Kala Bhavana
Kala-Bhavana is an internationally well-known and distinguished institute for Visual Arts training and research in India. This institute, which gave shape to the culture-specific modernism, has richly contributed in giving a valid direction to individual art activity in contemporary social space. Its academic programme is broad-based; it introduces the students to a vast repertoire of techniques and art forms backed by the knowledge of the history of art. The studio practice, lectures, discussions and exhibitions keep the art atmosphere of the faculty alive, where the students get ample opportunity to sharpen their individual sensibilities and future prospects.
Present Kala Bhavana is an expanding project, where workshop and artists visiting from all over the world has become a reality. There are student exchanges between different Asian and European Countries, and also the possibilities of teacher exchanges are on the cards. This has opened up new perspectives.
Contemporary Kala Bhavana is also a global phenomenon, with some of her art historians and curators presenting the artists of Santiniketan all over the world gaining attention all the way.
The modernist institution like Kala Bhavana has gone through its many phases of ups and downs, where the community activities and collective nature of labour and leisure sustained itself through thick and thin.
As an institution grow new portions are added, and quite in the spirit of a progressive institution, Kala Bhavana has added a new chapter in the form of a nascent Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts. This centre is growing and has generated interests of many all over India and elsewhere in the world.
Kala Bhavana has always lived with the potentiality to look forward and act towards a graspable future, and the current Kala Bhavana is no exception in that regard.
The M.S.University of Baroda
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, originally founded in 1881 as the ‘’Baroda College’’, is a premier unitary residential University, established on 30th April, 1949. The University offers a wide range of courses, giving opportunity for education from early childhood to Ph.D. The University offers a wide range of courses, giving opportunity for education from early childhood to Ph.D. In the recent times, the university’s academic leadership has vigorously pursued initiatives for research, teaching, training, capacity development and consultancy in thrust areas of significant importance for economic, scientific, social or intellectual development by starting several new Institutes and Centers’ of Learning.
The Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda is one of the major art colleges in India. Founded in the early 50’s of 20th century, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, became synonymous with modernist and contemporary art practices and experimentation in India. Over the decades artists from the Faculty of Fine Arts went on to participate in exhibitions worldwide, such as the Paris Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, and the Tokyo Biennale, Documenta. Many of India’s best known and historically respected artists have their roots in the Faculty of Fine Arts such as Bhupen Khakhar who recently had his posthumous retrospective show at the Tate Modern, London. More over Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda is kept on producing some of the best and finest visual artists of India for the last seven decades.
