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Kalavishkar
is a charity institution. Its objectives are to Promote and
co-ordinate art awareness programs, to assist upcoming and
eshtablished Indian artists and explore the ways to get them
platform. It is also a part of our aim to bring together Indian
artists, artgalleries and art critics under one webroof and
create Indian web art directory & help to organise art
field to some extent. In pursuance of the above objectives,
Website Kalavishkar.com came in to existence. Art Gallaries
in India, Art critics/Historians /Curators, Art Colleges/Institutions
in India are compiled here at kalavishkar.com for artists
and art fraternity in general. Kalavishkar welcomes all types
of artists here on Kalavishkar's website though we tend to
lean towards the fine arts end of the spectrum. We are always
open to suggestions regarding new type of art and artists
to be housed here on our site. Kalavishkar supports organizations
and art related events if it falls in line with our objectives.
Kalavishkar had conducted Workshop of Drawing and Painting
for students who do not get formal art education in muncipal
Schools:
In keeping with our objectives,
Kalavishkar conducts drawing and painting workshop for school
children who are deprived of art education in their formative
years. One such workshop was organized on 1 & 2 may 2004
at Manekji Gazdhar School, Khar (W), Mumbai. Artist and Art
teachers from various colleges and school were invited to
guide the students in the workshop.Prof. Rajendra Patil (PARA)
of J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, Shantkumar Hattarki, Avinash
Mokashi, Shankar Sonavane, Meena Joshi were the artist who
guided the workshop.
(Renowned artist Vilas Shinde (Prof.Rajendra
Patil(PARA) of
Distributing Prizes to selected Sir
J.J. School of Art and Artist
paintings done in the workshop
Shantkumar Hattarki guiding the
by students) workshop)
Kalavishkar is planning
to conduct Art Apprediation workshops in various colleges:
It is also on anvil to conduct the art appreciation workshops
in various arts, science, commerce, engineering and medical
colleges. The main objective of this appreciation workshop
will be to demystify the art world and help in decoding the
artworks in lucid language.
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(Renowned Artist Prafulla
Dahanukar, Shri Rajesh Tope,
Minister of State, wellknow
Art Historian & Curator
Dr.Saryu Doshi Inaugurating
kalavishkar.com)
Kalavishkar,
working in the field of visual art since 2002
had organized “All India Artists Camp”
from 14th to 16th April 2006 at National Park,
Borivali, Mumbai. Twenty seven artists from all
over India participated in the camp. The Camp
was organized to raise the funds for charitable
activities initiated by Kalavishar. Kalavishkar
had created non-commercial web-art directory kalavishkar.com
for the artists community and it needs to be developed
further. Kalavishkar had also conducted painting
workshops in the schools, where art teachers are
not posted for several years and intend to carry
more such workshops for school children who are
deprived of art education in their formative years.
It is proposed to conduct art appreciation workshops
in various engineering, medical, science and commerce
colleges in all over Mharashtra and other parts
of India.
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Participant Artists in the
Camp Jyotee
Kolte with artists Artists
visited Kanheri caves
Kalavishkar has also instituted “Artists Aid Fund.”.
This Aid Fund will be utilized for supporting the unsupported
families of departed artists and medical expenses for the
artists who could not afford costly medical treatment will
even be paid from the corpus of Artists Aid fund.. Artists
Aid fund will be augmented from time to time. In the past
Kalavishkar had arranged programs in Y.B. Chavan Centre, where
fusion show of poetry, music with drama were performed. In
future, Kalavishkar intend to organise more such fusion shows
including visual art.
Ashutosh Apte, Amitesh Shrivastava, Anil Abhange, Chayan Roy,
Madhukar Munde, Gautam Mukherjee, Madhukar Vanjari, John Douglas,
Prakash Waghmare, Jyoti Hattarki, Ravindra Salvi, Raghu Nevre,
R.B. Holle, Sanjay Sawant, Rajashree Karkera-Apte, Rajendra
Kapse, Santosh More, Rajendra Patil (PARA), Sejal Kshirsagar,
Satish Wavre, Santosh Kshirsagar, Shantkumar Hattarki, Sujata
Achrekar, Surendre Jagtap, Vijay Achrekar and Ameya Jagtap
participated in the artists camp and the atists who could
not make it to the camp had donated artworks to the kalavishkar
which are displayed in the charity art shop.
The Camp was inaugurated by Babanrao Pachpute,
Forest Minister, Maharashtra State and Arunbhai Gujrathi,
President(Maharashtra), Nationalist Congress Party. Poetry
recitation by Hemant Divate, Saumitra, Nalesh Patil, Salil
Wagh, Mangesh Kale, Shridhar Tilve, Minakshi Patil, Varjesh
Solanki and other poets followed the inauguration function
at 6.30 pm on 14th April 2006 at Auditorium, Nature information
Center, National Park, Mumbai.
In this three days camp, artists worked in
the open air, in the lush green lawns, under the trees and
enjoyed visit to Ist century B.C. Kahneri Caves, Tiger safari
and Boating. This camp was supported by Camlin
Ltd and Hindustan Pencils Ltd
(Ms.Sangita Jindal, Chairperson, JSW
Foundation inaugurating the Charity Art
Show organised by Kalavishkar and
Artists' Centre, Mumbai. Extreme Left is
Mrs. Urmila Kanoria, of Kanoria Art
Centre, Ahmedabad)
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