Annual Report 2005-2006 - India Foundation for the Arts

writing––in Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati andMarathi––on the visual arts in the first half of thetwentieth century.IFA proposes to support conferences and seminarsto take advantage of the favourable climate thatnow exists for debate and discussion about the largerissues in arts education. These conferences couldalso help to consolidate learning derived from ongoinginitiatives in the field and examine possible synergiesbetween them. We are also giving thought toother ways in which we could cut across specificprojects and bridge institutions to foster curriculumdevelopment and new pedagogies, and help organisationsto build their capacity for sustained work inthis important area.GRANTSNational Institute of Advanced Studies,BangaloreRs 6,44,000 over three yearsFor the development of teaching methodsbased on the visual arts to improve the character ofclassroom interactions and enhance the quality ofelementary education in Chamarajnagar district,Karnataka. A team of educationists, researchers andart educators will build on the local community’sunderstanding of the arts and the crafts economy ofneighbourhood villages to generate a curriculumand develop new learning and teaching practices. Incollaboration with village schoolteachers, the teamwill produce a resource book and tool kit to enableteachers to use the visual arts in the classroom.Centre for Environmental Research andEducation, MumbaiRs 6,95,000 over two yearsFor the design and execution of an ‘Art-from-Waste’ project in several Mumbai schools, bringingtogether the fields of arts education and environmentaleducation. Individual ‘art-from-waste’ideas will be researched, developed and tested, andthen implemented in schools and evaluated. Theproject will culminate in the publication of ahandbook that will be distributed widely and willbe directed primarily at art teachers who workwith middle school children.Attakkalari Public Charitable Trust ofContemporary Performing Arts,BangaloreRs 13,26,700 over two yearsFor the continuing implementation of a dancein-educationprogramme in Bangalore. Movementclasses will be conducted in schools and a cadre ofdance teachers trained to facilitate the dance-ineducationwork. Funds will also be used to strengthenthe institution’s capacity to sustain this programmethrough income from other sources.PROJECTSForging Asian Collaborations in ArtsEducationRs 8,98,237 over eleven monthsFor arts education groups and professionals inSoutheast Asia and India to collaborate on workshopsin built heritage, theatre, the visual arts anddance. Apart from facilitating creative exchangeand mutual learning, these workshops are expectedto help participants build new methodologiesand strengthen their practices in arts education.Tracking Indian Visual Art HistoryRs 9,00,000 over ten monthsFor four art historians to identify, edit andannotate critical writing––in Bengali, Malayalam,Gujarati and Marathi respectively—on the visualarts in the first half of the twentieth century. Theresulting selections will be published with theaim of reintroducing the nature of the discoursesurrounding early twentieth-century Indian artto a contemporary audience.