In June 2008, Drishya, An education movement empowering poor children from slums and urban poor communities conducted a series of month long workshops in collaboration with Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore.

Raghu Rao, Roshan Sahi and myself conducted a drawing and print workshop with 15 Drishya students aged 9-14. The workshop took nature and the environment as the thematic base for exercises to improve observational drawing skills as well as develop a more expressive response to nature. Social comment and narrative illustration were also explored in this context. The drawings created during the morning exercises were then transferred and applied to various print techniques during each afternoon session.

Images produced by the children during the workshop were curated by Raghu Rao and myself and silkscreen printed for a Drishya calendar, 2009. The funds raised from the sale of these calendars will benefit the children directly.

For calendar orders and enquiries please contact me directly at mattlee@srishti.ac.in or 9901834445

For photos from the workshop, see the teaching section of my site

Learn more about Drishya: http://www.dwarakaonline.com/Html/Drishya.htm

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