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As portion of the World Heritage Week celebrations, The Hindu Made of Chennai organised a practice circuit astatine the Cholamandal Artists’ Village connected Sunday.
A full of 51 participants attended the event, spending the time learning astir however the landmark was built by K.C.S. Paniker, the erstwhile main of the Madras School of Arts (now Government College of Fine Arts) and his students, arsenic good arsenic the facilities disposable connected the campus.
Resident artists — P.S. Nandhan, P. Gopinath, A. Selvaraj, G. Latha and Jacob Jebaraj — spoke astir the assorted works created astatine the centre. “We are present a exemplary to amusement however artists tin travel unneurotic similar this. Our constitution is approaching its 60th year,” said Mr. Gopinath, president of Artists’ Handicraft Association.
Participants past took portion successful a guided gallery locomotion done the K.C.S. Paniker Museum of the Madras Art Movement, which houses 83 artworks by 55 artists.
“Our artforms, which usage textile, metal, and different mediums, are a large wealth. Through art, we tin beforehand agrarian improvement projects, women’s empowerment, and societal translation crossed Tamil Nadu,” Mr. Jebaraj said.
The radical besides visited the planetary sculpture park, unfastened aerial theatre, and the Golden Oriole Cultural Centre wrong the artists’ village.
Ms. Latha, who presented an overview of the centre, said the practice circuit helped much first-time visitors prosecute with art.
A subordinate astatine the event, Meera, an advocate, said the circuit had fixed her caller perspectives connected creation and life.
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