques to obtain a range of texture, depth, and contrast to create your artwork.

This workshop is open to artists, hobbyists, and anyone interested in learning about printmaking techniques. No prior experience is needed.

Interested and committed participants (16 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. This onsite workshop has limited seats.

About the artist –

Soghra works with woodcut and etching to create prints that reflect on themes of claustrophobia and the feminine body. The deep earthy colours predominate her prints, especially through the recurring motif of red blood cells or expansive landscapes. Furthermore she navigates the textures of human bodies and spaces layered with associations of shared belongings through her work.

She received her post-graduate degree in printmaking from MS University, Baroda, in 2010, and undergraduate degree in painting from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, in 2008. Most recently her works were shown at the 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts: From the void came gifts of the cosmos, 2023, and received a special mention from the international jury. Her solo exhibitions include Shadows Under My Sky, TARQ, Mumbai (2021); SKIN, Gitler & ______, New York (2018); Reclaiming Voices, curated by Noman Ammouri, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2014); and One day it will come out, curated by Sumesh Sharma and Hena Kapadia, TARQ, Mumbai (2014). She has participated in group shows including Mycelial Legacies curated by Deeksha Nath at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi (2023); Naya Anjor at Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi (2022); Resurgence, online show, TARQ, Mumbai (2020) and many others. She has participated in the Beisinghoff Printmaking Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Germany (2018) and Khoj Kooshk Residency Exchange Program in Tehran and Delhi (2016) amongst others. Khurasani was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award in 2024. She is a recipient of the 56th National Academy Award at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, in 2015, and the first recipient of the Kala Sakshi Memorial Trust Award, New Delhi, in 2009.

She lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat.

In this workshop, participants will utilise reprography as a creative methodology. The practice of reproducing documents and images through various techniques like photography, scanning, and others will be explored to understand the social and political world through ubiquitous images. The workshop will encourage participants to focus specifically on the unfocused, banal, overlooked, and peripheral sections of the images in order to read them in a larger context. Using reprography as a tool to dissect the images, the workshop will develop a discursive setting to examine the politics of images and the order of visuality. The workshop will follow group discussions, exercises, and a book- making session.

Interested and committed participants (18 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket. Participants are required to carry their cameras or even phones to capture photographs for the workshop.

Priyank Gothwal is an art practitioner. He works across lens-based and drawing mediums. He is interested in the ideas of time and history in his practice. He completed his post-graduation in Fine arts from Shiv Nadar University (India) in 2017 and has initiated a Delhi based art collective called first draft in 2018. His participation in recent exhibitions include to take a turtle for a walk, Mumbai (2019) and many more. He has been a recipient of Inlaks Fine Art award (2018) and part of various residencies and grants including Generator– co-operative art production fund from Gallery Experimenter Kolkata, and Emerging artist award 2020: the extended support platform (FICA).

In this workshop, participants will delve into oneness & transformation concepts through monoprinting techniques. Discover how to craft your unique print using multiple plates and repetitions. The session will include discussions and demonstrations on image composition, paper tearing, and plate preparation, providing thorough guidance on monoprinting techniques and printing skills.

Interested and committed participants (18 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Shivangi Ladha graduated from Royal College of Art London, in 2016 with specialization in MA Printmaking. Prior to this she pursued BFA In Painting from College of Art, Delhi University. She has exhibited worldwide, and her works have entered prestigious collections such as the British Museum, V&A Museum; East London Printmakers, UK; Mead Museum, RISD Museum, Women’s Studio Workshop, USA; Reliance Foundation, Anant Art Gallery, India; SNAP Studio, Canada and more. She has received prestigious Global Talent Award by the Arts Council England and was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award, a major international print prize. She is also receipt of the TAF Emerging South Asia Artist Award, Arts Family, 2021; New Prints Artist Development Award, International Print Centre New York (IPCNY), USA 2018; Anthony Dawson Young Printmaker Award, (Royal Society of Painters – Printmakers RE) 2017 and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, UK to name a few. Her contribution in the art field is recognized by BenUri Museum Research Unit, UK.

The workshop opens with the act of drawing into a diary or paper and turning it into the site of bookmaking. Through the process of the workshop participants will collate and collage clusters of images, words and readings while bringing out meaning and observations to create a narrative.

Interested and committed participants (18 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Mohit Shelare is an artist based in India. His practice expands through the affairs of contamination and conceptualising them with several unconnected events and belief systems. He is interested in waste, technology and new epistemes. He makes drawing, object, sound, text and forms lecture performance settings where the conversation takes place.

Mohit has shown his work at Watermans; London. Ashkal Alwan; Beirut. FICA; Delhi. Kunst (Zeug) Haus; Switzerland. CAMP studio; Mumbai., Kochi Student Biennale; Kerala and has received grants and awards from Prince Claus Seed Award; Netherlands. Inlaks Fine Art Award; India. Regional Art Assembly; Australia. Five Million Incidents; India. Generator Experimenter; Kolkata and IFA; Bengaluru. Currently, he serves as visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Kurukshetra.

The workshop facilitated by Tanjima Kar Sekh invites participants to explore the rich history of Islamic illumination through an immersive journey. Beginning with an introduction to the art's origins and a showcase of remarkable manuscripts, the workshop seamlessly integrates a live demonstration of crafting colours from powdered natural pigments sourced from Sanganer, Rajasthan. These pigments are mixed with a natural binder to prepare colours ready to be used. During the demonstration, the diverse kinds of pigments and their classifications and their historical applications in Indian miniatures would be discussed. The workshop concludes with the application of these personally crafted pigments to bring an Islamic illumination design to life on traditional wasli paper, also sourced from Sanganer.

Interested and committed participants (18 years and above) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Sake

Tanjima Kar Sekh is a Delhi based artist who is highly inspired from traditional techniques and miniature paintings. She uses natural pigments in her artworks extensively and prepares the colours laboriously at her home studio. She is also a scholar of Mughal and Islamic Art History, currently pursuing her PhD. She holds a master’s degree in History of Art and have taught as a guest professor at College of Art, New Delhi. She uses traditional techniques, creating contemporary works that narrates stories of history and culture.