Arts Education: Responding to Changing Landscapes: A Southern Indian Conference | February 21-23, 2025 | State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) presents
Arts Education: Responding to Changing Landscapes
A Southern Indian Conference
An initiative under the Arts Education (Kali Kalisu) programme at IFA
February 21-23, 2025 at State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad
Exploring and Advocating for Arts Education in Southern India through
Panel Discussions | Workshops | Performances | Exhibition | Spotlights
We are delighted to invite you to join us over three days in Hyderabad, to interact with artists, teachers, art educators, curators, and creative practitioners working and based in the Southern Indian states, to discuss questions and experiences in Arts Education. The conference brings together teachers, artists, educators, school administrators, researchers, government representatives, parents, and students, public and private cultural institutions such as galleries, museums, and libraries, to foster dialogue around discourse and exchanges in arts education, and address the significant gaps between current art education policies, curriculum frameworks, and teaching strategies.
Register for the conference here.
You can read/download the conference details and bios of participants.
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DAY 1: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2025
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Welcome Address
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | Opening Keynote by Dr KN Ganeshaiah
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Tea Break
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM | Creative Classrooms: Origami/kirigami with Muralidhar; Puppet-making & Theatre with Madhukar & Syed Sadiq S (Riyaz); Model Making with Gundappa Goudgol
11:30 AM - 01:30 PM | Panel I: Arts Education and Its Sustainability: Demands of the 21st Century
Shivananda Hombal | Gayatri Nair | Lina Vincent | R Srinivasan
Moderator: Sameen Almas
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | Lunch Break
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Creative Classrooms: Origami/kirigami with Muralidhar; Puppet-making & Theatre with Madhukar & Syed Sadiq S (Riyaz); Model Making with Gundappa Goudgol
02:30 PM - 05:30 PM | Workshop: Journaling with Nature with Sangeetha Kadur
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM | Tea Break
06:00 PM - 06:15 PM | Spotlight: Sahana Pinjara
06:20 PM - 07:15 PM | Performance: Kolata, Tingala Sanje Yuva Vedike, Kalaburagi, Karnataka
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DAY 2: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM Registration
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Spotlight: Kotresh B
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Spotlight: Chandrahas Y Jalihal
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Tea Break
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM | Creative Classrooms: Origami/Kirigami with Syed Fakruddin Huseni; Puppet-Making & Theatre with Siddappa Biradar & Shantamani; Model Making with Aruna BT
11:30 AM - 01:30 PM | Panel II: Enhancing Arts Education beyond the Curriculum
Revathi R | Blaise Joseph | Anant Maringanti | Abhisheka Krishnagopal
Moderator: B Padma Reddy
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | Lunch Break
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Creative Classrooms: Origami/kirigami with Syed Fakruddin Huseni; Puppet-making & Theatre with Siddappa Biradar & Shantamani; Model Making with Aruna BT; Sacred Spaces, Creative Minds: Empowering Art Educators to Co-Design Heritage Sites with Nitin Ranveer Sinha
02:30 PM - 05:30 PM | Workshop: I Have My Thoughts: Zine-making with Sreya Saraswatula
04:30 PM - 04:45 PM | Tea Break
06:00 PM - 06:15 PM | Spotlight: Baby Biradar
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM | Performance: Hazaaron Khwahishein, a play by Sifar Theatre, Hyderabad, Telangana
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DAY 3: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025
06:30 AM - 08:30 AM | Heritage Walk: Pathways of the Past - Charminar to Chowmahalla Palace with Ganesh Kumar Malthurkar
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Spotlight: Jahanara
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Tea Break
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM | Creative Classrooms: Origami/kirigami with Muralidhar; Puppet-making & Theatre with Aruna BT & Gururaj
11:30 AM - 01:30 PM | Panel III: Arts Education and Society: Understanding Cultural Perspectives
Muththamizh Kalai Vizhi | Radha Gomaty | Likla Lall | Swathi Vellal Raghunandan
Moderator: Menaka Rodriguez
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | Lunch Break
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM | Workshop: Empowering Teachers in Arts Education: Voices from the Ground with Ganesh Kumar Malthurkar
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM | Closing Keynote by Vidya Rao
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EXHIBITION
February 21-23, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 07:00 PM
Works by:
Arpitha RG | Aruna BT | Baby Biradar | Chandrahas Y Jalihal | Ganganna
Gundurao Desai | Jahanara | Kishan Rao Kulkarni | Kotresh B
Mallikarjun Veeranna Karoli | Ramgiri Police Patil | Sahana Pinjara | Shivanayak Dhore
Siddappa Biradar | Suryakanth Nandur | Syed Fakruddin Huseni | Tajuddin Azad
And a Special Exhibition by Students of Tamil Nadu Government Model School
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This conference is free and open to all.
Image recreated from woodcut prints by students of Government Higher Primary School, Kalaburagi, Karnataka | From the grant made to Chandrahas Y Jalihal, made possible with support from Citi India and Infosys Foundation