(1) Children's Workshop on Photography by Usha Rao

(For 11 to 14 years)

Date: 30th January 2011, Sunday 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Venue: NGMA, Bangalore

Contact for registration: Ph: 080 22342338, 22201027

Number of participants: 20

No registration fee, open to all

(2) Stimulus for the workshop: The exhibition "Something That I'll Never Really See - Contemporary Photography from the V&A"

Date: 23rd January to 27th February 2011

Venue: NGMA, Bangalore

Brief - there will be an introduction to photography with a brief interaction with a young professional photographer from Bangalore - Vivek M.  The intention is also to include brief hands on session on image making and generate discussion on what we see and what images tell us.

Usha Rao is a social scientist based in Bangalore.  She freelances as an independent researcher and education consultant.  She has taught humanities at the Valley School Bangalore (Krishnamurti Foundation) and has been involved in various aspects of arts education.  She has been a consultant with the India Foundation for the Arts and the Goethe Institute (for the arts education project 'Kali Kalisu'), the Madras Institute of Development Studies, and other research institutions. She is also a freelance writer in the field of art and culture and has been published in Art India as well as other magazines and newspapers.

For further details and registration for children's workshop please contact Ashee Sharma at Ph: 22489220

 E-mail: ashee.sharma@in.britishcouncil.org

(3) DOCENT WALKS

NGMA has also organized special gallery walks during the exhibition. The walks will be led by an art expert and will include a walk through the gallery and discussion about the displays. Please see the below for gallery walk schedule:

Date: 29th January'11, Saturday 11 am to 12 pm

Walk through led by (in Kannada) Ramesh Chandra - Ramesh Chandra is a visual artist trained in the medium of painting from MS University, Baroda. He has participated in various solo and group shows in India and abroad. He has also facilitated numerous art camps, workshops and site specific projects. Additionally, he writes & lectures on visual art and culture.      

Date: 5th February'11, Saturday 11 am to 12 pm

Walk through led by (in Kannada) H A Anil Kumar - H.A. Anil Kumar is an art historian, critic and curator based in Bangalore. He has been teaching and writing (in English and Kannada) about visual culture in various art journals, newspapers and catalogues. Currently he is a regional editor to ‘Art and Deal' (New Delhi) and ‘Art Etc' (Kolkata) which are art quarterly magazines. He teaches Visual Art History in the Dept of Art History, College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, and Bangalore. He is a recipient of Unesco-Aschberg Fellowship and Charles Wallace Trust of India scholarship.      

Date: 6th February'11, Sunday 11 am to 12 pm (in English)       
Date: 19th February'11, Saturday 12 pm to 1 pm (in English)

Walkthrough led by  Annapurna Garimella - Annapurna is a designer and an art historian who focuses on the art and architecture of India. She heads Jackfruit, a research and design organization. She is also founder of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, a not-for-profit organization that gathers resources and promotes research and teaching in art and architectural history, archaeology, crafts, design, and other related disciplines in academic and non-academic fora. She has written several essays on contemporary art and edited and contributed to two volumes, Shaping the Indian Modern on the work of Mulk Raj Anand and along with Bhanu Padamsee, Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language. Annapurna has also curated a major exhibition which opened this year in November at Devi Art Foundation titled "Vernacular, in the Contemporary".       

For further details and registration for the walks please contact Natasha at National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore

Ph: 080 22342338, 22201027.

E-mail: ngma.bengaluru@gmail.com