Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Nadee Art Center is a organization based in Dehiattakandiya, Sri Lanka that promote art activities in the community in and around Dehiattakandiya. Their main focus is to enhance art education and encourage artists to be innovative through bring in current art knowledge produced in the main art centres with Sri Lanka and the outside world to the local community. Another aim of Nadee is to link up with regional and national art networks, and so doing to end the alienation experienced by regional artists and students of art and to expand the art opportunities available to them.

Nadee Arts Center emerged out of the art activities linked to the teacher training project conducted by the Theertha International Artists collective in 2003. At present there are 15 members in the Nadee Arts Centre. Among them are artists, art teachers and art students.


Core Group of Nadee:

Lasantha Chandana Kumara (Artist/ Zonal Art Education Instructor)-Chairman
L. D. Senarathne ( Teacher in Literature)
R. M. Supun Dissanayake ( Artist)
H. A. Anil Kumara (Artist)
Hashan Bandara (Artist/ Art Teacher)
Ariyawansa Ratnayake (Art Teacher)


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