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Alongside organising drawing and painting classes, and workshops on pottery and printmaking, over the last three years KCC has been successfully running art appreciation courses both online and at the centre for junior as well as senior participants. However, this year we wish to curate courses for art enthusiasts and students that will encourage them to engage discursively with certain modes of art-making while interacting with renowned practitioners and scholars. Our first in the series is on Indian sculptures from the Ancient to the Contemporary with prominent sculptors K S Radhakrishnan and L N Tallur, and renowned scholars like Prof. Jayaram Poduval and Prof. Parul Pandya Dhar as the facilitators. 

This course would hark back to the memories of sculptures one had seen in their school's history textbooks and provide the skill sets required to appreciate them as works of art and to understand their evolution as cultural symbols. In the Indian context, modern to the contemporary period itself has illustrious sculptors like Ramkinkar Baij, Somenath Hore, Sankho Chaudhuri, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Meera Mukherjee, Himmat Shah, K. P. Krishnakumar, Kanayi Kunhiraman, KS Radhakrishnan, Dhruva Mistry, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Shilpa Gupta, LN Tallur, N. N. Rimzon, Anish Kapoor among others. Their contribution has been immense. What did they appropriate from the past or how did they break free and strike new paths? 

This course aims to help the learners understand this evolution of sculptures from ancient to contemporary times while equipping them to better appreciate the same.

Kolkata Centre for Creativity is introducing an Online Certificate Course on Museum Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Studies in Museology, University of Jammu. It is for the first time in India that such a comprehensive course is being offered to people who are interested in museum and heritage studies. It is an intensive, immersive, hands-on program that will provide the participants with the knowledge and professional skillset required to run future museums, cultural centres, and archives. This course is aimed at training both fresher and in-service professionals for their work in various museums, cultural centres, and archives. The course will not only explore the key theoretical frameworks of museology, but also focus on the practical aspects by equipping and enabling participants with the practical knowledge, information, and critical tools required for successfully documenting cultural objects, putting up exhibitions, and conserving cultural properties. Museum management, education, as well as community involvement will also form an important part of this course. Moreover, this skill-based course will not only create the right environment for the participants to gain useful insights on stimulation, dissemination, and rehabilitation of cultural heritage and museums, but also play a crucial role in enhancing their ability to plan, organize and implement projects as per international standards.

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KCC BLUE is our training and capacity-building platform that engages with participants ranging from children, young students, emerging artists, art managers, professional artists and enthusiasts.Through various well-curated programs and appreciation courses designed for the concerned groups and led by panels of experts and experienced faculties, the program exposes the participants to different disciplines of art and craft practices. Besides honing skills, it also encourages critical thinking and creative engagement.A recent addition to our partners has been University of Jammu, Central University, Jammu.