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Department of Visual Arts

The Department of Visual Arts at Ashoka University combines courses in Art History and Visual Culture with training in material, media and site specific aspects of Studio Arts. While the Art History and Visual Culture courses offer historical and philosophical contexts in which visual arts has been developed and practiced, the Studio Arts courses help the students learn the fundamentals of an art form and develop it through practice. Both the components work in tandem and help the student acquire an integrated understanding of art.

Programmes

Faculty at Visual Arts

The Department of Visual Arts’s faculty includes visual art practitioners, working through varied media and methods, as well as art historians and visual studies scholars with research interests and expertise spanning the early medieval to the contemporary period.

Facilities

Art Studio

The Department of Visual Arts offers Minor courses in Art histories and Art practice at an undergraduate level. The art studios at the department provide facilities for some of the foundational courses in Visual Arts. Students have the possibilities to experiment in Drawing and explore the various experimental possibilities in the studio. The studio also houses facilities to experiment in oil and easel painting. There are provisions for clay modelling, clay and plaster sculpture making, terracotta pottery and firing. The studio houses electric wheels and electricity kiln for students to learn terracotta sculpture and pottery making. There are provisions to experiment in print techniques with a lino and etching press provided in the studio. Plans are underway to expand the studio facilities in the near future.

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Dear All,

The Visual Arts Department and The Archives of Contemporary India (ACI) presents, 

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Is an Archive a time capsule, custodian of all things past or is it/can it be a catalyst for contemporary conversations?

At the intersections of the political, the personal and pedagogy,

we look forward to your participation.

Wednesday, 30th April - Thursday, 1st May 2025

AC02 - 008 & 009 

The show starts at 1:30 PM

{End Semester Exhibition by the scholars of "Visualising with the Archive" Course Visual Arts Department}

Engaging with Archives of Contemporary India (ACI), the scholars delve into the dual role of the archive, serving as both a tool and a point of reference for shaping their artistic and storytelling visions.

Working with the Archive and its diverse collections, here scholars engage and negotiate their experience, research and learnings through visual storytelling through art, graphic narratives, installations, photography, interactive stories, picture books and palimpsests.

The Archive acts as a space for engagement and inspiration. Deriving from its collections, this is a collective effort to declassify.

We look forward to your visit and interaction.

We would also like to thank the entire team at the Archives for extending their unconditional support through the semester.

 

Warm regards,

Visual Arts Department

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Dear All,

The Visual Arts Department and The Archives of Contemporary India (ACI) presents, 

deCLASSIFIED 

Is an Archive a time capsule, custodian of all things past or is it/can it be a catalyst for contemporary conversations?

At the intersections of the political, the personal and pedagogy,

we look forward to your participation.

Wednesday, 30th April - Thursday, 1st May 2025

AC02 - 008 & 009 

The show starts at 1:30 PM

{End Semester Exhibition by the scholars of "Visualising with the Archive" Course Visual Arts Department}

Engaging with Archives of Contemporary India (ACI), the scholars delve into the dual role of the archive, serving as both a tool and a point of reference for shaping their artistic and storytelling visions.

Working with the Archive and its diverse collections, here scholars engage and negotiate their experience, research and learnings through visual storytelling through art, graphic narratives, installations, photography, interactive stories, picture books and palimpsests.

The Archive acts as a space for engagement and inspiration. Deriving from its collections, this is a collective effort to declassify.

We look forward to your visit and interaction.

We would also like to thank the entire team at the Archives for extending their unconditional support through the semester.

 

Warm regards,

Visual Arts Department

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Contact Us

For any queries regarding Visual Arts programmes, please contact: -

Sraman Mukherjee

Head of Department

sraman.mukherjee@ashoka.edu.in

Uttkarsha

Department Manager

uttkarsha@ashoka.edu.in

Anushka Singh

Visual Arts Student Representative, Academic Year 2024-2025

studentrepresentative.visualarts@ashoka.edu.in

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