We are delighted to announce that artist Avinash Karn has received the Artreach Community Arts Grant for his project Udhbhav II:
Avinash inititated 'Udhbhav', through an Artreach Community Grant in 2015-16, with the aim to bring Madhubani painting to tribal women of Chandidih Village, Jharkhand. Together they painted about their lives and dreams on walls and beautiful scrolls - these were exhibited across venues. This week, Avinash leads 3 participants of Udhbhav I through a 10 days long residency at Varanasi. Here, the artists will get to explore a new culture, university, art institutions and also experiment further in their creative trajectories within a studio space!
We wish the participants - Maini Devi, Sunita Devi and Radhesh Oraon and Avinash all the very best for their time together at Varanasi.
For more on Udhbhav I: www.thebetterindia.com/83434/udbhav-madhubani-jharkhand-community-art-project/
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Avinash Karn is an artist from Ranti village, Madhubani, Bihar. He chose to take up Madhubani's eloquent art form to greater heights, and studied at Benares Hindu University. Based in Varanasi currently, the artist has received the Piramal Art Foundation arts residency (2016), was awarded with a Grant for a community art project by Artreach India (2016); received a Scholarship in the field of Madhubani Painting, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, New Delhi (2014-16) among others. He has worked on several large scale mural paintings and his works have been exhibited and collected worldwide.
(ARTREACH INDIA, (Org., New Delhi)
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Avinash inititated 'Udhbhav', through an Artreach Community Grant in 2015-16, with the aim to bring Madhubani painting to tribal women of Chandidih Village, Jharkhand. Together they painted about their lives and dreams on walls and beautiful scrolls - these were exhibited across venues. This week, Avinash leads 3 participants of Udhbhav I through a 10 days long residency at Varanasi. Here, the artists will get to explore a new culture, university, art institutions and also experiment further in their creative trajectories within a studio space!
We wish the participants - Maini Devi, Sunita Devi and Radhesh Oraon and Avinash all the very best for their time together at Varanasi.
For more on Udhbhav I: www.thebetterindia.com/83434/udbhav-madhubani-jharkhand-community-art-project/
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| Avinash receiving Three artists of Udbhav-2 at Varanasi station. (File photo: 2018) |
Avinash Karn is an artist from Ranti village, Madhubani, Bihar. He chose to take up Madhubani's eloquent art form to greater heights, and studied at Benares Hindu University. Based in Varanasi currently, the artist has received the Piramal Art Foundation arts residency (2016), was awarded with a Grant for a community art project by Artreach India (2016); received a Scholarship in the field of Madhubani Painting, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, New Delhi (2014-16) among others. He has worked on several large scale mural paintings and his works have been exhibited and collected worldwide.
(ARTREACH INDIA, (Org., New Delhi)
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