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Some buy all the fancy ceramic stuff they can while others like to potter with the art of making it. A 10-day workshop at Rajya Lalit Kala Akademi...

Ceramics workshop ends

Some buy all the fancy ceramic stuff they can while others like to potter with the art of making it. A 10-day workshop at Rajya Lalit Kala Akademi,Aliganj helped amateurs get hands on experience of ceramic art under the guidance of octogenarian Ira Chaudhuri,who passed out of Viswa Bharati,Santiniketan trained in Fine Arts but found her calling in pottery.

Chaudhuris exhibits went on display at the Akademi from Friday. Juxtaposed with the work of some Ceramics students of the College of Arts,Lucknow University,the pots and plates are stylish in their Spartan form. Students were initiated into the ropes of the art and besides lectures there were demonstrations at the studio of the Akademi which is equipped with a kiln,shared Mamta Rabha,housewife,who participated in the workshop.

Dean Students Welfare of Lucknow University,Dr Nishi Pandey,present on the concluding day of the workshop was all praises,so was Sudha Arora,a contemporary and a former partner of Chaudhuri,who taught Pottery in the universities of Vadodara,New Delhi and Dar-es-Salaam,Tanzania,besides in Santiniketan. She is currently associated with the Garhi Studios of the Lalit Kala Akademi,New Delhi.

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