Preparations for Nadee Art Workshop for regional artists are underway at Dehiattakandiya.
A regional art event is planned as a 10 day residential workshop for 15 visual artists who are engaged in art network activities in Sri Lanka. Nadee Art Workshop will be held at the art space in the Nadee Art Gallery in Dehiattakandiya.
Artists Supun Dissanayake, Rohana Delpitiya, K. M punchi menike, Mangala Manike and Lasantha Chandana Kumara are participating from Dehiattakandiya and A. M. Tilakaratne Bandara is taking part from Maha Oya area. The artists from regional art groups are Sanatha Kalubadana (Megha), Eranda Samarakoon (Bhumi), Ajith Alawattage (ArtLab), Chinthaka Uyangoda (Rala) , Champika Kapila Kumara ( Mini), Pala Pothupitiya ( Theertha) and Neranjal Gunasinghe (National Craft Council).
The Nadee Art Workshop was primarily envisaged to provide a forum for artists from the regional areas to take part in knowledge exchange as a way of stimulating their own art practices. It also recognizes the importance of regional art groups and artists working towards creating interest within their own communities by bring in art knowledge through art exchange programs with artists in Colombo and other regional areas. The residential art workshop will allow participating artists to live and work together in one site for 10 days producing art using locally available material and responding to the environment. The workshop will include art lectures, artists’ presentations, film screenings and discussions.
The art workshop will end with an on-site exhibition at the Nadee Art Gallery on 24th May 2008.
“This project is supported by the ANA - Arts Network Asia (www.artsnetworkasia.org), a group of independent artists, cultural workers and arts activists primarily from Southeast Asia that encourages collaboration, initiated or sited in Asia and carried out together with Asian artists.”
The other sponsors are theertha International Artists Collective and ArtLab.
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