New Delhi to host Art Festival by College students across India

Over 200 budding artists from various colleges in India are going to soon showcase their talent at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts in New Delhi. The festival would begin from October 9 and would feature around 350 artworks which would consist of drawings, paintings, printmaking, illustrations, digital art, sculptures, photographs, installations, new media and mix media art forms. The title of the festival is decided to be ‘Prarambh’.

The festival is organized by Art Route, which is responsible for the overall development, promotion and education of art at various levels around the world. It is going to be the first of its kind student’s art festival in India and is expected to kick start many such festivals in future. The festival is scheduled to continue till October 12 where students from art colleges all over the nation are taking part. Some of the colleges and universities that are taking part are:

• Kala Bhavan and Vishwa Bharati University from Shantiniketan
• College of Art and Jamia Milia Islamia University from Delhi
• Faculty of Visual Arts of Benaras Hindu University
• Department of Fine Arts of Kurukshetra University
• Department of Fine Arts of Aligarh Muslim University
• Indira Kala Sangeet Visva Vidyalaya, Chhattisgarh
• College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow University
• Government College of Arts, Chandigarh
• College of Fine Arts, Thiruvananthapuram
• Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda
• Department of Visual Arts, Silchar
• International Institute of Fine Arts, Modinagar
• College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata
• Government Institute of Fine Arts, Gwalior
• Government Fine Arts Institute, Indore
• Department of Fine Arts, University of Hyderabad